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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

[dansangel]

Wabasso Beach

[Tank-FL]

Jim Bob Tinsley's book: Florida Cow Hunters - The Life and Times of Bone Mizel

[PJ-Comix]

I didn't see any books about Henry Flagler on your list. With his building of the Florida East Coast railroad from St. Augustine to Miami, Flagler basically made Florida. And not one to rest on his laurels, after he finished this project he built the Florida Overseas Railroad to Key West. At the time (1913), it was considered the greatest construction project in history.

[PJ-Comix]

Please include your favorite Florida fiction...

Elmore Leonard wrote a lot of very funny Florida fiction.

[stainlessbanner]

I just finished reading some works by the local historian Jim Robison (not Robison!) and he wrote about the Barber-Mizel feud.

For fiction, you might enjoy Lee Gramling's "Cracker Westerns" about old cow hunters on Florida's Frontier.

[stainlessbanner]

Good catch, can't have Florida without Flager. It was a sad day when they tore down the Ormond Hotel, a beautiful, majestic building - gg'ma remembers when Rockfeller handed out dimes on the sidewalk during the depression.

[AAABEST]

Not a book but a good short read on SW Florida History for those interested.

A brief history of SW Florida Everglades/ Everglades City

I was born and raised in NY but I LOVE this state. I love the swamp (spend much time there), I love the rain, the sun, the heat, the mosquitos, the history and the idiots.

[Tank-FL]

Yep.. know it well, I am from the William Warren barber line he was my 3th great gfather, his son Andrew jackson Barber was said to be the only male adult to survive the feud.

[FloridaBoy]

Do you mean the Gamble Mansion in Ellenton?

[EllaMinnow]

No, it was "Lakeland", also known as Houston's Hill, in Tallahassee. No traces remain except a small lake and some earthworks.

[FloridaBoy]

I was just wondering. I live one block South of Gamble Mansion on the orig mansion property. Interesting history here in Ellenton, Fl (Manatee Co).

[yarddog]

I read an article several years ago that pointed out that Pensacola has a fair chance of being the oldest permanent setlement in the U.S., although St. Augustine has a better verified claim.

Pensacola was settled before, St. Augustine but those first settlers are thought to have disappeared before Pensacola was settled again not long after St. Augustine. The fact is tho that they don't know for sure that those original settlers did all disappear.

[Rebelbase]

Way back when, I used love hearing my friend's grandfather tell stories about growing up in Miami in the early 1900's. Back then, before everything was drained, the Everglades used to come to within a couple or few miles of the ocean and the Miami River used to have a set of rapids.

[FloridaBoy]

A very good historical book of the Manatee River area is The Singing River by Joe Warner. It is a history of the people, places and events along the river.

[PJ-Comix]

I have in my possession a rare bio of the VERY ECCENTRIC Claude Kirk who was governor of Florida from 1966-1970.

[yarddog]

I remember seeing a picture of Claude Kirk manning a .50 cal machine gun (I think) during a riot in Tampa.

He was quite a character.

[Rebelbase]

How about the story of Breckenridge and Judah Benjamin escaping to Cuba via Fla. at the end of the war? The guy who hid the boat thought far ahead.

[G.Mason]

"I was born and raised in NY but I LOVE this state. I love the swamp (spend much time there), I love the rain, the sun, the heat, the mosquitos, the history and the idiots."

We're kinsmen.

'Ceptin I was born in New Jersey.

Good to see you!

[FloridaBoy]

I remember Gov. Kirk when he took over the school board building here in Bradenton in the late 60's and the National Guard carried him out under federal court order.

[meowmeow]

Thanks for the book recommendations! I never had any desire to go to FL because I always pictured it as nothing but the evil mouse and lots of old people but made the trip to visit my brother when he was stationed in Tampa. I had lots of vacation time to kill (and was single) and he was on standby for Somalia. So I took the scenic rout and followed A1A all the way down, crossed the Everglades, hung around the SW side and later, went up to Cedar Key. I camped everywhere except Cedar Key because their tent site had washed away in the last hurricane. Spent about 5 days just roaming around the state and really came to love it. Read some history and toured sites off the beaten path and discovered some oddly remote places.

Last year my in-laws moved to Tampa from OOOOOKlahoma and I was so thrilled! My company has a lot of contracts down there so DH and I are talking about settling there in about 10 years (and hopefully retiring early!). I never thought I would love that state so much, being such the back-woods yankee mill trash that I am ;)

On the other hand, my brother told me there are lots of "us" in FL. They even have a Steelers Bar somewhere in Tampa!