Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War

About this film

LibriVox recording of Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War by Kirk Munroe. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The principal incidents in the story of Coacoochee, as related in the following pages, are historically true. The Seminole War, the most protracted struggle with Indians in which the United States ever engaged, lasted from 1835 to 1842. At its conclusion, though most of the tribe had been removed to the Indian Territory in the far west, there still remained three hundred and one souls uncaptured and unsubdued. This remnant had fled to the almost inaccessible islands of the Big Cypress Swamp, in the extreme southern part of Florida. Rather than undertake the task of hunting them out, General Worth made a verbal treaty with them, by which it was agreed that they should retain that section of country unmolested, so long as they committed no aggressions. From that time they have kept their part of that agreement to the letter, living industrious, peaceful lives, and avoiding all unnecessary contact with the whites. They now number something over five hundred souls, but the tide of white immigration is already lapping over the ill-defined boundaries of their…

Directors & creators

Kirk Munroe

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;adventure; war stories; Florida; juvenile fiction; seminole stories; seminole war

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