Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives

by Denham, James M.

• ISBN13: 9781570035128
• ISBN10: 1570035121
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE
George Gillett Keen	1	(98)
I. Remembrance of a Crime Most Foul	3	(4)
II. Black Eye at Ketch All	7	(4)
III. 1830's Florida Frontier Life	11	(15)
IV. The second Seminole War, 1835-1842	26	(15)
V. Response	41	(4)
VI. Getting Ahead in the 1840's and 1850's	45	(12)
VII. Alligators Transformation	57	(3)
VIII. How Old Times Argue against a New Capital	60	(5)
IX. Tricky Politics and Gunfights as Humor	65	(10)
X. Reconstruction-Era Justice	75	(5)
XI. Lafayette County and the Murders of Lige Locklier and Jim Munden	80	(7)
XII. Studies in Cracker Character	87	(11)
XIII. Passing	98	(1)
PART TWO
Sarah Pamela Williams	99	(72)
I. Childhood at Picolata	101	(8)
II. Moving to Alligator	109	(5)
III. Sojourn in Charleston	114	(4)
IV. Planters Wife and Widow	118	(3)
V. Civil War and Its Aftermath	121	(4)
Appendix: The Cast of Characters	125	(46)
Abbreviations	171	(2)
Notes	173	(20)
Bibliography	193	(12)
Index	205