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Florida Historical Quarterly July 1971- April 1972 CONTENTS OF VOLUME L Abbott, Martin, book review by, 325 Alachua County Historical Society, 104, 212, 337, 456 “Alexander Hamilton’s Florida Policy,” by Gilbert L. Lycan, 143 All about Wills for Florida Residents, by Richards, reviewed, 92 American Association for State and Local History Awards, 335 American Revolution Bicentennial Commission Symposium, 455 American Revolution, 1763 - 1783, ed. by Morris, reviewed, 95 American Siberia or Fourteen Years’ Experience in a Southern Convict Camp, by Powell, reviewed, 91 American Slavery: The Question of Resistance, ed. by Bracey, Meier, and Rudwick, reviewed, 209 American South, by Billington, reviewed, 333 American Statesman on Slavery and the Negro, by Weyl and Marina, reviewed, 437 Amistad I, reviewed, 96 Amistad II, reviewed, 96 Andrew Jackson and Pensacola, ed. by McGovern, reviewed, 204 “Andrew Jackson Week,” Pensacola, 99 Anglo-American Political Relations, 1675-1775, ed. by Olson and Brown, reviewed, 185 Ante-Bellum Tallahassee, by Groene, reviewed, 425 “Anti-Catholicism and the Florida Legislature, 1911-1919,” by Robert D. Rackleff, 352 “Apalachee Indians, 1704-1763,” by James W. Covington, 366 Apalachee 1968-1970, VII, Tallahassee Historical Society, re- viewed, 90 Arnade, Charles W., book review by, 202 Arthur W. Thompson Memorial Prize in Florida History, 100, 451 Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War, by Ripley, re- viewed, 94 Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865, by Con- nelly, reviewed, 193 Avary, Myrta Lockett, Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, reviewed, 209 Award of Merit-Excellence in Presentation of Florida History in the News Media, 101, 451 Axelson Papers, 422 Bailey, George Ryland, Tampa Boy, reviewed, 91 Bancroft, Griffing, Snowy, The Story of an Egret, reviewed, 329 Bannon, John Francis, The Spanish Borderlands Frontier 1513- 1821, reviewed, 71 Barrett, John G., book review by, 189 Bartlett, Richard A., book review by, 81 Belohlavek, John M., book review by, 80 Bentley, George R., A History of the Freedman’s Bureau, re- viewed, 328 Beyond Black or White: An Alternative America, ed. by Dixson and Foster, reviewed, 449 Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand, by Phares, reviewed, 333 Billington, Monroe Lee, The American South, reviewed, 333 Blacks in the Abolitionist Movement, ed. by Bracey, Meier, and Rudwick, reviewed, 209 Blassingame, Wyatt, book review by, 68 Bond, Thomas H., Papers, 419 Bonner, James C., book review by, 306 Boots, John R., Jr., The Mat(t)hews Family: An Anthology of Mathews Lineages, reviewed, 90 Born To Be a Soldier: The Military Career of William Wing Loring of St. Augustine, Florida, by Wessels, reviewed, 180 Bracey, John H., Jr., Elliott Rudwick, and August Meier, eds., American Slavery: The Question of Resistance, reviewed, 209; Blacks in the Abolitionist Movement, reviewed, 209 Bradford County Historical Society, 104 Bradley, L. E., Account Books, 419 Bragaw, Donald H., “Loss of Identity on Pensacola’s Past: A Creole Footnote,” 414 Bridges, Roger D., book reviews by, 317, 436 British West Florida, 1763-1783, by Johnson, reviewed, 91 Brooks, Philip C., Diplomacy and the Borderlands: The Adams- Onis Treaty of 1819, reviewed, 328 Brown, Alice E., “A visit to Florida, February 1870, bound with Florida revisited after thirty years, 1897 & 1902,” 420 Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, reviewed, 207 Brown, Richard M., and Alison G. Olson, eds., Anglo-American Political Relations, 1675-1775, reviewed, 185 Bryan: A Political Biography of William Jennings Bryan, by Koenig, reviewed, 442 Buker, George E., book reviews by, 180, 434 Bullock, Henry Allen, A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present, reviewed, 96 Burns, Augustus M., book reviews by, 444 Burrus, Ernest J., and George P. Hammond, eds., Homenaje a Don Jose’ María de la Peña y Cámara, reviewed, 69 Burt, Evelyn Rees, Papers, 419 Burton, E. Milby, The Siege of Charleston 1861-1865, reviewed, 189 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Brown, reviewed, 207 Callahan, North, book review by, 430 “Caloosa Quarterly,” Southwest Florida Historical Society, 460 Campbell, Stanley W., The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860, reviewed, 77 Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation, by Knox, reviewed, 209 Capers, Gerald M., book review by, 189 Capron, Louis Bishop, Obituary, 461 “Captives of Florida,” by Eugene Lyon, 1 Carleton, William G., Technology and Humanism: Some Ex- ploratory Essays for Our Times, reviewed, 86 Carlton, M. Regina, Time Exposure, 1891-1971, reviewed, 448 Carson, Ruby Leach, book review by, 66 Carter, Hodding, Man and the River: The Mississippi, reviewed, 93 Carter, Samuel, III, The Gulf Stream Story, reviewed, 181 Caulfield, Patricia, Everglades, reviewed, 89 Cave, Alfred A., book review by, 313 Ceram, C. W., The First American: A Story of North American Archaeology, reviewed, 427 Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man, by Donald, reviewed, 196 Chasing Geronimo: The Journal of Leonard Wood, May- September, 1886, ed. by Lane, reviewed, 440 Chickasaws, by Gibson, reviewed, 326 Civil War Letters, ed. by Hayes, reviewed, 205 Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865, Naval History Division, reviewed, 332 Clark, John G., New Orleans, 1718-1812: An Economic History, reviewed, 186; book review by, 429 Clark, William Dell, ed., Naval Documents of the American Revolution, V, reviewed, 332 “Claude Pepper and the Florida Canal Controversy, 1939-1943,” by Alexander R. Stoesen, 235 Clowse, Converse D., Economic Beginnings in Colonial South Carolina, 1670-1730, reviewed, 429 Coker, William, book review by, 71 Colonel Grenfell’s Wars: The Life of a Soldier of Fortune, by Starr, reviewed, 206 Combs, Jerald, The Jay Treaty: Political Battleground of the Founding Fathers, reviewed, 308 Commoner: William Jennings Bryan, by Wilson, reviewed, 201 Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience, by Thomas, re- viewed, 317 Confederate Navy: A Study in Organization, by Wells, reviewed, 434 Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital, by Thomas, reviewed, 191 Connelly, Thomas Lawrence, Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865, reviewed, 193 Conrad, Glenn R., ed., The Historical Journal of the Establish- ment of the French in Louisiana, Volume III, reviewed, 93 Cook, Sylvia, and George C. Whatley, “The East FIorida Land Commission: A Study in Frustration,” 39 Cooper, Dennis R., The People Machine, reviewed, 449 Covington, James W., “Apalachee Indians, 1704-1763,” 366 Critoph, Gerald E., book review by, 200 Cross Creek Cookery, by Rawlings, reviewed, 205 “Cruise of the Minnehaha,” by Pat Dodson, 385 Cry from the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union and the New Deal, by Grubbs, reviewed, 322 Curl, Donald W., ed., Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida, 335 Daniels, Jonathan, Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, reviewed, 309 Davidson, Chalmers G., The Last Foray, The South Carolina Planters of 1860: A Sociological Study, reviewed, 315 Dead Town of Sunbury, Georgia, by McIlvaine, reviewed, 93 Deal, Borden, Interstate, reviewed, 92 Debate over Slavery, ed. by Lane, reviewed, 333 de Bedts, Ralph F., book review by, 322 Debo, Angie, A History of the Indians of the United States, reviewed, 72 DeBrahm’s Report of the General Survey in the Southern Dis- trict in North America, ed. by De Vorsey, reviewed, 424 Decision, by Harris, reviewed, 444 De Grummond, Jane, book review by, 186 De Rosier, Arthur H., The Removal of the Choctaw Indians, reviewed, 74 De Vorsey, Louis, Jr., book review by, 74; ed., De Brahm’s Re- port of the General Survey in the Southern District in North America, reviewed, 424 Dick, Everett, The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal, reviewed, 84 Diplomacy and the Borderlands, the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, by Brooks, reviewed, 328 Dixson, Vernon J., and Badi G. Foster, eds., Beyond Black or White: An Alternative America, reviewed, 449 Dodd, Dorothy, book review by, 65 Dodson, Pat, ‘Cruise of the Minnehaha,” 385 Doherty, Herbert J., Jr., book review by, 86 Donald, David, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man, re- viewed, 196 Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, typescript copies of manuscripts, 421 Driggers, Marjorie, History of Union County, Florida, 1921-1971, reviewed, 328 Duffee, Mary Gordon, Sketches of Alabama, reviewed, 96 Duffy, John, Epidemics in Colonial America, reviewed, 333 Dunedin Historical Society, 104, 456 Durden, Robert F., book review by, 82 Early American Tornadoes, 1568-1870, by Ludlum, reviewed, 331 “East Florida Land Commission: A Study in Frustration,” by George C. Whatley and Sylvia Cook, 39 Economic Beginnings in Colonial South Carolina, 1670-1730, by Clowse, reviewed, 429 Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis, by Reynolds, reviewed, 318 Edwards, Helen H., ed., A List of References for the History of Agriculture in the Southern United States, 1865-1900, re- viewed, 206 Egerton, John, A Mind to Stay Here: Profiles from the South, reviewed, 200 1885 map of Jacksonville, 420 1840 land record book, 420 “Eighteenth Century Florida and its Borderlands,” Florida Bicentennial History Symposium, 340, 454 El Escribano, St. Augustine Historical Society, 108, 459 Emblem of Liberty: The Image of Lafayette in the American Mind, by Loveland, reviewed, 432 Environmental Destruction of South Florida, ed. by McCluney, reviewed, 330 Epidemics in Colonial America, by Duffy, reviewed, 333 Ergood, Bruce, “
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