Osceola His Capture and Seminole Legends

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Story of Osceola told in first person. Traces his family's linkage to the Creek Red Stick movement and Tecumseh to the escape to the Pea (Peace River) area of south Florida. Insight into Osceola's early years, his actions at Fort King, and later leadership in the Second Seminole War. Offers insight as to the motivation of Osceola, who while not a Chief of the Seminoles, became a great war leader and was captured under a white flag of truce by Gen. Hernandez and some 200 army soldiers. Described as historic fiction strongly based on fact and original documents. Includes the story of Col. Sherburne and the possibility of a new image of Osceola's wife and son as described in a London Newspaper of 1848.

Description

First person historical fiction based strongly on fact concerning Osceola capture site, and events leading to his capture under white flag of truce in 1837. Story of Col. John Henry Sherburne and possible portrait of Osceola wife and son as reported in Illustrated London News Jan 29, 1848. Account of life of Osceola with maps and location descriptions. Reviewed by Seminole Historians this may be one of the most accurate accounts of the early life of Osceola as told in the first person.

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