Item #011556 Cold Before Morning. A Heart-warming Novel about a Florida Pioneer Family [Historical Fiction]. John Pauls Jones, Jr.
Cold Before Morning. A Heart-warming Novel about a Florida Pioneer Family [Historical Fiction]
Cold Before Morning. A Heart-warming Novel about a Florida Pioneer Family [Historical Fiction]

Cold Before Morning. A Heart-warming Novel about a Florida Pioneer Family [Historical Fiction]

Tallahassee, Florida: Father and Sons Publishing, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.

SIGNED by the author with an inscription.

Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 227 pages. First Edition, First Printing.

Fine / Fine. Item #011556
ISBN: 0942407180

Cold Before Morning is a simple yet powerful novel of a Scottish family's emotional and heart-warming romance and daily conflict with pioneer Florida between 1854 and 1913.

The James McCredies arrived in Micanopy, Florida, one of the state's oldest communities, just in time to get involved in the Third Seminole Indian War, then the Civil War, followed by years of Reconstruction and Yellow Fever epidemics. During those same years, North-Central Florida experienced the "Orange Fever" that drove men to acquire large acreage of citrus trees as they sought to build empires with Victorian homes and extensive bank accounts from their trees of yellow gold.

The winter of 1894-95 however, was the citrus man's waterloo. It went down in history as The Great Freeze. Groves were wiped out and families went from rages to riches and again to rags in one generation.

The McCredie family was a real family, the principals of which are all dead, buried in cemeteries in Micanopy, Ocala, Rochelle and Gainesville. This is their story, told by James McCredie's grandson.

Price: $49.95