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Hammer, Roger (2005). Everglades National Park and the Surrounding Area: A Guide to Exploring the Great Outdoors, Morris Book Publishing, LLC. ISBN 9780762734320
p. 73:
Flamingo was also a place of murder and intrigue. There is a plaque located at the base of the stairs of the Flamingo ranger station that honors Guy Bradley, a onetime resident plume hunter who was appointed as the Monroe County deputy sheriff and game warden in June 1902. He was charged with enforcing a new law that made it illegal to shoot plume birds for the millinery trade. On July 8, 1905, Bradley heard gunshots ring across Florida Bay from the Oyster Keys just offshore of Flamingo, so he made a journey out to the islands in his skiff to investigate. There he encountered Walter Smith and he two sons shooting plume birds. An argument ensued and Smith shot Bradley dead. Smith then fled to Key West, where he turned himself in, claiming self-defense. A Key West grand jury failed to indict Smith and he walked away a free man. Bradley was buried on Cape Sable, but Hurricane Donna ravaged his gravesite in 1960 and his body was lost to the sea. A park employee found his original gravestone and it is now a part of the Flamingo Visitor Center interpretive displays. A memorial plaque was donated by Tropical Audubon Society and is located outside of the Flamingo Visitor Center. It reads: AUDUBON WARDEN WAS SHOT AND KILLED OFF THIS SHORE BY OUTLAW FEATHER HUNTERS, JULY 8, 1905. HIS MARTYRDOM CREATED NATIONWIDE INDIGNATION, STRENGTHENED BIRD PROTECTION LAWS AND HELPED BRING EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK INTO BEING.
Tebeau, Charlton W. (1963) They Lived in the Park: The Story of Man in the Everglades National Park, University of Miami Press.
p. 75: Guy and Louis Bradley first visited Everglades in 1885 with Jean Chevelier in an expedition on the Bonton. I included mention of this expedition in the Exploration section of the Draining article. With the Bradleys and Chevelier was Henry Wagner, 17-year-old grandson of a Miami resident who became unnerved by the wildness of the Everglades.
p. 145-146: Guy and Louis' parents were Edwin R. and Lydia Bradley who settled in Orlando in the 1870s. Edwin a postal worker who also lived in Melbourne and Lantana. Father was a barefoot mailman who delivered mail from Palm Beach to Miami and also served as Dade County School superintendent and head of Florida Coast Line and Transportation Company and the Model Land Company that sold land for the railroads. Moved to Flamingo after they acquired 1/4 mile each for Edwin, Guy, and Louis, and where Edwin worked as the postmaster.
p. 155: Guy served as guide for ornithologists.
p. 169: Guy once refused to guide ornithologist Frank Chapman to Cuthbert Rookery (named for the first plume hunter to find it) because the birds had been depleted there. Louis and another man named Melch Roberts guided Chapman and two other naturalists there in 1908. Chapman later wrote, "Cuthbert Rookery should be preserved both because it is a fine example of a type of communal bird life for which Florida was once distinguished and because it will be the last refuge for several species of birds, which, without such protection, will shortly become extinct in the United States."
p. 170:
Bradley's death in 1905 in pursuit of his commission to prevent the slaughter of the newly-protected birds gave the cause a martyr, and his sponsors called national attention to the conservation problem involved. The murder of Warden C. G. McLeod in the seame service near Charlotte Harbor three years later added fuel to the burning seal of the protectors of birds.
Reviewer: Sasata (talk) 17:39, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I've signed up for this review. I'll have some comments here in a day or two. Sasata (talk) 17:39, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Very interesting read. I have a number of suggestions and comments, all relatively minor (and feel free to disagree):
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sasata (talk • contribs) 01:25, July 15, 2010
Thanks for making the changes, I've suggested a couple of links above. The article certainly meets all GA criteria and I'm promoting it now. Sasata (talk) 15:49, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yay! --Moni3 (talk) 15:55, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any explanation as to how Edwin stepped up from being warden of a hostel and postman to superintendent of education in such a short time? Even in those days, I would have thought that a superintendent of education would need some experience in teaching and leading a school. Kevin McE (talk) 12:05, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have removed some obvious vandalism forn the article. Including : the martian desert, evil chicken etc
Nmac-YK (talk) 23:56, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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