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The Fatio Family: A Book Review, Walter C. Hartridge

Florida Historical Quarterly

This account of the Fatios and their descendants is a significant contribution to the regional history of our country, and it deserves to be viewed and evaluated against the background of historical writing relating to the southeast for the past century and a half.

Documents Describing The Second And Third Expeditions Of Lieutenant Diego Pena To Apalachee And Apalachicolo In 1717 And 1718, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The success attained by Lieutenant Diego Pena in the discharge of the mission to Apalachee and Apalachicolo, to which he was assigned in the summer of 1716, made him the logical choice for similar duties in the following two years. The authorities in St. Augustine entertained the hope of repopulating Apalachee through inducements offered to surviving Apalacheans then living along the Apalachicolo (present-day Chattahoochee) river and elsewhere, as well as members of adjacent and related tribes, whose disillusionment with the English had produced the then recent Yamassee war. Knowledge that the success of this project was imperiled by the English, …

Foreign Travellers In Florida, 1900-1950, Lawrence S. Thompson

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the first half of the twentieth century more foreign writers visited the South than at any other period in history. Among the various Southern states the most popular among this group of visitors were Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia. In many instances Virginia was a sort of afterthought to the customary visit to Washington, but the other three states attracted foreigners primarily on account of their own colorful history and scenery. If New Orleans were to be placed in a separate category as a tourist attraction, Florida would outstrip Louisiana in this respect. Moreover, a large proportion of travellers …

St. Augustine During The Civil War, Omega G. East

Florida Historical Quarterly

Three days before Florida seceded from the Union about 125 state artillerymen marched resolutely on Fort Marion’s Federal garrison as ordered by Governor M. S. Perry. The action which resulted cannot be recorded as one of the major engagements of the war, if we are to believe Private J. Gardner (a member of the expedition), who reminisced: “We took possession of the fort, and captured the entire garrison, consisting of one lonely sergeant, well advanced in years, who surrendered very graciously.“

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 31, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

Selection From A Corrected Typescript Of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Novel The Yearling, Sarah Virgina Dumitrascu

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

Project of Merit Winner

Digital Projects Showcase Exhibitor Award

With the recent advent of digital word processors, physical representations of editorial practices have largely disappeared while a misconception about writing as an instantaneous or single-draft process has emerged. Compounding this issue is the prominence of literary studies that emphasize the works of renowned authors as products, rather than processes. My digital textual editing project, “A Selection from a Corrected Manuscript of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s novel The Yearling”, seeks to transcribe the manuscript of Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, The Yearling, which is marked with typed and hand-written revisions. Utilizing TEI-XML encoding, my …

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the annual meeting, report of the treasurer, new officials, and new members

The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The forty-first Program Meeting of the Historical Association of Southern Florida was presented on March 25 last while our Quarterly was in the press.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Florida of the Inca, by Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Translated and edited by John Grier Varner and Jeanette Johnson Varner. (1951, University of Texas Press, Austin, XLV and 655 pages. $7.50.); A Survey of Indian River Archaeology, Florida. Irving Rouse (296 pp., 8 pls., 15 figs., 5 tables). Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 44, New Haven, 1951.; Chronology at South Indian Field, Florida. Vera Masius Ferguson (62 pp., 4 pls., 10 figs., 7 tables). Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 45, New Haven, 1951. ($4., the two); History of Jackson County, by J. Randall …

Settlers From Connecticut In Spanish Florida, 1808-1816, Robert E. Rutherford

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ambrose Hull was one of the Protestant Americans who answered Spain’s call of 1788 for immigrants to settle and develop the Florida lands. Hull obtained a grant of 2,600 acres in the New Smyrna area early in 1801 and began building his settlement, as narrated in Part I in de last issue of this Quarterly. Unfortunately, his first attempt was cut short by an Indian raid in which he suffered damages amounting to several thousand dollars. Nevertheless, Ambrose and his wife, Abigail, with her sister, Stella Hall, soon began rebuilding.

Documents Concerning A Voyage To The Miami Region In 1793, Richard K. Murdoch

Florida Historical Quarterly

That the southern portion of the Florida peninsular possessed no significant commercial value in colonial days was generally conceded, but its strategic importance as guardian of the Bahama Channel was fully recognized. Governors of Florida, both English and Spanish, stressed the possible dangers if this region were permitted to fall prey to enemy occupation. In spite of the acknowledged importance of the area as a military outpost, no program was undertaken by the Spanish authorities to erect permanent military bases south of the fort of San Marcos in St. Augustine and the battery on the shore of Matanzas Island. Only …

The Pensacola Indian Trade, Peter A. Brannon

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any account of the trade with the southern Indians out of Pensacola must of necessity be a historical recording of the contacts of Spanish (and British to an extent) West Florida with the Alabama Basin region to the north. The “Pensacola Trade Route” incidents make much of the romantic story of the early settlement of the Gulf country.

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 31, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Contents Of Volume Xxxi, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 31

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the annual meeting

Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jacksonville Historical Society and the St. Augustine Historical Society

Book Reviews, Weymouth T. Jordan

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874-1890; by Allen Johnston Going. (University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1951. Pp. ix, 256. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. $4.00.), Liberty and Property, by R. V. Coleman. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951. Pp. 606.)

Book Review: Reunion And Reaction: The Compromise Of 1877 And The End Of Reconstruction, Charles T. Thrift Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction, by C. Vann Woodward. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. pp. x, 263, $4.),