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Author : Randal J. Agostini
Publisher : Florida Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0981733794
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)
Download or read book An Englishman in the Seminole War written by Randal J. Agostini and published by Florida Historical Society. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. Denham
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643364294
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives written by James M. Denham and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild and wooly recollections from the Florida frontier Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, they shared the adventure, thrill, hardship, and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era. With sensitivity, poignancy, and humor, George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams record anecdotes and memories that touch upon important themes of frontier life and reveal the remarkable diversity of Florida's settlers. Keen's story typifies that of many "Cracker" families. Born in Georgia, he moved with his parents to the Florida Territory in 1830 in search of a better life. He grew up in a dangerous yet exciting setting, and as an old man at the turn of the twentieth century recorded his colorful memories with a verve and vernacular reminiscent of the Georgia humorist, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. Keen writes about subsistence farming, cattle grazing, the Seminole wars, marriage customs, medical practices, politics, the abundance of wildlife, and the paucity of educational opportunities. Admittedly not a Cracker, Sarah Pamela Williams was the daughter of a nationally recognized man of letters. In 1847 she moved to Columbia County's seat of Alligator (Lake City) and later married into one of northeast Florida's prominent planter families. She recorder her recollections of a life brightened by social functions, travel, and cultural endeavors. Offering a rare glimpse into Florida's Civil War homefront, Williams tells of making clothes of homespun, tithing crops to the Confederacy, fearing hostilities just thirteen miles from her home, and surviving as a widow in the lean postwar era. Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives features biographical sketches of more than 280 persons mentioned by Keen and Williams in their writings, many of whom subsequently pioneered settlement in the Florida peninsula.
Author : Matt Horan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666712671
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Church Bells at Midnight written by Matt Horan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty-one days in 2017, a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida—Seminole Heights—was terrorized by a serial killer. Benjamin was shot while waiting for a bus, Monica while walking to meet a friend, Anthony while walking home from packing hurricane relief supplies, and Reginald on his way to volunteer at his church to feed the homeless. Police were baffled by his ability to escape, businesses struggled to stay open, residents stopped walking the streets at night, and Seminole Heights United Methodist Church was called upon to serve a neighborhood in fear. Their campus housed efforts to support heroic police officers; their members and friends supported mourning family members; and late, late into the night on day fifty-one, their church bells pierced the darkness to announce when it was once again safe to come outside. For anyone who thinks people don’t need churches in their neighborhoods anymore, the story of Seminole Heights invites you to think again.
Author : Daniel F. Littlefield
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878059232
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Seminole Burning written by Daniel F. Littlefield and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of mob vengeance on two innocent Native American teenagers in Oklahoma
Author : Mayne Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Osceola the Seminole written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Knetsch
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612005772
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book History of the Third Seminole War, 1849–1858 written by Joe Knetsch and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive account of the final war between the US government and Florida’s Seminole tribe “brings to life a conflict that is largely ignored” (San Francisco Book Review). Spanning a period of over forty years (1817–1858), the three Seminole Wars were America’s longest, costliest, and deadliest Indian wars, surpassing the more famous ones fought in the West. After an uneasy peace following the conclusion of the second Seminole War in 1842, a series of hostile events, followed by a string of murders in 1849 and 1850, made confrontation inevitable. The war was also known as the “Billy Bowlegs War” because Billy Bowlegs, Holata Micco, was the central Seminole leader in this the last Indian war to be fought east of the Mississippi River. Pushed by increasing encroachment into their territory, he led a raid near Fort Myers. A series of violent skirmishes ensued. The vastness of the Floridian wilderness and the difficulties of the terrain and climate caused problems for the army, but they had learned lessons from the second war, and, amongst other new tactics, employed greater use of boats, eventually securing victory by cutting off food supplies. History of the Third Seminole War is a detailed narrative of the war and its causes, containing numerous firsthand accounts from participants in the conflict, derived from virtually all the available primary sources, collected over many years. “Any reader interested in learning more about Indian wars, Army history, or Florida history will profit from reading this book,” as well as Civil War enthusiasts, since many of the officers earned their stripes in the earlier conflict (The Journal of America’s Military Past).
Author : Robert M. Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806194413
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Killing Over Land written by Robert M. Owens and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early America, interracial homicide—whites killing Native Americans, Native Americans killing whites—might result in a massive war on the frontier; or, if properly mediated, it might actually facilitate diplomatic relations, at least for a time. In Killing over Land, Robert M. Owens explores why and how such murders once played a key role in Indian affairs and how this role changed over time. Though sometimes clearly committed to stoke racial animus and incite war, interracial murder also gave both Native and white leaders an opportunity to improve relations, or at least profit from conflict resolution. In the seventeenth century, most Indigenous people held and used enough leverage to dictate the terms on which such conflicts were resolved; but after the mid-eighteenth century, population and material advantages gave white settlers the upper hand. Owens describes the ways settler colonialism, as practiced by Anglo-Americans, put tremendous pressure on Native peoples, culturally, socially, and politically, forcing them to adapt in the face of violence and overwhelming numbers. By the early nineteenth century, many Native leaders recognized that, with population and power so heavily skewed against them, it was only practical to negotiate for the best possible terms; lex talionis justice—blood for blood—proved an unrealistic goal. Consequently, Indigenous and white leaders alike became all too willing to overlook murder if it led to some kind of gain—if, for instance, justice might be traded for financial compensation or land cessions. Ultimately, what Owens analyzes in Killing over Land is nothing less than the commodification of human life in return for a sense of order—as defined and accepted, however differently, by both Native and white authorities as the contest for land and resources intensified in the European colonization of North America.
Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466804548
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Osceola and the Great Seminole War written by Thom Hatch and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of his death in 1838, Seminole warrior Osceola was the most famous and respected Native American in the world. Born a Creek, young Osceola was driven from his home by General Andrew Jackson to Spanish Florida, where he joined the Seminole tribe. Years later, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which was not only intended to relocate the Seminoles to hostile lands in the West but would force the return of runaway slaves who had joined that tribe. Osceola—outraged at the potential loss of his people and homeland—did not hesitate to declare war on the United States. Osceola and the Great Seminole War vividly recounts how one warrior with courage and cunning unequaled by any Native American leader before or after would mastermind battle strategies that would embarrass the best officers in the United States Army. Employing daring guerilla tactics, Osceola initiated and orchestrated the longest, most expensive, and deadliest war ever fought by the United States against Native Americans. With each victory by his outnumbered and undersupplied warriors, Osceola's reputation grew among his people and captured the imagination of the citizens of the United States. At the time, many cheered his quixotic quest for justice and freedom, and since then many more have considered his betrayal on the battlefield to be one the darkest hours in U.S. Army history. Insightful, meticulously researched, and thrillingly told, award-winning author Thom Hatch's account of the Second Seminole War is an extraordinarily accomplished work of American history that finally does justice to one of the greatest Native American warriors.
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Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book American State Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mayne Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Osceola the Seminole, Or The Red Fawn of the Flower Land written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1166 pages
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Download or read book American State Papers written by USA and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Michael Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648909X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Legal Executions in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma Including the Indian Territory written by R. Michael Wilson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since colonial days, administration of the death penalty--whether by hanging, firing squad, electrocution, or lethal injection--has persisted as one of the most controversial ethical and practical issues of American jurisprudence. This volume chronicles every legal execution in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, including Indian Territory, through December 2010. Each case history includes a detailed description of the crime, the pursuit and capture of the suspect, his or her pre-trial experiences, the trial, sentencing, incarceration, execution, and its aftermath.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mika Ashley-Hollinger
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 030793070X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Precious Bones written by Mika Ashley-Hollinger and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet ten-year-old Bones, whose playground is the Florida swamps, brimming with mystical witches, black bears, alligators and bobcats. Bones' father, Nolay, a Miccosukee Indian, is smart and mischievous. Her Mama, practical as corn bread, can see straight into Bones' soul. It's summer, and Bones is busy hunting and fishing with her best friend, Little Man. But then two Yankee real estate agents trespass on her family's land, and Nolay scares them off with his gun. When a storm blows in and Bones and Little Man uncover something horrible at the edge of the Loo-chee swamp, the evidence of foul play points to Nolay. The only person that can help Nolay is Sheriff LeRoy, who's as slow as pond water. Bones is determined to take matters into her own hands. If it takes a miracle, then a miracle is what she will deliver.
Author : Edna Buchanan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439159181
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book A Dark and Lonely Place written by Edna Buchanan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized history of the infamous, if little-known outside Florida, Prohibition-era gangster John Ashley and his moll, Laura Upthegrove.
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 792 pages
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