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Title : Micanopy, a Seminole chief.
Series : Reference collection
Photographer : Ted Saylor Photography.
Image Number : Rc0-470
Date : 1836.
Original : 1 transparency : col. ; 9 x 7 in.
Notes :

Micanopy, "Head Chief", "Governor", or "Pond Governor", established and united the Seminoles as a people in the early 1830's.

As one of the most important chiefs in Florida, Micanopy fought against removal to Arkansas as the government demanded. The short, stout chief fought until the pressure of eight thousand troops, disease, and starvation wiped out his band of warriors.

Published by F.W. Greenough, Philadelphia. Drawn, printed & coloured at L.T. Bowen's lithographic establishment. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1836 by F.W. Greenough in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Transparency by Ted Saylor Photography.