Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War by Kirk Munroe

Read now or download (free!)

Choose how to read this book Url Size
Read online (web) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55021.html.images 496 kB
EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55021.epub3.images 471 kB
EPUB (older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55021.epub.images 478 kB
EPUB (no images, older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55021.epub.noimages 243 kB
Kindle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55021.kf8.images 607 kB
older Kindles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55021.kindle.images 593 kB
Plain Text UTF-8 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55021.txt.utf-8 470 kB
Download HTML (zip) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55021/pg55021-h.zip 458 kB
There may be more files related to this item.

About this eBook

Author Munroe, Kirk, 1850-1930
Illustrator Pérard, Victor Semon, 1870-1957
LoC No. 07017256
Title Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War
Note Reading ease score: 74.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Credits Produced by Graeme Mackreth and The Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Summary "Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War" by Kirk Munroe is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. The narrative centers around the Seminole War, specifically focusing on the character Coacoochee, a young Seminole leader, who is caught between his people's struggle for survival and the encroaching dangers from white settlers and slave catchers. The story interweaves themes of friendship, betrayal, and the fight against oppression within the context of a tumultuous time in American history. At the start of the novel, the setting is vividly described as Florida's wilderness, where Coacoochee mourns his deceased twin sister, Allala. As he contemplates her spirit guiding him, he encounters Nita Pacheco, the daughter of a neighboring planter. The opening chapters introduce us to the oppressive circumstances facing the Seminoles following their forced removal by white settlers and the treachery embodied by slave traders like Troup Jeffers. The young Indian's path is haunted by the threat of violence as he grapples with changing alliances and the looming impact of the white man’s ambition on both his life and that of his friend Louis Pacheco. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Adventure stories
Subject Cruelty -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Soldiers -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Slavery -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Florida -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Swamps -- Juvenile fiction
Subject War -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Seminole Indians -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Indian reservations -- Florida -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Osceola, Seminole chief, 1804-1838 -- Juvenile fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 55021
Release Date
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 119 downloads in the last 30 days.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!