Palmetto Pioneers

The Emigrants

De: Cindy Littlejohn

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Duración: 11 h

Resumen del Editor

In 1829, it was said, “No man would immigrate to Florida—no, not from hell itself!” But Mary Walker’s family came anyway, seeking a new start in a treacherous frontier, where the enemies are nature and man. This award-winning nonfiction book tells their story.

This first book in the award-winning series, “Palmetto Pioneers: The Emigrants,” won an IPPY bronze medal for nonfiction in the southeastern US and three more medals from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association for History, Biography, and Cover Design.

“Palmetto Pioneers,” tells the story of Mary Adeline Walker, an ordinary daughter of a South Carolina low-country cattleman. For the adventure of her lifetime, she follows her family and her heart into the wilds of territorial Florida, where she faces an Indian war and Florida’s brutal environs. In frontier Florida, the ordinary must become extraordinary—or perish.

"Palmetto Pioneers" starts when Mary is seven years old, and it moves through the Second Seminole War to statehood in 1845. This compelling story narrates Mary’s self-discovery and Florida’s struggle to become a state, where people like the Walkers faced its challenges and used their tenacity to change their lives and their state’s future.

This suspenseful, thoroughly researched, narrative nonfiction book describes the stirring true story of the birth of a state—how Mary and Florida found their way.