The great Florida Seminole trail : complete guide to Seminole Indian historic and cultural sites open to the public / Doug Alderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alderson, Doug.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seminole Indians--History--Guidebooks.

Seminole Indians.

Seminole Indians--Antiquities--Guidebooks.

Indian trails--Florida--Guidebooks.

Indian trails.

Seminole Indians--Antiquities.

History.

Florida--Guidebooks.

Florida.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

ix, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Sarasota, Fla. : Pineapple Press, [2013]

Summary:

Seminole Indians are a tiny portion, numbering only in the thousands, of Florida's overall present population of almost twenty million, yet these people have made a significant impact on the state's history and psyche. History reveals that for many years the Seminoles were downtrodden, and most of them were removed from Florida. But we can honor these people today by exploring the sites that reveal their history.

This guide along the Great Florida Seminole Trail leads you from north to south to sites that are intriguing to visit today.

The Trail begins at the beautiful Apalachee Mission in Tallahassee. The Apalachees predated the Seminoles, but they paved the way for their native brethren to arrive in Florida from farther north. The Trail then leads south to Paynes Prairie near Gainesville, where an early band of Seminoles lived and prospered. The history of this area uncovers the Seminole alliance with escaped blackslaves. The trail then winds through sites from the Seminole Wars including Dade Battlefield near Tampa to the Okeechobee Battlefield in the Everglades and on down to Indian Key. More modern sites include the Smallwood Store in the west Everglades, the Billie Swamp Safari in the Big Cypress, and, of course, the gambling casinos in Tampa, Hollywood, and near Miami. Book jacket.

Contents:

Clearing the way

The Aluachua Savannah

Dreams of freedomn

At the crossroads

War's beginning

Protecting the bridge

Sugar mill blues

The great escape

Florida's Pickett's charge

Night raid!

Other Seminole war sites

Emerging into the twentieth century

The rise of tourism

Everglades home

Touching Seminole ways at Big Cypress

Casinos and rock and roll.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-215) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

156164563X

9781561645633

9781561646166

1561646164

OCLC:

795758546

Publisher Number:

99955216229