The Red Hills of Florida, 1528-1865 / Clifton Paisley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paisley, Clifton.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Red Hills (Fla. and Ga.)--History.

Red Hills (Fla. and Ga.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1989]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent excavation of the Tallahassee area provided anthropological and archaeological evidence showing that the Red Hills of Florida were sought out by agricultural Indians long before European contact The Red Hills section of northern Florida is composed of Leon County, where Tallahassee is located , and its neighboring counties of Gadsden and.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Piedmont Florida; 2. The Nation of Apalachee, Narvaez, and De Soto; 3. The Cross in the Hills; 4. The Old Fields of Apalachee; 5. Andrew Jackson's Leisurely ""Wolf Hunt"" in the Red Hills; 6. The Spring Creek Trail; 7. The Complaint of Neamathla; 8. Tallahassee and the ""Old Dominion""; 9. Those Seminoles Again; 10. King Cotton Takes Control, 1845-1850; 11. The Florida Cotton Kingdom, 1850: Jackson and Gadsden Counties; 12. The Florida Cotton Kingdon, 1850: Leon County; 13. The Florida Cotton Kingdom, 1850: Jefferson and Madison Counties; 14. The Railroad-Building Boom

15. The Blacks16. ""A Slight Touch of Ashby de la Zouche"" and Secession; 17. The Civil War; Epilogue; Appendixes; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [266]-279.

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ISBN:

0-8173-8869-9

OCLC:

889675673