A Tropical Frontier: The Cow Hunters - Paperback

by Tim Robinson (Author)

Best Fiction, Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award, 2015.
[Rating: PG-13, violence] The Florida Prairie, 1860, cattle country. War looms, but to the settlers living along a jungled, tropical creek, it all seems very far away. For Becky Hackensaw, there are much more pressing matters, such as providing an education for her six children, but where to find someone willing to brave an uninhabited wilderness overrun with wild animals, alligators, venomous snakes, and bloodthirsty mosquitoes?