Fort Everglades.
by Slaughter, Frank G
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- Hardcover
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Dade City, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 340 pp. Very Good, with slight sunning to spine, light edgewear, former-owner signature. From Foreword: Students of Florida history soon come to take strange happenings for granted. But surely no recorded event in the long chronicles of the Seminole wars was quite so bizarre as the capture, 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. As to locale, I have endeavored to follow actual facts as closely as possible. During the Seminole wars there was a fort at the mouth of the Miami River; around it grew up the settlement of Fort Dallas, nucleus of present-day Miami. That fort might well have been called instead -- Fort Everglades.
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- Bookseller
- Lighthousebooks, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- vot225
- Title
- Fort Everglades.
- Author
- Slaughter, Frank G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historic Fiction, Florida, Floridiana.
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Lighthousebooks, ABAA
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Dade City, Florida
About Lighthousebooks, ABAA
Lighthouse Books, ABAA is a family-owned and operated book shop located in downtown Dade City, Florida, celebrating more than 40 years of business. We're open to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Our specialties include Florida history and literature, Americana, literature of the South, military history (including, but not limited to, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korean War), children's literature, antique maps, leather bindings and rare & unusual items. We have a wide variety of general stock, including a large landscape/gardening section, a great selection of Christian/church history/Bible study titles, Beat literature, fishing, aviation, maritime, Asian history, African history, European history, South Pacific, British history, archaeology, psychology, philosophy, Latin American and Caribbean history, Canadian history, discovery & exploration, art, antiques & collectibles' reference, pop-up books, railroads, hunting, fire arms, etc. About 25 per cent of our total stock is listed in our online inventory. If ever you're in the area, we invite you to come in and browse; to show our appreciation, we'll offer a 15 per cent discount off any purchases made on your first visit. The proprietor, Michael F. Slicker, is one of about 450 qualified members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, Inc., and its affiliate the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He was also the founding president of the the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association and is still an active member and committee chairman. In addition to keeping regular hours at the storefront location, Lighthouse Books participate as a vender in about a dozen book fairs, antiques shows, map fairs and related events each year. One such show is The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, an annual trade show/charity benefit held in downtown St. Petersburg in the spring, that has become the oldest and largest antiquarian book fair in the Southeast; Slicker has served as Chair since its inception thirty years ago. Please contact us for more information regarding our certified appraisal services. Please visit our website: www.OldFloridaBookStore.com. Bibliophiles might also enjoy our blog, featuring articles on unusual books, author biographies, and other book related subjects:.OldFloridaBookStore.blospot.com.
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