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Few people today can claim a full time income 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 because the 1920s, is one who can. As well as Laura Ogden, he explains to the storyplot of backcountry life in the southern Everglades from his youth before establishment of the Everglades National Recreation area in 1947. During the economical bust of the late 20s, when many natives considered the land to endure, Simmons began accompanying older local men into Everglades backcountry, the inhospitable prairie of tender muck and mosquitoes, of outlaws and moonshiners, that jewelry the southern area of the talk about. As Simmons recalls life in this community with humor and nostalgia, he also documents the overlooked lifestyles of south Florida gladesmen. By need, they comprehended the natural features of the Everglades ecosystem. They observed the seasonal fluctuations of animals, fire, and water levels. Their understanding of the typically unmapped labyrinth of grassy water enabled those to serve as manuals for going to naturalists and scientists. Simmons reconstructs this world, providing not only amazing stories of individual personalities, places, and situations, but a merchant account that is exact, both clinically and historically, of 1 of minimal known and longest making it through servings of the American frontier. The reserve is released by University Press of Florida.
