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Title Death in the Everglades : the murder of Guy Bradley, America's first martyr to environmentalism / Stuart B. McIver ; foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R Mormino.
Author McIver, Stuart B.
Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2003.
Book Cover
Description xviii, 187 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Series The Florida history and culture series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-182) and index.
Contents The feather trade -- The letter -- A veritable tropical paradise -- The cruise of the Bonton -- The barefoot mailman -- Tycoons of the plume trade -- Cuthbert's rookery -- The Palm Beach dudes -- Sharpshooter -- Flagler takes charge -- The end of the world -- The patriarch -- A matter of law -- The badge -- On the job -- A boat named Audubon -- Trouble at Cuthbert -- Life in Flamingo -- Back on the job -- Shootout at oyster keys -- No true bill -- The fight goes on
Subject Bradley, Guy Morrell, 1870-1905.
Environmentalists -- Florida -- Everglades National Park -- Biography.
Herons -- Florida -- Everglades National Park.
Environmental protection -- Florida -- Everglades National Park.
Murder -- Florida -- Everglades National Park.
Everglades National Park (Fla.) -- Environmental aspects.
ISBN 0813026717 (cloth : alk. paper) : $24.95