TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knight,Henry
TI  - Tropic of hopes: California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise 
SN  - 9780813048413
AV  - HC107 .T767 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; "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; 2; b
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
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