Torry Island boy of the Everglades
By: Ann Spann Tyler.
Publisher: Tyler Reproductions
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Belle Glade, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Lee, Harry M. -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.; Lee, Harry M. -- Childhood and youth.; Pioneers -- Florida -- Everglades -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida -- Everglades -- Juvenile literature.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida -- Everglades.; Everglades (Fla.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Okeechobee, Lake, Region (Fla.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Okeechobee, Lake, Region (Fla.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.; Everglades (Fla.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.; Okeechobee, Lake, Region (Fla.) -- Biography.; Everglades (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: Describes the boyhood of Henry M. "Pete" Lee, a cowboy and farmer who grew up on Torry Island in Lake Okeechobee in southeast Florida, detailing the settling of the area by his pioneer relatives from the 1890s to the mid-twentieth century.
Notes: "All maps, drawings, and original oil paintings by Ann Tyler"--P. [9].