Pioneer boatman tells of Okeechobee boats & skippers

Name/Title

Pioneer boatman tells of Okeechobee boats & skippers

Entry/Object ID

Library.260

Description

165, [1] p. Illus., maps., ports. 22 cm. The wet tail boats are a legend in Okeechobee history. Without them much of the farming area around the lake might still be wilderness. The pioneers came by water at least 50 years before roads or even trails. People arrived by train in Kissimmee and then traveled by smokeboats to Lake Okeechobee. "Sources" : p. 166.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Boats and boating -- Florida -- Okeechobee, Lake.

Publication Details

Author

Will, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Elmer)

Publisher

Great Outdoors Publishing

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

St. Petersburg, Fla.

Call No.

F 317.O4 W5