| 1. | Slaughter, Frank G. Fort Everglades
Doubleday & Company 1951 First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Students of Florida history soon come to take strange happenings for granted. But surely no recorded event in the long chronicle of the Seminole wars was quite so bizarre as the captue, by the Indians, of a traveling Shakespearean troupe - and the subsequent appearance of the chieftains at a council of war, arrayed in the trappings, of Hamlet, Othello, and Juliet. In this story I have drawn freely upon actual events, including the episode just mentioned, as well as accounts of the massacre at Indian Key in 1840, and the expedition led into the Glades by Lieutenant Colonel Harney, which resulted in the capture of Chekika and the ending of organized resistance on the part of the Seminole nation. Although this novel follows closely recorded events in the southern Florida of the period, only two characters are real - the Indian leader, Chekika, and his Negro sense-bearer, Abraham. . . . /Frank G. Slaughter - Foreward The maroon binding has a few bumps. It is worn on one corner, the bottom front edge, and both ends of the spine.
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