"Frank Hamilton Cushing's "forgotten" manuscript, considered by some to be the legendary anthropologist's masterwork, conveys the untamed and undeveloped nature of south Florida in the 1890s and offers new insights into Cushing's significant contributions to Florida archaeology. It describes his initial reconnaissance in 1895 to southwest Florida and his comparative evaluations of artifacts excavated in the Tarpon Springs area the following year." "The original manuscript - some 708 typed half-pages - was housed in the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives in Washington, D.C., and only recently was recognized as the "lost" Florida volume that Cushing was preparing at the time of his death in 1900"--Jacket.