Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers
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Few people today can claim a living memory of Florida's frontier Everglades. Glen Simmons, who has hunted alligators, camped on hammock-covered islands, and poled his skiff through the mangrove swamps of the glades since the 1920s, is one who can. Together with Laura Ogden, he tells the story of backcountry life in the southern Everglades from his youth until the establishment of the Everglades National Park in 1947.
During the economic bust of the late 20s, when many natives turned to the land to survive, Simmons began accompanying older local men into Everglades backcountry, the inhospitable prairie of soft muck and mosquitoes, of outlaws and moonshiners, that rings the southern part of the state. As Simmons recalls life in this community with humor and nostalgia, he also documents the forgotten lifestyles of south Florida gladesmen.
By necessity, they understood the natural features of the Everglades ecosystem. They observed the seasonal fluctuations of wildlife, fire, and water levels. Their knowledge of the mostly unmapped labyrinth of grassy water enabled them to serve as guides for visiting naturalists and scientists. Simmons reconstructs this world, providing not only fascinating stories of individual personalities, places, and events, but an account that is accurate, both scientifically and historically, of one of the least known and longest surviving portions of the American frontier.
The book is published by University Press of Florida.
©1998 Glen Simmons and Laura Ogden (P)2012 Redwood AudiobooksListeners also enjoyed...
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Newbery Award-winner Gary Paulsen's best-known book comes to audio in this breathless, heart-gripping drama about a boy pitted against the wilderness with only a hatchet and a will to live. On his way to visit his recently divorced father in the Canadian mountains, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only survivor when the single-engine plane crashes. His body battered, his clothes in shreds, Brian must now stay alive in the boundless Canadian wilderness.
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Outstanding!
- By Raquel Aceves-Mittman on 02-14-12
By: Gary Paulsen
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The Founding Fish
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- Narrated by: John McPhee
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return to the ocean.
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Read and released.
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American Buffalo
- In Search of a Lost Icon
- By: Steven Rinella
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.
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Phenomenal
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By: Steven Rinella
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If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?
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- By: Bill Heavey
- Narrated by: Ian Patrick Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Whether he is accidentally cooking his brain with hand warmers or yanking his lure away from a trophy fish just before it takes the bait, Bill Heavey can do no right. For almost a decade, he has chronicled his incompetence on the back page of Field & Stream, where his hilarious dispatches about life as a hapless outdoorsman who lives in suburbia have earned him legions of fans.
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Great book
- By Jon Hiltz on 07-21-18
By: Bill Heavey
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Wildlife Wars
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In Wildlife Wars, Terry Grosz serves up fascinating stories - alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heart-wrenching - from his 30-year struggle to protect wildlife in America. A natural storyteller, Grosz writes about the remarkable characters he met - on both sides of the law - as he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, commercial-market duck hunters, and a host of other law-breakers. Best of all, though, these stories are so remarkably entertaining you won't want to put them down.
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Title should be: "reckless egomaniac tells lies"
- By ross on 03-01-17
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Kerplunk!
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- Narrated by: Dick Hill
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The stories in Kerplunk! travel the byways and highways of the Pacific Northwest, bringing to life offbeat, down-home characters who hope their grandchildren can pick the lock on the gun safe because they've forgotten the combination, who know exactly why it costs $500 to make a fly lure that retails for $2, and who aren't afraid to confront the problems of bird-dog flatulence.
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narrator nightmare
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The Longest Road
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Philip Caputo, who had just turned 70, his wife, and their two English setters took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered 17,000 miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than 80 Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the 21st century.
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Very Disappointing
- By Amazon Customer on 03-25-18
By: Philip Caputo
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Northland
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- By: Porter Fox
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. Travel writer Porter Fox spent two years exploring its length by canoe, freighter, and car - and in Northland, he delivers the little-known history of the region and a riveting account of his travels. Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain's adventures; recounts the rise and fall of the iron, wheat, and timber industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; and tracks America's fur traders through the Boundary Waters.
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Great listen - great narrator
- By Jonathan on 01-10-19
By: Porter Fox
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The Grasshopper Trap
- By: Patrick McManus
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
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Often compared to Garrison Keillor and Mark Twain, Patrick F. McManus maintains just the right balance between baffled innocence and conspiratorial confidence. Since 1979, this humorist has been delighting readers with hilarious stories recounting his childhood in rural Idaho and relating his misadventures in the great outdoors. Whether you're a sportsman or a couch potato, he will have you laughing out loud at his escapades.
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Classic Pat McManus
- By Elizabeth on 06-13-17
By: Patrick McManus
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The Nick Adams Stories
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"Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then." So thought a dying writer in an early version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The writer was, of course, Ernest Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams. The now-famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent - a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
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Let Nick Adams introduce you to Ernest Hemingway
- By Paul on 04-04-12
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Deep Creek
- Finding Hope in the High Country
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On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all.
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The most beautiful book I’ve ever read
- By KFratt on 04-26-19
By: Pam Houston
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- FlGatorsGuy
- 02-20-23
A hard life lived well
I really enjoyed this book, I feel a deep sense of gratitude for your life and the conditions that you work in after reading what these guys had to do every day to make a living and to eat. I wish everybody was aware of this history. And I wish much, and Florida was like it used to be.
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- M.B.
- 03-22-24
Authentic
This was old Florida and the narrator was perfect. It is what it is, an old timey narration with some humor and loads of character and characters. Nothing exciting but man interesting window into a lost world.
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- LT
- 01-26-19
More about Florida
Another book that talks about the history of FL.
He you you will find some notes that we're taking the route the years from about 19 20 to about 1940 all the Everglades in a man who lives it.
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- jeremy alsum
- 01-23-24
Like Florida, live in Florida good book if you really like out doors Florida
Great book, very enjoyable to read or listen to, the author paints a great picture of what the Everglades used to be.
I live and hunt in Florida and I found this book very entertaining
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- Lizreynolds
- 08-25-18
awesome book! great narrator
I keep listening to it... so interesting. great stories and history of Florida. awesome Narrator.
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- Randal
- 06-12-13
Adventures of a True Frontiersman
Would you listen to Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers again? Why?
I will surely listen to this one again and again.
What did you like best about this story?
I love the humble honesty of this mans adventuresome spirit. This is the story of a life spent in a time and place that are mostly forgoten. A priceless history of the South Florida frontier before it was spoiled.
What does James R. Marshall bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
His voice ads a tuch of old southern culture. Marshall was the perfect narrator.
Any additional comments?
A Must for outdoorsman and history buffs.
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- Jeff D.
- 02-22-20
Younger Generation Gladesman
I grew up in Everglades City though I was born in 1954. I spent much time in the then thousand Islands and the glades a little north of where Mr. Simmons speaks of. I also listened to stories of my grandfather, uncles and other old timers of how life was back then. Glenn's stories bring back many memories for me and I am impressed with how his experiences line up with my own and also of the I have heard things were prior to my time. This book was hard for me to put down. I lost quite a bit of sleep.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-15-24
Great old Florida stories!
Awesome story telling. You can put yourself going down the creek in a skiff. listening to this made me homesick for the swamps and rivers of my youth.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-07-12
Boring.
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Had just listened to A Land Remembered and thought this might continue the enchantment. Found it to be a montonous documentary in form. Also narrators voice lulled me to sleep. Positive sleep aid. Poor entertainment.
Would you be willing to try another one of James R. Marshall’s performances?
Maybe.
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- Seth
- 09-10-13
Captured chunks of Old Florida, but story lacks.
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I was really excited about this book as I have always enjoyed the stories of Old Florida trying to recapture the feeling I first had when I finished "The Yearling". Being a Florida native I also try and learn as much as I can about my birth state so I can absorb the history and teach others.
I thought the stories were good and I really liked the parts about prohibition and just how far that movement spread.
The thing that bothered me though is the way it was pieced together. Instead of stories being told in a way you can enjoy them after just hearing them in automatically rolled into another, another, and another. So by the time I was 2/3rds through it I became desensitized in a way. I would have liked a moment to compartmentalize what I had heard before diving head first into another tale.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
How wild Florida was naturally and how man utilized it to survive.
Do you think Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
I do not. I believe a good portion of what was told in this book was unecessary.
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