• Grand Bahama in 1887 from L. D. Powle The Land of the Pink Pearl or Recollections of Life in the Bahamas.
• Grand Bahama in 1891 from Stark's History and Guide to the Bahama Islands.
• Grand Bahama in 1917 from Amelia Defries In a Forgotten Colony
• Grand Bahama in 1924 from The Tribune Handbook
• Grand Bahama in 1926 from Mary Mosley The Bahamas Handbook.
• Grand Bahama in 1931 from Nassau and the Treasure Islands of the Bahamas
• Grand Bahama in 1934 from Maj. H. M. Bell Bahamas: Isles of June
• The Bahamas in 1964 from Benedict Thielen The Bahamas-Golden Archipelago
• Grand Bahama in 1967 Moral Panic, Gambling. and the Good Life
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Moral Panic in the '60s:
Gambling and Grand Bahama

In the mid 1960s, the legalization of casino gambling in the Bahamas touched off fears among U.S. authorities that the dreaded Mafia—as personified by Meyer Lansky—might be having a field day in the islands. The excitement began in October 1966 with a Wall Street Journal article revealing conniving and corruption between Wallace Groves' Grand Bahama Development Co. and the old-guard Bahamian leadership starring the redoubtable Sir Stafford Sands and the Bay Street Boys. The following year Life magazine (Feb. 3, 1967) and the Saturday Evening Post (Feb. 25, 1967) joined in the fun. Ed Reid's chapter adds a little about Lou Chesler... Since much of this concerned Grand Bahama, I have included these articles, one from Newsweek (1964) and a part of an article from Queen, (25 Oct.,1967), as historical fodder for the interested reader.

• Davidson, Bill.The Mafia: Shadow of Evil on an Island in the Sun
• Karmin, Monroe W. and Penn, Stanley. Las Vegas East.
• Oulahan, Richard, and Lambert, William. The Scandal in the Bahamas
• Leslie, Ann. A Month in the Life of the Bahamas.(selection)
• Bonanaza in the Bahamas (1964)
• Reid, Ed. "Bahamas Hoodlum Sea" (chap. 7 from The Grim Reapers - 1970)