Jack Tier or the Florida Reef: Book Guide, Author and Facts

Jack Tier is a tale set against arms smuggling to Mexico in 1846. Under cover of respectable four shipping, Captain Stephen Spike is shipping gun powder to the Mexican government for use against the U.S. The Mexican official purchasing the powder is represented as an honorable and patriotic man. Spike carries along on the voyage a young ingenue, Rose Budd (the original title of the book), her silly aunt and an Irish servant. Young Rose is in love with the upright first mate, Harry Mulford, who does not want to smuggle powder, but who is too loyal to the ship (not the captain) to quit. He ultimately rescues Rose from the sexual predation of Spike, although at first without benefit of clergy. In all of this, both Spike and the young lovers are aided at separate times by the seaman Jack Tier, who turns out to be a cross-dressing woman, who has shipped out as a man for the last twenty year

Quick facts about Jack Tier or the Florida Reef

• Title: Jack Tier or the Florida Reef
• Author: James Fenimore Cooper
• First published: 1800
• Genre: florida in fiction, fiction, historical fiction
• OpenLibrary ID: OL78046W

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