Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War, credited to Kirk Munroe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War by Kirk Munroe. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The principal incidents in the story of Coacoochee, as related in the following pages, are historically true. The Seminole War, the most protracted struggle with Indians in which the United States ever engaged, lasted from 1835 to 1842. At its conclusion, though most of the tribe had been removed to the Indian Territory in the far west, there still remained three hundred and one souls uncaptured and unsubdued. This remnant had fled to the almost inaccessible islands of the Big Cypress Swamp, in the extreme southern part of Florida. Rather than undertake the task of hunting them out, General Worth made a verbal treaty with them, by which it was agreed that they should retain that section of country unmolested, so long as they committed no aggressions. From that time they have kept their part of that agreement to the letter, living industrious, peaceful lives, and avoiding all unnecessary contact with the whites. They now number something over five hundred souls, but the tide of white immigration is already lapping over the ill-defined boundaries of their reservation, while white land-grabbers, penetrating the swamps, are seizing their fertile islands and bidding them begone. They stand aghast at this brutal order. Where can they go? What is to become of them? Is there nothing left but to fight and die? It would seem not. - Summary by the author

Recording facts

• Recording title: Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War
• Author credits: Kirk Munroe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 8:49:29

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• war stories
• Florida
• juvenile fiction
• seminole stories
• seminole war

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 01 - CHAPTER I A bit of the Florida wilderness — 12:17
2. 02 - CHAPTER II Mr. Troup Jeffers plots mischief — 12:34
3. 03 - CHAPTER III The slave-catchers at work — 13:14
4. 04 - CHAPTER IV Capture and escape of Nita Pacheco — 13:49
5. 05 - CHAPTER V A forest bethrothal — 14:41
6. 06 - CHAPTER VI CRUEL DEATH OF UL-WE THE STAGHOUND — 13:27
7. 07 - CHAPTER VII COACOOCHEE IN THE CLUTCHES OF WHITE RUFFIANS — 11:33
8. 08 - CHAPTER VIII RALPH BOYD THE ENGLISHMAN — 10:33
9. 09 - CHAPTER IX MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A SENTINEL — 11:56
10. 10 - CHAPTER X FONTAINE SALANO'S TREACHERY AND ITS REWARD — 11:58
11. 11 - CHAPTER XI THE SEMINOLE MUST GO — 10:01
12. 12 - CHAPTER XII CHEN-O-WAH IS STOLEN BY THE SLAVE-CATCHERS — 12:37
13. 13 - CHAPTER XIII "WILEY THOMPSON, WHERE IS MY WIFE?" — 10:22
14. 14 - CHAPTER XIV OSCEOLA SIGNS THE TREATY — 11:46
15. 15 - CHAPTER XV LOUIS PACHECO BIDES HIS TIME — 12:04
16. 16 - CHAPTER XVI OSCEOLA'S REVENGE — 10:58
17. 17 - CHAPTER XVII ON THE VERGE OF THE WAHOO SWAMP — 10:54
18. 18 - CHAPTER XVIII COACOOCHEE'S FIRST BATTLE — 11:40
19. 19 - CHAPTER XIX RALPH BOYD AND THE SLAVE-CATCHER — 11:05
20. 20 - CHAPTER XX AN ALLIGATOR AND HIS MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANT — 10:21
21. 21 - CHAPTER XXI BATTLE OF THE WITHLACOOCHEE — 11:41
22. 22 - CHAPTER XXII THE YOUNG CHIEF MAKES A TIMELY DISCOVERY — 9:45
23. 23 - CHAPTER XXIII SHAKESPEARE IN THE FOREST — 16:10
24. 24 - CHAPTER XXIV BOGUS INDIANS AND THE REAL ARTICLE — 13:03

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