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A Land Remembered (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,150 ratings — published 1984
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,954 ratings — published 2002
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,109 ratings — published 2006
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida (The Florida History and Culture Series)
by (shelved 5 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 103 ratings — published 2005
The Everglades: River of Grass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,012 ratings — published 1947
The New History of Florida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 81 ratings — published 1996
Florida: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 205 ratings — published 2003
Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,655 ratings — published 2023
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,709 ratings — published 2012
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 325,884 ratings — published 2019
Cross Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,774 ratings — published 1942
Haunted Pensacola (Haunted America)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.60 — 55 ratings — published 2010
Hidden History of Florida (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 266 ratings — published 2015
Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,785 ratings — published 2016
A People's History of Florida 1513-1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 42 ratings — published 2009
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (American Crossroads) (Volume 16)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 72 ratings — published 2005
Cracker: Cracker Culture in Florida History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 89 ratings — published 2004
A History of Florida (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 17 ratings — published 1980
Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768-1788 (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
by (shelved 3 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 20 ratings — published 1991
Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 21 ratings — published 1991
The History of Florida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 60 ratings — published
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 23,123 ratings — published 1998
Journeys with Florida's Indians (UPF Young Readers Library)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2002
The Yearling (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 31,113 ratings — published 1938
Trail from St. Augustine (Cracker Western)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 50 ratings — published 1993
Killing Mister Watson (Shadow Country Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,031 ratings — published 1990
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,999 ratings — published 2017
Dust Tracks on a Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,476 ratings — published 1942
Blood on the Suwannee (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.71 — 14 ratings — published
Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida’s Loyalist Reconstruction Governor (Southern Biography Series)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1997
Sunshine State: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,718 ratings — published 2017
The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 45 ratings — published 1996
The Last Train to Key West (The Perez Family, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,858 ratings — published 2020
From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 19 ratings — published
The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict (The Florida History and Culture Series)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 63 ratings — published 2004
Alligators in B-Flat: Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida (The Florida History and Culture Series)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 96 ratings — published 2013
Army Life in a Black Regiment (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.70 — 105 ratings — published 1982
The Timucua (Peoples of America)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 17 ratings — published 1996
Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present (Native Peoples, Cultures, and Places of the Southeastern United States)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 40 ratings — published 1998
Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians (Native Peoples, Cultures, and Places of the Southeastern United States)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 30 ratings — published 1999
Life and Death at Windover (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 74 ratings — published 2012
The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 2013
The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.51 — 81 ratings — published 2011
Florida's Frontiers (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published 2002
Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida (The Florida History and Culture Series)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published 1998
Discovering Florida: First-Contact Narratives from Spanish Expeditions along the Lower Gulf Coast (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2014
Palmetto Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 32 ratings — published 1942
Florida Founder William P. DuVal: Frontier Bon Vivant (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2015
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2001
Strawberry Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as florida-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,191 ratings — published 1945
“His car....had the black-tinted windows I usually associated with south Florida or drug dealers. Or is that redundant?”
― Bum Steer
― Bum Steer
“A terrific microcosm of the great excitement and tragic years of Florida’s Golden Age land boom. Men, women, entire families flooded into Florida believing bold enterprise practically guaranteed sudden riches. This inspirational account is a must read to truly understand the hopes, dreams and struggles of the 1920s in the paradise called Florida.
Debi Murray, Chief Curator
The Historical Society of Palm Beach County”
― Late to the Party in the Roaring Twenties and That Tropical Paradise Called Florida
Debi Murray, Chief Curator
The Historical Society of Palm Beach County”
― Late to the Party in the Roaring Twenties and That Tropical Paradise Called Florida