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Florida Historical Novels * personal favorites |
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Adicks, Richard. A Court for Owls. Sarasota: Pineapple, 1989.
Arnold, Eugene. Big Water: A Novel of the 19th C. Florida. Moore Haven: Prospector Press, 1993.
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Cummings, Betty Sue, Say These Names (Remember Them). Englewood: Pineapple, 1984. (Seminoles)Fo, Dario. Johan Padan. Torino: Abele, 1992.
Gannon, Michael. Secret Missions. NY: HarperCollins, 1994 (WWII Spy)
Glassman, Steve. Blood on the Moon. Brooklyn: Quality, 1990. (Osceola)
Graham, Heather. Runaway. NY: Delacort, 1994.
Gramling, Lee (Cracker Cowboy)-all published Sarasota: Pineapple Press
_____Riders of the Suwannee, 1993.
_____Thunder on the St. John, 1994.
_____Trail from St. Augustine, 1993.
_____Ghosts of the Green Swamp, 1996.
Granberry, Edwin. A Trip to Czardis. 1966.
_____Erl King. 1930.
_____Strangers and Lovers. 1928.
Hays, Wilma Pitchford. Siegel: The Story of St. Augustine in 1702.
NY: Coward, McCann &
Geoghegan, 1976.
Hazelton, Lt. Col. Harry. The Seminole Chief: or the Captive of Kissimmee. rpt. NY: Garland, 1979.
Kaplan, Barry Jay. Biscayne. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1988.
Kaufelt, David. American Tropic. NY: Poseidon, 1986.
Krainin, Milton J. The Long Journey: A Historical Novel about David
Levy Yules, Florida's First
Senator. Atlanta: Miljac Press, 1995.
Levin, Beatrice. John Hawk: White Man, Black Man, Indian Chief. Austin: Eakin, 1988.
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Matthiessen, Peter. Killing Mister Watson. New York: Random, 1990.*
_____Lost Man's River. 1997.*
_____Bone by Bone, 1999.McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Wooden Fish Songs. NY: Dutton, 1995 (Chinese-Am.)
Mailer, Norman. Of A Fire on the Moon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. (Space program)
Mayerson, Evelyn Wilde. Miami: A Saga. NY: Dutton, 1994.
Michener, James. Space. NY: Random, 1982.
Munn, Vella C. Seminole Song. NY: Forge, 1997.
Powell, Richard. I Take This Land. NY: Scribner's, 1962.
_____Pioneer, Go Home. 1959.
_____Tickets to the Devil. 1968.
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Pratt, Theodore.
The Big Blow. 1936. Rpt. as My Bride in the Storm. New York:
Avon. 1950.
Also
The Big Blow with
script by Theodore Pratt, produced by WPA Federal Theatre
Project in NYC, Oct. 1938 - Feb. 1939.
*_____The Barefoot Mailman. 1943.
_____The Flame Tree. 1950.
_____The Big Bubble. 1951.
_____Seminole. 1954.
_____Florida Roundabout. 1959.
Price, Eugenia. Don Juan McQueen. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974 rpt.Thorndike, MD, 1993.
_____Maria. NY: Lippincott, 1977.
_____Margaret's Story. NY: Lippincott & Crowell, 1980.
Robson, Lucia St. Clair. Light a Distant Fire. NY: Ballantine, 1988. (Seminoles)
Rust, Ann O'Connell. The Floridians Series. Orange Park: Amaro Books
_____Palatka, 1989.
_____Kissimmee. 1990.
_____Pahokee. 1992.
_____Dessa. 1996
Simms, William Gilmore. Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World. Greenwich, Ct: Fawcett, 1968.
Slate, Sam. Satan's Back Yard. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
Slaughter, Frank G. The Golden Isle. 1947.
_____That None Should Die. 1941. (pre-paid medical care)
_____Fort Everglades. 1951.
_____Storm Haven. 1953.
_____The Warrior. 1956. (Osceola)
_____Countdown. 1970.
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____ A Patrick Smith Reader: The River Is Home and Angel City,
available in reprint from Pineapple
Press.
_____ A Patrick Smith Reader: Forever Island and Allapattah
, available in reprint from PineappleTaylor, Robert Lewis. A Journey to Matecumbe. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1961
Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. (Space program)