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Author_University Press of Florida
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Conch Republic
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Hemingway
Henry Flagler
Key West history
Native American History
Robert Frost
rumrunners
South Florida History
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780813029931
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 141 x 214mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2006
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Parrotheads, Hemingway aficionados, and sun worshipers view Key West as a tropical paradise, and scores of writers have set tales of mystery and romance on the island. The city's real story - told by Maureen Ogle in this lively and engaging illustrated account - is as fabulous as fiction. In the two centuries since the city's pioneer founders battled Indians, pirates, and deadly disease, ""Key West"" has stood at the crossroads of American history. In 1861, Union troops seized control of strategically located Key West. In the early 1890s, Key West Cubans helped Jose Marti launch the Cuban revolution, and a few years later the battleship Maine steamed out of Key West harbor on its last, tragic voyage. At the turn of the century, a technological marvel - the overseas railroad - was built to connect mainland Florida to Key West, and in the 1920s and 1930s, painters, rumrunners, and writers (including Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost) discovered Key West. During World War II, the federal government and the military war machine permanently altered the island's landscape, and in the second half of the 20th century, bohemians, hippies, gays, and jet-setters began writing a new chapter in Key West's social history.
Maureen Ogle is the author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of the Immigrants and Entrepreneurs Who Invented American Beer and All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890.
