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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE OLDEST CITY, edited by Jean Parker Waterbury, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; SPANISH ST. AUGUSTINE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A COLONIAL CREOLE COMMUNITY, By Kathleen Deagan, reviewed by John S. Otto; FORT LAUDERDALE AND BROWARD COUNTY, by Stuart B. McIver, reviewed by Thelma Peters; EDGE OF WILDERNESS: A SETTLEMENT HISTORY OF MANATEE RIVER AND SARASOTA BAY, by Janet Snyder Matthews, reviewed by Steven F. Lawson; THE PLOT TO STEAL FLORIDA: JAMES MADISON’S PHONY WAR, by Joseph Burkholder Smith, reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; DOGS OF THE CONQUEST, by John Grier Varner and Jeanette Johnson Varner, reviewed by Amy Turner Bushnell; …

Miami's Metropolitan Government: Retrospect And Prospect, Raymond A. Mohl

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the past several years, the Miami metropolitan area has experienced fast-paced, almost frantic, urban change. The Liberty City and Overtown race riots of 1980 and 1982, Haitian-Cuban refugee problems, high rates of violent crime and murder, and a lucrative drug smuggling trade have all kept Miami in the national news. A new and dynamic urban economy based on international banking, foreign investment, and a prosperous Latin American-Caribbean trade has insulated Miami from the national economic recession. Indeed, during the past decade, Miami has been transformed into the trade and cultural capital of the Caribbean basin. New skyscraper construction in …

"Laying The Sins Of The L & N At Mr. Blount's Feet": William Alexander Blount's U. S. Senatorial Campaign, 1910-1911, George F. Pearce

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Alexander Blount achieved many milestones during his illustrious career as an attorney in Pensacola, Florida. He began practicing law soon after receiving his degree from the University of Georgia in 1873. His exceptional legal mind, strong dedication to his work, and impeccable character soon won him a statewide reputation in the legal profession and attracted a large clientele. Among his corporate retainers was the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N). In 1909, after thirty-five years of practicing law, Blount opted for a chance at a political career and announced himself as a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. In …

Index To Volumne Lxii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

BECALMED IN THE MULLET LATITUDES, AL BURT’S FLORIDA, by Al Burt, reviewed by E. W. Carswell; FROM SCRATCH PADS AND DREAMS: A TEN YEAR HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA, by Daniel L. Schafer, reviewed by James P. Jones; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 7, SECRETARY OF STATE, JANUARY 1, 1828-MARCH 4, 1829, edited by Robert Seager II, reviewed by Edwin A. Miles; LIBERTY AND SLAVERY: SOUTHERN POLITICS TO 1860, by William J. Cooper, Jr., reviewed by F. N. Boney; THE RULING RACE, A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SLAVEHOLDERS, by James Oakes, reviewed by Julia Floyd Smith; BLACK SOUTHERNERS, …

From Orange To Green "Gold": The Roots Of The Asparagus Fern Industry In Florida, Robert D. Manning

Florida Historical Quarterly

Central Florida was a sparsely settled frontier at the end of Reconstruction. In the 1870s and 1880s, however, an influx of pioneers transformed this wilderness into a loose network of settlements. These early communities were linked by the steamships that navigated the St. Johns and Oklawaha rivers down through the chain-of-lakes— Lake Griffin, Haines Creek, Lake Eustis, Dead River, and Lake Harris.1 This river freight route, which ran from Jacksonville to Yalaha, soon became obsolete with the expansion of the railroad in the 1870s; regional development was no longer restricted by geographic proximity to navigable bodies of water. The increasing …

Changing Face Of Jacksonville, Florida: 1900-1910, James B. Crooks

Florida Historical Quarterly

Compelled by a devastating fire, May 3, 1901, that laid waste to most of downtown, Jacksonville not only rebuilt, but changed notably in other ways during the first decade of the twentieth century. Its population more than doubled. New or expanding suburbs, skyscrapers, hotels, theaters, automobiles, streetcar lines, parks, and city services reflected urban development. Substantial economic growth took place in banking, trade, and transportation. Public and private efforts to provide health, education, and human services increased. In addition, the community’s popular culture became more diversified.

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses completed in 1983 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

SELECTED LETTERS OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS, edited by Gordon E. Bigelow and Laura V. Monti, reviewed by Jim Haskins; THE SEMINOLE WORLD OF TOMMY TIGER, by Harry A. Kersey, Jr. and Voncile Mallory, FOREST IN THE SAND, by Marjory Bartlett Sanger with drawings by D. D. Tyler, reviewed by John Cech; LASALLE AND HIS LEGACY, FRENCHMEN AND INDIANS IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, edited by Patricia K. Galloway, reviewed by Michael G. Schene; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789, VOLUME 9, FEBRUARY 1-MAY 31, 1778, edited by Paul H. Smith, Gerard W. Gawalt, Rosemary Fry Plakas, and Eugene R. Sheridan, …

Diary Of Kena Fries, Jean Yothers

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1870, a few Swedes led by Dr. William A. Henschen and his brother Esaias settled on Henry S. Sanford’s lands lying on the south shore of Lake Monroe. Other Swedes were not long in following them to central Florida. Sanford, in need of labor for the development of his new town and the care of his groves, employed Henschen as his agent to return to Sweden to recruit immigrants. In May 1871, Henschen returned with the first of two groups of Swedes. Many of their countrymen, hearing of the Swedish colony at New Uppsala near Sanford, came and established …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

ANATOMY OF A LYNCHING, THE KILLING OF CLAUDE NEAL, by James R. McGovern, reviewed by Raymond Arsenault; GEORGE GAULD: SURVEYOR AND CARTOGRAPHER OF THE GULF COAST, by John D. Ware, reviewed by Louis DeVorsey; THE LOG OF H.M.S. Mentor, 1780-1781, A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH NAVY AT PENSACOLA, edited by James A. Servies, reviewed by Frank L. Owsley, Jr.; BONNIE MELROSE, THE EARLY HISTORY OF MELROSE, FLORIDA, by Zonira Hunter Tolles, reviewed by Merlin G. Cox; WILLIAM LAUDERDALE: GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON’S WARRIOR, by Cooper Kirk, reviewed by Frank Laumer; THE GLORIOUS CAUSE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-1789, by Robert Middlekauff, …

Florida History In Periodicals, 1982, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the fields of Florida history, archeology, geography, and anthropology published in the state, regional, and national periodicals in 1982. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1982 issue of the Quarterly.

John Ellis, Royal Agent For West Florida, Roy A. Rauschenberg

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Britain acquired West Florida in 1763, John Ellis was appointed royal agent for West Florida. Found only in Nova Scotia, Georgia, and East and West Florida, royal or crown agents were used in underdeveloped but strategically important colonies that lacked the revenue to finance their own government. In these cases the crown assumed the financial load, and the agent was the London-based fiscal officer— the comptroller— supervising the crown’s allocations to the colony. Though easily confused with the better known and more widely used colonial agent, the royal agent was an entirely different kind of office. The royal agent …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 62, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.

Notes On U. S. Arsenals, Depots, And Martial Firearms Of The Second Seminole War, M. L. Brown

Florida Historical Quarterly

Escalating complaints to the United States War Department about ineffectual ordnance management by the Corps of Artillery, coupled with the rapid technological evolution of innovative small arms systems and radical manufacturing techniques, prompted Congress to pass the act of April 5, 1832, which resurrected an independent Ordnance Department. Elevated a grade in rank and appointed Chief of Ordnance on May 30 was Lieutenant Colonel George Bomford, USA (1780-1848).

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MY WORK AMONG THE FLORIDA SEMINOLES, by James Lafayette Glenn, edited by Harry A. Kersey, Jr., reviewed by William C. Sturtevant; THE VISION OF A CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY, by Russell M. Cooper and Margaret B. Fisher, reviewed by Jack C. Lane; THE TRANSLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: A HISTORY, by James A. Rawley, reviewed by Jack P. Greene; LA MISION DE DON LUIS DE ONIS EN LOS ESTADO UNIDOS (1809-1819), by Angel del Rio, reviewed by Jack D. L. Holmes; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 6: SECRETARY OF STATE, 1827, edited by Mary W. M. Hargreaves and James F. Hopkins, reviewed by …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE KING'S COFFER, PROPRIETORS OF THE SPANISH FLORIDA TREASURY, 1565-1702, by Amy Bushnell, reviewed by Light T. Cummins; VICENTE FOLCH, GOVERNOR IN SPANISH FLORIDA, 1787-1811, by David Hart White, reviewed by Carole W. Troxler; FLORIDA'S “FRENCH" REVOLUTION, 1793-1795, by Charles E. Bennett, reviewed by William S. Coker; THE BILLY BOWLEGS WAR, 1855-1858: THE FINAL STAND OF THE SEMINOLES AGAINST THE WHITES, by James W. Covington, reviewed by John K. Mahon; THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS, VOLUME 8, OCT. 10, 1771-APRIL 18, 1773; THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS, VOLUME 9, APRIL 19, 1773-DEC. 12, 1774, edited by George C. Rogers, Jr. …

German Tourists In Florida: A Two-Century Record, Earl R. Beck

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1981, 74,219 West German tourists landed in the airport in Miami. This figure, which represents over a ten per cent increase over 1980, does not take account of many Germans who came to Florida after landing elsewhere in the United States. Those thousands of Germans who visit Florida today are continuing the lively interest in this state which began more than two hundred years ago. But, strangely enough, the number of German accounts of Florida and its myriad lures has been quite small. Stranger still, while tourism has grown, German writing about Florida has declined, and some recent accounts …

Florida Legislative Committees: Their Growth Since 1822, Allen Morris

Florida Historical Quarterly

Nine of the thirteen members of Florida’s first Legislative Council had reached Pensacola to take the oath of office on July 22, 1822. Officers were elected the following day, and a committee of two was appointed to advise Governor William P. DuVal that the council was ready to proceed to business. On the same day that the governor’s message was received by the council, segments of it were referred to committees of four members “with authority to report by bill or otherwise” on matters relating to the judiciary and revenue. In immediate succession, other committees of three to five members …

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.

Plantation Self-Sufficiency In Leon County, Florida: 1824-1860, Margaret T. Ordonez

Florida Historical Quarterly

Economic independence from the North was a desired goal of antebellum southern leaders of the nineteenth century. Southern Commercial Convention participants strongly supported such independence at their meetings held irregularly between 1837 and 1860. They proposed that Southerners should trade directly with Europe for manufactured goods in exchange for cotton and other products produced in the South. In Leon County, Florida, newly-settled planters had arranged for direct trade with Liverpool by 1831. Plantation supplies such as Negro clothes and blankets, bagging, iron, and salt from Liverpool sold at lower prices than similar goods from New York in 1835. Although the …

Wherever The Fight Is Thickest: General James Patton Anderson Of Florida, Larry Rayburn

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the night of October 8, 1861, in the harbor of Pensacola Bay, long columns of gray clad soldiers marched slowly aboard steamers moored by the dock. Officers whispered orders, and the enlisted men spoke in hushed tones. Aside from their voices, only the rattle of canteens and the lapping of water against the steamers broke the silence of the autumn darkness.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

ABORIGINAL SUBSISTENCE TECHNOLOGY ON THE SOUTHEASTERNCOASTAL PLAIN DURING THE LATE PREHISTORIC PERIOD, by Lewis H. Larson, reviewed by Elizabeth J. Reitz; THIS SO REMOTE FRONTIER: THE CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTRY OF ALABAMA AND GEORGIA, by Mark E. Fretwell, reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, by William N. Morgan, reviewed by Jerald T. Milanich; THE SPANISH CROWN AND THE DEFENSE OF THE CARIBBEAN, 1535-1585: PRECEDENT, PATRIMONIALISM, AND ROYAL PARSIMONY, by Paul E. Hoffman, reviewed by Stanley M. Hordes; FIREARMS IN COLONIAL AMERICA: THE IMPACT ON HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY, 1495-1792, by M. L. Brown, reviewed by Albert …

Billy Graham In Florida, Lois Ferm

Florida Historical Quarterly

Billy Graham who suffered periodic attacks of influenza when he was a young boy, first came to Florida because the doctors hoped that a warm climate would restore his health. However, in terms of his career in evangelism, his decision to move South seems almost providential, for as a student at the Florida Bible Institute in Tampa in the 1930s, he was exposed to a veritable “Who’s Who” of evangelical giants. As a high school student, Billy had accepted the claims of Jesus Christ on his life and had surrendered his life to Christ in a revival service held in …

Florida Seminoles And The Census Of 1900, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the most persistent problems confronting historians dealing with the Seminole Indians in Florida during the late-nineteenth century has been a paucity of reliable population data. In the first four decades of the modern tribal era, the years following cessation of the Third Seminole War in 1858, there was only one attempt at a comprehensive account of Florida Seminoles. That was a survey conducted in the winter of 1880-1881 by Clay MacCauley for the Smithsonian Institution, which yielded what has become the generally accepted base line population figures. He found 208 Seminoles residing in the state, the unhappy remnant …

Bernard Lintot: A Connecticut Yankee On The Mississippi, 1775-1805, Robin Fabel

Florida Historical Quarterly

Deciding where one’s allegiance lay and adhering to it in the era of the American Revolution was not always easy. Changing it was common but Bernard Lintot changed his an extraordinary number of times. He was successively a citizen of the colony of Connecticut, a loyalist inhabitant of British West Florida, a subject of the king of Spain, a citizen of the state of Connecticut, and finally a founding member of the United States Mississippi territory. He represented unusual continuity. His was one of the very few of the old families of Mississippi to establish itself there during the period …

Arturo O'Neill: First Governor Of West Florida During The Second Spanish Period, Eric Beerman

Florida Historical Quarterly

An Irish lieutenant colonel in the Hibernia Regiment— Arturo O’Neill— gazed through the late afternoon haze that ninth day of March in 1781 and received his first look at Sigüenza Point on the western end of Santa Rosa Island at the entrance of Pensacola Bay. As the Spanish invasion fleet moved closer, Arturo O’Neill saw the hill behind Pensacola with British Fort George dominating the surrounding terrain. He no doubt felt a certain trepidation as the Spaniards would be making a nighttime assault on Sigüenza. However, this was not his baptism of fire and with veteran Hibernia troops around him, …

Wagon Tracks Volume 35, Issue 4 (August 2021)

Wagon Tracks

Contents

2 On the Cover: Cheyenne Horse Guard by Ron Kil

4 Insights from your President

5 Joanne’s Jottings

2, 6-11 Trail News

12-16 2021 SFTA Symposium

29-30 Book Reviews: David C. Beyreis, Blood in the Borderlands; Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920. Reviewed by John Porter Bloom. Richard L. Miller, John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General. Reviewed by Leo Oliva. Lee M. Cullimore, To Make a Fortune in Missouri: Meredith Miles Maramduke 1791-1864. Reviewed by Rich Lawson.

31-36 Chapter Reports

33 Membership Form

36 Calendar

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida’s university, college, and public libraries and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archive in question.