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Trembling Earth A Cultural History of the Okefenokee ~ The name Okefenokee comes out of a Native American term meaning trembling earth This name describes the floating peat islands inside the swamp Since there is only a little solid high ground inside the swamp it wasnt a settled area
Trembling Earth A Cultural History of the Okefenokee ~ Megan Kate Nelson Trembling Earth A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp Athens GA University of Georgia Press 2005 262 pages including notes index bibliography and a few photos The Okefenokee Swamp is huge bog located mostly in South Georgia just above the Florida border
Trembling Earth A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp ~ Megan Kate Nelsons volume on the cultural history of Georgias Okefenokee Swamp is among the recent handful of attempts to make some sense of the historic relationship between people and wetlands in the United States
Trembling Earth A Cultural History of the Okefenokee ~ Trembling Earth A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp This innovative history of the Okefenokee Swamp reveals it as a place where harsh realities clashed with optimism shaping the borderland culture of southern Georgia and northern Florida for over two hundred years
Trembling Earth A Cultural History of the Okefenokee ~ Trembling Earth assembles a wealth of fascinating valuable and previously uncollected for the most part information about a key locale in American social and cultural history Not since Elizabeth McKinseys Niagara Falls has there been so effective an analysis of a particular American landscape as this one”David C Miller author of Dark Eden The Swamp in NineteenthCentury American Culture
Land of the Trembling Earth Okefenokee FCF ~ The Second Seminole War 1838 – 1842 ended the age of Native Americans in the Okefenokee Swamp Native Americans gave the swamp the name “Okefenokee” which means “Land of the Trembling Earth” The Indians gave the swamp this name because peat deposits up to 15 feet thick cover much of the swamp
Trembling Earth ~ This innovative history of the Okefenokee Swamp reveals it as a place where harsh realities clashed with optimism shaping the borderland culture of southern Georgia and northern Florida for over two hundred years
Okefenokee Swamp Wikipedia ~ Trembling Earth A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp Athens University of Georgia Press This is a readable book from a professional historian that covers the history of the human interaction with the swamp from about 1700 to the 1940s very good background for those planning a visit
Human History of the Okefenokee Swamp New Georgia ~ The Okefenokee Swamp covers nearly 700 square miles almost all of which is in Georgia It has a long history as a wilderness a public common and a refuge Since 1937 most of the Okefenokee has been a National Wildlife Refuge It was designated a National Wilderness Area in 1974
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