Preface [HTML file]

Maps [HTML file]

1. Location of the Everglades [HTML file]
2. Watershed of Lake Okeechobee [HTML file]
3. High Water Marks on the Shore of Lake Okeechobee, September, 1928, Hurricane [HTML file]

Chapter

1. Physical Description [HTML file]
   1. Geological Background [HTML file]
   2. Soil Deposits [HTML file]
   3. Flora and Fauna [HTML file]
2. Arrival of Man [.TXT file]
   1. First Inhabitants
   2. Early Explorers
   3. First Tourists
   4. Seminole
3. Federal and State Attempts at Reclamation of the Everglades [.TXT file]
   1. State Action to Secure the Title
   2. Buckingham Smith Report
   3. Swamp and Overflowed Land Grant Act
   4. Creation of the Internal Improvement Fund
4. Private Attempts at Reclamation of the Everglades [.TXT file]
   1. Receivership of the Internal Improvement Fund
   2. Disston Drainage Contracts
5. Latter-Day Explorers and the Natives
   1. The Explorers
   2. The Natives
6. Origin of the Everglades Drainage District [.TXT file]
   1. Years of Indecision
   2. Spade Work of Jennings
   3. The People Chose: N. B. Broward and Drainage
7. Early Operations in the District
   1. The Drainage Administration
   2. The Wright Report
   3. The First Land Boom
8. Congressional Investigation of the Everglades Project
   1. The Calm Before the Storm
   2. Background of the Congressional Investigation
   3. The Battle Lines are Drawn: Investigation
9. Examination of the Drainage Scheme
   1. Mead-Metcalf-Hazen Report
   2. Florida Everglades Engineering Commission
10. 'Glades Life in the Early Days
11. Sugar and the Second Land Boom
    1. Growing Pains
    2. Sugar and the Land Boom
12. The 1926 Hurricane and the [Gov.] Martin Bond Proposal
    1. The Hurricane
    2. The Twenty
    3. The Dayton Morgan Report
13. The 1928 Hurricane and Federal Participation
    1. The Hurricane
    2. Federal Participation
14. Home Rule for the Everglades
    1. Default of the Bonds
    2. Refunding the Bonded Debt
15. The Contemporary Scene
    1. Agriculture and Industry
    2. Conservation Movement
    3. Everglades National Park

Conclusion [HTML file]

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