About the Author

Robert Eldridge Bouwman was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, in 1948. He attended Florida Presbyterian College, USA and completed his graduate studies in history at Emory University, USA, where he received his PhD in 1975. Bouwman worked as a freelance historian, during which time he researched and wrote Traveler's Rest and the Tugaloo Crossroads . He has taught at Piedmont College, Gainesville State College, Kennesaw State University, and the University of North Georgia, USA, where he teaches today.