Just a Cotton Field

Debra Hughey, author of People of the Townhouse, The Owl and the Horseshoe and Spirit of the Red Stick Women, continues the saga of the Creek Indians. With their people devastated by battles of the Creek Wars, (many now considered today as mere massacres), land-hungry Americans, addictions to trade goods, alcohol and white customs, the Creek of Hillabee Town find the strength and the will to survive.

It is a story of the downward spiral of the once proud Creek Nation, brought about not just by white encroachment, but internal strife among the factions of the Creek Confederation.

Just A Cotton Field accurately depicts these trials as the Hillabee struggle to keep their native lifestyle and their family intact.