Ditch of dreams
Subtitle: the Cross Florida Barge Canal and the struggle for Florida's future
By: Steven Noll and David Tegeder ; foreword by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino.
Contributors: Tegeder, David.
Series: Florida history and culture series
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780813034065
Subjects: Carr, Marjorie Harris; Canals -- Florida -- Design and construction -- History; Environmentalism -- Florida -- History; Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway (Fla.) -- History; Florida -- Economic conditions; Oklawaha River (Fla.) -- Environmental conditions; Florida -- Environmental conditions; Florida -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950; Florida -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Surveys and steamboats; title: Boom or boondoggle?; title: The dream deferred; title: Groundbreaking, breaking ground; title: New visions, new strategies; title: Floating logs, dying trees, and clogging weeds; title: Death of a dream.