TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knight,Henry
TI  - Tropic of hopes: California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929 
AV  - HC107.F6 K58 2013eb
U1  - 330.9759 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Florida
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - California
KW  - Population
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Our" tropical lands: reinventions of California and Florida after the Civil War -- A climate for health and wealth: the lure of tropical leisure on American soil -- The fruits of labor: boosterist visions of republican renewal and semi-tropical agriculture -- Desert and swamp: the conquest of tropical nature in the progressive era -- "New edens of the Saxon home-seeker": Los Angeles, Miami, and semi-tropical urban life
N2  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10763665
ER  -