Fire Island
Subtitle: heroes and villains on Long Island's wild shore
By: Jack Whitehouse
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781596298590
Subjects: Anecdotes; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Who discovered Fire Island?; title: How Fire Island got it's name; title: Captain Kidd's Fire Island treasure; title: The royal fishes; title: West Sayville's Widow Molly Inn; title: The first Purple Heart; title: The truth about Fire Island pirate Jeremiah Smith; title: The mystery at Old Inlet; title: The Sumpwam's Creek incident; title: The memory of Margaret Fuller; title: Call him Ishmael; title: The face in the rigging; title: Fire Island's splinter fleet navy heroes; title: Bay Shore and its near, forgotten heroes; title: U.S.S. Northern Pacific and the heroes of Fire Island; title: Fire Island's flying Santa.