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Tatham Mound by Piers AnthonyPiers Anthony
Tatham Mound




CONTENTS
Introduction

Chapter 1 — Spirit
Chapter 2 — Trader
Chapter 3 — Maya
Chapter 4 — Little Blood
Chapter 5 — Calusa
Chapter 6 — Sweet Medicine
Chapter 7 — Wide Water
Chapter 8 — Signs
Chapter 9 — Mound
Chapter 10 — Sacrifice
Chapter 11 — Tale Teller
Chapter 12 — Mad Queen
Chapter 13 — Twice Cursed
Chapter 14 — Renunciation
Chapter 15 — Wren
Chapter 16 — Castile
Chapter 17 — De Soto
Chapter 18 — Search
Chapter 19 — Battle
Chapter 20 — Return
Chapter 21 — Mound

Author's Note





INTRODUCTION
In 1983 Brent Weisman of the University of Florida (UF) was searching for
Seminole Indian sites relating to the Second Seminole War. One was believed to
be in Citrus County, near the sweeping bend of the Withlacoochee River called
the Cove of the Withlacoochee. He had assistance from a team of volunteers from
the Withlacoochee River Archaeology Council (WRAC). They hoped to locate the
secret stronghold of the famed Seminole leader Osceola in the nineteenth
century, when he hid from the white man's troops and conducted the war that the
United States was never quite able to win. Instead, to their surprise, they
discovered an unnatural hill in the level swampy area near the river. It was two
meters (six feet) high and twenty meters (sixty feet) across, and overgrown with
brush and small trees. It looked very much like an earlier Indian burial mound,
hidden in the wilderness of the Cove.