Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams New edition

Publisher Marketing: Brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, the two shared the adventure, hardship and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era.

Contributor Bio:  Denham, James M James M Denham is a professor of history and director of the Lawton M. Chiles Jr. Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. He is the author of A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861, and coauthor of Florida Sheriffs: A History, 1821-1945, and two University of South Carolina Press books--Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives the Florida Reminiscences of George Gillette Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams and Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters' Correspondence in Antebellum Florida. Contributor Bio:  Brown, Canter, Jr Canter Brown Jr. is professor of history at Florida A&M University and the author of several books on Florida history, including "Florida's Peace River Frontier," and his work has received the Florida Historical Society's Rembert W. Patrick Book Award and the Certificate of Commendation of the American Association for State and Local History. Larry E. Rivers, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and distinguished professor of history at Florida A&M University, is the author of "Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation" (UPF, 2000). His work has received the Florida Historical Society's Arthur W. Thompson Prize and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's Carter G. Woodson Prize. They are coauthors of "Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida," which received the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society in 2002.