The Red Hills of Florida, 1528-1865

The Red Hills section of northern Florida is composed of Leon County, where Tallahassee is located, and its neighboring counties of Gadsden and Jackson to the west and Jefferson and Madison to the east. The land is distinctive band of rolling red clay hills that extends for 150 miles along the borde...

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Autor principal: Paisley, Clifton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Oral history.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Histoire orale.
United States > Red Hills.
Red Hills (Fla. and Ga.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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