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Tropic of hopes : California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929

An examination of how land barons, railroad kingpins, and journalists, among others, "sold" Americans on the idea of Florida and California as a paradise within reach

Print Book, English, ©2013
University Press of Florida, Gainesville, ©2013