This podcast has featured many episodes on the Fort King Road. This week we explore the Seminole Trail.
The trail is a patchwork of sites and scenes throughout Florida that are related to the Seminole Indians. In Traveling Florida’s Seminole Trail: A Complete Guide to Seminole Indian Historic and Cultural Sites, Doug Alderson hits the road to discover and assess the Seminole footprint in Florida.
Doug takes readers to the Old Negro Fort site in the Panhandle, the Alachua Savannah near Gainesville, the Dade Battlefield in Bushnell, the Smallwood store in the Ten Thousand Islands, Indian Key in the Florida Keys, the destroyed sugar plantations near St. Augustine and everywhere between the Seminoles kept a presence.
An author of 15 published books, Doug Alderson writes about the historic and dynamic nature of his home state of Florida. His books include this one, for which he recently published an updated, 2nd edition. Of note to listeners, he penned A New Guide to Old Florida Attractions, which the Florida Writers Association placed in the top five of published books for 2017. He has won four first place Royal Palm Literary awards for travel books and several other state and national writing and photography awards. Additionally, his articles and photographs have been featured in numerous magazines including Native Peoples, Wildlife Conservation, American Forests, Sea Kayaker, Sierra, and Mother Earth News.
Above, Seminole Living History Interpreters clear their weapons in a salute at the annual re-enactment of the Battle of Okeechobee. Below, a Seminole interpreter charges during the annual Dade Battle re-enactment.
Host Patrick Swan is a board member with the Seminole Wars Foundation. He is a combat veteran and of the U.S. Army, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kosovo, and at the Pentagon after 9/11. A military historian, he holds masters degrees in Public History, Communication, and Homeland Security, and is a graduate of the US Army War College with an advanced degree in strategic studies. This podcast is recorded at the homestead of the Seminole Wars Foundation in Bushnell, Florida.
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SW0159 Fort Foster Volunteers Rip Out Rotten Timber Planks to Restore Replica Post for Public Visits
SW0158 Laumer Library Offers 2,500 Sem War Titles & More to Scholars, Students
SW0157 Podcast Anniversary Highlights Guests’ Breadth, Depth of SemWar Knowledge
SW0156 Couple’s Elegant Mules Lead Solemn Prideful Procession to Commemorate SemWar Fallen
SW0155 SemWar Newspapers Printed Congressional Debates, Art (2 of 2)
SW0154 SemWar Coverage Ebbs and Flows in Era Newspapers (1 of 2)
SW153 Thespian Recalls Louisa Fatio, St Augustine Proprietor and Survivor of Seminole Wars
SW152 Mail Without Fail: Seminole Agency Post Office Processed Parcels Despite Hostile Climate, Terrain, and Indians
SW0151 Navy Vet Personifies Fort Pierce’s Most Worthy Commander
SW150 Florida Cracker, Militia Captain Butch Nipper Mixes Heritage with History
SW0149 Fort King’s School of the Soldier Drills Recruits on 1830s Military Practices
SW0148 Florida Historians Outline How Seminole Struggled to Resist Full Removal and Succeeded
SW147 Historians Use Fiction to Present a Novel View of the Seminole Wars
SW0146 Archaeologist Uncovers South Florida SemWar Artifacts
SW0145 Honoring SemWar Combatants Spurs History Student to Don Soldier Gear
SW0144 Young Soldier Recruit Details SemWar Living History Appeal
SW0143 Gullah Artist Johnny Montgomery Colors SemWar Maroon Heritage with Style
SW0142 Battle of New Orleans Defeat Proved Disastrous for Seminole
SW0141 Digging Deeper to Find, Share the Past Marks SemWar Researcher
SW0140 Regular Guy Citizen Scholar Reflects on Four Decades of SemWar Battle Reenactments
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