Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams.

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"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."--Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Denham, James M.
Other Authors: Brown, Edgar Canter, Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Williams, Sarah Pamela, > active 19th century.
Keen, George Gillett, > active 19th century.
Williams, Sarah Pamela, > active 19th century
Keen, George Gillett, > active 19th century
1800-1899
Country life > Florida > History > 19th century > Anecdotes.
Frontier and pioneer life > Florida > Anecdotes.
White people > Florida > Biography.
Women pioneers > Florida > Biography.
Pioneers > Florida > Biography.
Personnes blanches > Floride > Biographies.
Pionnières > Floride > Biographies.
Pionniers > Floride > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
Women pioneers
White people
Pioneers
Manners and customs
Frontier and pioneer life
Country life
Florida > History > 1821-1865 > Anecdotes.
Florida > Social life and customs > 19th century > Anecdotes.
Floride > Histoire > 1821-1865 > Anecdotes.
Floride > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle > Anecdotes.
Florida
History
Biographies
Anecdotes
Biographies.
Anecdotes.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • CRACKER TIMES AND PIONEER LIVES
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE George Gillett Keen
  • I. Remembrance of a Crime Most Foul
  • II. Black Eye at Ketch All
  • III. 1830s Florida Frontier Life
  • IV. The Second Seminole War, 1835-1842
  • V. Response
  • VI. Getting Ahead in the 1840s and 1850s
  • VII. Alligator's Transformation
  • VIII. How Old Times Argue against a New Capital
  • IX. Tricky Politics and Gunfights as Humor
  • X. Reconstruction-Era Justice
  • XI. Lafayette County and the Murders of Lige Locklier and Jim Munden
  • XII. Studies in Cracker Character
  • XIII. Passing
  • PART TWO Sarah Pamela Williams
  • I. Childhood at Picolata
  • II. Moving to Alligator
  • III. Sojourn in Charleston
  • IV. Planter's Wife and Widow
  • V. Civil War and Its Aftermath
  • Appendix: The Cast of Characters
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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