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Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 67 Number 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume Article 1 67, Number 1 1988 Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, Number 1 Florida Historical Society [email protected] Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1988) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, Number 1," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 67 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol67/iss1/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, Number 1 Published by STARS, 1988 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 67 [1988], No. 1, Art. 1 COVER The building behind the Corwin Dock was originally constructed for the Ford agency. There was a dance hall on the second floor. When the photo was taken (c. 1918), the Chero-Cola Bottling Company occupied the first floor, and the Bradenton Yacht & Auto Club was on the second. Photograph courtesy of Man- atee County Central Library and the Manatee County Historical Society. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol67/iss1/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, Number 1 The Historical Quarterly Volume LXVII, Number 1 July 1988 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT 1988 by the Florida Historical Society, Tampa, Florida. Second class postage paid at Tampa and DeLeon Springs, Florida. Printed by E. O. Painter Printing Co., DeLeon Springs, Florida. (ISSN 0015-4113) Published by STARS, 1988 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 67 [1988], No. 1, Art. 1 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Samuel Proctor, Editor M. Sherry Johnson, Editorial Assistant Corinne L. Llewellyn, Editorial Assistant EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD David R. Colburn University of Florida Herbert J. Doherty, Jr. University of Florida Michael V. Gannon University of Florida John K. Mahon University of Florida (Emeritus) Jerrell H. Shofner University of Central Florida Charlton W. Tebeau University of Miami (Emeritus) Correspondence concerning contributions, books for review, and all editorial matters should be addressed to the Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly, Box 14045, University Station, Gainesville, Florida 32604-2045. The Quarterly is interested in articles and documents pertaining to the history of Florida. Sources, style, footnote form, original- ity of material and interpretation, clarity of thought, and in- terest of readers are considered. 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Books to be reviewed should be sent to the Editor together with price and information on how they can be ordered. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol67/iss1/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, Number 1 Table of Contents PEDRO MENÉNDEZ'S STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE FLORIDA PENINSULA Eugene Lyon 1 REBEL BEEF: FLORIDA CATTLE AND THE CONFEDERATE ARMY, 1862-1864 Robert A. Taylor 15 VIGILANTE JUSTICE AND NATIONAL REACTION: THE 1937 TALLAHASSEE DOUBLE LYNCHING Walter T. Howard 32 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: APALACHEE COUNTERFEITERS IN ST. AUGUSTINE John H. Hann 52 FLORIDA HISTORY IN OTHER PERIODICALS 69 B OOK REVIEWS . 79 B OOK NOTES . 113 HISTORY NEWS . 120 Published by STARS, 1988 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 67 [1988], No. 1, Art. 1 BOOK REVIEWS FLAGLER: ROCKEFELLER PARTNER AND FLORIDA BARON, by Edward N. Akin reviewed by Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. THE IMMIGRANT WORLD OF YBOR CITY: ITALIANS AND THEIR LATIN NEIGHBORS IN TAMPA, 1885-1985, by Gary R. Mormino and George E. Poz- zetta reviewed by Wayne Flynt THE ECONOMY OF BRITISH WEST FLORIDA: 1763-1783, by Robin F. A. Fabel reviewed by William S. Coker FLORIDA FOLKTALES, edited by J. Russell Reaver reviewed by Marjory Bartlett Sanger SEMINOLE HISTORY: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF FLORIDA STATE UNIVER- SITY, by Martee Wills and Joan Perry Morris, foreword by Burt Reynolds reviewed by William Warren Rogers, Jr. THE EARLY PREHISTORIC SOUTHEAST: A SOURCEBOOK, edited by Jerald T. Milanich ETHNOLOGY OF THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIANS: A SOURCEBOOK, edited by Charles M. Hudson A CHOCTAW SOURCEBOOK, edited by John H. Peterson, Jr. reviewed by J. Anthony Paredes THE LATE PREHISTORIC SOUTHEAST: A SOURCEBOOK, edited by Chester B. DePratter reviewed by Jerald T. Milanich THE HISTORIC INDIAN TRIBES OF LOUISIANA, FROM 1542 TO THE PRESENT, by Fred B. Kniffen, Hiram F. Gregory, and George A. Stokes reviewed by Gilbert C. Din LASALLE, THE MISSISSIPPI, AND THE GULF: THREE PRIMARY DOCUMENTS, edited by Robert S. Weddle, Mary Christine Morkovsky, and Patricia Galloway, translated by Ann Linda Bell and Robert W. Weddle reviewed by A. P. Nasatir “THE LAST OF AMERICAN FREEMEN": STUDIES IN THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY SOUTH, by Robert M. Weir reviewed by David R. Chesnutt THE METAPHYSICAL CONFEDERACY: JAMES HENLEY THORNWELL AND THE SYNTHESIS OF SOUTHERN VALUES, by James Oscar Farmer, Jr. reviewed by Joseph D. Cushman, Jr. LIKE A FAMILY: THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN COTTON MILL WORLD, by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher Daly reviewed by Edward N. Akin A HISTORY OF NEGLECT: HEALTH CARE FOR BLACKS AND MILL WORKERS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTH, by Edward H. Beardsley reviewed by James Harvey Young FEDERAL LAW AND SOUTHERN ORDER: RACIAL VIOLENCE AND CONSTITU- TIONAL CONFLICT IN THE POST-BROWN SOUTH, by Michal R. Belknap reviewed by Harold M. Hyman THE SOUTH IS ANOTHER LAND: ESSAYS ON THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTH, edited by Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond reviewed by Raymond Arsenault HIDDEN HISTORY: EXPLORING OUR SECRET PAST, by Daniel J. Boorstin reviewed by Robert H. Zieger SHADOWS OF THE INDIAN: STEREOTYPES IN AMERICAN CULTURE, by Raymond William Stedman reviewed by David K. Eliades https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol67/iss1/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, Number 1 PEDRO MENÉNDEZ’S STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE FLORIDA PENINSULA by EUGENE LYON T is evident that perceptible interconnections linked the ef- I forts of the several sixteenth-century explorers of North America. Professor Paul Hoffman has pointed out how legend and geographic surmise drew Europeans to the continent from the time of John and Sebastian Cabot and Juan Ponce de Leon to that of Walter Raleigh. The later adventurers were heritors of the wisdom of folly of their predecessors, from whatever nation or kingdom they might have come.1 Among the motives which had brought them were indeed the shining lure of precious metals—the dream of finding another Cuzco or Tenochtitlán. But they also burned with the desire to build proprietary empires, earning the noble titles ap- purtenant to them. By creating trading and agricultural settle- ments, they hoped to replicate Castile, France, or England in North America. They sought passage through the continent to the Pacific and the East Indies. The Spaniards also expected to advance the Evangel among native Americans, check the ambi- tions of rival states, and promote the enlargement of their sovereign’s domains.2 What then were the continental strategies of one of the most important of the Spanish conquest entrepreneurs, the one who Eugene Lyon is director of the Center for Historical Research, St. Augustine Foundation at Flagler College, and adjunct professor, Department of His- tory, University of Florida. 1. See Paul E. Hoffman, “Leyendas Geográficas y Su Influencia en el Descub- rimiento de la Costa Sureste de Norteamérica, Siglo XVI” (paper presented at the conference, España y América Durante la Epoca del Descubrimiento, Madrid, 1985). Also see Eugene Lyon, “Continuity in the Age of Conquest: The Establishment of Spanish Sovereignty in the Sixteenth Century,” Alabama and the Borderlands, from Prehistory to Statehood, R. Reid Badger and Lawrence A. Clayton, eds. (University, AL, 1985), 154-61. 2. Eugene Lyon, “Spain’s Sixteenth-Century North American Settlement At- tempts: A Neglected Aspect,” Florida Historical Quarterly 59 (January 1981), 275-91. For a comparison of French and Spanish colonization attempts, see Eugene Lyon, “Forts Caroline and San Mateo—Vulnerable Outposts,” type- script plus exhibits (Fort Caroline National Memorial, 1982), 2-10. [1] Published by STARS, 1988 7 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 67 [1988], No. 1, Art. 1 2 F LORIDA H ISTORICAL Q UARTERLY made lasting foundation in North America, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés?3 How did these relate to the Florida peninsula? By virtue of his asiento, or contract, with Philip II, Menéndez was created adelantado and required to explore a Florida of continental scope, which extended from the present West Florida panhandle around the Florida keys to Newfoundland.4 He had to build two or three fortified cities and populate them with settlers and slaves, and he