Book - Outposts on the Gulf
This is a very good book. Not only is it very well researched and footnoted, it’s also very balanced. I’ve noticed a trend of recent non-fiction books of Florida to have a very sharp political slant. Despite writing about the Civil War and the very conroversial land and oyster wheeler-dealer William Lee Popham the author, Willaim Warren Rogers, does and amazing job of being very fair.
Rogers writing of Popham could have leaned to pure camp. What a character! Getting the book to read just about Popham is well worth the price!