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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SW079 War Reenacting: What Is It Good For? Living Historians Bring Back Past at Florida Parks
SW078 Confederate Torpedo Service Chief, Unsung ‘Father‘ of Coastal Defense, First Blasted Seminole with Early Land Mine Munitions in 1840
SW076 1950s’ Hollywood Films Carve Fanciful Views of Everglades Struggle to Remove Seminole; Introduce ‘Wilhelm Scream‘ to moviegoers
SW075 At 100 Years, Dade Park Remains a Central Point Raising Awareness of US-Seminole Conflict
SW074 Dade Battlefield Marks Centennial as a Historic State Park; Balances Seminole War Commemoration with Recreation Opportunities
SW073 Showing Mercy and Compassion, the Creek Pocahontas Milly Francis Changed Whites Perception of Indians as Agents of their Destiny
SW072 Osceola‘s Treaty Rejection, Assassination of Indian Agent Gain Him Enduring Notoriety
SW071 Red Stick Creeks Leverage 1813 Mims Massacre to Avenge Prior Unprovoked Attack
SW070 GARI Excavations Under the now-Reconstructed Fort King Reveal Daily 1830s' Life
SW069 Archaeologists, Anthropologists Study Remains of the Day at Tampa's old Fort Brooke Site
SW068 Using Conflict Archaeology, GARI Shows Fort King Road as Key 2SW Transport Enabler
SW067 Fort King Road Warriors: Key Avenue Blazes Military Path through Heart of Reservation
SW066 West Florida's 1821 Transfer Ceremony at Pensacola Confirmed US Acquisition, Presaged Enduring Conflict with Diverse Peninsular Tribes
SW065 Sword-Swinging General Scolds Soldiers, Steeles Resolve at Withlacoochee River Battle
SW064 Historic Florida Militia Commemorates July 10 Florida Bicentennial that Brought Federal Authority, Confrontation to Seminole
SW063 At Charleston Conference, CAMP Historians Pay Homage at Osceola's Grave, Tour Fort Moultrie Seminole Prisoner Holding Cells
SW062 Fort Sumter Union Civil War Commander Battled Seminole at Loxahatchee in 1830s
SW061 GARI Surveys Wahoo Swamp to Spot the Battle Lines to confirm or refute written accounts
SW060 At Wahoo Swamp, Seminoles Continue to Frustrate Army Indian Removal Plans
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