Publisher's Synopsis
The colonization of the State of Florida by Europeans led to the demise of tens of thousands of natives and enslaved Africans from many different Tribes and Ethnicity. The injustices suffered by these people are too numerous to name. However, along with the first colonizers, they have survived, and their history is worth remembering.
Vulture grew up among the native Appalachians who lived near the Palatka village. He had the hunting skills of his ancestors, which stretched back tens of thousands of years, and the knowledge of the white men. Raised by his mother, he knew that one day he was going to avenge the death of his father, a Spanish adventurer, who lived for the battle...
On the millennia-old, unwritten, ancient laws of the native people of Florida, the rules for jaguar hunting were very strict. The elders and the supreme authorities of the tribe would only grant it to the boldest warriors who could overcome the most gruesome tests to prove their worthiness for the hunt of any jaguars that roamed the land! And, like his father before him, Vulture did it. He asked and was given permission to hunt just one black jaguar! As soon as he got the permission, Vulture left his nation to venture on a quest that would take him to the far corners of the country. There, deep in the realm of the forest he would put his life against that of the most skilled predator of the land: the black jaguar! The creature that evoked anyone's nightmares, the phantom of the forest, a black cat from hell!
Back to civilization, Maggot, Vulture's archenemy, while suffering rejection from just about everyone, managed to survive against all odds, and became a tobacco spit champion. Although his accolades were short-lived, he's still remembered today. As his spit record has not been achieved by anyone in over 200 years.
Vulture's son, Dreamer, and his girlfriend, Michelle, were the protagonists of one of the most spectacular manhunts in early nineteenth-century history. Their escape from the largest gathering of bounty hunters ever was nothing short of a miracle.
Michelle and her "Midnight Owl's Raiders for Freedom" sisterhood took center stage in the fight against the British army invasion and the destruction of Washington DC in the 1812/1814 US and British war.
The life history of these simple people, who lived in the Florida Spanish possession up to Washington DC just before the "Old West" era began, must not be forgotten!
