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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SW099 Descendant of Black Seminole Maroons Spreads Peaceful Tidings to Diaspora
SW098 Fort Cooper Days Replays 16-day Skirmish Between Militia/Seminole on Withlacoochee Cove
SW097 Address by Seminole Nation Chief Highlights 3rd Biennial Convocation of Seminole Wars Historians in Jupiter FL this April
SW096 Okeechobee Battlefield Friends Commemorate Christmas Day 1837 Clash
SW095 TwoEggTV is a Good Egg with Historically Compelling Stories of Creek/Seminole Resistance
SW094 Living History Interpreters Bring to Life Commemorative Seminole War Encampment
SW093 Seminole Bruise the Army at Loxahatchee River, But Removal Efforts Continued Unabated
SW092 Honored History Storyteller James Bullock Assesses Context Behind Black Seminole Interpreter Abraham’s Controversial Counsel
SW091 Military Exit Necessitates Unregulated Citizen Militia Defense for Florida Homesteads
SW090 ’Pirate Captain’ Jorge Nunez Plunges the Depths of Seminole Wars’ Enduring Florida Legacy
SW089 Merry Fort Christmas: Replica Seminole Wars Supply Depot Presents Key Logistics Link
SW088 An Englishman in the Second Seminole War Offers Soldier-Level Recollections on Key Events and Figures in long removal conflict
SW087 Battle of Black Point, a Second Seminole Wars Engagement, Highlights Weekend Historical Fare at Pioneer Florida Museum in Dade City
SW086 Seminole Martial Prowess, Resilience, and Sheer Stubborness Stymied Army Removal Efforts
SW085 Festival at Fort King Showcases 1830s Army Life at Start of Second Seminole War
SW084 1817 Encounter on Apalachicola River Not a Massacre But Still a Seminal Battle in a Long War
SW083 Seminole Removal Ends Overt US Hostilities to Tribe, Creates Unexpected Ally in Oklahoma Amidst Rival Tribes
SW082 Laumer‘s Legacy: Historians Indebted to Land Developer, Scholar Frank Laumer, Whose Research Excavated from Dusty Archives an Army Private, the Dade Battle, and the Seminole Wars
SW081 Dade Battlefield Historic State Park at 100, a Preservation Success Recalling Past Era‘s Deeds
SW080 Writer Weaves Tales of Osceola‘s Capture on the Old King‘s Road, Seminole War Flashpoint
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