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Seminole Smoke: An odyssey of power, love and blood in the Seminole Wars
Chapter 1. Roots, Part 1
The Vulture Incident. Paul snatches a bass.
Chapter 2. Roots, Part 2
Roots: Niilhaasi, Paul, Sr., and their unusual romance. Little Paul has a happy Indian childhood and shows lightning speed. Smoke and Shakespeare.
Chapter 3. Roots, Part 3
The bloody Creek War. Refugee exodus from Alabama to Florida. New home in a riverfront ghost village. Choc, the inventive prankster. Alone in the woods.
Chapter 4. 1816
Andrew Jackson, the Negro Fort and the "Watering Party Massacre". The Gullah. Kundiata and her family. Negro Fort is surrounded. Gunboats #149 and #154. White light, white heat. Kundiata's escape.
Chapter 5. Spring, 1817
A father-son river trip. DeFrancesca's. A town with no Indians. Chat over chowder. Emily and Paul explore Cottonton. Paul's first kiss. Fish guts for a local bully. Silk pillows. Paul's second kiss. Shopping spree.
Chapter 6. Late 1817
Foul play at Fowltown. The "Scott Massacre" and a young captive. Paul is invited to join the war council and discovers tribal politics. The Elizabeth Stewart dialogues.
Chapter 7. Spring 1818 (Part 1)
A lot on President Monroe's mind. Jackson invades Spain's Florida. Father and son watch a mile-long snake. A nervous Georgian's fatal shot.
Chapter 8. Spring 1818 (Part 2)
The boy-warriors' first guerrilla operation. Choc & Paul set a trap. Choc's capture. Jackson gives Paul the back of his hand. A blinding cane attack. Paul and Niilhaasi reunite.
Chapter 9. 1820 to 1823
Alachua. Paul's first aqueduct. Micanopy recruits Paul. Seminole luminaries meet at Moultrie Creek. A side deal, a fateful treaty. Paul's first glimpse of the Atlantic, Rommy Duvall and love. Abraham notes the solar system. Walking with Ocala along the Matanzas.
Chapter 10. 1824 to 1826
Paul's trip to Washington, D.C. Rebuffed by John Quincy Adams, but enticed by Abigail.
Chapter 11. 1827 to 1829
Paul takes the Black Drink at the Green Corn Dance: sees stars, paths and a soul mate. A wedding. Tortuga tattoo. Mariyama's arrival. Paul becomes father; Jackson becomes Great Father. A killer hurricane. Uncle Patrick's murder.
Chapter 12. 1830 to 1832
Kundiata and Paul explain new Indian Removal Act. Choctaw head west, but Cherokee and Seminole dig in. Tough talk at Payne's Landing. Duvall appears; Paul's big decision. A sad visit to Arkansas Territory. Snow on a steed's eyelashes.
Chapter 13. 1833 (Part 1)
Kundiata's abduction and Paul's odyssey. Sky Panther's heroism. Timely help from Nanowrimo and Jo-Jo Tamba. A purple haze, a fatal barbecue. Duvall on the hot seat.
Chapter 14. 1833 (Part 2)
Reunion and escape. A "Massacre" discovered; the chase begins. Vomit fog. Hitchiti hospitality. The darkest day.
Chapter 15. 1834 to mid-1835
Viral dead zone. Micanopy's maneuver, Jumper's leap. Wiley Thompson, wily Osceola. The Great Father's stern message. Spiral of violence.
Chapter 16. Late 1835
Emathla's defection and death. Black Point. Smell of burning sugar. Dade. The Cove.
Chapter 17. 1836
Scott's three-pronged plan. Choc's joins Paul's band. The Sugar Cane Tornado's debut.
Chapter 18. 1837
The Sugar Cane Tornado prison break. Jesup's treachery. Osceola, Coacoochee, Cavallo and Paul meet. Flawless escape, coastal chase. An anti-slavery alliance. Taylor and Okeechobee.
Chapter 19. 1838
Paul Turtle at the River of Turtles. Osceola's death; a doctor's desecration. More Jesup treachery.
Chapter 20. 1840 to 1848
Paul's celebrity grows. Hounded by bloodhounds. Chakaika and Harney. Kundiata thinks of distant relatives. A chance to change history. Micanopy's death causes power shift.
Chapter 21. 1849 to 1855
A trek to Mexico. New Year's Eve in New Orleans. Aqueducts in Nacimiento. "Romeo y Julieta". A Gulf vacation. Kundiata and Paul quell tensions. Yellow smoke and smallpox.
Chapter 22. 1856
A grief-stricken Paul wanders. Coacoochee dies; Paul questions the activist life. The Mexico experiment ends. Bowlegs and the Third Seminole War. Air-land-sea assault. Paul walks south.
Chapter 23. 1857 (Part 1)
Florida's southwest coast. A Dream Canoe. Cape Sable's Laguna de Tortugas. Intruders. Paul paddles "The Martyrs". A watery column, a mangrove landfall.
Chapter 24. 1857 (Part 2)
Matta Cumbe Fugitives build an island hideout. Dialogues with Birchwood. Pirates find the aqueduct. Another renegade. Paul misses tribal life. A return to the mainland and sad farewell to the Dream Canoe. A last visit to Bowlegs.
Chapter 25. 1858
Okeechobee. Romance with Mallette. Bitter Benedicto's betrayal. No speed, smoke or magic.
Chapter 26. May 8, 1858
Paul meets up with Bowlegs. The "Grey Cloud", New Orleans and exile. Paul reflects. Bowlegs's Egmont Key party. Greasy chicken soup and purple haze.
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