Description: This book explores how settlers from northern states created myths about the Indian River area on Florida's Atlantic Coast, importing ideas about the region's Indigenous peoples and rewriting its history to market the land to investors and tourists.
Brief description:
Kristalyn Marie Shefveland is associate professor of American history at the University of
Southern Indiana. She is the author of Anglo-Native Virginia: Trade,
Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722.
Review Quotes:
"Selling Vero Beach is local history done well. . . . But it is far more than local history. Deeply rooted in place, it contributes new evidence and insights to larger historical debates. Historians will find its discussions of development, commercialism, and memory thought-provoking. Historians of settler colonialism in the United States and elsewhere will also find much in this book to consider."--American Historical Review
"Adds to existing scholarship on the history of Florida's modern developers and boosterism in new and exciting ways."--Journal of Southern History