Florida's Peace River Frontier (Brown Edgar Canter)(Paperback)

The economic, social,
political, and racial history of southwest Florida in the nineteenth century
For
most of the nineteenth century, southwest Florida and the Peace River Valley
remained a frontier as unknown to outsiders as the frontiers of the American
West. In this book, Canter Brown, Jr. records the area's economic, social,
political, and racial history in an account of violence, passion, struggle,
sacrifice, and determination. The Peace River originates in Polk County's Lake
Hamilton, one of the many lakes that dot the heart of interior Florida. It
flows past the towns of Bartow, Fort Meade, Bowling Green, Arcadia, Fort Ogden,
and Punta Gorda, finally meeting the sea at Charlotte Harbor on Florida's
southwest Gulf Coast. No great cities line its banks; no commerce passes along
its waters. Still, the river has bent
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