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Love in Key West - Behind the Scenes

Family Tree ~ Research ~ Recommended Reading ~ Extra Tidbits
If a picture is worth a thousand words check out my Pinterest pages for character muses, places, people, and objects that inspire the stories.

Family Tree

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Research, you ask?

                         Research Material and Recommended Reading
Salvaged Love
Bache, Richard Meade. The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef. Lakeland: The Ketch & Yawl Press 1999
Browne, Jefferson B. Key West The Old and The New. St. Augustine: The Record Company 1912
Burke, J. Wills. The Streets of Key West - A History through Street Names. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 2004
Caemmerer, Alex. The Houses of Key West. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1992
Gutelius, Stone and Varner. True Secrets of Key West Revealed. Key West: Eden Entertainment Limited, Inc. 2003
Maloney, Walter C. A Sketch of the History of Key West, Florida. Gainesville: University of Florida Press 1968
Marvin, William. A Treatise on the Law of Wreck and Salvage. Boston: Little, Brown & Company 1858
Ogle, Maureen. History of an Island of Dreams. Gainesville: University of Florida Press 2003
Tyng, Charles Before the Wind The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833
Viele, John. The Florida Keys - A History of the Pioneers. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1996
Viele, John. The Florida Keys Volume 2 - True Stories of the Perilous Straits. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1999
Viele, John. The Florida Keys Volume 3 - The Wreckers. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 2001
Williams, Joy. The Florida Keys A History & Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2003
Windorn and Langley. Yesterday’s Key West. West: Langley Press, Inc. 1973

Websites:
Key West Art & Historical Society http://www.kwahs.org
Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/
Key West Maritime Historical Society http://keywestmaritime.org/
Keys Historeum -  Presented by the Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys   http://www.keyshistory.org/
University of Florida Digital Collections http://ufdc.ufl.edu/my
                *Please note this is not meant to be a conclusive list of all websites used for research.

Love Again
  Many of the above sources plus:
Denham, James M and Huneycutt, Keith L, edited, Echoes from a Distant Frontier, University of South Carolina Press
Hatch, Thom, Osceola and the Great Seminole War, New York: St. Martin’s Press
Missall, John & Mary Lou, Hollow Victory: A Novel of the Second Seminole War, Cocoa,FL:Florida Historical Society Press

Missall, John & Mary Lou, This Miserable Pride of a Soldier, Tampa, FL: University of Tampa Press
Proby, Kathryn Hall, Audubon in Florida, Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press
Potter, Woodburne The War in Florida, Dade City, FL: Seminole Wars Foundation, Inc.
Sprague, John T. The Origin, Progress and Conclusion of the Florida War, New York: D. Appleton & Co.
Weisman, Brent Richards, Unconquered People Florida’s Seminole and Miccosukee Indians  University Press of Florida

Websites:

Exploring Florida Social Studies Resources for Students and Teachers http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/default.htm
Son of the South http://www.sonofthesouth.net/american-indians/seminole.htm
Exploring Florida http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/default.htm
Monroe Co FLGenWeb https://sites.google.com/site/monroeflgw/
Seminole War http://www.southernhistory.us/index.html
The Seminole Wars Foundation, Inc. http://www.seminolewars.us/
John Horse and the Black Seminoles http://www.johnhorse.com/index.htm


Extra Tidbits

Click the buttons below for the words and tune to these songs referenced in Salvaged Love and Love Again
Robin Adair
Wrecker's Song Lyrics
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The Perrine House on Indian Key
A tidbit about  General William Tecumseh Sherman
I found this entry in Hester Perrine Walker's diary interesting since my only knowledge of General Sherman was his destructive march through my home state of Georgia to end the Civil War:
        "Long Years after, General Sherman met me at West Point, & said to me, "Mrs. Walker, I was stationed at Indian Key for three years after you left there, and the first thing I did every morning after breakfast, was to walk around upon that stone wall and look down into your living grave. And now whenever you tell your story, I want you to say from me to you, that no matter how exaggerated your story may seem, no one, but one who has stood as I have & looked into that living grave could begin to realize its horrors. You know that I have been in every war, both Indian & Civil since I entered the Service, and I say, there never has been, there never will be, and there never can be, such a marvelous escape from death as yours. It was an escape from death at the hands of the Indians, from fire and from drowning."

Character Fact or Fiction – here’s a list of who’s real and who’s make believe in Love Again (of course all conversations are fictional unless noted otherwise). I thought it  a bit too long to put in the book.
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"Osceola" by George Catlin
WP en Image:Osceola.jpg /, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

ictional Characters
Theodore Whitmore
Henry Whitmore
Margaret Whitmore
Aunt Agatha Pary
Captain Jedidiah Pary
Bob and Millicent Jenkins
Annalise         
Lawrence and Katarina Whitmore
Mr. Flynn, the archive curator
Mr. and Mrs. Howe
Captain Blake
Betsy Wheeler
Ben Wheeler
Captain Max and Abigail (Abby) Eatonton and their children
Elizabeth in England
Victoria and Lord Jason and the Duke and Duchess
Jonathon Kent
Esperanza Sanchez and her parents
Mr. Aronsdale
George Casey
Mr. Sanderson
Mr. and Mrs. Baxley
Captain Richard Bennington
Private Jones – from first tree clearing
Martha Jane and Marilyn Joyce Caldwell
Horace and Rachel Brooks and children
Tim Sudduth
Fish, one of Max's crewmen
Private Randolph from Virginia
Private Miller
Captain Talmage
Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Reynolds
Fred and Rod Drake
Mrs. Tolliver
Penny Tolliver
Miss Daphne Parker
Miss Georgina Alexander
Miss Sarah Treadle
nephew Aiden
Robert Mason
Monsieur Marsilios, a French artist
Carter
Thomas and Maria
Captain James
Vertiline, Thaddeus, Jessamine, Frederick and Roderick, Sophronia, Gabriel and Zachariah
Mr. Curry – Sponge fisher
young Joshua
Mr. and Mrs. Lambert

The Real Indians
John Cesear
Powell – Osceola
Chief Micanopy
Chief Charlie Emaltha
Coa Hadjo
Jumper
Abraham
Cudjo
King Philip
Chief Euchee Billy
Wild Cat - King Philip's son
John Horse
Chief John Ross – Cherokee
Alligator
Chief Tuskegee
Chiefs Halleck Hadjo
Halleck Tustenuggee
Chitto Tustenuggee
Hospetarke
Chakaika
Billy Bow-Legs
Sam Jones
Coosa Tustenuggee
Octiarche – Creek leader, north Florida.
Tiger Tail - Muskogee band were near Tallahassee
Chipco - Muskogee band north of Lake Okeechobee
Billy Bowlegs - Charlotte Harbour
Sam Jones - Mikasukis in the Everglades
 
 All the places and forts are/were real
 
Real Ships
Pride of Baltimore
Revenue Cutter Marion
Maria
Siren's Song (Audubon?)
Florida the light-ship at Carysfort Reef
Motto
Constellation
wrecker Pee Dee
sloop, Jane
sloop Marshall
naval schooner, Medium
Flirt
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John James Audubon / Unidentified artist / Oil on canvas, c. 1841 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Real People
John Simonton – island founder
William Whitehead
Brevet Major James Glassell and his family
Commodore Porter
Ellen Mallory
Stephen Mallory
Mr. Fitzpatrick
Judge Webb and his wife
Dr. Waterhouse and his son
Roberts
Captain Whalton and his family
Miss Ximinez and Miss Breaker
Mr. William H Wall
Mr. Pinkham
Mr. Weaver
Amos and Asa Tift
Dr. Benjamin Strobel
Lieutenant Newcomb
District Attorney Chandler
Michael "Miguel" Mabrity 1779-1832
Barbara Josefa Mabrity (born Estacholy) 1782-1867
Mabrity Family
Nicolosa Mabrity
William Bethel
Captain McMullin
Captain Houseman
Caldez – old Spaniard in fishing village
Fielding Browne
Pardon C. Greene
Mr. Smith – contractor
Colonel Clinch
Gad Humphreys – Indian Agent
Governor Duval
Sally – slave
John Eaton - Secretary of War
President Jackson
Major John Phagan – Indian Agent
Judge Smith
Lieutenant John Graham
All the Indians are real
George Washington
Mrs. Fielding
Mrs. O'Hara
Mr. Chandler
General Parker
John James Audubon
Captain Day of the Marion
Henry Ward – Audubon assistant
George Lehman – Audubon assistant
Reverend Bachman
Plato – Audubon’s dog
Mr. Eghan of Indian Key, pilot
Mr. Ward
Sargent Sykes
Captain Geiger
Captain Noyes of the Paragon
Erastus Rogers – trader at Fort King
Mr. Fleeming – Key West founder
John Whitehead – William’s brother and island founder
Edward Leitner – German botanist
John Reynolds - Illinois governor
General Winfield Scott
General Edmund Gaines
Abe Lincoln
Black Hawk
White Cloud
Joseph Street – Indian Agent
Colonel Zachary Taylor
Lieutenant Jefferson Davis
Lieutenant Robert Anderson
Private Kinsley Dalton
General Wiley Thompson
Joseph White
Captain Jacob Housman
Governor Eaton
Secretary of War Cass
President Andrew Jackson
Lieutenant John Graham
Reverend Bennett
Attorney General Butler
Captain Jacob Brown
Alden Jackson, Judge Webb's son-in-law
Major General Richard K Call
Captain Whalton
Captain Smithe
James and Frances Gardiner and children
Lieutenant Smith
Captain Lendrum
Lieutenant Fanning
Major Putnam
Captain Anderson of the Motto
Marshal Easton
Commodore Dallas
Mr. Cooley's family
Captain Dubois – Cape Florida lighthouse keeper
Lieutenant Colonel Crane
Captain Ethan Allen Hitchcock
General Ethan Allen
First Lieutenant James Izard
Lieutenant Alvord
John Thompson – survivor of lighthouse attack
Aaron Carter –victim of lighthouse attack
Navy Lieutenant Bache
Major General Thomas Jesup
Reverend Robert Dyce
Major Read
Lieutenant Colonel William Harney
Captain William Graham (no relation to Lieutenant Graham)
Captain Page
Gen. Hernandez, commander of the Florida militia
Captain Charles Mellon
Colonel Shelburne
President Van Buren
Secretary of War Poinsett
Captain Sparks
Colonel Richard Gentry
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Thompson
Colonel William Foster
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Pierce
Lieutenant Levin Powell
Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Weaver, Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Fontaine,
Tomaso Sachetti
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverend Ford
Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the Army
Colonel Richard Fitzpatrick
Lieutenant John McLaughlin
Mr. Rodolfo – bloodhound trainer
Governor Reid
Brigadier General Walker Keith Armistead
William T. Sherman
Walter Maloney
Lieutenant Rogers
Jacob Housman
Dr. Perrine and family
Charles Howe and son Ralph
Midshipman Murray
Glass and Bieglett
Mrs. Johnson
Mrs. Elliott Smith
Joseph Sturdy
Motte family
Mrs. Gordon
Guide John – hunting Chakaika
Crazy Jim - James William
Colonel William Worth
Captain Sprague
First Lieutenant George McCall
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