The alligator Florida s most feared, maligned animal. From the time European settlers first stepped onto Florida soil, the alligator has been a target of dread and revulsion and the hunter s gun.

Collected here are true (and tongue-in-cheek) accounts of alligators and the people who have hunted them, been attacked by them, and tried to save them from extinction. Journey through the Everglades with 1800 s Seminoles, experts at stalking and killing gators. Go along with a Northern girl as she shoots my first alligator in my glove and veil. And learn how modern alligator hunters go about...