For most of the nineteenth century, southwest Florida and the Peace River Valley remained a frontier as unknown to outsiders as the frontiers of the American West. In this book, Canter Brown, Jr records the area's economic, social, political, and racial history in an account of violence, passion, struggle, sacrifice, and determination.

In this book, Canter Brown, Jr. records the economic,
social, political, and racial history of the Peace River Valley in southwest
Florida in an account of violence, passion, struggle, sacrifice, and
determination.