From Gateway to Getaway: Labor, Leisure, and Environment in American Maritime CitiesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 2005 - 785 pages |
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... consumed 50,000 pounds of green turtle in 1842. Hackley reported on troubles getting imported food , writing . " There is not now to be had on the Key a barrel of flour or of bread and no hominy corn or grits and but little rice , " and ...
... consumed 50,000 pounds of green turtle in 1842. Hackley reported on troubles getting imported food , writing . " There is not now to be had on the Key a barrel of flour or of bread and no hominy corn or grits and but little rice , " and ...
Page 296
... consumed locally , but wounded them so that they could not survive shipment to distant markets . Audubon noted that turtlers in the Tortugas built wooden pens in shallow water where turtles were kept alive , and described buying live ...
... consumed locally , but wounded them so that they could not survive shipment to distant markets . Audubon noted that turtlers in the Tortugas built wooden pens in shallow water where turtles were kept alive , and described buying live ...
Page 640
... consumed here . " See " Carnation Executive Says Alaska Leads in Use , " Ketchikan Chronicle , May 11 , 1927 . 3 Underwood , Alaska : An Empire in the Making p . 342 , 344 . 4 Harrington and Smith , eds . , Clams on the Beach p . 93 ...
... consumed here . " See " Carnation Executive Says Alaska Leads in Use , " Ketchikan Chronicle , May 11 , 1927 . 3 Underwood , Alaska : An Empire in the Making p . 342 , 344 . 4 Harrington and Smith , eds . , Clams on the Beach p . 93 ...
Contents
PARTIOutposts | 11 |
Envisioning Key West | 43 |
Envisioning Galveston | 90 |
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