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Osceola the Seminole; or, the Red Fawn of the Flower Land

Mayne Reid

The book revolves around the life and struggles of Osceola, a prominent leader of the Seminole tribe, set against the backdrop of the American South during a time of conflict over land and cultural preservation.

"Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land" by Captain Mayne Reid is a historical novel. The book revolves around the life and struggles of Osceola, a prominent leader of the Seminole tribe, set against the backdrop of the American South during a time of conflict over land and cultural preservation.

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Thus hailed thee the bold Spanish adventurer, as standing upon the prow of his caravel, he first caught sight of thy shores.

It was upon the Sunday of Palms—the festival of the flowers—and the devout Castilian beheld in thee a fit emblem of the day. Under the influence of a pious thought, he gave thee its name, and well deservedst thou the proud appellation.

That was three hundred years ago. Three full cycles have rolled past, since the hour of thy baptismal ceremony; but the title becomes thee as ever. Thy floral bloom is as bright at this hour as when Leon landed upon thy shores—ay, bright as when the breath of God first called thee into being.

Thy forests are still virgin and inviolate; verdant thy savannas; thy groves as fragrant as ever—those perfumed groves of aniseed and orange, of myrtle and magnolia. Still sparkles upon thy plains the cerulean ixia; still gleam in thy waters the golden nymphae; above thy swamps yet tower the colossal cypress, the gigantic cedar, the gum, and the bay-tree; still over thy gentle slopes of silvery sand wave long-leaved pines, mingling their acetalous foliage with the frondage of the palm. Strange anomaly of vegetation; the tree of the north, and the tree of the south—the types of the frigid and torrid—in this thy mild mid region, standing side by side, and blending their branches together!

Contents

  1. 01Preface.
  2. 02Chapter One.
  3. 03The Flowery Land.
  4. 04Chapter Two.
  5. 05The Indigo Plantation.
  6. 06Chapter Three.
  7. 07The Two Jakes.
  8. 08Chapter Four.
  9. 09The Hommock.
  10. 10Chapter Five.
  11. 11Yellow Jake.
  12. 12Chapter Six.
  13. 13The Alligator.
  14. 14Chapter Seven.
  15. 15The Turtle-Crawl.
  16. 16Chapter Eight.
  17. 17The King Vultures.
  18. 18Chapter Nine.
  19. 19The Bath.
  20. 20Chapter Ten.
  21. 21The “Half-Blood.”
  22. 22Chapter Eleven.
  23. 23The Chase.
  24. 24Chapter Twelve.
  25. 25A Severe Sentence.
  26. 26Chapter Thirteen.
  27. 27The Chase.
  28. 28Chapter Fourteen.
  29. 29Ringgold’s Revenge.
  30. 30Chapter Fifteen.
  31. 31Maümee.
  32. 32Chapter Sixteen.
  33. 33The Island.
  34. 34Chapter Seventeen.
  35. 35West Point.
  36. 36Chapter Eighteen.
  37. 37The Seminoles.
  38. 38Chapter Nineteen.
  39. 39An Indian Hero.
  40. 40Chapter Twenty.
  41. 41Frontier Justice.
  42. 42Chapter Twenty One.
  43. 43Indian Slaves.
  44. 44Chapter Twenty Two.
  45. 45A Circuitous Transaction.
  46. 46Chapter Twenty Three.
  47. 47Reflections by the Way.
  48. 48Chapter Twenty Four.
  49. 49A Strange Apparition.
  50. 50Chapter Twenty Five.
  51. 51Who Fired the Shot?
  52. 52Chapter Twenty Six.
  53. 53A Frontier Fort.
  54. 54Chapter Twenty Seven.
  55. 55The Council.
  56. 56Chapter Twenty Eight.
  57. 57The Rising Sun.
  58. 58Chapter Twenty Nine.
  59. 59The Ultimatum.
  60. 60Chapter Thirty.

About this edition

Author
Mayne Reid
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
625 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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