Suggested Reading on Montauk & Long Island
Ayres, A. J. | The Legends of Montauk with an Historical Index Edwin Hunt, 1849 |
Barnes, Gean Finch | Tales of the High Hills Town of East Hampton, 1975 |
Bookbinder, Bernie | Long Island: People and Places, Past and Present Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983 |
Cavett, Dick | Long Island’s Lighthouses CinDel Productions & News12, 2001 |
Cook, Paul T. | From Montauk to… Vantage Press, 2004 |
Crowley, Jim | Lighthouses of New York Hope Farm Press, 2000 |
Clavin, Tom | Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican International Marine/McGraw Hill, 2005 |
Cummings, Mary | Hurricane in the Hamptons, 1938 Arcadia Publishing, 2006 |
Daniels, Norton W. | My East Hampton Privately Printed, 1991 |
Drumm, Russell | In the Slick of the Cricket Pushcart Press, 1997 |
Epstein, Jason and Barlow, Elizabeth | East Hampton: A History and Guide Medway Press, Inc., 1975 |
Edwards, Everett J. and Rattray, Jeannette Edwards | Whale Off! The Story of American Shore Whaling Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932 |
Ferguson, Eleanor F. | My Long Island Scrub Oak Press, 1993 |
Filer, Hugh C. | Life in East Hampton Seventy Years Ago Privately Printed, 1967 |
Newsday | Long Island, Our Story Newsday Inc., 1998 |
Healy, Clem | South Fork Cemeteries Acadia Publishing, 2006 |
Krieg, Joann P. | Evoking a Sense of Place Heart of the Lakes, 1988 |
Lamonaca, Marianne | Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: the Architecture of Schultz & Weaver Princeton Architectural Press, 2005 |
MVA | The Salty Thumb: Your Garden by the Sea Montauk Village Association, 1967 |
Miller, Mary E. Mulford | An East Hampton Childhood Star Press, 1938 |
Monroe, Forest | Maid of Montauk William R. Jenkins, 1902 |
Murphy, Robert Cushman |
Fish Shape Paumanok: Nature and Man on Long Island American Philosophical Society, 1964 |
Osmers, Henry | American Gibraltar: Montauk and the Wars of America Outskirts Press, Inc., 2011 |
Osmers, Henry | Living on the Edge: Life at the Montauk Point Lighthouse 1930-1945 Outskirts Press, Inc., 2009 |
Osmers, Henry | On Eagle’s Beak: a History of the Montauk Point Lighthouse Outskirts Press, 2008 |
Osmers, Henry | They Were Strangers: the Wreck of the John Milton at Montauk, New York Outskirts Press, 2010 |
Prime, William Cowper |
The Old House by the River Harper & Brothers, 1874 |
Parsons, Charles | Montauk Point, Long Island: an 1871 Visit Harper’s Magazine, 1871 |
Porco, Joan Powers | Holding Back the Tide: the Thirty-Five Year Struggle to Save Montauk Harbor Electronic Publishing, 2005 |
Rattray, Everett T. | The South Fork: The Land and the People of Eastern Long Island Random House, 1979 |
Rattray, Jeannette Edwards | Montauk: Three Centuries of Romance, Sport and Adventure Star Press, 1938 |
Rattray, Jeannette Edwards | Ship Ashore! A Record of Maritime Disasters Off Montauk and Eastern Long Island, 1640-1955 Coward, McCann, Inc., 1955 |
Sahre, Paul | Leisurama now: the beach house for everyone 1964- Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 |
Schmitt, Frederick P. | H. M. S. Culloden Marine Historical Assoc., 1961 |
Stone, Gaynell, ed. | The History and Archaeology of the Montauk , Volume III Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1993 Nassau County Archaeological Committee |
Strong, John A. | The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island Syracuse University Press, 2001 |
Strong, John A. | We Are Still Here!”: the Algonquain Peoples of Long Island Today” Empire State Books, 1996 |
Strong, John A. | The Algonquain Peoples of Long Island From Earliest Times to 1700 Empire State Books, 1997 |
Winski, Peg | Montauk: An Anecdotal History Montauk Historical Society, 1997 |
Juvenile Books on Montauk & Long Island History:
Cook, Paul T. | The Adventures of Mon and Tauk Vantage Press, 2005 |
East Hampton Library | The Children’s History of East Hampton Guild Hall East Hampton, 2001 |
Farrington, S. Kip | Bill the Broadbill Swordfish Coward McCann, Inc., 1942 |
Grimshaw, Kenneth | My Friend Michale: A True Story About The Real Jaws Self published, 2010 |
Kent, Zachary | The Story of the Rough Riders Children’s Press, 1991 |
Klein, John F. | A Day in the Life of a Commercial Fisherman Gaskin, Carol Troll Associates, 1988 |
Scarry, Huck | Life on a Fishing Boat Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983 |
Stoff, Joshua | From Canoes to Cruisers: The Maritime Heritage of Long Island Empire State Books, 1994 |
Weiner, Sandra | I Want to be a Fisherman Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977 |
Zim, Herbert S. | Commercial Fishing Krantz, Lucretia William Morrow & Company, 1973 |
Moore, Eva | Lucky Ducklings Orchard Books, 2013 |