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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. VG+ Dust Jacket. Ex-Library Copy. INVENTORY B >> 1954; Longmans, Green and Co Pub; Hardcover with Dust Jacket; Stated "First Edition"; New York, USA; 176-Pages; Juvenile historical fiction: Set during the Second Seminole War in Florida (1835-1842) and follows a white boy, Rod Wheeler, whose loyalties are tested as he befriends Seminole characters and witnesses the injustices of the conflict. Focusing on the adventures of a young white boy amidst the conflict, highlighting Native American life and culture, with illustrations by E. Harper Johnson, and is a significant piece of children's literature from that era. Significance: A notable book for young readers that brought the Seminole Wars and Seminole culture to a broader audience. ** Kirkus review: 1835, the year of Gaines' and Scott's campaigns in the Florida Seminole wars is highlighted by the adventures of a white boy, Rod Wheeler, in a book that, like the author's Swamp Shadows, (1948) treats of the injustices of the fruitless struggle. From his home near Tampa, Rod, joints the army as a scout. Though he is loyal to his side, his friendships with Sakochee, a Seminole, and with his intelligent companion at arms John Fox who sees both sides of the question, make Rod a focal point of shifting loyalties in a struggle government forethought could have done much to alleviate. Rod helps the Indians get rid of the slaver Ruther- an ironic move in that they depended on Ruther's arms for help and his story ends as it must, on a note of hopelessness. There is only his home-coming and the small kernel of amity he has nurtured in a situation that has long been a national sore spot. Serious and enlightened. Contents/Chapters; Shakochee, The Message, Attack, Dade's Men, White-Feathered Arrow, Battle on the River, Captured, Rod Makes Magic, Shakochee pays his Debt, In the Blockhouse, Signal Shot, Surrounded, Secret of the Cove, Flight Down the River, Ruther's Camp, Tampa; VERY RARE TITLE. ** Book: EX-LIBRARY Copy with Library Card and Library Stamp on Front Endpage, Library Stamp on inside back cover and Back Endpage, Minor paper-pulls on inside covers, rest of book has minimal Library Markings, thus is still a nice VERY GOOD; Dust Jacket = NO Library Markings, Minor Creasing, Minor fading on back of spine, Minor Scuffing, thus VERY GOOD+ Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. E. Harper Johnson illustrations on Dust Jacket, cover and Title page. (illustrator). Book.…