Fire Ant Books imprint: 33 books
Ninety-Nine Iron
The Season Sewanee Won Five Games in Six Days
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The fascinating story of a remarkable, unassailable winning streak.
Ninety-Nine Iron is the story of the 1899 Sewanee football team. The University of the South, as it is formally called, is a small Episcopal college on Mounteagle Mountain in southeastern Tennessee. It is a respected academic...
This Destructive War
The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation.
A companion to Pancake’s study of the northern campaign, 1777: The Year of the Hangman, this volume deals with the American Revolution in the Carolinas. Together, the two...
Con Thien
The Hill of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
A memoir/history of a much-beleaguered Marine outpost of the DMZ.
Throughout much of 1967, a remote United States Marine firebase only two miles from the demilitarized zone (DMZ) captured the attention of the world’s media. That artillery-scarred outpost was the linchpin of the so-called...
When Good Men Do Nothing
The Assassination Of Albert Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A provocative telling of "The Phenix City Story."
On June 18, 1954, former state senator Albert Patterson, the Democratic Party's nominee for state attorney general, was shot to death as he left his law office in Phenix City, Alabama, infamous for its prostitution, gambling, bootlegging,...
by Jon L. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
A coming-of-age story set in the isolated, murky swamps of Louisiana
When the mighty wind blows through the swamps of southern Louisiana, it changes not only the land, but the inhabitants as well. Just such a wind brought a lone infant into the care of the Chitimacha Indians deep...
by Paul Vanderwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
A notable and tragic case of the struggle between legal and social justice.
Reelfoot Lake has been a hunting and fishing paradise from the time of its creation in 1812, when the New Madrid earthquake caused the Mississippi River to flow backward into low-lying lands. Situated in the northwestern...
Simple Story Of A Soldier
Life And Service in the 2d Mississippi Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This fast-paced memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins while he was living in the Soldiers Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. It vividly details his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a mere sixteen years of age he volunteered for the 2d Mississippi Infantry,...
by Patricia Riles Wickman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
A bestselling, up-to-date evaluation of a legendary Indian leader. Named Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. "Osceola's Legacy is significant for its geneology and archaeological study of this Native American and his interaction with the federal government...
Grass Widow
Making My Way in Depression Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
An engaging account of one woman’s overcoming the Depression and small town mores.
Viola Goode Liddell’s short memoir tells the story of her return to Alabama in search of a husband and a new life. Thirty years old and recently divorced, Liddell comes back to her home state—with her young...
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
An affectionate, humorous account of small town Alabama during the civil rights era.
When Frank Sikora's six-year-old daughter contracted pneumonia in 1962, his wife Millie vowed that would be the last winter she would spend in Ohio. Despite their misgivings about the racial tensions erupting...
Renaissance Man of Cannery Row
The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century.
Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic...
Montgomery in the Good War
Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II.
Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital...
The Winter Sailor
Francis R. Stebbins on Florida's Indian River, 1878-1888
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A unique guide to Florida's frontier history along Indian River.
The Winter Sailor is a historical adventure that details the yearly winter travels of Francis R. Stebbins to Florida's Indian River. Stebbins, a writer from Michigan, visited Florida in March of 1878 and became entranced by its...
Back Home
Journeys through Mobile
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takes a "long look back" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama.
In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffman tells stories—through essays, feature articles, and memoir—of one of the South's oldest and most colorful port...