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Seminole Chief. He was probably born in 1812 on the Alachua Savannah in Florida. He was the head chief of the Florida branch of the Seminole Tribe and led his people in two wars against the whites. During and after 1839 he became known as Holata Micco, or chief governor.
Billy Bowlegs, 1858. Bowlegs was born into a family of hereditary chiefs descended from Cowkeeper of the Oconee tribe of the Seminole in the village of Cuscowilla on the Alachua savannah (present-day Payne's Prairie, near Micanopy, Florida). His father's name was Secoffee, while it is thought that the chief Micanopy was his uncle. [5]
23 Ιαν 2008 · The name that Holata was best known by, “Billy Bowlegs,” uniquely united the whole experience of the three “Seminole wars” and also uniquely connected the epic stories of “The Trails of Tears” and “The Trail of Blood on Ice.” Holata himself likely died in 1859, before the last of these episodes.
When Billy Bowlegs was born about 1867, in Wewoka, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States, his father, George Bowlegs, was 27 and his mother, Dollie, was 23. He married Lucy Lottie about 1890, in Indian Township, Payne, Oklahoma, United States.
Billy Bowlegs III aka Cofehapkee Seminole elder, also of African-American descen, here c. 1895. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
Billy Bowlegs III, aka Billy Fewell or Cofehapkee (1862–1965), a Seminole elder (also of African American descent) and tribal historian, in a c1895 portrait by Arthur P. Lewis,. Bowlegs was the grandson of Osceola and was a member of the Snake Clan.
Article describes the life and personality of Billy Bowlegs, Seminole chief and warrior who fought against the encroachment of white settlers in the Seminole Wars. Carolyn Thomas Foreman explores the legacy of the man through accounts and documentation from the nineteenth century.
