Salvage of a sunken slave ship, devastating hurricanes and the odd doings
of locals such as Jimmy Buffett and Hemingway's cats.

Introduction (1) Hard Aground on the Reef: The Demise of the U.S.S. Alligator - 1822 (2) Double Cross: Salvaging the Slaver Guerrero - 1827 (3) Massacre on Indian Key - 1840 (4) Muddy Waters: Truth and Consequences - 1865 (5) Key West Cigars: Up in Smoke - 1886 (6) First Train to Paradise - 1912 (7) Catching the Big One: Zane Grey and the Long Key Fishing Camp - 1919 (8) Against all Protocol: Battle in the Florida Straits - 1943 (9) Mother Nature's Fury: The Labor Day Hurricane - 1935 (10) Sabotage in the Mangroves: Litnumvitae key and the Bay of Pigs - 1961 (11) Island at War: Key West and the Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962 (12) Flotilla to Freedom: The Flooding of Key West - 1980 (13) If at First You Don't Secede . . . - 1982 (14) Fat Albert's Great Escape - 1984 (15) Drowning the African Queen - 1992 (16) True Lies on the Seven Mile Bridge - 1993 (17) Chained to the Mother Lode - 2000 (18) The Serendipitous Sinking of the Spiegel Grove - 2002 (19) Marooned in Marathon - 2005