5.0

Don't be deceived by the size of John Cuevas's Cat Island: The History of a Mississippi Gulf Coast Barrier Island. While under 200 pages, it is filled with the exhaustive history of the T-shaped island. Full of photos, illustrations, charts, graphs and maps, this book leaves no stone of the island unturned.
Cuevas provides an extremely detailed account of his personal ancestry and the island's heritage. This single island has an amazing history full of pirates, soldiers, Seminoles, and gangsters. It boasts of lighthouses, turpentine and lumber businesses, and top secret military dog training. That's quite a variety and that's not even the whole list!

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