Florida sheriffs : a history, 1821-1945

Name/Title

Florida sheriffs : a history, 1821-1945

Entry/Object ID

2015.1.2793

Description

vi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Florida sheriffs : a history, 1821-1945 by William Rogers. Contents: Sheriffs and lawmen in territorial Florida -- From statehood to civil war -- Sheriffs during the Civil War -- The hard years of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Closing the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, 1877-1900 -- The Ku Klux Klan and the endemic problem of violence -- The first two decades of the twentieth century -- Bob Baker and the Ashley Gang -- Boom times and the Great Depression -- Wartime Florida, 1941-1945 -- Appendix : Roster of Florida sheriffs [by county]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-324) and index.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Sheriffs -- Florida -- History., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Florida.

Publication Details

Author

Rogers, William Warren, Denham, James M.

Publisher

Sentry Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Tallahassee, Florida

Call No.

HV 8145 .F6 R64 2001

LCCN

1889574112