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Welcome to Polk's General Store
Now many of the items in our museum gift shop are available online. We invite you to browse our selection of books, specialty food items and other fun Polk County Historical Museum souvenirs.
ORDER FORM
Polk's General Store currently accepts checks and money orders made payable to Polk County Historical Museum. Detailed ordering instructions are on the ordering form.
Note: If you would like to purchase an item from Polk's General Store online, simply download the order form. The downloadable form uses Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader please navigate to the left hand side of the screen under page tools and select 'Get Acrobat Reader' (free download). |
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| B-101 A Land Remembered (paperback) |
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$12.95 by Patrick D. Smith. Winner of the Florida Historical Society's Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel. "Here are three generations of the MacIvey family, from dirt poor crackers to wealthy real estate tycoons, in an epic portrayal of the American pioneer will to survive against all odds. Here is the sweeping story of the land, how at first bare survival is scratched from it and then how it is exploited far beyond human need. Here is a rich rugged history of Florida's pioneer spirit and natural world."
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| B-102 A Land Remembered Teacher's Resource (paperback) |
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$6.00 by Margaret Sessions Paschal. "Middle school teacher plans and resources for A Land Remembered: Student Edition. The vocabulary lists, comprehension questions, and post-reading activities for each chapter make this teacher's manual a valuable resource for middle schools using the novel A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith to explore Florida history and culture."
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| B-103 A Rogue's Paradise: Crime & Punishment in Antebellum Florida 1821-1861 (hardcover) |
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$9.95 by James M. Denham. "A fascinating and revealing portrait of law breaking and law enforcement on the Florida frontier. James M. Denham traces the growth and social development of this sparsely settled region through its experience with crime and punishment."
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| B-105 Black Seminole Legacy & North American Politics 1693-1845 (paperback) |
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$21.95 by Bruce Edward Twyman. "Using government documents the author shows how Black Seminoles affected and even influenced U.S. Presidents. The Black Seminole leader Abraham, is featured in the work. The book also reveals the important role of Black Seminoles in Spanish survival in Florida and in Florida's acquiring statehood. This book introduces new insights into Native and African American relationships."
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| B-107 Cracker Cookin' & Other Favorites (paperback) |
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$16.95 "Cookbook and restaurant guide to Florida's best eateries. A food - travel - and history lover's delight. As a combination cookbook/tour guide, Cracker Cookin' is so easy to use that Ponce de Leon himself would ask for it if he were here today."
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| B-108 Cracker Times & Pioneer Lives (hardcover) |
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$15.00 edited by James M. Denham & Canter Brown Jr. The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen & Sarah Pamela Williams. "This book brings together the stories of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, they shared the adventure, thrill, hardship and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era."
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| B-109 Crafts of Florida's First People (paperback) |
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$9.95 by Robin C. Brown. "Using materials that you can still find in Florida today, you can learn how to throw spears and darts, make pottery, weave cloth, mix paint, build traps, and even how to start a fire without using matches - just the way Florida's first people did it for thousands of years."
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| B-110 Customs & Traditions (paperback) |
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ON SALE: NOW $3.98 $7.95 by Bobbie Kalman & Tammy Everts. This book examines the customs and traditions of 19th century North American Communities.
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| B-111 Discover Groundwater (paperback) |
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$.50 Booklet by Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), an award-winning, nonprofit water education program and publisher. The program facilitates and promotes awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources. This is a 12 page booklet to help educate children on the importance of healthy groundwater and springs.
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| B-112 Echoes from a Distant Frontier (hardcover) |
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$30.00 edited by James M. Denham & Keith L. Huneycutt. The Brown Sisters' Correspondence from Antebellum Florida. "This book is a story that asks, can two well educated and sophisticated young sisters from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, find happiness on the rude, unsettled, and dangerous frontier of East Florida during the Second Seminole War? The answer is given by the sisters themselves in correspondence lovingly edited and thoroughly annotated by James M. Denham and Keith L. Huneycutt."
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| B-113 The Essential Catfish Cookbook (paperback) |
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$8.95 by Janet Cope & Shannon Harper. "Take mouth-watering recipes that call for succulent catfish and a variety of easy to find ingredients, stir in some tasty sauces, soups, stews, side dishes, and sandwiches, add a dash of tantalizing tidbits about the private life of the captivating catfish, and you have 'The Essential Catfish Cookbook'. This cookbook is user-friendly, and a must-have for cookbook collectors and catfish connoisseurs."
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| B-114 Famous Florida Orange Recipes (paperback) |
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$5.95 by Joyce LaFray. Famous recipes from some of the top chefs at famous Florida restaurants. This series is a repository of specialties from some of the best restaurants in the state. Many of the creations are found nowhere else."
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| B-115 Fish & Fishing (paperback) |
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$.50 by Booklet by Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), an award-winning, nonprofit water education program and publisher. The program facilitates and promotes awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources. This is a 14-page booklet for children containing fun fish facts, fishing equipment and types of fish.
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| B-116 Florida Fun Facts: 1001 Fun Questions & Answers (paperback) |
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$8.95 by Eliot Kleinberg. 2nd Edition. "From theme parks to ballparks, Miami to Tallahassee, every city and county in Florida is covered in this newly expanded edition. It's everything you need to know about Florida - and more!"
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| B-117 Florida Sheriffs: A History 1821-1945 (hardcover) |
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$26.95 by William Warren Rogers & James M. Denham. "Rogers and Denham present for the first time a documented and comprehensive account of Florida's sheriffs from 1821 through 1945. This book gives insight and depth to this important part of the state's history. This well-written and carefully researched narrative is marked by its objectivity, and is an important addition to understanding the individuals, both men and women, who enforced the laws of Florida."
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| B-118 Florida's Army: Militia/State Troops/National Guard 1565-1985 (hardcover) |
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$25.00 by Robert Hawk. "A comprehensive history of the Florida National Guard, the oldest militia tradition in America. The story is also told in pictures, as over 150 photographs illustrate the text. The appendices are invaluable research tools as they offer lists of war casualties never before compiled and published. Robert Hawk traces Florida's Army from its beginning more than 400 years ago in St. Augustine through the conflicts of this century."
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| B-119 Florida's Fossils: A Guide to Location, Identification & Enjoyment (paperback) |
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$18.95 by Robin C. Brown. "This book tells how and where to hunt fossils with maps, provides means of identification, and the history of these fossil treasures. Complete, accurate and fully illustrated, including an outstanding identification section and three original paintings by Christopher Kreider. This edition contains the latest information on where to hunt fossils in Florida."
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| B-120 Florida's Museums & Cultural Attractions (paperback) |
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$9.95 by Doris Bardon & Murray D. Laurie. "See Florida through the eyes of the natives, pioneers, artists, statesmen, writers, and flamboyant figures who called this state home throughout the centuries. You will find over 350 museums and cultural attractions to choose from in this comprehensive book."
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| B-121 Florida's Peace River Frontier (hardcover) |
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$39.95 by Canter Brown Jr. "In this book, Brown records the area's economic, social, political, and racial history in an account of violence, passion, struggle, sacrifice, and determination. This book will appeal to persons interested in Florida history, the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, African-American history, and the history of the American frontier."
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| B-122 Flowering Trees for Central & South Florida Gardens (paperback) |
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$10.95 by Maxine Fortune Schuetz. "Some of the flowering trees in this book may be unfamiliar to many Florida residents, but each is beautiful, or useful, or interesting and many of them deserve to become more common in our Florida landscape." Plant a tree!
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| B-126 Haunt Hunter's Guide to Florida (paperback) |
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$12.95 by Joyce Elson Moore. "Thirty-three of the most bone-chilling places in the Sunshine State. Whether you believe in ghosts or not - and some of those telling their stories here are former skeptics - you'll enjoy reading about Florida's colorful past and historic areas. Historic homes, theaters, parks and cultural centers are the focus of some of these hauntings."
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| B-127 Haunting Sunshine: Ghostly Tales from Florida's Shadows (paperback) |
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$10.95 by Jack Powell. "Spectral visions, footsteps in the attic, thumps in the night. Join your guide, author Jack Powell, on a wild ride from Pensacola to Jacksonville and down to Key West, touring Florida's places and history through some of its best ghost stories. Powell has woven together a creepy collection of tales. Explore the darker side of the Sunshine State."
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| B-128 History of the Polk County Court System 1861-1995 (hardcover) |
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ON SALE: NOW $10.00 by Bill Ruster. Follow from 1861 - 1995 the history of all four courthouses, all Constitutional Officers, plus many other stories and pictures. Bill Ruster was a major player in the justice system for more than 30 years.
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| B-129 Home Crafts (paperback) |
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ON SALE: NOW $3.98 $7.95 by Bobbie Kalman. A wide variety of home crafts are examined, including spinning and weaving, soap and candle making, and quilting.
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| B-130 How To Cook Your Catch (paperback) |
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| B-131 In the Midst of All That Makes Life Worth Living - Polk County to 1940 (hardcover) |
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$35.00 by Canter Brown Jr. "Readers seeking a typical local history will not find it in this book. Rather, they will discover the work of a senior historian who blends multi-layered context and insightful analysis with human detail to weave a vivid word portrait remarkable for its depth and breadth. Here is living, breathing history. Behold colorful characters, saints, sinners, and just ordinary folks."
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| B-132 Jacob Summerlin: King of the Crackers (paperback) |
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$17.95 by Joe A. Akerman, Jr. & J. Mark Akerman. "The life and times of Jacob Summerlin. Called King of the Crackers by some, he dearly loved what it implied, in his case, one careless of comfort and close to the earth." Cattle baron, philanthropist, successful merchant, veteran of three wars and an effective peacemaker, among other things, this book gives us a glimpse of Jacob Summerlin's life and character.
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| B-133 Kitchen (paperback) |
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ON SALE: NOW $3.98 $7.95 by Bobbie Kalman. This book takes a close look at a pioneer kitchen and examines the utensils used. Cooking, making bread and butter and preserving foods are among the topics discussed.
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| B-134 National Geographic Guide to America's Outdoors - Southeast (paperback) |
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ON SALE: NOW $7.00 $14.00 "In this practical informative richly illustrated guide, National Geographic takes you to the best nature sites in the Southeast US and tells you what you need to know about the landscape, plants, animals, activities and recreation - to experience them fully." This guide covers South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama & Florida.
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| B-135 Nature of Florida (paperback) |
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ON SALE: NOW $7.25 $14.50 by John Perry & Jane Greverus Perry. "Written for tourists and natives alike, this book explores the landscape beyond the familiar theme parks, golf courses and beaches to open new vistas of the lovely places nearby - great watery wildernesses, wide prairies, pine forests, silent rivers, and thousands of lakes. The Perrys describe and tell how to find some of Florida's best kept natural secrets."
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| B-136 None Can Have Richer Memories: Polk County 1940-2000 (hardcover) |
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$39.95 by Canter Brown, Jr. "Readers will discover a fascinating world, one that sprang from trials of the Great Depression and World War II to dizzying heights of economic prosperity and cutting edge development before staggering from blows of nature and of man. You will not regret joining in on this truly remarkable historical journey."
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| B-137 One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream (paperback) |
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ON SALE: NOW $6.98 $13.95 by Phyllis Vine. Winner of the Great Lakes Book Award. "In 1925 the NAACP approached Clarence Darrow to defend Ossian Sweet - a highly respected black doctor who, after integrating an all white neighborhood in Detroit, found himself the victim of a community attack. When Sweet and his family fought back, they were caught in a melee in which a white man was fatally shot. The trial that ensued would test the basic tenets of the American Dream - the right of a man to defend his own home."
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| B-138 Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor (hardcover) |
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$7.50 by Canter Brown Jr. "In this biography, Brown removes Ossian Bingley Hart from the shadows of history. Through an examination of Hart's life and career, Brown offers new insight into the political problems of the day - the role of Unionism in Deep South politics in particular - and enriches our understanding of the complexities of Reconstruction."
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| B-139 Peace River Pioneers (hardcover) |
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$9.95 by Louise K. Frisbie. "Frisbie invites the reader to explore this part of Florida with her, from the time when it was the sole domain of the Seminole Indians to the years of the big land boom in the mid-1920's, and to meet the colorful people of the Peace River Valley. In text and historic pictures, the author gives a factual account of one of the oldest sections of Florida."
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| B-140 Pioneer Projects (paperback) |
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$7.95 by Bobbie Kalman. This book presents instructions for handcrafts and activities in the spirit of the pioneers, including decoupage, rug hooking, cornhusk dolls, and making a Jacob's Ladder.
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| B-141 Recollections of Time Gone By (spiralbound paperback) |
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$20.00 written by Ray Albritton, illustrated by Marty Zimmerman & compiled and edited by Freddie & Hugh Wright. "Prepare yourself for a treat. You'll find a wealth of good reading in Ray Albritton's recollection of hard-scrabble times. All of his accounts are included in this collection, along with previously unpublished articles and a set of articles about his adventures in World War II."
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| B-145 Sunshine State Cookbook (paperback) |
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$9.95 by George S. Fichter. "In this collection you will find easy to follow recipes that range from the comforting to the fantastical. You will become acquainted with the exotic fruits and vegetables found in the Sunshine State, get tips on the proper ways to handle and prepare seafood, and find new ways to liven up familiar vegetables and meats. Whether you're a Florida visitor, newcomer, or resident, let gourmet cook George Fichter tempt your palate."
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| B-147 Tellable Cracker Tales (hardcover) |
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$14.95 by Annette J. Bruce. "Meet Cracker Jack, Sneaky Sam, Gator Tadd, and a host of other colorful characters in this rich collection of Annette Bruce's tellable tales drawn from Florida history, folklore, and fiction. All of Annette's stories entertain as they gently instruct, and all are chock-full of colorful characters living their lives amid the rich landscapes of old Florida." Pull up a chair and start your own storytelling tradition with gems from this collection.
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| B-148 Where the River Begins (paperback) |
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$3.99 by Thomas Locker. A children's book featuring beautiful illustrations. Read the tale of two boys and their grandfather embarking on a journey to discover for themselves, where the river begins.
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| B-149 Yesterday's Polk County (hardcover) |
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$9.95 by Louise K. Frisbie. "Although this book reaches back into history for more than 130 years, it is as new as tomorrow. It contains facts not previously documented by even the most knowledgeable history buffs, and rare, previously unpublished photos of people and their surroundings during the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th."
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| B-150 Birds of Florida (paperback) |
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$5.95 by Francis Wyly Hall. Florida is a bird lover's paradise. There are permanent residents as well as northern birds that only spend the winter with us. This book contains many black and white sketches, some color drawings, and brief descriptions of the diverse bird species that make Florida their home.
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| B-151 One Tank Trips Vol. 1 (paperback) |
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$9.95 Fox 13 Tampa Bay presents One Tank Trips with Bill Murphy. Here's the perfect guide to off-beat adventures and attractions in the Sunshine State - one for every weekend of the year. Let Bill Murphy give you the inside story on these unique places and diversions.
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| B-152 One Tank Trips Vol. 2 (paperback) |
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$9.95 Fox 13 Tampa Bay presents More One Tank Trips with Bill Murphy. The original One Tank Trips book made Florida's best seller list and it was such a big success that Bill was asked to hit the road again and find 52 new destinations.
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| B-153 One Tank Trips Vol. 3 (paperback) |