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Killer 'Cane - by Robert Mykle (Paperback)

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  • Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s.
  • About the Author: Robert Mykle has written for the Cape Cod Times, The Palm Beach Post, and numerous other publications.
  • 260 Pages
  • History, United States

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On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach, Florida. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over 2,000 people. Robert Mykl...



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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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Mykle sifted through Florida history-geographic, economic, meteorological and cultural-and quotes from several dozen interviews to tell his story, zeroing in on many of the individuals who affected and were affected by this mind-boggling piece of windy and wet American history. "'I think about it every day, '" survivor Vernie Boots told Mykle. Though this killer hurricane struck nearly 74 years ago, if you read this fast-paced book, you'll have a hard time forgetting it too.

Mykle tells this saga of epic destruction with short episodes that gradually grow together, like cross-cutting scenes in a movie. The approach, and the book, both work well. Florida history is the better for Mykle's book.

Mykle's research provided a window into a disappearing breed of pioneers, who remembered the violent storms and the in-between years when a hardscrabble lifestyle was the norm.

The true stories Robert Mykle tells in Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928 paint a picture of nature's terrible immensity that's the stuff of nightmares.

This book is a winner. The treatment of individual threads woven into the whole is a good approach and keeps the details alive, effective, and not obscured by the overall event.

This is a solidly researched, engagingly written snapshot of Florida.

This is a superbly written book.

Mykle does a nice job of portraying Everglades frontier life: the moonshine, the politics, the path of development.



About the Author



Robert Mykle has written for the Cape Cod Times, The Palm Beach Post, and numerous other publications. He lives in Lake Worth, Florida.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 6.72 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)
Weight: .75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 260
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Theme: 20th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Robert Mykle
Language: English
Street Date: June 23, 2006
TCIN: 1009429802
UPC: 9781589792982
Item Number (DPCI): 247-55-3040
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.56 inches length x 6.72 inches width x 8.5 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.75 pounds
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