Southeast Florida Pioneers

Author : William E McGoun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561647675
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southeast Florida Pioneers written by William E McGoun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Palm Beach area, the Treasure Coast, and Lake Okeechobee is one of turbulence, growth, and especially change. Meet the visionaries and outlaws, physicians and poets who shaped this region of southeast Florida from the 1690s through the 1990s. Author William McGoun's stories are sometimes hair-raising, sometimes amusing, and always engaging. Well researched and dotted with photos from The Palm Beach Post archives, this collection of mini-biographies reads like a who's who of Florida history.

Author : Charles W. Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870243042
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida written by Charles W. Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975363218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tropical Frontier written by Tim Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles William Pierce
Publisher : Coral Gables, Fla : University of Miami Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida written by Charles William Pierce and published by Coral Gables, Fla : University of Miami Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Murl Magers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541051638
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pioneers of South Florida written by Richard Murl Magers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to white men staking claim to all land in continental North America, large numbers of Native Americans lived in relative peace throughout the land. The Seminole Indian Tribe was quite small when the Civil War began, but when white men decided they wanted all of Florida, Indians saw an evil cloud forming in the sky. Soon, groups of different tribes were mixed and forced to head west on foot as Union Soldiers herded them from houseback. Mixing tribes was an act of stupidity, but splitting families and sending mother and some of the children one-way / father and children another, was an act of cruelty and hatred toward warriors they could not beat who fought so fiercely for their homeland. Few knew the difference between a Cherokee and a Seminole. A small group of Seminole warriors gathered their families and headed south toward the Everglades; a natural phenomenon-a moving river of grass that exists nowhere else on Planet Earth. They learned to exist in that hostile land and soon became comfortable. After three Seminole Wars they remain free and undefeated today, because white men whether soldier or civilian had never been able to defeat the Seminoles. They settled with the government for land they can use and money to repair damage. Once again, white men began heading for South Florida, but they were an honorable group looking for the same thing the Seminoles fought to the death for-a piece of land to live on and call Home. You will meet rugged dawn-to-dark cowboys in a hostile land that became the main beef source in America for decades until Texas took the lead. Everglades City and Chokoloskee has a fair share of pioneer kin that know how lucky they are to still be living in a paradise that pioneer's built.

Author : Ryusuke Kawai
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065429
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yamato Colony written by Ryusuke Kawai and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Historical Society Harry T. And Harriette V. Moore Award Opening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that left behind an important legacy. Ryusuke Kawai tells how a Japanese farming settlement came to be in south Florida, far from other Japanese communities in the United States. Kawai’s captivating story takes readers back to the early twentieth century, a time when Japanese citizens were beginning to look to possibilities for individual wealth and success overseas. Poor, unlucky in love, and dreaming of returning rich to marry his sweetheart, a young man named Sukeji Morikami boarded a passenger steamer at the port of Yokohama and set off to make his fortune. Morikami was drawn by promises from his compatriot Jo Sakai, founder of an agricultural community called Yamato between Boca Raton and Delray Beach, Florida. Sakai extolled the prospects of raising pineapples and other crops amid the state’s economic boom and exciting developments like Flagler’s East Coast Railway. This book follows the experiences of Morikami and his fellow Yamato settlers through World War II, when the struggling colony closed for good. Morikami held on to his hopes for Yamato until the end, when at last, the lone survivor, he donated the land that would become the widely visited Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Celebrating the lives of ordinary men and women who left their homes and traveled an enormous distance to settle and raise their families in Florida, this book brings to light a unique moment in the state’s history that few people know about today.

Author : Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 1480753483
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growth of Florida: Pioneers and Technological Advances written by Heather E. Schwartz and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring the history of Florida to life through intriguing primary source documents! This nonfiction reader, Growth of Florida: Pioneers and Technological Advances, provides social studies content aligned to state standards. This informational book includes images and text features such as headings, glossary, and an index, and can be used in the classroom or at home. Explore Florida's history with this resource that builds vocabulary while teaching history, geography, and other social studies topics.

Author : James M. Denham
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035128
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives written by James M. Denham and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, the two shared the adventure, hardship and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era.

Author : Donald Walter Curl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pioneer Cook in Southeast Florida written by Donald Walter Curl and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Yvonne Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734785807
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lostmans Heritage written by Karen Yvonne Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lostmans Heritage tells the true story behind the Hamilton family that Peter Matthiessen first introduced to the world in his novel, "Killing Mr. Watson." The book follows the author's journey as she searches for her ancestors from the slave country of Savannah to the wilds of the Florida Everglades. Hamilton follows her ancestor, Richard Hamilton and his sons to the ending of an era when the National Park Service evicted the residents, the pioneers, of the Everglades. Along the way she uncovers secrets and stories, polygamy, bootlegging, fist fights, murders, gangsters, killers, and tales of tomahawks and missing schoolteachers.Noted Florida historian, Charlton Tebeau, once said, "The Hamiltons, to the disappointment of the romanticists, were neither pirates nor smugglers nor fugitives, but simple fishermen." While Tebeau was fascinated by the Hamiltons, and often referred to them as one of the 'lost tribes' of the islands, my research proves that he was wrong about them. They were fugitives, and they were smugglers. The Everglades was not a place for the average man at that time. You did what you had to do to feed your family.The men and women who settled in the Florida Everglades before the Civil War thrived in an environment that was dangerous and wild and ever changing. While others came and went, the pioneers faced every challenge nature and man threw at them and carried on. They may have migrated from island to island now and again, but the Everglades were their home. And they did what they had to do to survive.