Fading Footprints: Frontier Communities in the Big Cypress Swamp by Rudi Heinrich SIGNED COPYIf this narrative has a thesis or aim, I suppose it is to demonstrate that frontier conditions maintained in the Big Cypress region well into the latter half of the twentieth century. Even into the late 1970s those living in parts of the Big Cypress remained largely unburdened by regulations and without the benefit of law enforcement. A few lived entirely within the wetland environment and coaxed a living from it. Some came to escape the cities and