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Palmetto Pioneers: The Emigrants Paperback – July 13, 2022

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America’s attorney general in 1829 said, “no man would immigrate to Florida—no, not from hell itself!” But the Walker families went anyway!

“Palmetto Pioneers,” tells the story of Mary Adeline Walker, an ordinary daughter of a South Carolina low-country cattleman. For the adventure of her lifetime, she follows her family and her heart into the wilds of territorial Florida, where she faces an Indian war and Florida’s brutal environs. In frontier Florida, the enemy is nature and man, and the ordinary must become extraordinary—or perish.

"Palmetto Pioneers" starts in 1829 when Mary is seven years old, and it moves through the Second Seminole War to statehood in 1845. This compelling story narrates Mary’s self-discovery and Florida’s struggle to become a state, where people like the Walkers faced its challenges and used their tenacity to change their own lives and their state’s future.

This suspenseful, thoroughly researched, narrative non-fiction book by Cindy Roe Littlejohn describes the stirring story of the birth of a state—how both Mary and Florida found their way.
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Palmetto Pioneers: Before there were cowboys
Cindy Roe Littlejohn

Cindy Roe Littlejohn, Nonfiction Author

Cindy Roe Littlejohn began researching this family in the late 1970s, but never wrote their story until she retired from lobbying the Florida legislature in 2014. Because she worried no one would read a factual "who begat whom" book, she studied other genres. Narrative nonfiction showed the most promise, especially for younger readers.

Six years later, with added research, she wrote a series entitled "Palmetto Pioneers." The first book "The Emigrants" she published in 2022.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B5PTTQCY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (July 13, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 390 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8832897110
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.46 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.92 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

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Cindy Roe Littlejohn

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Cindy Roe Littlejohn is the author of the "Palmetto Pioneers" series. She published the first book in the series "The Emigrants" in the summer of 2022. Her newest novel in the series, "From Harmony to Hostility," follows the Walker family in the Civil War and was released on March 25 of 2024.

A married mother of three and a grandmother of seven, she is also a tree farmer, a blogger at "Old Age is not for Sissies", and a retired agricultural and environmental lobbyist.

She loves to travel (especially old trails), garden, do genealogy, and spend time with her family in the outdoors.

She comes from a small rural town in North Florida and is the eighth generation of her family to have lived there. She has a BS in Communication with an emphasis in public relations, an MS in Communication with an emphasis in organizational communication, and a Ph.D. in Communication with an emphasis in communication research and methodology with cognates in statistics and behavioral psychology. All three degrees are from Florida State University.

She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida Forestry Association and on the Florida Historic Capitol Foundation. She is an associate scholar with the Aucilla Research Institute and a member of Class XXI of Connect Florida (Leadership Florida). She serves as an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Monticello and is a volunteer docent with Monticello’s Keystone Genealogical Library.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bitsy Walker Vann
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024
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Wonderful book about my ancestors. Can’t wait for book #2!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024
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This is a great book! Sure enjoyed reading it! 📚
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Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2023
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Purchased for a friend, she loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Oh my!
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This was a great read. I can't imagine the research that went into this book. It was a true and compelling story of a family's journey from South Carolina to North Florida. So much we didn't learn in school! Highly recommend!
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Melissa H.
5.0 out of 5 stars The research gathered for this book is amazing.
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2022
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The author does a wonderful job bringing to life what the early Florida settlers must have endured. It is a great story and I highly recommend this book. It is invaluable if you are into genealogy and have Lightsey, Andrews or Walker ancestors.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Florida
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024
Great read about old Florida!
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chipola
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book to read
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2023
I recommend "Palmetto Pioneers, The Emigrants" by Cindy Roe Littlejohn for several reasons. First of all, it is simply enjoyable reading as it is presented in narrative form allowing the reader to enjoy a very interesting story. Secondly, it presents and describes the history of a newly settled family attempting to make their lives happy and meaningful in the 1st half of the 19th century in what would become the state of Florida in what is now the United States of America.

Even though the primary focus of this story is a particular family of white settlers from South Carolina, it explores and reports on a geographic location and time period replete with difficult and often challenging legal, social, cultural, and political issues: harmonious and life-threatening encounters with indigenous peoples, slavery, racism and other forms of discrimination, as well as the social norms of the white culture including male supremacy extending to the right to vote and hold office once the area became a state of the union.

With all of this in mind, as a reviewer of this book, I believe it may by meaningful, and perhaps even helpful to introduce myself. I am an 83 year old white male mainly raised in the Midwest and having lived the last 50+ years of my life in the states of Louisiana and Florida with the last 4+ years being in Monticello. It is my opinion after having read this book and carefully thought through how these difficult and challenging issues cited above were presented, the author presented them factually and without malice allowing for a clear, accurate understanding of life for all who lived in this area during this period of time.

In addition to an excellent story, the Appendix and Bibliography sections are incredible!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but dry reading
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2023
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Interesting history, but rather boring. More like a school history book.
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