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Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol36/iss1/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 36, Issue 1 V OLUME XXXVI July 1957 - April 1958 Published by the FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Published by STARS, 1957 1 Florida HistoricalCONTENTS Quarterly, OF Vol.VOLUME 36 [1957], XXXVI Iss. 1, Art. 1 Adams, Adam G., book review of, 389 Bearss, Edwin C., Civil War Operations in and Around Pensa- cola, 125 Bentley, George R.; book reviews of, 287, 386 Bickel, Karl A., Birthplaces of the Spanish Conquistadors, 3 Birthplaces of the Spanish Conquistadors, by Karl A. Bickel, 3 Blockade Runners, by Alice Strickland, 85 Book Reviews, 61, 166, 286, 386 Brookfield, Charles M., book review of, 387 Capital Removal, by Sylvia J. Hardaway, 77 Carter, Clarence Edwin, (ed.), The Territorial Papers of the United States, Volume XXII, The Territory of Florida, 1821-1824, review of, 166 Cession of Florida and John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State, by Lester Harris, 223 Changing South, review of, 170 Civil War Letters of Augustus Henry Mathers, Assistant Surgeon, Fourth Florida Regiment, C. S. A., by Franklin A. Doty, 94 Civil War Operations in and Around Pensacola, by Edwin C. Bearss, 125 Clarke, Mary Helm, book review of, 286 Clubbs, Occie, book reviews of, 390 Cockrell, Monroe F., (ed.), Gunner With Stonewall, review of, 289 Contributors, 83, 177, 297, 402 Copeland, Leeila S., and Dovell, J. E., La Florida: its Land and People, review of, 390 Covington, James W., Life at Fort Brooke, 1824-1836, 319; book review of, 171 De Berard, Ella Teague, Steamboats in the Hyacinths, review of, 64 Densmore, Frances, Seminole Music, review of, 286 Dodd, Dorothy, book review of, 166 Doty, Franklin A., Civil War Letters of Augustus Henry Mathers, 94; Florida and Iowa: A Contemporary View, 24 Dovell, J. E., and Copeland, L. S., La Florida: Its Land and People, review of, 390 Ewing, Cortez A. M., Florida Reconstruction Impeachments, 299 Fisackerly, Hester, and others, The Story of Florida, review of, 390 Florida and Iowa: A Contemporary View, by Franklin A. Doty, 24 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol36/iss1/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 36, Issue 1 Florida Reconstruction Impeachments, by Cortez A. M. Ewing, 299 Florida Secession Convention, by Ralph A. Wooster, 373 Florida Ship Canal, by Benjamin F. Rogers, 14 Florida’s Last Frontier: The History of Collier County, by Charl- ton W. Tebeau, review of, 387 Floyd, Joe S., Jr., and MacLachlan, John M., The Changing South, review of, 170 Hanna, Kathryn Abbey, and Rainwater, Cleo, Our Journey Through Florida, review of, 390 Hardaway, Silvia Jean, Capital Removal, 77 Harris, Lester, The Cession of Florida and John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State, 223 Historical Contest, 75 Griffin, John W., book review of, 64 Gavino Gutierrez and His Contributions to Tampa, by Jesse L. Keene, 33 Gunner With Stonewall, ed. by Monroe F. Cockrell, review of, 289 Kearney, Kevin E., Autobiography of William Marvin, 179 Keene, Jesse L., Gavino Gutierrez and His Contributions to Tam- pa, 33 La Florida: Its Land and People, by L. S. Copeland and J. E. Dovell, review of, 390 Latin America, A History, by Alfred Barnaby Thomas, review of, 61 LeConte, Emma, When the World Ended, review of, 386 Lee, Charles R., Jr., book review of, 62 Letters of a Carpetbagger in Florida, 1866-1869, by George C. Osborn, 239 Letters from the Second Seminole War, by John K. Mahon, 331 Life at Fort Brooke, 1824-1836, by James W. Covington, 319 MacLachlan, John M., and Floyd, Joe S., Jr., This Changing South, review of, 170 Mahon, John K., Letters from the Second Seminole War, 331 Marvin, William, Autobiography, by Kevin E. Kearney, 179 Members, new, 83, 177, 403 Negro and Southern Politics; A Chapter in Florida History, by Hugh Douglas Price, review of, 287 Negro Militia and Reconstruction, by Otis A. Singletary, review of, 389 News and Notes, 66, 172, 292, 392 Osborn, George E., Letters of a Capetbagger in Florida, 1866- 1869, 239 Published by STARS, 1957 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 36 [1957], Iss. 1, Art. 1 Our Journey Through Florida, by Cleo Rainwater and Kathryn Abbey Hanna, review of, 390 Parker, T. R., book review of, 289 Patrick, Eleanor B., and others, The Story of Florida, review of, 390 Patrick, Rembert W., and others, The Story of Florida, review of, 390 Peithmann, Irvin M., The Unconquered Seminole Indians, re- view of, 171 Price, Hugh Douglas, The Negro and Southern Politics; A Chap- ter of Florida History, review of, 287 Rainwater, Cleo, and Hanna, Kathryn Abbey, Our Journey Through Florida, review of, 390 Reminiscences of the Big I, by William N. Wood, review of, 62 Rogers Benjamin F., The Florida Ship Canal, 14 Seminole Music, by Francis Densmore, review of, 286 Singletary, Otis A., Negro Militia and Reconstruction, review of, 389 Some Letters to His Parents by a Floridian in the Confederate Army, by Gilbert Wright, 353 Steamboats in the Hyacinths, by Ella Teague de Berard, review of, 64 Story of Florida, by Patrick, Patrick and Fisackerly, review of, 390 Strickland, Alice, Blockade Runners, 85 Taylor, A. Elizabeth, The Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida, 42 Tebeau, Charlton W., book review of, 170; Florida’s Last Fron- tier, review of, 387 Territorial Papers of Florida, 1821-1824, review of, 166 Thomas, Alfred Barnaby, Latin America, A History, review of, 61 Unconquered Seminole Indians, by Irvin M. Peithmann, review of, 171 When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte, edited by Earl Schenck Miers, review of, 386 Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida, by A. Elizabeth Taylor, 42 Wood, William Nathaniel, Reminiscences of the Big I, review of, 62 Wooster, Ralph A., The Florida Secession Convention, 373 Wright, Gilbert, Some Letters to His Parents by a Floridian in the Confederate Army, 353 Wright, Ione S., book review of, 61 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol36/iss1/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 36, Issue 1 THE FLORIDA RICAL QUARTERLY VOLUME XXXVI JULY, 1957 NUMBER 1 BIRTHPLACES OF THE CONQUISTADORS, Karl A. Bickel ......... 3 THE FLORIDA SHIP CANAL, Benjamin F. Rogers .................... 14 FLORIDA AND IOWA: A CONTEMPORARY VIEW, Franklin A. Doty . 24 GAVINO GUTIERREZ AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO TAMPA, Jesse L. Keene ........................ 33 THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN FLORIDA, A. Elizabeth Taylor . 42 BOOK REVIEWS Thomas, LATIN AMERICA, A HISTORY, Ione Stuessy Wright ... 61 Wood, REMINISCENCES OF BIG I, Charles R. Lee, Jr. ............... 62 De Berard, STEAMBOATS AND HYACINTHS, John W. Grffin ..... 64 NEWS AND NOTES . 66 Annual Meeting Program, Charlton W. Tebeau ........................... 66 Minutes of the Directors and Annual Business Meeting, Ruby J. Hancock ......................................... 68 Junior Historical Contest; “Capital Removal”, first prize essay, Sylvia Jean Hardaway ..................................... 76 COPYRIGHT 1957 by the Florida Historical Society. Reentered as second class matter July 2, 1956 at the post office at Jacksonville, Florida, under the Act of August 24, 1912. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, CONVENTION PRESS, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Published by STARS, 1957 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 36 [1957], Iss. 1, Art. 1 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol36/iss1/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 36, Issue 1 BIRTHPLACES OF THE CONQUISTADORS * by KARL A. BICKEL VER SINCE I started dabbling into the business of Spanish Conquistadors; particularly Balboa, Cortes, Pizzaro and our own first great tourist Hernando De Soto, I have been interested in looking more closely into the birthplaces of these men - a topic rather lightly treated by the greater historians - and try- ing to find after a fashion, some of the things that made them “tick.” The thing that really started me off, however, was a paragraph in a book by Ruth Matilda Anderson of the Hispanic Society of America. The book is titled Spanish Costume - Ex- tramadura and without question it covers its field in great care and detail, but far and beyond her studies into Spanish costume her book is the finest guide book ever written on the great province in western Spain - a province rich in history and extraordinarily beautiful which, desipte good hotels and government motels, has been almost entirely neglected by the American tourist. The paragraph read: “Though Extremenians migrated to America in fewer numbers than did Andulusians, Castilians and Leonese, they furnished more than their proportion of the leaders most of whom came from the Guadiana basin - Vasco Nunez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific, Hernando De Soto, who reached the Mississippi, Pedro Valdivia, conqueror of Chile, and Hernan Cortes who turned the history of Mexico. Evaluating the Extremenian Conquistadors, Unamuno has said ‘He who does not know something of these people, apathetic in appearance, violent and impassioned in heart, can but poorly comprehend that epic in our history.’ Their temperment reflected the dual nature of the land, shaped into mountain and plain with rivers narrow and swift or wide and tranquil.” “The Pizarros came from Trujillo beyond the divide where their houses exemplify their passage from obscurity to success.” * Mr. and Mrs. Bickel toured Spain last year. This report by Mr.