Orlando: City of Dreams

By Joy Wallace Dickinson

Book Overview

Emerging as Florida's largest inland city, Orlando in its infancy more resembled the Old West than the Old South-a frontier town born in the days of the Seminole Wars. The free-spirited early years of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738524425
• ISBN13: 9780738524429
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.6" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Florida Research and Great Pictures

Orlando: City of Dreams is a well researched, fascinating account of pre-Disney Orlando in particular and Florida in general. It leads the reader through Florida history as a frontier land of opportunity where fortunes were made, lost and made again. From Osceola's Head through Civil War battles, hurricanes and killer frosts it reads more like a novel than a history book. The author grew up in Florida, moved out into the world then came back with a new appreciation for the Sunshine State. She includes a portfolio of vintage pictures which effectively enhance the wide open American feel of the book.