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In 1873, an adventurous New York City newspaper correspondent came to Florida and revealed the beautiful, the odd, and the dangerous to his cosmoploitan readership. "Ziska," a pioneer in human-interest reporting, stripped away the veneer of paradise for the droves of northerners being drawn to this southern wonderland and contrasted the Big Apple with the "land of flowers." One was a metropolis of new inventions - the subway, telephone, phonograph - and the other was a barely explored wilderness, a distant world where trains were driven by mules, federal troops left over from the Civil War still occupied towns, frontier "justice" was the law of the land, and the only thing booming was citrus. But who was Ziska?
In Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, and Other Oddities, archaeologist-turned-detective Jerald T. Milanich uncovers the mystery of Ziska.
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Tammy Southerland
reviewed Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, and Other Oddities: A New York City Journalist in Nineteenth-Century Florida on November 16, 2018
Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, and Other Oddities: A New York City Journalist in Nineteenth-Century Florida
A glimpse into a land of flowers that no longer exists, where fish and wildlife thrived and tourists would steam upriver on the St. Johns randomly killing alligators as they passed by. One could say it's the price of progress and development, but I enjoyed this look at where we came from.
One point in the book that's been made somewhat better by progress is mosquito control, and when we talk about the good old days in Florida it's also important to remember those were the days of Yellow Fever and malaria, so some things have improved and it's no wonder that the man credited with inventing air conditioning is honored with Florida's official statue in the nation's capitol.
I do recommend this collection to those who wish to know more about Florida's history in the Reconstruction era, and how the strides made by the federal occupation army and the free enslaved people were rolled back by corruption and racism.
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