Tate's Hell

"Who was Tate, you wonder? In Sumatra they still tell his story: how he left the frontier village at dusk a century ago with his two hunting dogs and his puppy Spark, to kill a panther that had been raiding Sumatra livestock. He carried a Long Tom shotgun and a Barlow knife, and he thought he knew where the darkening waters ran." -- Gloria Jahoda, "The Other Florida" (1967)

Tate's Hell State Forest, between in the Apalachicola and Ochlockonee rivers in the Florida Panhandle stood at the farthe...