Download or read book Okeechobee City and the Lake Okeechobee Region Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 1924* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to the Lake Okeechobee Area written by Bill Gregware and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1997 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on one of Florida's few remaining undiscovered vacation destinations, including more than sixty area attractions, the natural and cultural history of the area, accommodations, lake access points, wildlife, and local dining and entertainment.

Download or read book Okeechobee written by Jim Janosky and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A journey through backwoods, pioneer central, and southern Florida . . . and a sensitive portrayal of the people who distinguish the area today."--Vicki Silver, senior planner, Palm Beach County From the foreword: "In this book, you will discover cowboys, fish camps, tourist campgrounds, sugarcane workers, and miles of dikes that hold back the waters of Lake Okeechobee. . . . Jim Janosky has used his camera lens to capture the toughness, the sensitivity, and the diversity of life around the lake."--Susan Duncan, historian In 115 black-and-white photographs, Jim Janosky records the features and faces of Okeechobee, from Saturday night in downtown Pahokee, to the great hurricane of '28, to the cane fields, preachers, county agents, beekeepers, and countless others who make up the region. His evocative, fact-filled essay presents one man's journey along this modern Florida frontier. Lake Okeechobee lies still, eerie and almost invisible, behind a high earthen dike that encircles its long shoreline. Yet the area around it has been lashed for decades with waves of human conflict and natural catastrophe. A government study in 1847 describes it as a "wilderness of profound and wild solitude." Just 65 years later, 50 real estate companies in Chicago were selling property around the lake. The region boomed with fishermen, cowboys, and bootleggers, and Okeechobee City earned a reputation as the roughest town east of the Mississippi. In the '20s, nature struck: three successive years of heavy rains; a drought that dried out the organic soil so thoroughly that it caught fire; and hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 that decimated the countryside. With the Hoover Dike in place in the '30s and the pioneer spirit still strong, new communities developed from the reclaimed wetlands. Today the area is enmeshed in one of the most intense debates in the country between environmentalists and farmers. Haunted by the soul of this Florida landscape, Jim Janosky has observed it, photographed it, and captured its spirit once and for all in this moving visual and written history. Jim Janosky, former environmental education specialist with the U.S. Army at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, is a poet, farmer, photographer, songwriter, and music publisher.

Download or read book Lake Okeechobee written by Alfred Jackson Hanna and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1948 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule Study Jacksonville District written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ground water Resources of Okeechobee County Florida written by L. A. Bradner and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Okeechobee Research Plan written by South Florida Water Management District and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on Lake Okeechobee Glades Hendry Martin Okeechobee and Palm Beach Counties Florida written by Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory (Las Vegas, Nev.) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Caloosahstchee River and Lake Okeechobee Drainage Areas Florida written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Around Lake Okeechobee written by Barbara D. Oeffner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Calusa Indians to the travelers who used boats for transport in the early 1900s and up to the prosperous farms and cattle ranches of today, the Everglades has evolved into a mecca for fishing, birding, and hiking. The smell of orange blossoms entices the settler to an untamed land where bears, deer, and snakes still inhabit the wilderness and where alligator hunting and fishing are still popular sports. Lake Okeechobee is 110 miles around from Pahokee to Canal Point, Okeechobee, Lakeport, Moore Haven, Clewiston, South Bay, and Belle Glade. To cross Florida from the Atlantic to the Gulf, a boat starts in Stuart and ends at Port Mayaca, crossing Lake Okeechobee to the Moore Haven lock and out the Caloosahatchee River past Lake Hicpochee and west to Fort Myers. Around Lake Okeechobee presents images from the Clewiston Museum, Lawrence E. Will Museum, state archives, and private collections, painting a history of the boom and bust, the boaters and farmers, and the cattlemen and ranchers who have settled and raised their families here.

Download or read book Lake Okeechobee Central and Southern Florida Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Appraisal of Chemical and Biological Conditions of Lake Okeechobee Florida 1969 70 written by Boyd F. Joyner and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Okeechobee Fla written by Lake Okeechobee Technical Committee. Water-supply Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Caloosahatchee River St Lucie River Lake Okeechobee and Miami River Fla written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kissimmee River Lake Okeechobee Everglades Ecosystem written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Okeechobee written by John W. Bloomer and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Muck City written by Bryan Mealer and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds. The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs of roving, destitute migrants. Many of these were children who honed their skills along the field rows and started one of the most legendary football programs in America. Belle Glade’s high school team, the Glades Central Raiders, has sent an extraordinary number of players to the National Football League – 27 since 1985, with five of those drafted in the first round. The industry that gave rise to the town and its team also spawned the chronic poverty, teeming migrant ghettos, and violence that cripples futures before they can ever begin. Muck City tells the story of quarterback Mario Rowley, whose dream is to win a championship for his deceased parents and quiet the ghosts that haunt him; head coach Jessie Hester, the town’s first NFL star, who returns home to “win kids, not championships”; and Jonteria Willliams, who must build her dream of becoming a doctor in one of the poorest high schools in the nation. For boys like Mario, being a Raider is a one-shot window for escape and a college education. Without football, Jonteria and the rest must make it on brains and fortitude alone. For the coach, good intentions must battle a town’s obsession to win above all else. Beyond the Friday night lights, this book is an engrossing portrait of a community mired in a shameful past and uncertain future, but with the fierce will to survive, win, and escape to a better life.