Kathryn Braund is the Hollifield Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. She is the author of Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 (1993) and is the co-author, with Gregory A. Waselkov, of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (1995). She is editor of an annotated version of Bernard Romans's A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (1999) and an annotated edition of James Adair's 1775 classic History of the American Indians (2005). She has edited and contributed to two collections of scholarly essays: Fields of Vision: Essays on the Travels of William Bartram, 1739-1823 (2010), co-edited with Charlotte M. Porter, and Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War (2012). She is currently working on a book about the Creek War of 1813-1814 and a guidebook to the Old Federal Road in Alabama.