Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga
By Susan A. Miller.
Description
To Americans he was "Wild Cat," to Mexicans, "Gato del Monte." But to his own people he was Coacoochee, a warrior and diplomat who led the Seminole resistance to American injustice in their home territory of Florida and through the Spanish borderlands of North America. In the first in-depth study of this dramatic figure, Susan A. Miller, a historian and a Seminole, sorts out discrepancies between American history—where Coacoochee remains in the background—and Seminole tradition—where he stands as a great leader. Relocated in 1841 to the Indian country i...
ISBN(s)
0700611959, 9780700611959
