[PDF.09xu] Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928

Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928

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 | #1125124 in Books |  2006-06-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.68 x.56 x6.82l,.75 | File type: PDF | 268 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Killer 'Cane Review|By wxnotes|From a modern perspective, the farming communities near Lake Okeechobee in the 1920s were primed for a major disaster. Drawn by the lure of the rich black soil, farmers braved frequent droughts, floods, blistering heat in the summer, frost in the winter, and swarms of mosquitoes year round in hopes of making a fortune selling vegetables. For Henr| |Mykle does a nice job of portraying Everglades frontier life: the moonshine, the politics, the path of development. (Michael Grunwald The New Republic)

Mykle sifted through Florida history―geographic, economic, meteorological and culturalâ€

Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had beli...

You easily download any file type for your device.Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928   |  Robert Mykle. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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