| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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Book Review

Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism. By Stuart McIver. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvii + 187 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.
Both the title and the preface state that this book is about the 1905 murder of Florida game warden Guy Bradley. In fact, the book covers three topics: (1) the impact of late-nineteenth-century human encroachment on the environment of South Florida, (2) the origins of the Teddy Roosevelt-era conservation movement, and (3) the murder of Bradley.	1
South Florida in the 1880s is presented as a region beautiful yet wild, untamed and frightening. Its saltwater marshes and mangrove swamps held man-eating alligators (one of which, we are told, even once devoured a postman), monstrous snakes, predatory sharks and, most notably, enormous rookeries of spectacular plume birds such as egrets, herons, flamingoes, spoonbills, and ibis, to mention only the more important species.	. . .

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