Download or read book Indian Key written by Robin Elder and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of the Second Seminole War, Ann Perrine and her family make Indian Key their temporary home, patiently awaiting the war's end so they can relocate to mainland Florida. Only twelve acres in size and surrounded by water, Ann is anxious upon their arrival, but soon discovers a new and liberating way of life. She finds added joy and purpose in the forbidden act of mentoring a young slave girl. However, things can be good for only so long with the manipulative and disreputable Captain John Jacob Housman running the island and the Perrine family's tranquil existence could soon be at peril. Fast forward to 2015. Lauren Hanson is ready for a change, both personally and professionally, and an exciting job in the Florida Keys will provide the much needed opportunity. Just prior to moving out of her ancestral Charleston home, a fateful discovery is made, tying her in further to the life awaiting her in the islands. Once settled into her new home and career, she turns her attention to nearby Indian Key, the subject matter of the recent discovery. With the help of a perplexing charter boat captain, Lauren delves into the tiny island's rich and storied history. The partnership leads not only to the divulgence of a long held island secret, but to another more devastating secret, one that could be too much for Lauren to bear. Discover the rich history of the Florida Keys in this page-turning novella and the same way two women, centuries apart, have to fight adversity and for their future happiness.
Download or read book Snorkeling the Florida Keys written by Brad Bertelli and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on 14 segments of the Florida Reef, featuring historically significant wrecks, lighthouses, state parks, etc. Provides GPS coordinates and practical travel hints.
Download or read book Hidden History of the Florida Keys written by Laura Albritton & Jerry Wilkinson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic. Join the authors as they delve into tales of treasure hunters, developers, exotic dancers, determined preservationists and more from the colorful history of the Florida Keys.
Download or read book The Florida Keys a History Through Maps written by Todd Turrell and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of maps in the Florida Keys.
Download or read book A History of the Pioneers written by John Viele and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, on the Keys between Key West and the mainland, some 40,000 residents and thousands of visitors fish, swim, sail, and dive in the crystal clear waters off a tropical reef; relax in the sun and cooling trade wind breezes; and sleep in the air-conditioned comfort of their homes and hotel rooms. On these same islands, as short a time as 80 years ago, fewer than 300 inhabitants tried to eke out a living without benefit of electricity, running water, radios, or telephones. Tormented by clouds of voracious mosquitoes and no-see-ums, broiled by the tropical sun, they lived in thatched-roof homes regularly flattened by hurricane winds. Weeks would go by before some passing sailboat brought them news of the outside world or their relatives. The stories of these hardy pioneers and their predecessors, as far back as the Native Americans who lived on the Keys at least 1,000 years ago, are told, many for the first time, in this book. As vividly portrayed as if they were characters in a novel, these true-life inhabitants of the Florida Keys will capture your admiration as you share in the dreams and realities of their daily lives. Includes Don Diego, a Spanish-speaking native who led in shipwreck plundering in the early 18th century; Jacob Housman, an unscrupulous wrecking captain who amassed a fortune and lost it when Indians burned his town to the ground; Dr. Perrine, a scientist who was killed by Indians; the African Americans who made charcoal for the stoves of Key West; and the indomitable Lily Bow, who eked out a living on remote Cudjoe Key. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Download or read book Historic Florida Keys written by George Walter Born and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Key West, Florida, paired with histories of the local companies.
Download or read book The Florida Keys Skunk Ape Files written by Brad Bertelli and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1977, documents indicating the presence of a large, hairy, bipedal creature with a strong odor in the Florida Keys were discovered in the attic of a Key West home. The documents reported events dating back to the 16th century. The Southernmost Skunk Ape Society was established to investigate these found documents and augment them with additional research and analysis where possible. The short-lived society ceased following the unexplained disappearance of its co-founder on October 18, 1977. The Skunk Ape Files, a work of historical fiction inspired by the 1977 sighting of a cryptid on Key Largo as reported in the Upper Keys newspaper The Reporter, were compiled four decades later by surviving society member Cliff Curry. The files include the historical context and narrative behind 50 of the most fantastic Skunk Ape-related events associated with the Florida Keys.
Download or read book The Florida Keys written by John Viele and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-researched, fascinating accounts of Florida Keys' life of the past two centuries.
Download or read book The Territory of Florida Or Sketches of the Topography Civil and Natural History of the Country the Climate and the Indian Tribes written by John Lee Williams and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book 1956 i e 1856 written by Joe Knetsch and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of copies of two letters: the first written in January, 1856 by 18 residents of Indian Key, Key Vaccas, Summerlin's Key, Key West and other Florida Keys, to a Col. Monroe, requesting Army troops be stationed on Indian Key to help thwart Indian attacks; the second written in March, 1857 from "A. B." in Key West Barracks, Fla. to a Major J. McKinstry of Fort Brooke, dealing with mail and communication delays in Florida, specifically the Florida Keys.
Download or read book Indian Key written by C Lee Harrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDIAN KEY by C. Lee Harrison Indian Key a mystery involving murder, , sex and greed. The story unfolds in South Florida, leading to the Florida Keys, Key West, and the Grand Cayman Islands. The protagonist becomes the prime murder suspect when he finds the tortured and mutilated body of his former lover.. The murderers, members of a Miami crime syndicate, are searching for a cache of money and bonds that the former husband embezzled and is thought to have hidden. The only person knowing the location of the money is his young daughter. Trying to prove his innocence, as a Fort Lauderdale detective relentlessly pursues him, the protagonist teams with an FBI agent and beautiful twin sisters. He must solve the riddles, break the codes, locate the money and return it to the police, to prove his innocence
Download or read book Key West written by Jefferson Beale Browne and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journeys with Florida s Indians written by Kelley G. Weitzel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and culture of the native peoples of Florida, including the Timucua, Calusa, and Apalachee.
Download or read book Florida s Seminole Wars written by Joe Knetsch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years before the first shots of the Civil War were fired, Florida witnessed a clash of wills and ways that prompted three wars unlike any others in America's history. Among the most well-known of Florida's native peoples, the Seminole Indians frustrated troops of militia and volunteer soldiers for decades during the first half of the nineteenth century in the ongoing struggle to keep hold of their ancestral lands. While careers and reputations of American military and political leaders were made and destroyed in the mosquito-infested swamps of Florida's interior, the Seminoles and their allies, including the Miccosukee tribe and many escaped slaves, managed to wage war on their own terms. The study of guerrilla warfare tactics employed by the Seminoles may have aided modern American forces fighting in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and other regions.
Download or read book The Florida Keys and the Coral Reef written by Oliver Tudor Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walker s Key written by Frank Haddleton and published by Onion River Press. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As dawn breaks on a summer morning in 1900, Darby Walker, owner of a St. Petersburg, Florida, ferry service, sets out to check on his older brother, Tulley, whose lighthouse across Tampa Bay on Walker's Key has gone dark. The recent death of their father, a ship pilot based on Egmont Key, has been declared a suicide, but Darby knows better, and signs point to Tulley as the murderer. Going back thirty-five years to Darby's birth in Harwich Port, on Cape Cod, Walker's Key explores the bitter sibling rivalry between overly kind, personable Darby and angry, isolated Tulley. While that sibling rivalry unfolds, Darby learns of a sibling rivalry generations earlier in his family, a rivalry that ended in murder. Of pivotal significance is Darby's grandfather, an abolitionist who rescued slaves from a Florida plantation decades earlier and initiated a family tradition of acceptance far broader than the Walker brothers realize when one of them maliciously exposes the other's private encounter. When we arrive back in 1900, Darby works to figure out who has murdered his father. When he learns the killer's identity, he must find the inner strength to bring the killer to justice while also saving himself.
