Selling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the As and Seminole (Shefveland Kristalyn Marie)(Paperback)

Separating "Old Florida" myths from realities
in a tourist haven with a deep Indigenous pastThemes of unspoiled paradise tamed by
progress can be seen in stories about pioneer history across the United States,
especially in Florida. Selling Vero Beach explores how settlers from
northern states created myths about the Indian River area on Florida's Atlantic
Coast, importing ideas about the region's Indigenous peoples and marketing the
land as an idyllic, fertile place of possibilities.In this book, Kristalyn Shefveland
describes how in the Gilded Age, Indian River Farms Company and other boosters
painted the region as a wild frontier, conveniently accessible by train via
Henry Flagler's East Coast Railway. Shefveland provides an overview of local As
and Seminole histories that were rewritten by salespeople, illustrates
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