The Mason Spirit

Seminole Views: A Postcard Panorama of America’s Only Unconquered Tribe

Emmett H. L. Snellings Jr., MA English ’93
Rainbow Books Inc., 2008

Seminole Views is a full-color coffee table book that features Seminole postcards (some more than 100 years old), as well as modern photographs and interviews of members of the Seminole tribe in Florida. The book covers Seminole history, wars and warriors, historical figures, black Seminoles, housing, traditional food, transportation, and the Everglades, among other topics. The book won the Gold Medal for Book Design from the Florida Book Awards.

Over the past 30 years, Snellings, a wildlife author and photographer, has had many articles and papers published in various publications throughout the United States. He lives in Sarasota, Florida.