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Index
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Contents
I. Achievers and Pioneers
1. The Florida Birth of Hitler’s Buzz-Bombs
2. Key Marco: The Treasure and the Scandal
3. The Romance of a “Heavenly” Railroad
4. Springtime for a Resort Queen
5. St. Pete’s Visionary Town Planner
6. Miami’s Heritage: A Doctor Remembered
7. David Fairchild’s Exotic Fairyland
8. When Jacksonville Was “Hollywood”
9. The Stormy Origins of the Phosphate Industry
10. Mr. “Jiggs” Opens the Swamp Country
11. Winter Park: A Fantasy-cum-Reality
12. From Swamp to Florida Showplace
13. School Marm in the Woods
14. The Count of Tampa Bay
15. Of Rare Birds and Fine Art
16. The Arabian Nights of Glenn Curtiss
17. Black Star out of Jacksonville
II. Villains and Characters
18. Bedlam Reigns in an “Ideal” Town
19. The Barker Gang’s Last Square-Off
20. When Cow Land Was Another Country
21. The Vigilantes of Sarasota
22. The Odd Couple: Merchant and Gunslinger
23. The Uncertain Heroics of Colonel Titus
24. The Last of the Wreckers
25. The Bogus Treasure of Key Largo
26. The Great Railroad Paper Caper
27. He Cracked His Whip over an Empire
28. Those Intrepid Key West Wreckers
29. Florida’s Mystery Land Grab
III. Heroes and Heroines
30. Booker T. Sweeps Gainesville
31. The Tragedy of a Native Pocahontas
32. Martyrdom Cracks an Evil System
33. The Deliverance of Jonathan Dickinson
34. Colonel Newnan Sidesteps a Massacre
35. Florida’s First Reform Mayor
36. Sarasota’s Redoubtable Dowager Queen
37. The Ordeal of Juan Ortiz
38. The Foiled Plot to Steal Florida
39. Dr. Adamo, Reluctant Hero
IV. War and Peace
40. Politics Past: From Warts to Images
41. Almost the State’s First Town
42. When Tobacco Was King
43. Restored: A Golden Era’s Symbol
44. David Yulee’s Tragic Dream
45. Florida’s Haunted Gibraltar
46. Of Red Hopes and White Politics
47. The Indians’ Last War Path
48. Florida’s Presidential Darkhorse
49. The Legendary Island of Useppa
50. Tilting for a County Seat
51. From Sawgrass to White House
52. When Land Sold by the Gallon
53. Governor Gilchrist’s Undulating Road
54. President Wilson’s Miami Cable War
55. Native Rebs against the Rebels
56. The Historic Romance of Silver Springs
V. Calamities and Social Turbulence
57. The Stormy Reign of a Mighty Mite
58. Carry Nation Dries Up Miami
59. Massacre in Southeast Florida
60. The “Arrest” of Henry Flagler
61. When Dunnellon Was Wild and Woolly
62. A Rail Union’s Dream Town—Venice
63. Baiting and Switching on Sarasota Bay
64. The Toll of a “Killer” Inlet
65. The “Miracle” Execution
66. The Burning of Old St. Augustine
67. The Case of the Reluctant Bridegroom
Bibliography
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