LARRY WILLIAMSON grew up in Tallassee, Alabama and lives there as well as in LaFayette, Alabama, where he teaches. An engineering graduate of Auburn University, he has taught high school math and coached football and track for more than thirty years. Williamson spent his youth playing, exploring, and working on the banks of the Tallapoosa River, which splits his hometown of Tallassee. He developed a lifelong fascination and love of the river and its rich heritage.

A vivid, imaginative, and tumultuous story about the difficult and oftentimes dangerous life on the Alabama frontier on the eve of the Creek War. Tallapoosa movingly describes the divided reactions among the Creek Indians—from the peaceful Lower Tribes to the fiery Red Sticks inspired by the great chief Tecumseh—toward the steady encroachment of white settlers.