The following list of books is abbreviated, but with the author's name and a card file, one should be able to locate the book. Keys book store personnel are very knowledgeable about Florida and Keys books, so do not hesitate to ask. Most have a separate section for these books. Be aware that some of the following are out of print. 

  AUTHOR   -     BOOK NAME      -        DATE AND PUBLISHER
Gershom Bradford - The Mariners Dictionary - Weathervane Books
Malcolm Willoughby   -  Rum War at Sea   -  1964, U.S. Government 
Richard Pering   -  A Treatise on the Anchor   -  1819, Congdon and Hearle 
Paul A. Kurzman   -  Harry Hopkins and the New Deal   -  1974, R.E. Burdick, Inc., NJ 
John Hoffmeister   -  Land From the Sea   -  1974, Univ. of Miami Press 
Michael Gannon   -  The Cross in the Sand   -  1989, University Presses 
Ralph Munroe   -  The Commodore's Story   -  1985, Hist. Assn. of S. Fla. 
Albert Manucy   -  Florida's Memendez   -  1965, St. Augustine Hist. Soc. 
John de Brahm - The Atlantic Pilot - 1799 - Univ. Presses of Florida
Howard Lee   -  The Flagler Story 1958, The Record Press 
Sidney Martin   -  Florida's Flagler   -  1949, Univ. of Georgia Press 
Jose Balseiro   -  Hispanic Presence in Fla.   -  1976, E. A. Seemann Publ. 
Bernard Romans   -  Nat. Hist. of East-West Fla.   -  1962, Univ. of Fla. Press 
David O. True   -  Memoir of Do. d"Escalante Fontaneda    -  1945, Glade House 
Douglas  -   Peck Ponce de Leon   -  1993, Pogo Press 
Andrews & Andrews    -  Johathan Dickinson's Journal   -  1945, Yale Univ. Press 
John Sprague   -  The Florida War   -  1964, Univ. of Fla. Press 
Virginia Peters   -  The Florida Wars   -  1979, Archon Books 
John Williams   -  The Territory of Florida   -  1962, Univ. of Fla. Press 
Charlton Tebeau   -  A History of Florida   -  1971, Univ. of Miami Press 
Francis Fleming   -  Memiors of Florida   -  1902, Southern Historical Society 
Coker-Shofner   -  Florida From the Beginning to 1992   -  1991, Pioneer Publications 
John Lee Willaims   -  The Territory of Florida   -  1962, Univ. of Florida Press 
K. Montpelier   -  Florida's Heritage   -  1982, Peregrine Smith Book 
Michael Gannon   -  Florida, A Short Story   -  1993, Univ.  of Florida Press. 
Michael Gannon   -  The New History of Florida   -  1996, Univ. of Florida Press 
Copeland-Dovell   -  La Florida   -  1957, The Steck Company 
A. Lowell Hunt   -  Florida Today   -  1950, Charles Scribner's Sons 
W.R. Jackson Jr. - Early Florida Through Spanish Eyes - 1954, Univ. of Miami Press
Frazer and Guthrie   -  The Florida Land Boom   -  1995, Quorum Books 
Kaye Carter  -  Henry Perrine, Plant Pioneer   -  1998, Tailored Tours Pubs. 
John Lee Williams    -  Territory of Florida   -  1839, A.T. Goodrich, N.Y. 
Virginia Peters   -  The Florida Wars   -  1979, Archon Books 
M.M. Cohen  -  Notices of Florida   -  1836, Univ. of Florida Press 
John T. Sprague  -  The Florida War   -  1848, Univ. of Florida Press 
Joshua R. Giddings  -  The Exiles of Florida  -  1858, Univ. of Florida Press 
Gloria Johoda   -  Florida, A History   -  1976, W. W. Norton & Co. 
Theodore Platt   -  The Barefoot Mailman   -  1943, Duell, Sloan, & Pearce 
K. Hall Proby   -  Audubon in Florida   -  1974, Univ. of Miami Press 
Willian McGoun   -  Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida   -  1993, Univ. of Ala. Press 
Andrew P. Canova   -  Life & Adventure in South Florida   -  1906, Tribune Printing Co. 
Edward A. Mueller   -  Steamships of the Two Henrys   -  1996,, E.O. Painter Printing Co. 
John C. Gifford   -  The Rehabilitation of the Florida Keys   -  1934, Books Inc., New York 
R.G. Collingwood   -  Essays in the Philosophy of History   -  ?? University of Texas Press 
J. Villasana Haggard   -  Handbook for Translators of Sp. Documents    1941, Semco Color Press 
Edgar L. Bloomster  -  Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages   -  1940, George Banta Pub. Co., WI 
Hubert Bruce Fuller   -  The Purchase of Florida   -  1906, Univ. of Florida Press 
Bernard Romans  -   A Concise Natural History of Florida   -  1775, Univ. of Florida Press 
Ronald Foreman   -  First Citizens & Others   -  1984, Fla. Dept. of State 
Jerald Milanich   -  Tacachale (Essays on Indians of Florida)   -  1978, Univ. Presses of Fla. 
Rembert Patrick   -  Florida Under Five Flags   -  1960, Univ. of Fla. Press 
Tebbel-Jennison   -  The American Indian Wars   -  1951, Bonanza Books 
Wilfred Neill   -  Florida's Seminole Indians   -  1976, Great Outdoors 
Wilfred Neill   -  Florida's Seminole Indians   -  Taylor Printing Co. 
M. S. Garbarino   -  The Seminole   -  1989, Chelsea House Pub. 
George E. Buker   -  Swamp Sailors   -  1975, Univ. of Florida Press 
Irvin Peithmann   -  Unconquered Seminole Indians   -  1957, Great Outdoors Publ. 
Gail Swanson - Documentation of the Indians of the Florida Keys & Miami 1513 - 1765 - 2003, Infinity Publishing Company.com
Cash-Maples-Packer    -  Making of the Bahamas   -  1978, Collins Press 
Paul Albury   -  The Story of the Bahamas   -  1975, MacMillan Education Ltd. 
Michael Craton   -  A History of the Bahamas   -  1969, Collins Clear-Type Press. 
Jay Barnes   -  Florida's Hurricane History   -  1998, Univ. of North Carolina Press. 
NOAA  -  Tropical Clyclones, 1871 - 1992   -  1993, National Climatic Data Center. 
Ivan Ray Tannehill   -  Hurricanes, Their Nature and History   -  1938, Greenwood Press. 
Jean Taylor   -  Villages of South Dade   -  Byron Kennedy & Co. 
Mike Smith   -  South Florida Frontiers   -  1957, Florida Power & Light Co. 
Ralph M. Munroe   -  The Commodore’s Story   -  1930, Historical Assn. of Southern Fla. 
Joan Gill Blank   -  Key Biscayne   -  1996, Pineapple Press 
Charlton Tebeau   -  Man in the Everglades   -  1970, Univ. of Miami Press 
Marj. S. Douglas  -  The Everglades   -  1947, Mockingbirds Books 
Wm. B. Robertson   -  Everglades, The Park Story   -  1959, Univ. of Miami Press 
Patricia Caufield    -  Everglades   -  1970, Ballantine Books, Inc. 
Louis Agassiz   -  Report on the Florida Reefs   -  1880, Cambridge Museum 
John C. Gifford   -  The Rehabilitation of the Florida Keys   -  1934, Colonial Press, Mass. 
Windhorn-Langley   -  Yesterday's Florida Keys   -  1974, The Langley Press 
John Viele Florida   -  Keys, a history of the Pioneers   -  1996, Pineapple Press 
Bill Ackerman   -  The Florida Keys   -  1957, Fla. Dept of Agric. 
Love Dean   -  Lighthouses of Fla. Keys   -  1992, Southern Press of Mi. 
Walter Norman   -  Nicknames and Conch Tales   -  1979, ?? 
George Stevenson   -  Keyguide   -  1970, George B. Stevenson 
Richard  -   Fales At the Edge of the Railroad   -  1969, Richard M. Fales 
Rod Bethel   -  The RR That Went to Sea   -  1990, Rod Bethel 
Pat Parks   -  The RR That Died at Sea   -  1968, Stephen Greene Press 
Rod Bethel   -  First Overseas Highway   -  1989, Rod Bethel 
F.E.C. Rwy.   -  Key West Extension   -  1912, Fla. East Coast Railway 
Les Standiford - Last Train to Paradise -2002, Random House, Inc
Dan Gallagher -  Florida's Great Ocean Railway, Building the Key West Extension, 2002, Pinapple Press, Inc
Seth Bramson   -  Speedway to Sunshine   -  1984, Boston Mills Press 
Walter Maloney   -  Key West, Florida   -  1968, Univ. of Fla. Press 
Christopher Cox   -  A Key West Companion   -  1983, St. Martin’s Press, NY 
Betty Brothers   -  Wreckers and Workers of Old Key West   -  1972, ?? 
L. Glenn Westfall   -  Key West, Cigar City U.S.A.   -  1984, Hist. Key West  Preservation Brd. 
White and Smiley - History of Key West - 1959, Great Outdoors Association
Groggin-Sommer   -  Excavations on Up. Matecumbe   -  1949, Yale Univ. Press 
Wright Langley   -  Key West, Images of the Past   -  1982, Bellard & Swift 
James McLendon   -  Pioneer in the Florida Keys   -  1976, Del Layton 
Griswold   -  They Call it Tropical   -  1964, The Data Press 
Charlotte Niedhauk    -  Charlotte's Story   -  1973, Charlotte Niedhauk 
Kaye Carter   -  The Rumskudgeon (novel)   -  1976, Press 
F.W. Belland   -  The True Sea (novel) &n  -  bsp; -  1984, Holt, Rinehart, Winston 
John Rothchild   -  Up for Grabs (novel) 1985, Viking Penguin 
Adrienne McGillicuddy   -  In the Dark of the Moon (novel)   -  1980, Vantage Press 
Lawrence Will   -  A Dredgeman of Cape Sable   -  1967, Great Outdoors Publishing 
Carlton Tebeau   -  Man in the Everglades   -  1986, Univ. of Miami Pressnbsp;
Henry H. Stansbury   -  Hurricane in the Keys (novel)   -  1968, Hibiscus House 
Smiley and White   -  Hurricane Road (novel)   -  1954, Great Outdoors, Pub. 
Willie Drye - Storm of the Century (1935 Hurricane) - 2002, National Geographic Society
Robert L. Taylor T  -  Treasure of Matecumbe (novel)  -  1961, McGraw-Hill 
Betty Brothers   -  Triggerfish(novel)   -  1965, Wake-Book House 
Joy Williams   -  The Florida Keys   -  1987-89, Random House 
James McLendon   -  Pioneer of the Florida Keys (Del Layton)   -  1976, E.A. Seemann Pub. 
Sharon Wells  -   Forgotten Legacy   -  1982, Hist. Key West Preservation Board 
Jefferson Browne  -  Key West, The old and the New   -  1973, Univ. of Fla. Press 
Oliver Griswold  -   Fla. Keys & Coral Reef   -  1965, The Graywood Press 
Louis Agassiz   -  Report on the Florida Reefs   -  1880, Cambridge 
Fred Whitehead   -  Secrets of the Fla. Keys   -  1972, Spectra Grafics, Inc. 
Charles Torrey Simpson   -  In Lower Florida Wilds   -  ??, G.P. Putman’s Sons, NY 
Gilbert Voss   -  Coral Reefs of Florida   -  1918, Pineapple Press 
Nikki Beare   -  Pirates, Pineapples & People   -  1961, Atlantic Publishing 
James Hathway   -  Key Largo Island Home   -  1967, The Key Largo Foundation 
Eyster-Brown   -  Indian Key   -  1976, Jeanie's Magic  Printing 
Lois Simpson   -  Island of Key Largo, Fla.   -  1983, Mayfield Printing Co., KY 
Lois Simpson   -  History of Big Pine Key, Florida   -  1982, Mayfield Printing Co. KY 
Dan Gallager   -  Pigeon Key and the Seven Mile Bridge   -  1999, Pigeon Key Foundation
Dan Gallager   -  Marathon   -   1999, Pigeon Key Foundation
Lawrence Will   -  A Dredgeman of Cape Sable  -   1984, Glades Hist. Society 
Robert Marx   -  Shipwrecks in Fla. Waters   -  1969, Scott Publishing Co. 
Robert Marx   -  Quest for Treasure   -  1982, Ram Books 
Robert Burgess   -  They Found Treasure   -  1977, Dodd-Mead & Co. 
Eugene Lyon   -  The Search for the Atocha   -  1979, Harper & Row 
Peter Earle   -  Treasure of the Concepcion   -  1979, The Viking Press 
John L. Davis   -  Treasure, People. Ships and People   -  ?? University of Rexas 
Mendel Peterson   -  History Under the Sea   -  1973, Mendel Peterson 
Henry E Perrine   -  A True Story of Some Eventful Years 
 in Grandpa's Life   -  1885, Buffalo, NY 
Peter Richard Jutro    -  Lignumvitae Key   -  1975, Thesis, Cornell Univ. 
Frank Lovering  -   Reporter in Paradise   -  1934, Key West, Sunprint 
Wm. Curry Hardlee    -  Kinfolks Vol. II (Genealogy)   -  1935, Seacy & Pfaff 
K.W.M.H.S.  -  Florida Keys Sea Heritage Journal   -  Quarterly, Key West Maritime Historical Soc.t 
H.P.S.U.K.  -  History Talk from the Upper Keys   -  Quarterly, Historical Presv. Soc. of the Upper Keyst 
H.A.S.F.  -  Tequesta   -  Annually, Historical Assn. of Southern Florida, Miami 
F.H.S.  -  Florida Historical Quarterly   -   Quarterly, Florida Historical Society
Special bibliographies -
Bibliography for Henry M. Flagler:
    1. Akin, Edward N.  Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida baron. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1988.
    2. Allen, Frederick.  "Following a Train to Sea".  American Heritage. Apr. 1991: 26+.
    3. Bethel, Rod.  Flagler's Folly: The Railroad that went to Sea and was Blown Away Key West, Florida: Rod Bethel, 1987.
    4. Bramson, Seth H.   Speedway to Sunshine.  Ontario, Canada: Boston Mills Press, 1984.
    5. Chandler, David Leon.  Henry Flagler: The Astonishing Life and Times of the visionary Robber Baron who Founded Florida. New York, N.Y.: Macmillan, 1986.
    6. Derr, Mark.  Some Kind of Paradise.  New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1989.
    7. Graham, Thomas The Awakening of St. Augustine.   St. Augustine, Florida: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1978.
    8. Harner, Charles e.  Florida's Promoters   Tampa, Florida: Trend House, 1973.
    9. Mann, Robert W.  Rails 'neath the Palms.  Burbank, California: Darwin Publications, 1983.
  10.Martin, Sidney Walter.  Florida's Flagler.  Athens, Georgia: U of Georgia P, 1949.
  11. Parks, Pat.  The Railroad That Died at Sea.  Key West, Florida: Langley Press, 1986.
  12. Smiley, Nixon.  Yesterday's Miami.  Miami, Florida: E.A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., 1974.
Bibliography for Henry Plant:
    1. Dictionary of American Biography, Volume VII
    2. Harner, Charles E., The Connecticut Yankee Who Helped Revive the South, Florida Trend, April 1973
Bibliography for Dr. Benjamin B. Strobel:
    1. The Charleston Courier, May, 1837.
    2. A History of Medicine in South Carolina 1825 - 1900, Joseph Ioor Waring, M.D., 1967.
    3. Audubon in Florida, Katryn Hall Proby, 1974.
    4. The Key West Gazette, Monroe County Library, Key West, Florida.
    5. Key West, The Old and the New, Jefferson B. Browne, 1912.
    6. Hackley’s Diary, William Hackley, 1830, Monroe County Library.
    7. Florida Keys Sea Heritage Journal, Vol.5, No.3, Herbert L. Tindall, M.D., 1995.
    8. Asi - Yaholo or Osceola, Mark F. Boyd, Florida Historical Quarterly, Jan-Apr, 1955.
    9. Osceola’s Head, Mary McNeer Ward, Florida Historical Quarterly, Jan-Apr, 1955.
  10. Dr. Strobel’s Account of John J. Audubon, E.A. Hammond, The Auk, Vol. 80, No.4, 31 October 1963 pp. 462-466.
  11. Hackley’s Diary, William Hackley, Sunday, November 21, 1830. 
  12. Sketches of the Florida Keys, 1829-1833, E.A. Hammond, Tequesta, 1969
  13. Notices of Florida, The Campaigns, B.M. Cohen, 1836
  14. 25 Congress {SENATE} 2d Session, Doc. [300], Document No. 1
 Bibliography for Dr. Henry Perrine:
    1. House of Representatives, 22d Congress, lst Session, Document Number 198, April 6, 1832.
    2. House of Representatives, 22d Congress, lst Session, Report  454, April 26, 1832.
    3. U.S. Senate Document 300, 25th Congress. 2d Session, March  12,  1838.
    4. U.S. House of Representatives, Report 564, 25th Congress,  2d  Session, February 17, 1838.
    5. U.S. Senate, Report 94, January 29, 1946, 29th Congress,  lst Session.
    6. U.S. Senate Report 111, February 3, 1846, 29th Congress,  lst Session.
    7. Editorial Notes, Hovey's magazine of Horticulture, Vol 6,  pp  358-360, 1840 and Vol 7, p 34, 1841.
    8. Army and Navy  Chronicle, Vol. 11, pp 154, 155, 1840.
    9.  Henry E. Perrine,  Some Eventful Years in  Grandpa's  Life, Hutchinson Press, Buffalo, New York.
  10 .  John.T. Sprague, The Florida War, 1848, Univ. of Florida Press.
  11.  Henry E. Perrine, "Biscayne Bay Manual", 1876.
  12. Harriet P. House, "An Untold Story of the Florida War",
 in  Harper's Magazine, Vol. 83, pps 591-594, 1891.
  13. J.K. Small, in Journal of the N.Y. Botanical Garden, Vol.  22,  pps 216-17.
  14. Jefferson Bell, in Miami Herald, March 2, 1924.
  15. Frances F. Cleveland Preston, "A Hero of Horticulture",  in bulletin of the Garden Club of America, no. 18, pp 2-8, 1931.
  16. T.R. Robinson, Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society for 1931, pps 110 -116.
  17. T. Ralph Robinson, Perrine and Florida Tree Cotton, Tequesta Number 7, 1947.
  18. Hester Perrine Walker, "Reminiscences of Dr. Perrine", in Florida.
  19. Farmer and Fruit Grower, March, 1888.
  20. Daniel Drake, "Death of Dr. Perrine", Western Journal of Medicine  and Surgery, pps 321-323, lst Series, Vol. 2, Surgeon Generals  Library.
  21. Howard A. Kelly, "Dictionary of American Medical Biography, pp 961, 1928.
  22. Sara W. Palmer, "Henry Perrine, Pioneer Botanist and Horticulture", Florida Historical, Society Quarterly, pps 112-115, Vol. 5, October 1926.
  23. Henry Perrine, "Fever Treated With Large Doses of Sulfate of Quinine, in Adams County, Natchez, Miss.”, The Philadelphia Journal of Medical and Physical Sciences, pps 36-41, Vol 4, 1826.
  24. S. A. Richmond, "The Perrine Grant", Tropic Magazine, April-September, 1915.
  25. Hester Perrine Walker, "Massacre at Indian Key, August 7,  1840 and the Death of Dr. Perrine",  Florida  Historical  Society   Quarterly, pps 18-42, Vol 5, July, 1926.
  26. Miami Metropolis, "Written in 1840", Miami, Florida, May 4, 1900.
  27. Charleston Daily Chronicle, Charleston, S.C., January 19, 1858.
  28. The News, St. Augustine, August 21, 1840.
  29. Florida Times Union, "Along the Florida Keys", May 22, 1892.
  30. Washington Daily National Intelligence, "The Indian Key Massacre", December 19, 1840.
  31. Niles National Register, pp 406, August 29, 1840.
  32. Wyatt Blassingame and Richard Glendinning, "The Frontier Doctors", 1963 
  33. The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, Dr. Henry Perrine - Versatile Florida Pioneer', July, 1952.
  34. An Act to Incorporate the Tropical Plant Company of Florida,  P.K. Yonge Library, Gainesville, Florida.
  35.  Edward Jelks, M.D., Dr. Henry Perrine, Jacksonville  Historical Society Annual, 1933-34.
  36.  Letters by Dr. Henry Perrine (To Dr. Ralph Glover, June 12 and July 17, 1840), Tequesta, 1979, page 29.
  37.  C.F. Millspaugh, 1904, Library of New York Botanical Garden.
  38. Dr. Perrine to the Editor of the Farmers’ Register, January 1, 1840.
  39.  Massacre at Indian Key, August 7, 1840 and the Death of Doctor Henry  Perrine, an unpublished manuscript of Mrs. Hester Perrine Walker,  Florida Historical Quarterly, July 1926 - Volume 5. 
  40. Jean Taylor, Villages of South Dade,  Byron Kennedy and Co. 

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