Florida Histories

In Bad Guys, Bullets, and Boat Chases: True Stories of Florida Game Wardens, former water and land patrol officer Bob H. Lee reveals that the life of a game warden is a lot more exciting—and dangerous—than most people think. In Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami, FSU history professor Andrew K. Frank pieces together the material culture and the historical record of the Miami River to re-create the fascinating past of one of the world’s most influential cities. In The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) is Arlo Haskell’s entertaining and authoritative account of Key West’s Jewish community. Professor Thomas Graham‘s Silent Films in St. Augustine takes readers to the era before Hollywood, when America’s rising motion picture industry was based on the East Coast.

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