Author: Frank White JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
A History of Texas and Texans
Author: Frank White JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Deep South Genealogical Quarterly
Author: A History of Texas and Texans
Author: Francis White JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
The Armchair Researcher
Author: History of Alabama and Her People
Author: Albert Burton MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada
Author: American Association for State and Local HistoryPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759100022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
This multi-functional reference is a useful tool to find information about history-related organizations and programs and to contact those working in history across the country.
Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives
Author: James M. DenhamPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643364294
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Wild and wooly recollections from the Florida frontier Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives 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, they shared the adventure, thrill, hardship, and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era. With sensitivity, poignancy, and humor, George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams record anecdotes and memories that touch upon important themes of frontier life and reveal the remarkable diversity of Florida's settlers. Keen's story typifies that of many "Cracker" families. Born in Georgia, he moved with his parents to the Florida Territory in 1830 in search of a better life. He grew up in a dangerous yet exciting setting, and as an old man at the turn of the twentieth century recorded his colorful memories with a verve and vernacular reminiscent of the Georgia humorist, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. Keen writes about subsistence farming, cattle grazing, the Seminole wars, marriage customs, medical practices, politics, the abundance of wildlife, and the paucity of educational opportunities. Admittedly not a Cracker, Sarah Pamela Williams was the daughter of a nationally recognized man of letters. In 1847 she moved to Columbia County's seat of Alligator (Lake City) and later married into one of northeast Florida's prominent planter families. She recorder her recollections of a life brightened by social functions, travel, and cultural endeavors. Offering a rare glimpse into Florida's Civil War homefront, Williams tells of making clothes of homespun, tithing crops to the Confederacy, fearing hostilities just thirteen miles from her home, and surviving as a widow in the lean postwar era. Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives features biographical sketches of more than 280 persons mentioned by Keen and Williams in their writings, many of whom subsequently pioneered settlement in the Florida peninsula.
Everton's Genealogical Helper
Author: The Genealogical Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Houston Region (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Pioneer Florida
Author: Donald Brenham McKayPublisher:
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Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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