Torry Island Boy of the Everglades
- ISBN-10
- 0967935105
- ISBN-13
- 9780967935102
- Category
- Everglades (Fla.)
- Pages
- 119
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Author
- Ann Spann Tyler
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.
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