Edwin C McReynolds
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 47
Publisher
Univ. of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
Description
This is the history of a remarkable nation, the only Indian tribe that never officially made peace with the United States. General Thomas Sidney Jesup admired the Seminoles as adversaries: "We have, at no former period in our history, had to contend with so formidable an enemy. No Seminole proves false to his country, nor has a single instance occurred of a first rate warrior having surrendered." Jesup made those comments in 1837, and they proved...