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Key West - History of an Island of Dreams (Hardcover)
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Key West - History of an Island of Dreams (Hardcover)
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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.
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