Howdy ginnyannette! what, you're saying my stories don't have good endings? lol. I know, well I ask people what kind of stories they want and they say ACTION! But most action stories from the Old West involve people getting killed! But at least they aren't boring, hopefully. This is a good story for a Sunday. She lived happily ever after. Thanks so much for reading and commenting!
Thank you so much ginnyannette! I should write about Florida's history when there were still Indians and how all that went down but I wonder what people refer to that as? I mean over here we had the Old West but over in your part we had the Old East I guess but I've never heard it called that before have you? Or do you know what they called it when it was being settled? Or are they still trying to settle it? lol.
Hmm...that's a good question. I don't think we have a name. I don't believe much was going on in south Florida until much later. St. Augustine was the only happening place for a long time. The Florida crackers were trotting around here, cracking their whips and so forth, for quite a while though :)
My immediate area has a lot of historical landmarks involving the Seminole Wars and Osceola. Interesting stuff.
So the Seminole wars were to drive those tribes out of Florida? What are the Florida crackers? The only crackers I've heard of are the slave drivers or foremen who would crack their whips.
It's been a while, but from what I remember there were treaties set up that were not in the favor of the Indians, but they had little choice. I believe it was the Treaty of Moutrie that agreed the Indians would take land west of the Mississippi and hit the road. Osceola didn't like this, and skirmishes began. By that time the natives from my region, the Timucuans, had long since died out. The Seminoles had become one squished together group of many different native cultures.
I don't know much about the Florida crackers. I think they are mysterious figures in history. The "cracker" comes from them cracking their whips on their cattle I believe. They were outcast white people that kept their own company. They existed on cornmeal, which I think has something to do with another theory as to how they got their name "cracker", but I don't recall that story.
Oh, very interesting. I'm sure there is some rich history lessons to dig up on the way the Indians were treated and moved out of Florida. I've never found one tribe that was dealt with fairly. I wonder if there are any Seminoles left? I don't even know if Florida has any reservations, I think most states to do though.
Howdy ginnyannette! what, you're saying my stories don't have good endings? lol. I know, well I ask people what kind of stories they want and they say ACTION! But most action stories from the Old West involve people getting killed! But at least they aren't boring, hopefully. This is a good story for a Sunday. She lived happily ever after. Thanks so much for reading and commenting!
Ha, I meant "happy" ending, not "good" ending. Your stories are good even when they aren't happy.
I like your stories. When I have free time in the evening I like to stop and read them. A good bit of history that I am not familiar with.
Thank you so much ginnyannette! I should write about Florida's history when there were still Indians and how all that went down but I wonder what people refer to that as? I mean over here we had the Old West but over in your part we had the Old East I guess but I've never heard it called that before have you? Or do you know what they called it when it was being settled? Or are they still trying to settle it? lol.
Hmm...that's a good question. I don't think we have a name. I don't believe much was going on in south Florida until much later. St. Augustine was the only happening place for a long time. The Florida crackers were trotting around here, cracking their whips and so forth, for quite a while though :)
My immediate area has a lot of historical landmarks involving the Seminole Wars and Osceola. Interesting stuff.
So the Seminole wars were to drive those tribes out of Florida? What are the Florida crackers? The only crackers I've heard of are the slave drivers or foremen who would crack their whips.
It's been a while, but from what I remember there were treaties set up that were not in the favor of the Indians, but they had little choice. I believe it was the Treaty of Moutrie that agreed the Indians would take land west of the Mississippi and hit the road. Osceola didn't like this, and skirmishes began. By that time the natives from my region, the Timucuans, had long since died out. The Seminoles had become one squished together group of many different native cultures.
I don't know much about the Florida crackers. I think they are mysterious figures in history. The "cracker" comes from them cracking their whips on their cattle I believe. They were outcast white people that kept their own company. They existed on cornmeal, which I think has something to do with another theory as to how they got their name "cracker", but I don't recall that story.
Oh, very interesting. I'm sure there is some rich history lessons to dig up on the way the Indians were treated and moved out of Florida. I've never found one tribe that was dealt with fairly. I wonder if there are any Seminoles left? I don't even know if Florida has any reservations, I think most states to do though.