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Book SynopsisFrom sunken ships to devastating hurricanes, It Happened in the Florida Keys contains twenty riveting stories of historical events in America's watery south.
Table of ContentsIntroduction (1) Hard Aground on the Reef: The Demise of the U.S.S. Alligator - 1822 (2) Double Cross: Salvaging the Slaver Guerrero - 1827 (3) Massacre on Indian Key - 1840 (4) Muddy Waters: Truth and Consequences - 1865 (5) Key West Cigars: Up in Smoke - 1886 (6) First Train to Paradise - 1912 (7) Catching the Big One: Zane Grey and the Long Key Fishing Camp - 1919 (8) Against all Protocol: Battle in the Florida Straits - 1943 (9) Mother Nature’s Fury: The Labor Day Hurricane - 1935 (10) Sabotage in the Mangroves: Litnumvitae key and the Bay of Pigs - 1961 (11) Island at War: Key West and the Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962 (12) Flotilla to Freedom: The Flooding of Key West - 1980 (13) If at First You Don’t Secede . . . - 1982 (14) Fat Albert’s Great Escape - 1984 (15) Drowning the African Queen - 1992 (16) True Lies on the Seven Mile Bridge - 1993 (17) Chained to the Mother Lode - 2000 (18) The Serendipitous Sinking of the Spiegel Grove - 2002 (19) Marooned in Marathon - 2005
