Touched by the Sun

by McIver, Stuart B.

• ISBN13: 9781561642069
• ISBN10: 1561642061
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Pineapple Press

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Heavy Hitters
Indian Summer of the Babe	1	(10)
An Olympian Homer	11	(6)
Riders of the Kissimmee Prairie	17	(5)
Up from Hell's Hole	22	(7)
Hail to the Chiefs	29	(12)
Exposed to the Sun
Watch the Birdie	41	(9)
Paris in the Everglades	50	(5)
Ill Wind Across the Glades	55	(10)
Crime Scene
Author Fought Medical Mystery	65	(6)
Killing Ma Barker Again	71	(8)
Stop and Go	79	(9)
Where Is Bum Farto?	88	(9)
Get Out the Votes
Scandalous First Lady	97	(7)
Fletcher's Fiber Fumble	104	(7)
Two-Gun Sidney Catts	111	(7)
Good Genes	118	(11)
Soldiers, Sailors, and Spies
Bungled Spy Mission	129	(4)
Cavalry Versus Navy	133	(8)
Remember the Maine!	141	(10)
Touched and Untouched
Visions of a Better Tomorrow	151	(5)
No Paradise for Lorena	156	(9)
They Delivered the Goods
Last Train from Fernandina	165	(8)
Shoeless Legend	173	(7)
Stagecoach to Miami	180	(7)
Only Natural
'Cane Ended the Good Times	187	(7)
Floyd Wray's Everglades Dream	194	(8)
King of a Jungle River	202	(7)
The Good Life
America's First Christmas	209	(5)
North Pole, Florida-Style	214	(9)
Edison and Ford, Good Friends	223	(6)
The Old Swimming Hole	229	(12)
A Two-Hole Golf Course	241	(10)
Bibliography	251	(2)
Index	253