DRY TORTUGAS

tôrtooˈgəz, island group in the Gulf of Mexico, off S Fla., 60 mi (97 km) W of Key West. Named by the Spanish explorer Ponce de León in 1513, the islands later became a pirate base. They are famous for their bird and marine life. Loggerhead Key is the largest island. Centered on Garden Key is Dry Tortugas National Park (64,701 acres/26,195 hectares). The park caontains Fort Jefferson (1846), the largest all-masonry fort in the Western Hemisphere, which served as a prison until 1874. Designated Fort Jefferson National Monument in 1935, it was renamed and became a national park in 1992. See National Parks and Monuments (table). The island group is also known as Tortugas.

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books on: Dry Tortugas  - 155 results

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Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica: Learning the Lessons in a Seasonal Dry Forest
Book by Gordon W. Frankie, Alfonso Mata, S. Bradleigh Vinson; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Biological Diversity Conservation--Costa Rica, Forest Ecology--Costa Rica
...new national park for Costa Rica. Report to Ministerio de Recursos Naturales, Energia, y Minas, Programa de Rescate de Tortugas Marinas, San Jose, Costa Rica. 82 pp. Spotila, J. R. 1988. Archie Carr: To the edge of hope, 1909 1987. Herpetologica...
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Reconstruction in Mississippi
Book by James Wilford Garner; Macmillan, 1901
Subjects: Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865, Reconstruction--Mississippi
...registering Newton County 3 mo. at the Dry Tortugas. 24 Larceny of a horse Adams County...County 5 yr. hard labor at Dry Tortugas. 34 Selling pistol to soldier...horses, Pike County 5 yr. at Dry Tortugas. 37 Larceny of twelve horses...
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Confederate Agent: A Discovery in History
Book by James D. Horan; Crown Publishers, 1954
Subjects: Secret Service--Confederate States Of America
...1866; "Thirty Months on the Dry Tortugas": "Gibraltar of the Gulf of...Grenfel to his daughter from the Dry Tortugas, The Filson Club. Evidently Grenfel...Club, 1950. See also the Dry Tortugas Prison Book and box of miscellaneous...
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The Last Frontier
Book by Howard Fast; North Castle Books, 1997
Subjects: Cheyenne Indians--History--19th Century--Fiction
...and that way is better, no?" "Or to Dry Tortugas?" "Ach, no! What is this business about Dry Tortugas? We are not saints here in the Interior...send every stupid Indian to prison in Dry Tortugas." "Yet Indians have died there...
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Why Was Lincoln Murdered?
Book by Otto Eisenschiml; Little, Brown, 1937
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Assassination
...off southern island. 13 The Dry Tortugas was a military prison and it was...coming. The prisoners reached the Tortugas Islands on July 24, 1865. On...think the commanding officer at Dry Tortugas should be put on guard against...
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journal articles on: Dry Tortugas  - 19 results

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America's Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida
Journal article by Mark A. Smith; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: America's Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida. by Mark A. Smith Americas...History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida. By Thomas Reid. Florida...History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida is a recent installment...
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Give Them Their Due: A Reassessment of African Americans and Union Military Service in Florida during the Civil War
Journal article by Irvin D.S. Winsboro; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 92, 2007
Subjects: African American soldiers--Evaluation, Black history--Military aspects, Black history--Social aspects, Blacks--History, Blacks--Military aspects, Blacks--Social aspects, Florida--Military aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Military aspects, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Military aspects
...in the case of Key West and the Dry Tortugas, quarrying coral for Union fortifications...Headquarters, District of Key West and Tortugas, ORA, ser. 1, vol. 26, pt...and District of Key West and the Tortugas, Department of the Gulf, RG393...
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Southern History in Periodicals, 2008: A Selected Bibliography
Journal article; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, 2009
Subjects: Historical works--Bibliography
...This Horrible Place": Dr. Mudds Prison Years in the Dry Tortugas. Md. Hist. Mag., v. 102, Winter 2007, 276-99...Horrible Place": Dr. Mudds Prison Years in the Dry Tortugas. Md. Hist. Mag., v. 102, Winter 2007, 276-99...
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Waldo Peirce and Ernest Hemingway: Mirror Images
Journal article by William Gallagher; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 23, 2003
Subjects: American Field Service, Baker, Carlos, Hemingway, Ernest, Peirce, Waldo (artist)
...of Hemingway, Dos Passos, and himself on the dock in Dry Tortugas and whimsically and ironically titled it "Katies Boys...Cape and all along the Keys, then go to Marquesas, Dry Tortugas, and the Bahamas, anchoring in Havana for awhile...
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Slavery and American Sea Power: The Navalist Impulse in the Antebellum South
Journal article by Matthew J. Karp; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011
Subjects: Abolition of slavery--Political aspects, Military reform--History, Military reform--Political aspects, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--History, Slavery--Political aspects, United States. Navy--History, United States. Navy--Powers and duties, Upshur, Abel P.--Military policy, Upshur, Abel P.--Reports
...in our national history. From Jeffersons dry-docks and gunboats, to admirals, three...strategic importance of Key West and the Dry Tortugas--neither position, he believed...allayed with scattered fortifications or dry docks alone. Building on his earlier calls...
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The Curious History of Dry Tortugas National Park
Magazine article by Daniel Dustin, Robert Wolff, Alexis McKenney; Parks & Recreation, Vol. 34, September 1999
Subjects: Dry Tortugas, Environmental protection, Islands, National parks
The Curious History of Dry Tortugas National Park by Daniel Dustin...this regard, recreational use of Dry Tortugas National Park has presented few...tourists from abroad now include the Dry Tortugas, along with the Grand Canyon and...
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Oasis in the Gulf: Dry Tortugas National Park Offers Visitors a Glimpse into America's Past and the Chance to Explore an Underwater Wonderland
Magazine article by Michael Garlock; World and I, Vol. 14, December 1999
Subjects: Coast defenses--History, Dry Tortugas--Description and travel, Historic sites--Description and travel, National parks and reserves--Description and travel, National parks--Description and travel
Oasis in the Gulf: Dry Tortugas National Park Offers Visitors a Glimpse...environment," concluded Taylor. The Dry Tortugas and Fort Jefferson have not changed...information Information about Dry Tortugas Park can be obtained from Superintendent...
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The Tortuga Triangle
Magazine article by Daniel J. Lenihan; Natural History, Vol. 106, April 1997
Subjects: Archaeology, Dry Tortugas, Islands, Shipwrecks
...plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure...capsules located and studied in the Dry Tortugas are related to the construction...deliberately extended in 1908, when the Dry Tortugas were declared a preserve and breeding...
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New and Now
Magazine article by Stuart Kremsky; IAJRC Journal, Vol. 42, March 2009
...work so well. The herky-jerky rhythms of Bernards Dry Tortugas really get them to dig in for the ride, with a great...December 14-15, 2007; Chicken Pox/ Transkei/ Waltz/ Dry Tortugas/ Heaven/ Pianohaus/ Nothing To See/ Coming Down...
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2003 Sierra Club Outings: Over 350 Ways to Explore the World
Magazine article; Sierra, Vol. 88, January 2003
Subjects: Sierra Club--Services, Travel, Wilderness areas--Description and travel, Wilderness areas--Discovery, exploration, etc.
...Greg Pflug. Price: $655. 03055A Adventure in the Dry Tortugas and the Florida Keys. May 5-10. See pg. 77 for details...Jackson. Price: $1,075. 03065A Adventure in the Dry Tortugas and the Florida Keys. May 5-10. Let your thoughts...
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newspaper articles on: Dry Tortugas  - 30 results

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States Might Allow Larger Striper Haul
Newspaper article by Gene Mueller; The Washington Times, August 30, 2000
...on the ASFMCs web page at www.asmfc.org. DRY TORTUGAS OVERFISHED - In the Dry Tortugas National Park, south of the Florida Peninsula...owns Stock Island Lobster Co. and fishes the Tortugas for lobster, stone crab, snapper and grouper...
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Go to the Web to Navigate Deals for a Florida Vacation
Newspaper article by Judy Babcock Wylie; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 9, 2005
...Studios; and research any of the National Park Service Florida locations, including Big Cypress National Preserve, Dry Tortugas National Park and Everglades National Park. The site also includes a Florida forum and a message board about Florida...
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GO WITH THE FLO; Make Sure You've Got Plenty of Time to Spare If You Want to Experience Everything That the Florida Keys Has to Offer, as GARY MORLEY Discovered
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), May 30, 2010
...Kermits Key Lime Shoppe to sample the local variety of Floridas famous dessert pie. Key West is also the gateway to the Dry Tortugas National Park, a protected area of coral reefs teeming with fish. But there was, I fear, too little time to explore...
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From Wildlife Refuge to Parking Lot, Florida Trip Proves Fruitful
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 8, 2010
Subjects: Birds, Natural areas, Nature reserves, Parking lots
...any state except Illinois. Some of my best birding memories are from Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, the Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Park. I keep a list of birds seen in Florida and enjoy the challenge of adding to it. In December, my big...
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Mudd Family's Latest Bid to Clear Name Fails Again
Newspaper article by Joyce Howard Price; The Washington Times, March 30, 2001
Subjects: Booth, John Wilkes
...top government officials. The doctor was sentenced to life in prison and sent to a military prison in the waterless Dry Tortugas near Key West, Fla. He remained incarcerated there for four years and saved the lives of guards and other prisoners...
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Dry Tortugas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DRY TORTUGAS tortoo g z, island group in the Gulf...island. Centered on Garden Key is Dry Tortugas National Park (64,701 acres/26...The island group is also known as Tortugas...
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Dry Tortugas National Park
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK see under Dry Tortugas . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Fort Jefferson National Monument
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FORT JEFFERSON NATIONAL MONUMENT see Dry Tortugas National Park under Dry Tortugas . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...North Americas highest mountain; wildlife preserve. Dry Tortugas NP S Fla. 1935 64,701 (26,195) Contains Fort...masonry fort in the Western Hemisphere, built 1846. See Dry Tortugas . Everglades PE S Fla. 1934 1,508,580 (610,761...
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Mudd, Samuel Alexander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...did not know of Lincolns assassination, but was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, Fla. Since Mudd had nothing to do with the assassination and since Edward Spangler, the sceneshifter at Fords Theater...


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