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Florida History
Last Name	First Name	Book Title
Loderhose	Gary	Far, Far From Home: The Ninth Florida Regiment in the Confederate Army
Loderhose	Gary	Way Down upon the Suwannee River: Sketches of Florida During the Civil War
Haase	Ronald W.	Classic Cracker: Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture
Burt Jr	Al	The Tropic of Cracker (The Florida History and Culture Series)
Storer & Briggs		Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Evergaldes
Oppel	Frank	Tales of Old Florida
Huffstodt	Jim & James	Everglades Lawmen: True Stories of Game Wardens in the Glades
Mosley	Julia Daniels	Come to My Sunland: Letters of Julia Daniels Moseley from the Florida Frontier, 1882-1886 (Florida History and Culture Series)
Buker	George	Swamp Sailors in the Second Seminole War (Florida Sand Dollar Book)
Koblas	John J	J. J. Dickison: Swamp Fox of the Confederacy
Smith	Patrick D	A Land Remembered
Punnett	Dick & Yvonne	Racing on the Rim: A History of the Annual Automobile Racing Tournaments Held on the Sands of the Ormond-Daytona Beach, Florida 1903-1910
Belleve	Bill	River of Lakes
Nulty	William	Confederate Florida: The Road to Olustee
Taylor	Robert	Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy
Simmons, Ogden, Mormino		Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers (The Florida History and Culture Series)
Burt Jr, Mormino	Al & Gary	Al Burt's Florida: Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers (Florida History and Culture Series)
Kaserman	James	Gasparilla: Pirate Genius
Robinson	Jim	Flashbacks : The Story of Central Florida's Past
Griffin	Patrick	Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768-1788 (A Florida Sand Dollar Book)
Mahon	John K	History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842
Laumer	Frank	Dade's Last Command
George	Paul S.	A Guide to the History of Florida
		Florida Biographical Dictionary /2001-2002: People of All Times and All Places Who Have Been Important to the History and Life of the State
Morris	Allen Covington	Florida Place Names
Fitcher & Cardin	George	Floridians All
Garrison	Webb B.	Southern Tales: A Treasury of Stories from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi
LaFray	Joyce	Famous Florida! Cracker Cookin' and Other Favorites (With Record)
Warner	David T.	Vanishing Florida: A Personal Guide to Sights Rarely Seen
Waitley	Douglas	Best Back Roads of Florida, The Heartland (1st)
Huttinger	Beverly Bryant	Florida Firsts: The Famous, Infamous, and Quirky of the Sunshine State
Adams	Alto	Cattleman's Backcountry Florida
Glisson	J.T.	The Creek
Nulty	William	Confederate Florida
Smith	Joseph Burkeholder	James Madisons Phony War the Plot to Steal Florida
Carlson	Charlie	The First Florida Cavalry Regiment C.S.A
Dickison	Col. JJ	Confederate Military History Florida
Robie	Diane	Searching in Florida: A Reference Guide to Public and Private Records
Chapman	Berlin Basil	Four principles that portray the pattern of all history : applied to the war against the States, 1861-1865 : address of March 7, 1979 at the monthly meeting of the Annie Coleman Chapter (Orlando, Florida) United Daughters of the Confederacy
Matthews	Carolyn	Two Florida boys and the red-haired pirate
Garrison	Webb	A Treasury of Florida Tales
O'Keefe		Great Adventures in Florida
Morris	Alton	Folksongs of Florida
Wynne/Taylor	Lewis	Florida in the Civil War

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We recently had some good discussion about Florida on FR. Undoubtedly, Florida has a facinating and colorful past! I have provided the books above for further research and pleasure reading.

Please include your favorite Florida fiction, politics, history, art, etc books to the thread.

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Please include your favorite Florida fiction

November 2000

[dansangel]

*Thank you* for including me on your ping list! I ***LOVE*** and miss Florida so very much.

I'll be back later after work to participate.

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[bobjam]

One of the best classes I took at the University of Florida (Go Gators) was the History of Florida to 1845. The course was taught by Dr. Michael Gannon, a former Roman Catholic priest and one of the leading experts on Florida history. He recounted to us the year when, being interviewed for a newpaper article on Thanksgiving, he described the first Thanksgiving in America: August of 1565. The Spaniards (from whom the Pilgrims picked up the thanksgiving feast custom when they lived in Spanish Holland) under Pedro Menendez de Aviles (first Governor of Florida) founded St Augustine and held a feast to give thanks to God for bringing them safely to Florida and to ask His blessing upon the new colony. They invited the natives from the nearby Saloy tribe. The meal consisted of salt pork, ships bread, garbonzo beans and wine. Apparently Dr Gannon's account was put on the AP wire and soon he was being called by everyone. A TV cameraman from Boston told him that the Globe had put his picture on the front page with the title "The Grinch Who Stole Thanksgiving" and that the Plymouth city council had an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with the news that the Spanish were in Florida before the Pilgrims arrived. Dr Gannon said that when Plymouth was founded, St Augustine was already up for urban renewal. And they say Florida has no history....

[livius]

Yes, the Spanish history of Florida is rich indeed! Many of the townships near where I live (Gainesville) have Spanish names (Arredondo, for example), which were actually the names of the holders of the Spanish land grants.

We even have a native mustang here, the Florida Horse or Cracker Pony, that is supposedly descended from Spanish horses that escaped into the wilds.

Florida history is truly fascinating, and Michael Gannon is a good writer and good historian who is worth adding to any list.

[sandydipper]

Am I missing something?? 1492 preceeds 1565 - doesn't it?

[Roscoe]

Columbus.

[ericthecurdog]

Math genius!!

What's your point?

[EllaMinnow]

Patrick Houston, who served as as a lieutenant in Gamble's Florida Light Artillery and in the Florida Kilcrease Light Artillery, and finished the war as a captain in command of the Florida Kilcrease Light Artillery.

My favorite Florida Confederate. My house is on land that was part of his plantation.

[sandydipper]

I ain't got no point - I just thought that Columbus and his group celebrated Thanksgiving b4 1565. I could be wrong, I have been b4.

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Sunshine FReepers - please share your best Florida books.

[Calpernia]

Florida, Interest Ping.

[Vinnie]

Remember the Mayflower, Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrims?

circa 1620

[dansangel]

My favorite Florida author is Carl Hiaasen. He writes some happy-go-lucky Florida-based mysteries by the titles of:

"Basket Case," "Tourist Season," "Lucky You" and many others. All funny and very good.

In addition, he wrote "Team Rodent" describing the blight that Disney has brought to Central Florida with its corruption and deceit.

[dansangel]

The most beautiful beaches:

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Jupiter Lighthouse

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Vero Beach