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.