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Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928 Paperback - 2002

by Robert Mykle


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Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.

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  • Title Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928
  • Author Robert Mykle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cooper Square Press, New York
  • Date 2002-05
  • ISBN 9780815412076 / 081541207X
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.26 x 0.81 in (23.42 x 15.90 x 2.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Everglades (Fla.), Everglades (Fla.) - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002001286
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.939

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Robert Mykle has written for the Cape Cod Times, The Palm Beach Post, and numerous other publications. He lives in Florida.
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