known primarily for her novels and stories set in Kenya during the colonial period. She also published as Isak Dinesen. War Chief of the Seminoles (1954), a children's book by May McNeer, is part of the Landmark Books series. Osceola, Häuptling der Seminole-Indianer (1963) by Ernie Hearting, is a German novel featuring Osceola and based on historical sources. In the alternate history novel The Probability Broach (1979), part of the North American Confederacy Series by L. Neil Smith, the United States becomes a Libertarian State after a successful Whiskey Rebellion and execution of George Washington. The figure of Osceola is featured as the ninth President of the North American Confederacy, serving from 1842 to 1848. A People's History of the United States (1980) by Howard Zinn Tourist Season (1986) and Nature Girl (2006), mystery novels by Carl Hiaasen, each give an abbreviated history of Osceola's capture and imprisonment, as well as that of his contemporary, Thlocklo Tustenuggee. Light a Distant Fire (1988) by Lucia St. Clair Robson Captive (1996), a historical novel by Heather Graham, features Osceola as one of the protagonists. Freedom Land: A Novel (2003) by Martin L. Marcus. In this version, Osceola was the son of a respected British officer and his Creek consort. Osceola/ His Capture and Seminole Legends (2010), non-fiction by William Ryan Osceola "Ossie" Bigtree is the name of a character in Karen Russell's novel Swamplandia! (2011), about a family of alligator wrestlers who work at a tourist attraction in Florida. It was developed from her short story "Ava Wrestles the Alligator". Films In the mid-1930s Nathanael West wrote a 17-page film treatment entitled Osceola but failed to sell it to a studio. Seminole (1953), highly fictionalized American western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Anthony Quinn as Osceola. Naked in the Sun (1957), the life of Osceola and the Second Seminole War, starring James Craig as Osceola. Osceola – Die rechte Hand der Vergeltung (1971) by Konrad Petzold, an East German western with Gojko Mitić as the Native American leader. Television, music, sports, and art The Sedgeford Hall Portrait (c. 1830), once thought to be of Pocahontas and her mixed-race son, Thomas Rolfe, is now believed to be of Pe-o-ka (a wife of Osceola) and their son. 1957 Jim Bowie TV-series episode "Osceola". When the army attempts to remove the Seminole Indians from their own lands to a less desirable tract, Bowie