A comprehensive history of Florida told in narrative style from the viewpoint of one living in the 1870s. It covers events from Ponce de Leon's discovery to just before the Civil War.
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Turnbull, is portrayed as the culprit, guilty of “animus toward colony management,” according to a 1965 account called Florida: From Indian Trail to Space Age, one of those ever-upward-and-onward volumes that fill the shelves of Florida ...
... Florida . Philadelphia , printed ; London , re- printed , T.Sowle , 1699 . Fairbanks , George R. History of Florida from Its Discovery by Ponce de Leon , in 1512 , to the Close of the Florida War in 1842. Philadelphia , Lippincott ...