sentences:  In 2014 Rough Edges Press published "Palmetto Empire" by David Hardy.This novel follows the fictional adventures of backwoodsmen, outlaws, and rebels in the era of the First Seminole War.It was during the 1950s that most of these films were produced and many included a fictional and stereotypical portrayal of the real life Seminole leader, Osceola, who resisted American expansion into Florida during the late 1830s.