Robert Hornbuckle's Looking for Billy Bowlegs opens the historical door on a segment of the Okefenokee past that is seldom visited. Often, using the language of the period, he presents many sides of the dispute between the Indians and settlers of south Georgia and north Florida, showing all too clearly that most governments and most individuals are unable to see more than one side of an argument. One would swear that Hornbuckle, whose ancestor was buried on the Trail of Tears, has been reincarnated—his voice rings so true—in order to tell us the sometimes funny, sometimes tragic tales of these characters and events.
—Roberta George