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Historical Library EEEVERGLADES SSSOCIETY FOR HHHISTORIC PPPRESERVATIORESERVATIONNNN P.O. Box 46, Everglades City, FL, 34139 www. evergladeshistorical.org HHHISTORICAL LLLIBRARY CATALOG OF BOOKS (updated 1/5/17) , Collier County Heritage (, pb, , WEST COAST ) , Thomas A. Edison Winter Home & Museum (n/d, pb, guide book, photos, FT MYERS ) Akerman, Joe A., Jr, & J. Mark Akerman, Jacob Summerlin; King of the Crackers (2004, pb, , WEST COAST ) Akin, Edward N, Flagler; Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron (1988, pb, , EAST COAST ) Allman, T.D., Finding Florida; The True History of the Sunshine State (2013, hb, , HISTORY ) Ames, E S, Deaconess of the Everglades (1995, hb, 1st edition, DEACONESS ) Andrews, Allen H, Yank Pioneer in Florida, A (1950, hb, , JOURNALISM ) Anholt, Betty, Sanibel's Story; Voices and Images, from Calusa to Incorporation (1998, hb, , SANIBEL ) Army, Secretary of the, Comprehensive Report on Central and Southern Florida for Flood Control and Other Purposes (1949, pb, incl. map, GLADES ) Arnold, Eugene, Big Water: West to the Everglades; A Novel of 19th Century Florida (1993, pb, fiction, kids, GLADES ) Atkins, Richard L., Atkins Family Geneaology (1999, pb, , ECITY ) Bailey, Francis, My 92 Years on Sanibel; Remembering My Family and My Island (2012, pb, , SANIBEL ) Bailey, Sam, Sanibel Son Looks Back, A (2008, pb, signed, SANIBEL ) Baum, Earl L, Early Naples & Collier County (1973, pb, signed, NAPLES ) Beardsley, Ruth Robbins, Pioneering in the Everglades (1973, hb, , LAKE O ) Beater, Jack, Islands of the Florida Coast (1956, pb, , PIRATES ) Beater, Jack, Pirates and Buried Treasure (1959, pb, , PIRATES ) Becerra, Cesar, Giants of the Swamp; The Story of South Florida's Logging Industry (1990s, pb, , GLADES ) Becerra, Cesar, Robert is Here; Looking East for a Lifetime (2015, pb, signed, EAST COAST ) Betz, Myrtle Scharrer, Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise; The Story of Caladesi Island (1991, pb, , WEST COAST ) Blake, James Carlos, Red Grass River; A Legend (1998, hb, fiction, 1st, GLADES ) Blanchard, Charles, New Words, Old Songs: Understanding the Lives of Ancient Peoples in Southwest Florida through Archeaology (1995, pb, , INDIANS ) Board, Prudy Taylor, Remembering Lee County; Where Winter Spends Summer (2006, pb, , WEST COAST ) Board, Prudy Taylor, and Ester B. Colcord, Pages from the Past; A Pictorial Retrospective of Lee County, Florida (1990, hb, , FT MYERS ) Bochroch, Albert R, American Automobile Racing; An Illustrated History (1974, pb, Collier sons, TRANSPORT ) Boyer, James, Pot, The; Cauldron of the Calusa (2008, pb, 1st, signed, INDIANS ) Bransilver, Connie, Florida's Unsung Wilderness; The Swamps (2000, pb, , GLADES ) Breton, Mary Joy, Women Pioneers for the Environment (1998, hb, 1st, WOMEN ) Brookfield, Charles M & Oliver Griswold, They All Called It Tropical; True Tales of the Romantic Everglades National Park, Cape Sable and the Florida Keys (1985, pb, extra copy, GLADES ) Brookfield, Charles M & Oliver Griswold, They All Called It Tropical; True Tales of the Romantic Everglades National Park, Cape Sable and the Florida Keys (1949, pb, 2nd ed, 1st printing, GLADES ) Brown, Faye A., Weeks Family Connections (2011, pb, 1st, signed, WEST COAST ) Brown, Loren G., Totch; A Life in the Everglades (1993, pb, , ECITY ) Butler, John P., Policing Paradise; Sanibel Island (1991, pb, , SANIBEL ) Campen, George R., Nature of Things on Sanibel, The (1978, pb, signed, SANIBEL ) Campen, Richard N., Sanibel and Captiva; enchanting islands (1977, pb, , SANCAP ) Captiva Civic Association, True Tales of Old Captiva (1984, pb, , SANCAP ) Carr, Robert S. & Timothy A. Harrington, Everglades, The (Images of America) (2012, pb, , GLADES ) Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (1962, pb, 1994 intro Al Gore, WOMEN ) Carter, Luther J., Florida Experience, The: Land and Water Policy in a Growth State (1974, pb, , GLADES ) Carter, W. Hodding, Stolen Water; Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida (2004, hb, 1st, signed, GLADES ) Caulfield, Patricia, Everglades (1970, pb, , GLADES ) Cavanaugh, Peggy, Protecting Paradise; 300 Ways to Protect Florida's Envronment (1992, pb, , GLADES ) Cerulean, Susan (ed.), Book of the Everglades, The (2002, pb, 1st edition, GLADES ) Chesser, Jessie Allen Chesser, East Side of the River, The; A True Story (2009, pb, signed, NAPLES ) Chicone, Jerry, & Brenda Eubanks Burnette, Florida Citrus Crate Labels; An Illustrated History (1996, hb, limited edition, signed, HISTORY ) EEEVERGLADES SSSOCIETY FOR HHHISTORIC PPPRESERVATIORESERVATIONNNN P.O. Box 46, Everglades City, FL, 34139 www. evergladeshistorical.org HHHISTORICAL LLLIBRARY CATALOG OF BOOKS (updated 1/5/17) City of Naples, Tales of Naples ... some of which are true (1998, pb, , NAPLES ) Clark, James, 200 Quick Looks at Florida History (2000, pb, , HISTORY ) Clarke, Robert, Ellen Swallow; The Woman Who Founded Ecology (1973, hb, 1st, WOMEN ) Coram, Robert, Narcs (1988, pb, 1st printing, DRUGS ) Craighead, Frank C., Trees of South Florida, The; The Natural Environments and Their Succession (1971, hb, , GLADES ) Crawford, Jr, William G, Florida's Big Dig; The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville to Miami, 1881 to 1935 (2006, pb, signed, EAST COAST ) Crews, Harry, Florida Frenzy (1982, hb, , JOURNALISM ) Date, S V, Quiet Passion: a Biography of Senator Bob Graham (2004, hb, 1st edition, GLADES ) Davis, Jack E., Everglades Providence; Marjory Stonean Douglas and the American Environmental Century (2009, hb, signed, MSD ) Davis, Jack E. & Kari Frederickson, Making Waves; Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida (2003, hb, 1st, WOMEN ) Davis, Karen, Public Faces - Private Lives; Women in South Florida,1870s-1910s (1990, pb, , WOMEN ) Derr, Mark, Some Kind of Paradise; A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida (1989, hb, 1st, GLADES ) Doremus, Sharon M., Shorebirds & Seagrapes; The Island Inn, Sanibel 1895-1995 (1995, pb, , SANIBEL ) Dormer, Elinore M., Sea Shell Islands, The; A History of Sanibel and Captiva (1987, pb, , SANCAP ) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, Everglades, The; River of Grass (1974, pb, revised edition, MSD ) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, Everglades, The; River of Grass (1947, pb, 1st paperback?, MSD ) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, Everglades, The; River of Grass (1988, hb, 1st revised edition, MSD ) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, Florida; The Long Frontier (1967, hb, , MSD ) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, Nine Florida Stories (1990, hb, , MSD ) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, River in Flood and other Florida Stories (1998, pb, extra copy, MSD ) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, Road to the Sun (1951, hb, , MSD ) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, Voice of the River; an Autobiography with John Rothchild (1987, pb, , MSD ) Dyches, June Jolley, Jolley Good Tale, A (2011, pb, , WEST COAST ) ECity School, Prop Roots #2: Hermits from the Mangrove Country of the Everglades (n/d, pb, , WEST COAST ) ECity School, Prop Roots #3: Hunting Stories from the Mangrove Country of the Everglades (n/d, pb, , WEST COAST ) ECity School, Prop Roots #4: Attractions of the Western Everglades from the Mangrove Country of the Everglades (1987, pb, , TOURISM ) ECity School, School Yearbook (2009, hb, , ECITY ) Epperson, Bruce D, Roads Through the Everglades; The Building of the Ingraham Highway, the Tamiami Trail and Connors Highway, 1914-1931 (2016, pb, , TRANSPORT ) Fearington, Blance Mercer, Florida's Good Eating; Tropical Cooking with a Touch of History (1978, pb, , TOURISM ) Fernandez, Pamela, Beside The Still Waters; The Story of the Fernandez Family of Estero (2010, pb, signed to Patty, WEST COAST ) Fernandez, Susan, and Robert Ingalls, Sunshine in the Dark; Florida in the Movies (2006, hb, signed, FILM ) Florida Anthropological Society, Florida Archaeology; An Overview (1997, pb, , INDIANS ) FME, Historic Buildings around Everglades City (2003, pb, , ECITY ) FME, Historic Buildings around Everglades City (2006, pb, 2nd edition, ECITY ) Frazer, Lynne Howard, Naples (2004, pb, , NAPLES ) Frazer, Lynne Howard, Naples, 1940s to 1970s (2006, pb, signed, NAPLES ) Fritchey, John, Everglades Journal (1992, pb, , WEST COAST ) Fritz, Florence, Unknown Florida (1963, hb, , HISTORY ) Fritz, Florence, Unknown Story of Sanibel & Captiva, The (1974, hb, , SANCAP ) Gardner, Janette C., Florida Fiction, 1801-1980 (1983, hb, 1st, 1 of 1000 copies, HISTORY ) Gaynor, Lavern Norris, Lal, A Legacy of Gracious Giving (n/d, pb, 2008?, NAPLES ) Gleason, Deborah, and Charles LeBuff, Sanibel and Captiva Islands; Postcard History Series (2013, pb, signed, SANCAP ) Glenn, James Lafayette, My Work among the Florida Seminoles (1982, hb, , INDIANS ) Granberry, Julian, Americas That Might Have Been, The; Native American Social Systems through Time (2005, pb, , INDIANS ) Granberry, Julian, Calusa, The; Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships (2011, pb, , INDIANS ) Grey, Zane, Tales of Southern Rivers (1924, pb, , WEST COAST ) EEEVERGLADES SSSOCIETY FOR HHHISTORIC PPPRESERVATIORESERVATIONNNN P.O. Box 46, Everglades City, FL, 34139 www. evergladeshistorical.org HHHISTORICAL LLLIBRARY CATALOG OF BOOKS (updated 1/5/17) Griffin, Robert V., Everglades Outlaws (2003, pb, signed, DRUGS ) Grismer, Karl H., Story of Fort Myers, The (1982, pb, reprint of 1949 edition, FT MYERS ) Grunwald, Michael, Swamp, The; The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (2006, hb, signed, extra copy, GLADES ) Hammond, James, Florida's Vanishing Trail (2008, pb, , TRANSPORT ) Hanna, Alfred & Kathryn, Lake Okeechobee; Wellspring of the Everglades (1948, hb, , LAKE O ) Hannau, Hans W, Florida (1956, hb, photos, tourism,
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