Standiford fleshes out Flagler’s remarkable career as hotel-builder and resort-developer, portraying him as an innovative entrepreneur with an unflagging faith in himself and in his structural engineers. Rockefeller and an extremely wealthy man himself, courtesy of Standard Oil, has decided to develop Florida. Henry Flagler, a trusted associate of John D. Just as a 20-foot tidal wave hits a train, the author whisks us away to the year 1904. Among those scurrying around trying to protect life and property were Ernest Hemingway, whose house and boat suffered minor damage, and Bertrand Russell, who lost family members and very nearly died himself. He begins at the end: Labor Day, 1935, when a massive hurricane struck the Keys, an event exhaustively detailed in William Drye’s Storm of the Century (above). 296, etc.) owes much to those professional historians who dug out the details of the remarkable story he swiftly and ably summarizes. A History Lite tale chronicles the building, between 18, of the 156-mile railroad from Miami to Key West, once billed as the Eighth Wonder of the World.Īs he readily acknowledges, Florida resident and novelist Standiford ( Bone Key, p.
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