Merry Christmas! Thanks for being a subscriber to Florida Heritage Travel. Your gift to me is the time you spend reading my articles. My gift to you is a suggestion for the best book you can read to learn about pioneer Florida.
The book is “A Land Remembered” by Patrick Smith. It tells the story of three generations of a family who came down into the wilderness that was Florida in 1868. Chapter 18 describes what Christmas in Florida was like in that era.