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Author: Michael Tucker Publisher: ISBN: 9781729215104 Category : Languages : en Pages : 310
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Tuckertown is the second novel in THE CRACKERS series. The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker began the story of how Jessie fought in and survived the Civil War with the help of his new-found Creek Indian family and then drove cattle across the wilderness. Paid for cattle in gold, Jessie bought up the land surrounding his homestead, fearing the carpetbaggers from the north would purchase his land. Traveling to Georgia for ex-slaves to help him build his empire, Jessie unknowingly begins an unstoppable force that will end in Tuckertown. With men to share crop the land, a preacher, a new church, a blacksmith and new commissary, the seeds of this new town are planted. All the new families will come to depend on Jessie and his wisdom to help them grow and prosper. Two Worlds, Jessie's spiritual advisor, guides Jessie through difficult times, when as a man, husband and father he is tested. Lawless greedy men travel the landscape of Florida causing terror in the new residents. Having defied the law by sheltering the Creek Indians, Jessie now has to become the law to protect the people and land he loves. Filled with adventures, love, loss and promise, Tuckertown will not disappoint you!
Author: Michael Tucker Publisher: ISBN: 9781729215104 Category : Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
Tuckertown is the second novel in THE CRACKERS series. The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker began the story of how Jessie fought in and survived the Civil War with the help of his new-found Creek Indian family and then drove cattle across the wilderness. Paid for cattle in gold, Jessie bought up the land surrounding his homestead, fearing the carpetbaggers from the north would purchase his land. Traveling to Georgia for ex-slaves to help him build his empire, Jessie unknowingly begins an unstoppable force that will end in Tuckertown. With men to share crop the land, a preacher, a new church, a blacksmith and new commissary, the seeds of this new town are planted. All the new families will come to depend on Jessie and his wisdom to help them grow and prosper. Two Worlds, Jessie's spiritual advisor, guides Jessie through difficult times, when as a man, husband and father he is tested. Lawless greedy men travel the landscape of Florida causing terror in the new residents. Having defied the law by sheltering the Creek Indians, Jessie now has to become the law to protect the people and land he loves. Filled with adventures, love, loss and promise, Tuckertown will not disappoint you!
Author: Michael Calhoun Tucker Publisher: ISBN: 9781947678125 Category : Languages : en Pages : 315
Book Description
Tuckertown is the second novel in THE CRACKERS series. The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker began the story of how Jessie fought in and survived the Civil War with the help of his new-found Creek Indian family and then drove cattle across the wilderness. Paid for cattle in gold, Jessie bought up the land surrounding his homestead, fearing the carpetbaggers from the north would purchase his land. Traveling to Georgia for ex-slaves to help him build his empire, Jessie unknowingly begins an unstoppable force that will end in Tuckertown. With men to share crop the land, a preacher, a new church, a blacksmith and new commissary, the seeds of this new town are planted. All the new families will come to depend on Jessie and his wisdom to help them grow and prosper. Two Worlds, Jessie's spiritual advisor, guides Jessie through difficult times, when as a man, husband and father he is tested. Lawless greedy men travel the landscape of Florida causing terror in the new residents. Having defied the law by sheltering the Creek Indians, Jessie now has to become the law to protect the people and land he loves. Filled with adventures, love, loss and promise, Tuckertown will not disappoint you!
Author: Michael Calhoun Tucker Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781517056001 Category : Languages : en Pages : 294
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For all readers who read and loved Patrick Smith's "This Land Remembered," THE CRACKERS" The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker, will reignite your love of old Florida and it's fascinating legends and history. You've read about how the west was won. This book is about how the wild and uninhabited middle of Florida was tamed! THE CRACKERS: The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker is a story about four families who fled Georgia during the civil war and headed south. Although this story is a fictional novel based on historic facts and family legends about the events that happened to Michael's ancestor, Jessie B. Tucker, it is not just a history of occurrences during and after the civil war. It is about the lives of these white families from Georgia that came crashing together with a band of Creek Indians. The subsequent meeting of Jessie B. Tucker and Two Worlds, the ancient shaman and spiritual leader of the Creek band, sparked the merging of whites and Indians that changed the Tucker clan and the lifestyle and landscape of Central Florida. Last but not least, this story is about the love that held these white and Creek families together. Against all odds, these unlikely partners prevailed to create a new life and help to launch the second largest cattle drive in the Union, leaving a legacy that lives on many generations later. Join Michael in this adventure of old Florida and some of the wonderful characters that just might have lived in this exciting chapter of Florida's beginnings. The Crackers, The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker, is the first novel in an exciting series of the adventures of the Tucker's extended family.
Author: Michael Calhoun Tucker Publisher: ISBN: 9781947678118 Category : Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
For all readers who read and loved Patrick Smith's "A Land Remembered," THE CRACKERS" The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker, will reignite your love of old Florida and it's fascinating legends and history. You've read about how the west was won. This book is about how the wild and uninhabited middle of Florida was tamed! THE CRACKERS: The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker is a story about four families who fled Georgia during the civil war and headed south. Although this story is a fictional novel based on historic facts and family legends about the events that happened to Michael's ancestor, Jessie B. Tucker, it is not just a history of occurrences during and after the civil war. It is about the lives of these white families from Georgia that came crashing together with a band of Creek Indians. The subsequent meeting of Jessie B. Tucker and Two Worlds, the ancient shaman and spiritual leader of the Creek band, sparked the merging of whites and Indians that changed the Tucker clan and the lifestyle and landscape of Central Florida. Last but not least, this story is about the love that held these white and Creek families together. Against all odds, these unlikely partners prevailed to create a new life and help to launch the second largest cattle drive in the Union, leaving a legacy that lives on many generations later. Join Michael in this adventure of old Florida and some of the wonderful characters that just might have lived in this exciting chapter of Florida's beginnings. The Crackers, The Legend of Jessie B. Tucker, is the first novel in an exciting series of the adventures of the Tucker's extended family.
Author: Q. Swan Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230102182 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
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This book examines the impact of Black Power on the British colony of Bermuda, where the 1972-73 assassinations of its British Police Commissioner and Governor reflected the Movement's denouncement of British imperialism and the island's racist and oligarchic society.
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