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	Rumor & Fact about Billy Bowlegs
		The available evidence indicates that Billy Bowlegs was part of a ruling Seminole family and that his emergence as a primary leader of his people during the second Seminole War (1835-1842) was due in large part to his birth.
		But Bowlegs also earned his rank, and it was thanks to his skill in negotiation and delay tactics that his people were able to withstand for many years, efforts to force their removal from Florida to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
		Their chief, the fatuously cruel "Billy Bowlegs," was with them, and so violent were the people on shore in their threats that the captain of the steamboat did not dare to approach the shore.
	www.beachbrowser.com /Archives/Local-News/June-99/Billy-Bowlegs.htm (986 words)

	Payson.cc / Down Under Pt. 8 Billy Bowlegs and the Birds By Carroll Cox
		He was our cat, Billy Bowlegs, a foundling who came to us from the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
		Billy was the sole survivor of a litter of siblings that some warped soul had strung up in a tree by the back legs, leaving them to dangle from their twine anchors like macabre ornaments.
		Billy never hurt them and was the only cat I ever saw that actually seemed to like water.
	www.cybertrails.com /~ransgreenleaf/down_under/8BillyBowlegsBirds.html (1169 words)

	Nie: Florida's famous Seminole leaders
		Osceola, born Billy Powell in 1804 in Alabama, was the son of a Creek Indian mother.
		Bowlegs, part of a ruling Seminole family, and his tribe settled in Hillsborough County a few miles southeast of Lake Thonotosassa.
		Billy Bowlegs and his followers were sent first to Fort Myers and then taken to a fort on Egmont Key, at the mouth of Tampa Bay.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/05/20/NIE/Florida_s_famous_Semi.shtml (1092 words)

	Marc Anderson .net - Home
		Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) was a member of the Royal “Cowkeeper Dynasty” of the Oconee tribe of Seminoles.
		Billy Bowlegs emerged as a primary Seminole leader in the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) after Osceola was captured in 1837 during peace negotiations.
		As an Indian child from a broken family with rights to Bowlegs oil, she became a ward of court-appointed guardians and was forced to spend childhood without her natural mother.
	www.marcanderson.net (1301 words)

	Billy Bowlegs
		Holata Micco, commonly called Billy Bowlegs, and known as the “Alligator chief,” was a
		After the Second Seminole war, Bowlegs refused to move to Indian Territory and was given a small parcel of land in the
		After several years of attacks by the U.S. Army, Bowlegs and his remaining band of 40 warriors resigned themselves to removal to Indian Territory in 1858.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0921270.html (156 words)

	Northwest Florida Daily News - BILLY BOWLEGS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was a child of the court for Capt. Billy Bowlegs XXXIX Richard Manley and Capt. Billy Bowlegs XLII Greg Artabasy, and was Sword Bearer for Capt. Billy Bowlegs XLIII Sam Burkett.
		Capt. Billy's Medallion Bearer is Alex Powell, 10, son of Dr. Rodney and Candace Powell, and a fourth-grade student at Shalimar Elementary School.
		She is the granddaughter of John and Patricia Tringas, Queen of Bowlegs to Harry Barr, Capt. Billy XXXVIII, and great granddaughter of the late James J. Tringas and Kathryn Tringas Wise, Queen of Bowlegs to Docie Bass, Capt. Billy IV.
	www.nwfdailynews.com /today/newsbow85.html (2091 words)

	Northwest Florida Daily News - BILLY BOWLEGS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bowlegs and his pirates are scheduled to invade Fort Walton Beach this afternoon.
		Claire Martinez, 3, pretends she is a pirate as she stabs the camera lens during the opening day of the 49th Annual Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival on Friday afternoon at the Fort Walton Beach Landing.
		It only got louder when Bowlegs and his buccaneers skirmished with the militia before landing at the park to bribe the crowd with beads, cups, coins and trinkets.
	www.nwfdailynews.com /today/newsbow95.html (555 words)

	The Seminole Tribe, Running From History
		The Davis family also claims lineage to the warrior Chief Billy Bowlegs, a contemporary of the great Seminole leader Osceola.
		Davis's hero, Chief Billy Bowlegs, fought off not just the Army but also the Native American tribes that sought to capture fl Seminoles and sell them into slavery.
		Bowlegs was the last of the major war chiefs at large in Florida, fighting with a band of warriors and dozens of escaped slaves under his protection.
	www.racematters.org /seminolesrunningfromhistory.htm (792 words)

	FLORIDA OF THE SEMINOLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Indian Council, headed by Holatta-Micco (Billy Bowlegs) was determined to defend the Biscayne holdings.
		Billy Bowlegs rejected bribes of $5,000 plus $100 per surrendered Indian, but when his granddaughter was seized, he was forced to surrender.
		On May 4, 1858, the last of the famous Seminole warriors met the soldiers at Billy's Creek and was sent forever from Florida.
	www.floridahistory.org /floridians/seminol.htm (1897 words)

	NativeTech: 19th Century Seminole Men`s Clothing ~ Turbans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On one occasion I saw an Indian by the name of Billy Bowlegs wearing a turban encircled by a band of metal (probably tin).
		The highest proportion is in an 1853 print of "'Billy Bowlegs,' and His Suite of Indian Chiefs," in which four o£ six Seminoles are wearing headbands.
		The one in Billy Bowleq's photograph has large crenellations, but there doesn't appear to be any incised ornamentation or lines at all.
	www.nativetech.org /seminole/turbans/index.php (2049 words)

	The Seminole Wars
		In September General Joseph Hernandez captured King Philip, Yuchi Billy, Coacoochee and Blue Snake with their followers in the vicinity of St. Augustine and imprisoned them at Fort Marion.
		A treaty signed on August 7, 1856, that granted the Seminoles over two million acres in Indian Territory separate from the Creek allotment along with a generous financial settlement, was the catalyst to the end of the conflict in Florida.
		The offer of $7500 to the chief, $1000 to each of four other leaders, $500 to each warrior, and $100 to each woman and child to be paid when the Seminoles boarded a ship at Egmont Key, was accepted on March 27, 1858.
	faculty.mccfl.edu /JonesJ/flbib/SEMINOLE.html (2443 words)

	Seminole Leaders @ Florida OCHP
		Billy Bowlegs was the principal Seminole leader in the Third Seminole War (1855-1858).
		Bowlegs and his war-weary band surrendered on May 7, 1858.
		Thirty-eight warriors and eighty-five women and children, including Billy's wife, boarded the steamer, Grey Cloud, at Egmont Key to begin their journey to Indian territory.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /facts/history/seminole/leaders.cfm (368 words)

	Ft. Walton, FL - Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival
		Captain Billy Bowlegs, along with his Queen, has been spotted at several local schools trying to persuade local youngsters to join his Motley Krewe.
		Captain Billy and his Krewe plan to invade Fort Walton Beach at the 50th Annual Sprint Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival in June at Fort Walton Landing.
		Captain Billy and his Krewe invite local citizens and visitors to Fort Walton Landing on Brooks Street in June for the 50th Annual Sprint Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival.
	www.tripsmarter.com /destin/archives/events/billybowlegs_gen.htm (923 words)

	Sun Herald - 04/28/02
		The Seminole delegation consisted of Tuckose Emathala (John Hicks) who was the principal speaker, Itcho Tustenuggee, Mica-nopy, Holato Mico (Bowlegs Cow Keeper, uncle to Mica-nopy and Billy Bowlegs), Fuche Loste Hadjo and Abraham.
		Billy Bowlegs, nephew of Bowlegs Cow Keeper, was the principal chief of a dwindling Seminole nation.
		Bowlegs was appointed captain of an Indian regiment in the Union Army at Arkansas.
	www.sun-herald.com /NewsArchive2/042802/np9.htm?date=042802&story=np9.htm (1761 words)

	The Seminole Wars
		End of the Second Seminole War – By the end of the war, 4,420 Seminoles had surrendered and been deported to the west.
		Third Seminole War, also known as the Billy Bowlegs' War.
		Billy Bowlegs and his family are removed to the Indian Territory west of Texas.
	www.tampabayhistorycenter.org /semwars.htm (240 words)

	Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bowlegs’ Bounty, the debut novel from author Joseph Kropp, is now available.
		Captain Bowlegs was terribly jealous of his treasure if he would threaten anyone just for looking at it.
		Bowlegs’ crew is in hot pursuit of the two boys.
	www.josephkropp.com (2247 words)

	Hendry County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On December 18, 1855, they found the village of Chief Billy Bowlegs, nephew of Chief Micanopy of the Wind Clan.
		One story is that Bowlegs went to complain to Hartsuff, but was taunted and laughed out of camp.
		At least four soldiers were killed, and Hartsuff himself was wounded in three places and had to hide in the muddy swamp until the Seminoles were gone.
	tfn.net /~cdk901/Counties/c7hend.htm (768 words)

	bowlegs on Encyclopedia.com
		When the condition is severe enough to be considered a deformity, the cause is usually a disorder that occurs early in life such as rickets, flat feet, a congenital disease, or an injury.
		Bowlegs can be corrected mechanically by braces, shoe wedges, or other orthopedic devices.
		Seminole Chief Billy Bowlegs got his revenge for garden vandalism.(B SECTION)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b1/bowlegs.asp (278 words)

	Third Seminole War
		This struggle, also known as the Billy Bowlegs War, was the final clash of an intermittent guerilla conflict between the Seminole Indians of Florida and the United States.
		The main remaining Seminole leader at this point was "Billy Bowlegs" (O-lac-to-mi-co), a chief who was part of a ruling family.
		In exchange for small cash outlays, Bowlegs agreed to leave Florida with about 165 members of his tribe to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1156.html (358 words)

	Explore!Florida - CENTRAL FLORIDA - Background Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the early 1850s, the Federal government tried to coax Chief Bolechs, known as Billy Bowlegs, to move with the remaining Seminoles to Arkansas.
		Even though they were outnumbered fourteen to one, the Army had no success in capturing Billy Bowlegs.
		The offer of $1 million to relocate was too much for Billy to resist, and in 1858 he and his small band boarded the steamer Grey Cloud and left Florida forever.
	www.exploreflorida.org /central/central_background.cfm (5535 words)

	WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BOWLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Each year there is a festival commemorating Bowles in Fort Walton Beach called the Billy Bowlegs Festival.
		What goes on at the festival is far from what really happened, and they even get the name wrong.
		Billy Bowlegs was the name of three different Seminole chiefs, none of whom spent time around the panhandle.
	tfn.net /~cdk901/wabowles.htm (2344 words)

	Silver Springs
		Presented at Billy Bowlegs Bar & Grill, this two weekend event will feature live country, bluegrass and Cajun music, dancing, and traditional Southern cooking.
		In addition, the area will be decorated with Italy’s national colors and members of the local Sons of Italy club will be on hand to join in the dancing, singing and festivities.
		Presented at Billy Bowlegs Bar & Grill, this three-weekend event will feature live Bavarian and polka music, dancing, authentic German food, and a wide selection of imported and domestic beers.
	silversprings.com /events.html (1114 words)

	Stephen Thomas Hollingsworth's Letter
		Stephen Thomas Hollingsworth was born in Sampson Co., NC, in 1830 and came with his father, stepmother and siblings to Hillsborough Co., FL, in 1843.
		During the Third Seminole or "Billy Bowlegs" War, Stephen Thomas, his father Stephen, and brothers John Henry, William R. and Timothy served in local mounted volunteer companies.
		The following is from James W. Covington's The Billy Bowlegs War 1856-1858 The Final Stand of the Seminoles Against the Whites, (Chuluota, FL, 1982), pp.
	www.lamartin.com /history/hollingsworth_letter.htm (491 words)

	Florida Historical Marker Program @ Florida OCHP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In December, 1855, army surveyors from Fort Myers injured crops of Bowleg's plantation.
		This began the Third Seminole War often called the Billy Bowlegs War.
		In March, 1858, Bowlegs and 165 Seminoles left peacefully for Oklahoma.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /services/sites/markers/markers.cfm?ID=lee (1333 words)

	The Cone Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Proof that the Indians were from Bowleg's band was seen among the captured items fifty bushels of corn, one hundred bushels of rice, some oxen, and hoes and assorted items belonging to Billy Bowlegs - - a suit, an 1852 tintype showing Billy in Washington, a shotbag and a turban.
		Heartened by their success, the militiamen pushed their way through the maze of cypress trees along the Okaloacoochee and were able to inflict more damage.
		On November 26, a herd of horses grazing in Billy's garden situated about one mile's distance from Depot Number One was attacked by the Indians and thirty-six of the animals killed."
	extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu /olustee/cone_brothers.htm (864 words)

	[No title]
		When the U.S. acquired Florida, Osceola and Billy Bowlegs led the fight to retain their lands.
		Objective 4) Students should be able to relate the events and circumstances of the Second Seminole War and appreciate the role of Osceola to his people throughout this conflict.
		Objective 5) Students should be able to summarize the events and circumstances of the Third Seminole War, including details about Billy Bowlegs and his followers.
	www.prairiepublic.org /education/pstv/guide/seminoles.doc (832 words)

	[No title]
		When the Kaye family goes on vacation to the Emerald Coast in Florida, ten-year-old Benjamin and eight-year-old Martin are inspired by the setting, pirate legends, and their father’s bedtime stories about the pirate, Billy Bowlegs, to dig for treasure on the beach.
		Kaye tells a thrilling tale each night about Billy Bowlegs and two boys, Tip and Tap Pettigrew.
		Bowlegs’ Bounty is educational as well as fun.
	www.heartlandreviews.com /Children_Apr05.html (993 words)

	Collier-Seminole State Park Celebrates Annual Native American & Pioneer Festival - 02/19/04
		NAPLES - Florida is bringing history alive at Collier-Seminole State Park with the annual Native American and Pioneer Festival, commemorating the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Royal Palm Hammock.
		The two-day festival features a reenactment of the historic battle between Seminole Chief Billy Bowlegs and American settlers, along with live folk music and Native American crafts and food.
		The Third Seminole War, also known as the Billy Bowlegs' War, began in 1855 when Seminole Indians led by Bowlegs attacked a military survey party of settlers.
	www.dep.state.fl.us /SECRETARY/news/2004/feb/0219.htm (323 words)

	Destin Florida Area Events
		June 3-6: Sprint Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival and Torchlight Parade: Festival starts 3pm on Friday at Fort Walton Beach Landing with food vendors, an arts and crafts fair, music and entertainment and an 8:30pm fireworks display.
		June 3-5: Billy Bowlegs Softball Tournament: Held at the Fort Walton Beach softball complex, sponsored by the City of Fort Walton Beach Parks and Recreation Dept. 850.833.9578.
		June 11: Billy Bowlegs Coronation: Pageant begins at 7pm at the Arts Center at OWC in Niceville.
	www.destinfl.com /spotlite.htm (3966 words)

	[No title]
		Seminole leader Billy Bowlegs proved a formidable opponent to Jackson whose fame was only overshadowed by that of the great Osceola who led the Seminole during the Second War (1835-1842).
		During this conflict, the Seminole fought to remain on their lands in Florida, but they were defeated and most were removed to reservations in Oklahoma.
		LIBRARY CATALOGS The two libraries that were used for this project, the Austin Public Library and the General Libraries of the University of Texas at Austin, have World Wide Web access to their online catalogs.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7023/seminolepathfinder.html (3327 words)

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