Florida's Past

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Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
I. Achievers and Pioneers
	1. Dad Gandy’s “Crazy” Bridge
	2. Dr. Wall Corrals Yellow Fever
	3. Mary Bethune Builds a College
	4. Mother Tuttle of Miami
	5. “Dark Horse” Dave Wins Governorship
	6. Zora Neale Hurston: Florida’s Black Novelist
	7. Dr. Gorrie Cools Florida Off
	8. Young Whitaker Discovers Sarasota
	9. DuPont Rescues Florida’s Busted Banks
	10. Florida—A Wellspring for Delius’ Music
	11. The Bohemian Birth of Coconut Grove
	12. T. T. Fortune: Florida’s Black Militant
	13. Sidney Lanier: Poet Turned Promoter
	14. Horticulturist Dr. Perrine’s Senseless Death
	15. Marjorie Rawlings Portrays Florida to the World
	16. Educator Holt Remakes Rollins College
	17. The Greeks Conquer the Sponge Industry
	18. St. Petersburg’s “Romanov Connection”
II. Villains and Characters
	19. Banker Ed Romfh: Supreme Iconoclast
	20. “Bone” Mizelle Was a Cowboy’s Cowboy
	21. The Notorious Ashley Gang
	22. Miami’s Horrendous “Guest,” Al Capone
	23. He Narrowly Missed Killing FDR
	24. The Denouement of “Bloody” Ed Watson
	25. Eccentric Prince Murat Dazzles Tallahassee
	26. Florida’s Dubious Dynasty: The Porkchop Gang
	27. A Florida Boy Joins Lincoln’s Assassins
	28. When Palm Beach Courted Royalty
III. Heroes and Heroines
	29. The “Little Alamo” at Cape Florida
	30. Peggy O’Neale: “Scandalous” First Lady
	31. Osceola: The Seminole Patriot
	32. Jackie Cochran: Born to Fly
	33. Sister Bedell Woos the Indians
	34. Jonathan Walker: Freedom Symbol
	35. He Replaced Another on the Gallows
	36. Lake Okeechobee’s “She-Doctor”
	37. Lakeland’s Female Lindbergh: Ruth Elder
	38. Father Luis’ Cross Conquers the Sword
	39. Florida’s Heroines for Suffrage
IV. War and Peace
	40. Fast Cars, Rich Men at Ormond-Daytona
	41. Pristine Lake Worth is Discovered
	42. When Nazi U-boats Stalked Florida
	43. The War Over a Rogue’s Ear
	44. Bartram Remembers Florida’s Eden
	45. Tampa’s “Splendid Little War”
	46. The “Dogs of War” Who Were Puppies
	47. A Surgeon Assesses the Seminole War
	48. Governor Milton: A Civil War Tragedy
	49. The Healing Beauty of Bok’s Tower
	50. The Rise and Fall of Carl Fisher’s Miami Beach
	51. Florida’s Great Train Race of 1901
	52. Kissimmee’s World-Famed Airplane Law
	53. A Private’s Eye-View of the Olustee Battle
V. Calamities and Social Turbulence
	54. A Killer ’Cane Hits Okeechobee Land
	55. To Burn in a Turpentine Hell
	56. The Notorious Alston-Read Duel
	57. The “Binder Boys” Burst the Great Boom Bubble
	58. Tampa Terror and the Cigar Strike of 1910
	59. The Infamous “Gulags” of Florida’s Past
	60. Armed Only with Integrity, Governor Carlton Faced Violence
	61. The Flagler Divorce Law Furor
	62. Near Riot at the Jacksonville Prizefight
	63. Bad Faith and Avarice Felled a Banking Empire
Bibliography
Index