Abbreviated West Florida Revolt Bibliography Compiled by the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies Southeastern Louisiana University

Primary Sources:

Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection (Louisiana State University)

Daniel Hicky Papers Philip Hicky Family Papers Frederick Kimball Letters Fulwar Skipwith Correspondence, 1797-1826 Josiah Lawton Letter West Florida Rebellion Papers

Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies (Southeastern Louisiana University)

Letterbook of Captain John Shaw, Donald Sharp Collection Woody Jenkins Collection

Library of Congress

United States Territorial Papers, Department of State, Items #7640, 7643-7646, 7650- 7674, 7677-7703 West Florida Papers

Louisiana State Archives

Original copy of the Constitution of the Republic of West Florida

Secondary Sources:

Abernethy, Thomas Perkins. The South in the New Nation, 1789-1819. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.

Arthur, Stanley Clisby. The Story of the West Florida Rebellion. The St. Francisville Democrat, 1935. Reprinted by Claitor’s Publishing, 1975.

Bice, David A. The Original Lone Star Republic: Scoundrels, Statesmen and Schemers if the 1810 West Florida Rebellion. Clanton: Heritage Publishing Consultants, Inc., 2004.

Brooks, Philip C. “Spain’s Farewell to Louisiana, 1803-1821.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Vol. 27, No. 1 (June 1940): 29-42. Cox, Isaac, J. The West Florida Controversy, 1798-1813. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1918.

Favrot, Henry L. “Some Causes and Conditions that Brought about the West Florida Rebellion.” Publications of the Louisiana Historical Society. Vol. 1, No. 2 (1895): 37-46.

Hanna, Kathryn A. Florida Land of Change. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941.

Hyde, Samuel C. Jr. Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810-1899. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

-----, ed. A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1699-2000. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

-----. “Seventy-Four Days a Nation: Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, The Original Lone Star Republic.” Louisiana’s Cultural Vistas. XV, No. 4. Winter 2004-2005.

Kendall, John S. “Documents Concerning the West Florida Revolution, 1810.” Louisiana Historical Quarterly. 17 (1934): 80-95.

McMichael, Andrew. Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.

Padgett, James A. (Ed.). “The West Florida Rebellion of 1810, as Told in the Letters of John Rhea, Fulwar Skipwith, Reuben Kemper, and Others,” Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Vol. 21, No. 1 (1938): 76-202.

Sterkx, Henry E. And Brooks Thompson, “Philemon Thomas and the West Florida Revolution.” Florida Historical Quarterly. 39 (1961): 378-386.

Videos:

Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University. Reluctant Americans: The West Florida Revolt, Completing the Louisiana Purchase. 2003.