{"product_id":"selling-vero-beach-settler-myths-in-the-land-of-the-ais-and-seminole-hardcover","title":"Selling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKristalyn Marie Shefveland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeparating \"Old Florida\" myths from realities\u003cbr\u003ein a tourist haven with a deep Indigenous past\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThemes of unspoiled paradise tamed by\u003cbr\u003eprogress can be seen in stories about pioneer history across the United States, \u003cbr\u003eespecially in Florida. \u003ci\u003eSelling Vero Beach\u003c\/i\u003e explores how settlers from\u003cbr\u003enorthern states created myths about the Indian River area on Florida's Atlantic\u003cbr\u003eCoast, importing ideas about the region's Indigenous peoples and marketing the\u003cbr\u003eland as an idyllic, fertile place of possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Kristalyn Shefveland\u003cbr\u003edescribes how in the Gilded Age, Indian River Farms Company and other boosters\u003cbr\u003epainted the region as a wild frontier, conveniently accessible by train via\u003cbr\u003eHenry Flagler's East Coast Railway. Shefveland provides an overview of local Aís\u003cbr\u003eand Seminole histories that were rewritten by salespeople, illustrates how\u003cbr\u003eagricultural companies used Native peoples as motifs on their fruit products, and\u003cbr\u003eincludes never-before-published letters between Vero Beach entrepreneur Waldo Sexton\u003cbr\u003eand writer Zora Neale Hurston that highlight Sexton's interest in story-spinning\u003cbr\u003eand sales.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelling Vero Beach\u003c\/i\u003e unpacks real and fabricated pasts, showing how the settler memory\u003cbr\u003eof Florida distorted or erased the fascinating actual history of the region. With\u003cbr\u003ea wide variety of stories invented to lure investors and tourists, many of\u003cbr\u003ewhich circulate to this day in a place that remains a top vacation destination, \u003cbr\u003eVero Beach is an intriguing example of why and how certain pasts were concocted\u003cbr\u003eto sell Florida land and products. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA volume in the series Florida in Focus, \u003cbr\u003eedited by Andrew K. Frank\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53247504777523,"sku":"9780813079035","price":185.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/c4gHTlpfFI9780813079035.webp?v=1776304903","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/selling-vero-beach-settler-myths-in-the-land-of-the-ais-and-seminole-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}