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Author | : Glen Simmons |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2010-09-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0813047056 |
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Few people today can claim a living memory of Florida's frontier Everglades. Glen Simmons, who has hunted alligators, camped on hammock-covered islands, and poled his skiff through the mangrove swamps of the glades since the 1920s, is one who can. Together with Laura Ogden, he tells the story of backcountry life in the southern Everglades from his youth until the establishment of the Everglades National Park in 1947. During the economic bust of the late ‘20s, when many natives turned to the land to survive, Simmons began accompanying older local men into Everglades backcountry, the inhospitable prairie of soft muck and mosquitoes, of outlaws and moonshiners, that rings the southern part of the state. As Simmons recalls life in this community with humor and nostalgia, he also documents the forgotten lifestyles of south Florida gladesmen. By necessity, they understood the natural features of the Everglades ecosystem. They observed the seasonal fluctuations of wildlife, fire, and water levels. Their knowledge of the mostly unmapped labyrinth of grassy water enabled them to serve as guides for visiting naturalists and scientists. Simmons reconstructs this world, providing not only fascinating stories of individual personalities, places, and events, but an account that is accurate, both scientifically and historically, of one of the least known and longest surviving portions of the American frontier.
Author | : Tom Shirley |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2012-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813042771 |
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As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation--the Florida Everglades. In Everglades Patrol, Shirley shares the stories from his beat--an ecosystem larger than the state of Rhode Island. His vivid narrative includes dangerous tales of hunting down rogue gladesmen and gators and airboat chases through the wetlands in search of illegal hunters and moonshiners. During his thirty-year career (1955-1985), Shirley saw the Glades go from frontier wilderness to "ruination" at the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers. He watched as dikes cut off the water flow and controlled floods submerged islands that had supported man and animals for 3,000 years, killing much of the wildlife he was sworn to protect.
Author | : James T. Huffstodt |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1561647527 |
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From the first game wardens in the Everglades to present-day wildlife officers, law enforcement in the wild, untamed Everglades has kept pace with changing times. Today's game wardens chase escaped convicts, keep surveillance on drug runners, and recover wreckage from plane crashes as well as arrest deer, turkey, and alligator poachers. Meet the men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting the wildlife and natural resources in the only Everglades on earth. For anyone interested in law enforcement or the Everglades.
Author | : Laura Ogden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780816677023 |
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Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades.
Author | : Loren G. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813012285 |
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The author relates his family's history of surviving on the edge of poverty on the outskirts of the Florida Everglades
Author | : Bob H. Lee |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813047110 |
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With thirty years of backcountry patrol experience in Florida, Bob Lee has lived through incidents of legend, including one of the biggest environmental busts in Florida history. His fascinating memoir reveals the danger and the humor in the unsung exploits of game wardens.
Author | : Jeff Klinkenberg |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 081304748X |
Download Alligators in B-Flat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With a keen eye for detail and a lyrical style, Jeff Klinkenberg sets his sights on the contradictions that make up the Sunshine State. No one else would think to engage a professional symphony orchestra tuba player to find out whether bull gators will thunderously bellow back at a low B-flat during mating season (they do, but only to that pitch). From fishing camps and country stores to museums and libraries, Klinkenberg is forever unearthing the magic that makes Florida a place worth celebrating.
Author | : Delight Youngs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Everglades (Fla.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lori McMullen |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1647421071 |
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Set in the early 1900s, Among the Beautiful Beasts is the untold story of the early life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known in her later years as a tireless activist for the Florida Everglades. After a childhood spent in New England estranged from her father and bewildered by her mother, who fades into madness, Marjory marries a swindler thirty years her senior. The marriage nearly destroys her, but Marjory finds the courage to move to Miami, where she is reunited with her father and begins a new life as a journalist in that bustling, booming frontier town. Buoyed by a growing sense of independence and an affair with a rival journalist, Marjory embraces a life lived at the intersection of the untamed Everglades and the rapacious urban development that threatens it. When the demands of a man once again begin to swallow Marjory’s own desires and dreams, she sees herself in the vulnerable, inimitable Everglades and is forced to decide whether to commit to a life of subjugation or leap into the wild unknown. Told in chapters that alternate between an urgent midnight chase through the wetlands and extensive narrative flashbacks, Among the Beautiful Beasts is at once suspenseful and deeply reflective.
Author | : Frank Oppel |
Publisher | : Castle Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781555212254 |
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One hundred years ago, Florida was a wilderness of swamp and beach, dense forest and abundant wild game. Undiscovered, except for a few pioneer sportsmen and hearty farmers and ranchers, the state was still a frontier. True, a few towns flourished on the fishing and the Caribbean trade, but it was generally a sleepy place, far removed from the later boom of the 1920s. Here is a collection of original articles and stories of the old Florida, of hunters and Indians, the development of the sportsman's paradise, the vast canvas of nature prior to the coming of the condominium. Illustrated with rare drawings, photographs and engravings, this book will recreate a paradise that can never be again.