Word: oklawaha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago a man named Blackburn and his mother rented a big, white, frame house at Oklawaha, scraggly little citrus town in central Florida. One dawn last week 15 Department of Justice agents tapped quietly at the doors of houses near the newcomers', warned residents to get out of range. Then they surrounded the big, white house and cried, "Come out!" For answer they got a spit of machine-gun fire. There followed an ear-splitting six hours which Oklawahans will long remember. "It was like war," one of them gasped afterwards. Furious firing from both sides...
Florida tourists, viewing the Florida scrub from an Oklawaha River steamer, find it picturesque but not enticing. Even most Florida crackers think the scrub too bewilderingly wild to live in. But this impenetrable-seeming wilderness of pine and sand was just suited to Lantry Jacklin's taste. Onetime moonshiner in Ca'lina, he had killed a revenue man and fled to Florida; the scrub seemed the safest place he could find...