Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives features biographical sketches of more than 280 persons mentioned by Keen and Williams in their writings, many of whom subsequently pioneered settlement in the Florida peninsula.
Canter Brown, Jr. is a visiting professor of history at Florida A & M University and holds J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Florida State University. A native of Fort Meade, Polk County, Florida, he now resides in Tallahassee.
