# Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War

An audiobook by Kirk Munroe, read by LibriVox volunteers (8 h 49 min, English).

The principal incidents in the story of Coacoochee, as related in the following pages, are historically true. The Seminole War, the most protracted struggle with Indians in which the United States ever engaged, lasted from 1835 to 1842. At its conclusion, though most of the tribe had been removed to the Indian Territory in the far west, there still remained three hundred and one souls uncaptured and unsubdued. This remnant had fled to the almost inaccessible islands of the Big Cypress Swamp, in the extreme southern part of Florida. Rather than undertake the task of hunting them out, General Worth made a verbal treaty with them, by which it was agreed that they should retain that section of country unmolested, so long as they committed no aggressions. From that time they have kept their part of that agreement to the letter, living industrious, peaceful lives, and avoiding all unnecessary contact with the whites. They now number something over five hundred souls, but the tide of white immigration is already lapping over the ill-defined boundaries of their reservation, while white land-grabbers, penetrating the swamps, are seizing their fertile islands and bidding them begone. They…

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## Chapters

1. CHAPTER I A bit of the Florida wilderness (12:17): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_01_munroe_64kb.mp3
2. CHAPTER II Mr. Troup Jeffers plots mischief (12:34): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_02_munroe_64kb.mp3
3. CHAPTER III The slave-catchers at work (13:14): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_03_munroe_64kb.mp3
4. CHAPTER IV Capture and escape of Nita Pacheco (13:49): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_04_munroe_64kb.mp3
5. CHAPTER V A forest bethrothal (14:41): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_05_munroe_64kb.mp3
6. CHAPTER VI CRUEL DEATH OF UL-WE THE STAGHOUND (13:27): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_06_munroe_64kb.mp3
7. CHAPTER VII COACOOCHEE IN THE CLUTCHES OF WHITE RUFFIANS (11:33): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_07_munroe_64kb.mp3
8. CHAPTER VIII RALPH BOYD THE ENGLISHMAN (10:33): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_08_munroe_64kb.mp3
9. CHAPTER IX MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A SENTINEL (11:56): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_09_munroe_64kb.mp3
10. CHAPTER X FONTAINE SALANO'S TREACHERY AND ITS REWARD (11:58): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_10_munroe_64kb.mp3
11. CHAPTER XI THE SEMINOLE MUST GO (10:01): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_11_munroe_64kb.mp3
12. CHAPTER XII CHEN-O-WAH IS STOLEN BY THE SLAVE-CATCHERS (12:37): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_12_munroe_64kb.mp3
13. CHAPTER XIII "WILEY THOMPSON, WHERE IS MY WIFE?" (10:22): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_13_munroe_64kb.mp3
14. CHAPTER XIV OSCEOLA SIGNS THE TREATY (11:46): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_14_munroe_64kb.mp3
15. CHAPTER XV LOUIS PACHECO BIDES HIS TIME (12:04): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_15_munroe_64kb.mp3
16. CHAPTER XVI OSCEOLA'S REVENGE (10:58): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_16_munroe_64kb.mp3
17. CHAPTER XVII ON THE VERGE OF THE WAHOO SWAMP (10:54): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_17_munroe_64kb.mp3
18. CHAPTER XVIII COACOOCHEE'S FIRST BATTLE (11:40): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_18_munroe_64kb.mp3
19. CHAPTER XIX RALPH BOYD AND THE SLAVE-CATCHER (11:05): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_19_munroe_64kb.mp3
20. CHAPTER XX AN ALLIGATOR AND HIS MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANT (10:21): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_20_munroe_64kb.mp3
21. CHAPTER XXI BATTLE OF THE WITHLACOOCHEE (11:41): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_21_munroe_64kb.mp3
22. CHAPTER XXII THE YOUNG CHIEF MAKES A TIMELY DISCOVERY (9:45): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_22_munroe_64kb.mp3
23. CHAPTER XXIII SHAKESPEARE IN THE FOREST (16:10): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_23_munroe_64kb.mp3
24. CHAPTER XXIV BOGUS INDIANS AND THE REAL ARTICLE (13:03): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_24_munroe_64kb.mp3
25. CHAPTER XXV A SWAMP STRONGHOLD OF THE SEMINOLES (15:21): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_25_munroe_64kb.mp3
26. CHAPTER XXVI TWO SPIES AND THEIR FATE (16:53): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_26_munroe_64kb.mp3
27. CHAPTER XXVII ANSTICE BOYD SAVES THE LIFE OF A CAPTIVE (15:37): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_27_munroe_64kb.mp3
28. CHAPTER XXVIII THE MARK OF THE WILDCAT (15:20): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_28_munroe_64kb.mp3
29. CHAPTER XXIX TREACHEROUS CAPTURE OF COACOOCHEE AND OSCEOLA (16:13): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_29_munroe_64kb.mp3
30. CHAPTER XXX IN THE DUNGEONS OF THE ANCIENT FORTRESS (14:23): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_30_munroe_64kb.mp3
31. CHAPTER XXXI A DARING ESCAPE (12:53): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_31_munroe_64kb.mp3
32. CHAPTER XXXII NITA HEARS THAT COACOOCHEE IS DEAD (14:06): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_32_munroe_64kb.mp3
33. CHAPTER XXXIII TOLD BY THE MAGNOLIA SPRING (15:11): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_33_munroe_64kb.mp3
34. CHAPTER XXXIV FOLLOWING A MYSTERIOUS TRAIL (14:21): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_34_munroe_64kb.mp3
35. CHAPTER XXXV FATE OF THE SLAVE-CATCHERS (14:13): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_35_munroe_64kb.mp3
36. CHAPTER XXXVI PEACE IS AGAIN PROPOSED (13:29): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_36_munroe_64kb.mp3
37. CHAPTER XXXVII COACOOCHEE IS AGAIN MADE PRISONER (16:08): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_37_munroe_64kb.mp3
38. CHAPTER XXXVIII DOUGLASS FULFILS HIS MISSION (15:41): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_38_munroe_64kb.mp3
39. CHAPTER XXXIX THE BRAVEST GIRL IN FLORIDA (16:41): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_39_munroe_64kb.mp3
40. CHAPTER XL A DOUBLE WEDDING AND THE SETTING SUN (14:30): https://archive.org/download/throughswampandglade_2512_librivox/swampandglade_40_munroe_64kb.mp3