FLauthor
Hero Member
- Aug 22, 2004
- 770
- 204
- Detector(s) used
- Excalibur 800; Fisher F5; White Beachmaster VLF
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Many years ago I worked for Kellyco and the one question that always came up was "Where do I go hunt?". I'd gathered quite a selection of TH'ing sites that I knew I'd never be able to hunt. So I put a loose collection together and placed it on the shelf at Kellyco for a few bucks. It quickly sold out so I rewrote the book: Where to Metal Detect in Central Florida: 40 pages, later came Where to Metal Detect in South Florida: 40 pages; then I added a 72 page book: Forts, Camps & Batteries of Florida. Later I added Pennsylvania Forts: 50 pages; Ohio: 26 pages; Tenn: 50 pages and Georgia: 36. I started a Virginia book but never finished it, guess I ran out of steam.
Someone recently mentioned that my books lacked illustrations, maps and stuff found in other books. Some of the books have maps and illustrations but these books were never intended to sit on a shelf they were to be taken into the field and notes taken. You want maps then do like I did and request the catalog from National Archives, Special List 29: List of Selected Maps of States and Territories and spend money for copies as I did. Go into County Tax offices and buy their old reproduced map copies from the 1800's and build a collection.
Maybe one day, I'll find a publisher who will print my books and put a ISBN number on them and then you'll find it at Barnes & Noble. But for now, they are available from Kellyco Metal Detectors in Winter Springs, FL.
I've only had two people contact me on my books: one was a mistake I made on a page which I corrected and the other from a Relic Hunter who found a virgin Confederate encampment on a hillside and was afraid to leave lest someone else should chance upon it. I didn't do this to make money, I did this to help other TH'ers in their quest to find historic relics before it corrodes into dust. Good luck!
Someone recently mentioned that my books lacked illustrations, maps and stuff found in other books. Some of the books have maps and illustrations but these books were never intended to sit on a shelf they were to be taken into the field and notes taken. You want maps then do like I did and request the catalog from National Archives, Special List 29: List of Selected Maps of States and Territories and spend money for copies as I did. Go into County Tax offices and buy their old reproduced map copies from the 1800's and build a collection.
Maybe one day, I'll find a publisher who will print my books and put a ISBN number on them and then you'll find it at Barnes & Noble. But for now, they are available from Kellyco Metal Detectors in Winter Springs, FL.
I've only had two people contact me on my books: one was a mistake I made on a page which I corrected and the other from a Relic Hunter who found a virgin Confederate encampment on a hillside and was afraid to leave lest someone else should chance upon it. I didn't do this to make money, I did this to help other TH'ers in their quest to find historic relics before it corrodes into dust. Good luck!
