William Augustus Bowles's proclaimed pan-Native state among the Seminole and Lower Creek towns of Spanish Florida, resisting both Spanish and American claims to the region.
Collapsed when Bowles was lured into a trap and captured by the Spanish at a Creek council in 1803; he died a prisoner in Havana's Morro Castle in 1805.
The standard biography of Bowles and the State of Muskogee he proclaimed among the Seminole and Lower Creek towns, verified via Open Library.
Places Bowles's Muskogee state within the broader divergence of the Creek and Seminole peoples, verified via Open Library.