Open the scan · Oliver Marvin Crosby, Florida Facts, Both Bright and Blue (1887), via Internet Archive.
Florida Facts, Both Bright and Blue, 1887
Crosby’s book, published the year before the Common Sense pamphlet and running to roughly 165 pages. It is the fuller statement of the same pitch: a New York promoter’s account of what Florida was actually like for a northern settler, written while he was selling land in it.
The title is the argument. Crosby’s method in both works was to concede the drawbacks — heat, insects, isolation, crop failure, sharp dealing by other promoters — and to present his own enterprises as the sober alternative. Read alongside the 1888 pamphlet, the pair show what the founder of Avon Park was telling prospective buyers in the two years either side of the town’s first plat.
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Oliver Marvin Crosby, Florida Facts, Both Bright and Blue (1887), via Internet Archive.
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Published in the United States in 1887. Copyright expired.
Original item: https://archive.org/details/floridafactsbot00crosgoog
Related
- Oliver Marvin Crosby
- Reference: Crosby, Common Sense about Florida (1888)
- Document: Common Sense about Florida, full scan
- Report: the founding of Avon Park
- Full text and plates of this book, transcribed
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- public-domain — Published in the United States in 1887; copyright expired Held by Internet Archive. Original item
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- Oliver Marvin Crosby, Florida Facts, Both Bright and Blue
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