Alligator Tales

by McCarthy, Kevin M.; Moran, John

• ISBN13: 9781561641581
• ISBN10: 1561641588
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Pineapple Press

Summary

The alligatorFlorida's most feared, maligned animal. From the time European settlers first stepped onto Florida soil, the alligator has been a target of dread and revulsionand the hunter's gun.

Collected here are true (and tongue in cheek) accounts of alligators and the people who have hunted them, been attacked by them, and tried to save them from extinction. Journey through the Everglades with 1800's Seminoles, experts at stalking and killing gators. Go along with a "Northern girl" as she shoots "my fi

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
1. Description of Alligators	3	(36)
The Alligators of the St. Johns River	3	(10)
William Bartram
Some Florida Alligators	13	(7)
Hamilton Jay
The Gator's Rumble	22	(7)
E.W. Carswell
The Legend of Two-Toed Tom	22	(7)
E.W. Carswell
Algy the Alligator	29	(10)
E.C. Bradford
II. Other Animals Versus Gators	39	(18)
Crocodile vs. Gator (anonymous)	39	(5)
A Shark Attacks an Alligator (anonymous)	44	(1)
An Elephant and Two Camels Attacked by Alligators (anonymous)	45	(3)
Bear and Alligator Fight (anonymous)	48	(1)
The Lone Bull of Maybank	49	(8)
Archibald Rutledge
III. Humans Versus Gators	57	(94)
The Alligator Hunters (anonymous)	57	(2)
Alligator Hunting with Seminoles	59	(9)
Kirk Munroe
Catching Alligators	68	(5)
Kirk Munroe
Adventures with Alligators (anonymous)	73	(8)
Alligator Shooting in Florida	81	(6)
John Mortimer Murphy
COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS between pages 84 and 85
John Moran
A Northern Girl's "Huntin' of a 'Gaitah"	87	(9)
Marion Pryde Quay
The Passing of the Florida Alligator	96	(11)
A.W. Dimock
Alligators	107	(13)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Babe Ruth and the Alligator	120	(2)
Kevin McCarthy
Master of My Lake	122	(8)
Jack Rudloe
Alligator Hunting in the 1990s	130	(11)
John Moran
Walk on the Wild Side	141	(5)
Cathy Dillon
Gators: An Uncuddly Bestseller	146	(5)
Gary Kirkland
IV. Native American Folktales about the Alligator	151	(10)
Why the Snake and the Alligator Are Friends	151	(1)
How Rabbit Fooled Alligator	152	(2)
How the Alligator's Nose Got Broken	154	(2)
How an Alligator Helped a Hunter	156	(5)
V. Alligator Miscellany	161
How an Alligator Sold St. Petersburg	161	(4)
John Richard Bothwell
How an Alligator Cleaned the Sewers of Tarpon Springs (anonymous)	165	(1)
The Alligator as Mascot	166	(4)
Kevin McCarthy
Place Names with "Alligator"	170
Kevin McCarthy