Last Train to Paradise (23 page)

rail system, chaotic

Ramrod Key

Raney, George P.

reinforced concrete, use of

“Remember the Maine”

Rockefeller, John D.

Roman aqueducts

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Elihu

Royal Palm Hotel, Miami

Russell, Bernard

Russell, John Henry

Saddlebunch Keys

Saffir-Simpson Scale

sailfish, angling for

St. Augustine, Florida:

development of

Flagler family in

Flagler’s funeral in

Memorial Presbyterian Church in

Ponce de Leon Hotel in

St. Johns River

Sanders, William H.

Sand Key

Satan’s Toe, Mamaroneck

scuba diving

self-determinism

Senator
(freighter)

Seven Mile Bridge

construction of

and hurricanes

Knight’s Key Trestle of

Moser Channel Bridge of

multistaged design of

Pacet Channel Viaduct of

Pigeon Key Trestle of

traffic opened to

traveling time across

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Shelton, George

Simmons, Charles

slavery law (1866)

Sleicher, John

Sloane, Henry

Smith, Russell

Snake Creek

Southern whitetail deer

Spain, laborers from

spandrel arch bridge design

Spanish-American War

Spanish Harbor Key

Spofford, F. S.

Standard Oil Company

antitrust investigations of

Flagler and

IPO of

ownership of

sub-rosa agreements in

transportation system of

worth of

Standard Oil of New Jersey

Standard Oil Trust

steamship service

Stewart, Alexander T.

Stock Island

Straits of Florida

Suez Canal

Sugarloaf Key

Summerland Key

Supreme Court, U.S.

surveillance blimp

Sybill
(tugboat)

Taft, William Howard

Tampa, Florida:

cigar business in

port facilities in

railroad in

Tampa Bay Hotel

Tavernier, Florida

Tavernier Creek bridge

Theater of the Sea

tidal waves

Tifft, Susan

tornadoes, force of

Torricelli, Evangelista

tourists, on US

Truman, Harry S

Trumbo, Howard

Trumbo Island

Tuttle, Julia

Twain, Mark

Umbrella Keys

Union Pacific Railroad

Upper Keys

Upper Matecumbe Key

US Highway

accidents on

built on railroad span

driving along

as escape route

MMs (mile markers) along

over open water

in Uniform System,
n

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Vanderbilt family

Van Horne, Sir William

Van Vechten, Charles

Venable, William Mayo

Veterans’ Work Program

Vines, Rev. Benito

Volstead Act (1920)

Walker, Will

Ward, George M.

water, fresh

Weather Bureau, U.S.

Weather Channel

West Palm Beach, Florida

Wilkinson, Jerry

Williams, Joy

Windley Key

Windward Islands

Wood, Franklin

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

wreckers

yellow fever

Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

About the Author

Les Standiford is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels as well as several works of nonfiction. He has received the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. He is a professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, where he has lived since 1981 with his wife and three children. You can visit his website and e-mail him at
www.les-standiford.com
.

Also by Les Standiford

Fiction

Bone Key

Deal with the Dead

Black Mountain

Presidential Deal

Deal on Ice

Deal to Die For

Raw Deal

Done Deal

Spill

Opening Day: Or, the Return of Satchel Paige

Nonfiction

Coral Gables: The City Beautiful Story

Miami: City of Dreams

Contributor to the Following Collaborations

The Putt at the End of the World

Naked Came the Manatee

Surrounded on Three Sides
(editor)

Copyright © 2002 by Les Standiford

Map copyright © 2002 by David Cain

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Originally published in hardcover by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2002.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Standiford, Les.Last train to Paradise : Henry Flagler and the spectacular rise and fall of the railroad that crossed an ocean / Les Standiford.Includes bibliographical references.1. Railroads—Florida—History.         2. Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830–1913.         3. Florida East Coast Railway—History.         I. Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830–1913.         II. Title.

TF24.F6 S73 2002385'.09759'41—dc212001047565

eISBN: 978-1-4000-5118-2

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