“Palmetto Pioneers,” tells the story of Mary Adeline Walker, who follows her family and her heart into the wilds of territorial Florida in 1829, where she survives 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.

This suspenseful, thoroughly researched, narrative non-fiction book describes the stirring story of the birth of a state—how both Mary and Florida found their way—she as a strong female through her own resolve and Florida through statehood as the nation’s 27th state.