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Cindy Roe Littlejohn

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Cindy Roe Littlejohn is the author of the award-winning Palmetto Pioneers trilogy, a richly researched series that brings Florida’s forgotten history to life. Her books — The Emigrants (2022), From Harmony to Hostility (2024), and Yankees in the Courthouse — follow the story of Mary Adeline Walker, an ordinary woman whose family’s journey mirrors the South’s turbulent passage through settlement, war, and reconstruction.

The first two books are award-winning novels with several gold, silver, and bronze medals between them in history and biography. the third was recently published in 2025.

Cindy began researching her family’s roots in the late 1970s but set the project aside while building a career in Florida politics, where she lobbied the sta ...more

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	Palmetto Pioneers: A Florida Historical Biography 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Final Palmetto Pioneers Novel – Yankees in the Courthouse

Yankees in the Courthouse: A Florida Civil War & Reconstruction Biography Sunlight slips through tall pines and sweeping live oaks, while palmetto fronds crackle in the rising wind. A wagon creaks along a sandy clay road, carrying its passengers toward a future both uncertain and full of promise. Faith holds them together, tempers threaten to […]

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