Overview of the history and customs of the Seminole Indian tribe of Florida as seen through the eyes of the author and her husband. Includes vocabulary of Seminole language.

Excerpt from The Seminoles of Florida Mr. Willson has been allowed, and invited to go with some of their men on familiar hunting expeditions. He has seen them in the swamps, in their homes, and in their general life environments. He has been admitted to their confidence and friendship. He has consequently become deeply interested in them. Mrs. Willson also has become acquainted with some of their chief personages. Both have learned to sympathize with these Indians in their hardships, and in their treatment at the hands of the white race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Seminole, 1911, Vol. 2: The Year Book of the University of Florida Thy sunny banks, thy shady leas, Thy plumed, nodding, waving pines, And palms that beckon in the breeze. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Notices of East Florida: With an Account of the Seminole Nation of Indians The lands included in the bend of the St. John's, at the head of the Diego Plains, are fertile and tolerably well settled; and are abundantly stocked with oak tim ber, which forms a valuable store-house of materials for ship-building and has already afforded considerable supplies to our Navy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Red Patriots: The Story of the Seminoles During a long residence in Florida I became deeply interested in the Seminole Indians, who inhabited the southern part of the State. I also read everything within my reach relating to their history, including the protracted warfare formerly waged between that invincible people and the National, Territorial and State governments. Circumstances finally enabled me, within the past few years, to take up my residence in the city of Washington and to continue my study in the great libraries and bureaus of information peculiar to the Nation's capital. And the more widely my researches extended, the more absorbing became my interest in the subject, and the firmer my resolve to place upon enduring record the full story of the rights and wrongs, the true patriotism and the heroic fortitude of the Seminole race. Love of home and country was uncommonly developed in the Seminole people, due no doubt to the genial climate and great natural resources of their sunny land; to their peculiar isolation by ocean waters; and to the presence of the cherished graves of their fathers. All combined to make the Seminoles' home especially dear- " - the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." Thus, hemmed in by the sea on all sides but one - unable to retreat or to advance - he was compelled to fight or to submit to banishment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Osceola, Chief of the Seminoles NE cool autumn day, in 1835, Ephraim Ash ley, a scout in the service of the United States, was cautiously threading his way through that immense tract of trees, undergrowth, morass, and swamp, in which the St. John's River of Florida has its source, as it flows northward through lake and lagoon to its outlet in the northeastern corner, beyond the present city of Jacksonville. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.