Pioneering Palm Beach: the Deweys and the South Florida frontier 9781614236689, 9781609496579, 1614236682

Palm Beach's sunny and idyllic shores had humble beginnings as a wilderness of sawgrass and swamps only braved by t

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English Pages (126 pages) : illustrations Year 2012

Pioneering Palm Beach: the Deweys and the South Florida frontier
9781614236689, 9781609496579, 1614236682

Author / Uploaded
Ginger L Pedersen;Janet M DeVries;Pedersen
Ginger

Table of contents :
Foreword / by Harvey E. Oyer III --
The Spilmans and the Taylors --
"One Awful Night in My Tenth Year" --
Westward to the Land of Lincoln --
Begin to Talk Florida --
The Dreamer of Dreams --
Night in a Long White-Draped Room --
The Lake Worth Country --
The Hermitage --
The Blessed Isle --
The King Arrives in the Jungle --
The Great Freeze and the Orphaned Town --
A New Century and New Challenges --
The Bird Whisperer and the Journey Home.

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