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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SW059 College History Professor Illuminates Seminole War Research Hurdles, Faddish Academic Theories, and Joy of Discovery
SW058 Central Florida National Cemetery Honors Veterans on Seminole Wars Hallowed Ground
SW057 Seminole Wars Panels Available for Proposed Freedom Memorial Plaza at Bushnell's Florida National Cemetery
SW056 Unpolished yet Glimmering Gems of Knowledge Await Intrepid Seminole War Scholars
SW055 Delicacy and Discernment Key to Accessing Dormant Knowledge about Seminole Wars
SW054 Author and Historian Shares Techniques to Research the Seminole Wars from Home
SW053 Seminole Frustrated Army by Fighting 2SW on Its Terms, not by Military Expectations
SW052 Military Strategist Examines Evolution of U.S. Army War Preparations on Eve of 2SW
SW051 War as Indian Removal by 'Other Means': Applying Classic Prussian Military Strategist's Insights, Maxims to Second Seminole Conflict
SW050 Park Focus: Loxahatchee River Battlefield Park Hosts Sites of Second Seminole War Clashes
SW049 Irish-Immigrant U.S. Army Private Paddington "Paddy" McCormick Discusses Soldiers' Perspectives at Living History Events
SW048 Gunpowder Warrior Discusses Seminole Fighters' Perspectives at Living History Events
SW047 Digging into the Tantalizing What Ifs Surrounding the 1836 Peace Parley at Camp Izard
SW046 In Seminole Wars, West Point's 1829 Military Academy Graduates Showed Mettle and Officer Corps' Institutionalized Professionalism
SW045 Dade Battlefield Staff Rides Instruct Present-Day Military Leaders in Challenges of Command When Under Fire in Irregular Conflict
SW044 Living Historian Louie Bear's Heart Demonstrates Seminole Cultural Practices to Teach and Educate on Traditional Ways of Life
SW043 Just Who WERE the Black Seminoles?
SW042 Matt Griffin Uses Military Reenactment to Bring Alive the Black Seminole Warrior Spirit
SW041 Waging War Amidst Fear and Anxiety on the Frontier of 1830s Territorial Florida
SW040 Living in Fear and Anxiety on the Frontier of 1830s Territorial Florida
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