| The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension Contributor(s): Bramson, Seth H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609493990 ISBN-13: 9781609493998 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $21.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Railroads - History - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Transportation | Railroads - Pictorial |
| Dewey: 625.100 |
| LCCN: 2011040350 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.60 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled vision to make it happen. In 1902, Henry Flagler made the decision to extend the Fl |
Contributor Bio(s): Bramson, Seth H.: - Seth Bramson is Miami's foremost local historian. He is America's single most-published Florida history book author, with sixteen of his twenty-two books dealing directly with the villages, towns, cities, counties, people and businesses of the South Florida Gold Coast. Bob Jensen retired in Homestead as a Navy Commander after serving 28 years. He served in Germany, the Philippines, the US Embassy in Cyprus, Iceland, and twice at the National Security Agency and at Naval Security Group Headquarters in Washington D.C. |