Venice: Journey from Horse and Chaise and 50 similar items

Birkitts Books presents ... Venice: Journey from Horse and Chaise ISBN: 0962198609 Author: Matthews, Janet S. Publisher: Pine Level Pr Release Date: 1989 Seller Category: Florida Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Good Sku: 241104008 Notes: The top of the jacket is tattered and creased, moderate wear, binding sound, front endpage has a gift inscription. The land which became Venice, Florida, was a wild and beautiful wilderness of peninsulas and bays. Wildlife abounded along ancient waterways and inland springs. Huge pine forests once stretched to Gulf shores. Prehistoric Indians came to the land. They hunted and fished. They were present when the great ships of the Spanish conquistadores sailed offshore, headed for mythical treasure cities and fountains of youth. British cartographers saw the pines on shore and named the land Pine Bluffs. American soldiers such as Captain John Casey sailed the coast and waterways to pursue Seminoles into hidden Everglades villages. Indians and American newcomers grazed cattle on the land and hunted the famed valley of the Myakka River. The Civil War brought guerrilla warfare and cattle rustling to the ranges before a family of frontiersmen, Jesse and Caroline Varn Knight, moved to the area. Although the island once charted as Chaise's Key had become Casey's Key, the Knight family called their new land Horse and Chaise for the profiled treelike landmark which guided sailors into the waterway and home. Sons and daughters ushered in modern days, and a new name for Horse and Chaise Venice. Lumbering and timbering followed the frontiersmen and women onto the land. Modern timber saws, turpentine stills, and lumber towns exploited the native pine forests across hundreds of thousands of acres until the land was changed forever Internationally famous Bertha Honore Palmer came to the area from Chicago. She called her family's firm the Sarasota-Venice Company, and planned resorts, highways, towns, and farms were advertised nationwide. Dr Fred Albee, an orthopedic surgeon of renown, came to Venice-Nokomis to develop a subdivision and to plan yacht clubs and hotels. Florida's mad land rush the boom enticed men and women across the country to become millionaires overnight. To Venice came the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, which invested a fortune to create a beautifully designed city in a few years. But with the Great Depression the world turned upside down and the Venice bubble soon burst. The story of the men and women of Horse and Chaise and of Venice is told by historian Janet Snyder Matthews in meticulous detail the hardship and trials, the victories and failures, the times and lives of Venice and the eras which formed the communities of today. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!