Miami Gundown by Michael Zimmer

Author:Michael Zimmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2016-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

Excerpted from:

Florida Reminiscences:

Personal Recollections from the Highlands

Edited by

Wilbur Collinsworth

Self-Published, 1892

Host First Edition, June, 1976

Chapter Seven

Jack Chandler

1834–1901

. . . [P]eople say those Yankees from Fort Myers never came inland, but I know for a fact that is a lie, because I seen them up by Stearn’s Lake once, toward the end of the war. [Ed. Note: Chandler is probably referring here to either Lake Placid or Lake June, south of Sebring, Florida.] I was trapping otter and such, keeping my nose to my own fire, and not traipsing off to fight people I didn’t know, when I seen eight or ten of them Yankees riding hell-bent to the north. Later on I was told by a Indian trader named Dill that they were after some cow hunters that hung some Yankees on the road between Fort Myers and Punta Rassa. Lucky I seen them coming before they seen me and ducked out of sight before they got too close. I seen their faces, though, and they were a mean-looking bunch, them Yankees. I never did see the cow hunters they was chasing, but I’ll bet it was a bloody battle when they finally caught up. . . .

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