Robert Skeoch Cruzan Planter Author:Irene Armstrong Robert Skeoch: Cruzan Planter, first published in 1971, is a personal account of life in the Island of St. Croix, seen through the eyes of Robert Walter Skeoch (1869-1960). It presents a first-hand account of the insurrection of 1878 known as "Fireburn," the Transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States in 1917, several hurricanes, a p... more »residential visit, the rise of the Labor Movement, and the demise of the sugar industry on St. Croix. Spanning a period of almost one hundred years from the mid-nineteenth to twentieth centuries, it tells of things as they were, making no apologies or explanations.« less