Author : W. Horace Carter
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company (NC)
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1993-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780937866405
About early settlers & today's wildlife & fishermen on the Florida West Coast.
Author : Jack Beater
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Florida
ISBN :
Author : Seth Bramson
Publisher : Boston Mills Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781550463583
A revised and expanded illustrated history of the railroad from its inception, through the building of the Key West extension, to the present day.
Author : Patrick D Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1561645826
A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Author : Seth H. Bramson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1625844530
All aboard for the history of one of the most audacious and innovative railroad engineering feats in history from the celebrated Floridian author. Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled vision to make it happen. In 1902, Henry Flagler made the decision to extend the Florida East Coast Railway to “the nearest deepwater American port.” In this book, renowned Florida historian Seth H. Bramson reveals how the Key West Extension of the Flagler-owned FEC became the greatest railroad engineering and construction feat in United States, and possibly world, history, an accomplishment that would cement Flagler’s fame and legend for all time. Join Bramson as he recounts the years of operation of this great railroad, what it did for the Florida Keys and what it meant to the resident conchs. Includes photos
Author : Samuel A. Green
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere" by Samuel A. Green is the documentation of a speech given involving a first-hand account of being on the high seas. The adventures in this book are thrilling and, at times, terrifying as readers learn about the horror that comes along with encountering pirates while helplessly out on the water. The book primarily focuses on Gulf Coast pirates, but similar stories have been told around the world.
Author : Jack Beater
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Florida
ISBN :
Author : Bob Patterson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1625842651
With such a rich and significant history, its only natural that some of the best stories from the Sunshine State have been forgotten over time. Thankfully, master storyteller and St. Augustine resident Bob Patterson offers this collection of the strangest, most fascinating stories and legends in Floridas history from coast to coast, swamp to swamp. Enjoy the saga of William Ellis, a North Florida nature whisperer who escaped from his nursing home with the help of his varmint friends; step into the murk and mystery of the vanishing tribes of the Everglades; and could there really be gator-hungry sharks lurking in the St. Johns River? These stories and so many more await when you explore the Forgotten Tales of Florida.
Author : W. L. Alden
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780332546438
Excerpt from The Loss of the Swansea: A Story of the Florida Coast Once a man hired father to sail a new brig from Bristol round to Penzance, and we went with him. That was the one week when we did not live In Bristol, which I just mentioned. We enjoyed it very much and learned a good deal about square-rigged vessels while we were in the brig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : T. D. Allman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0802120768
Offers a comprehensive look at the history of the state of Florida, from its discovery, exploration, and settlement through its becoming a state, to notable events in the early twenty-first century.
