Epic Fires of Fort Myers - Volume II: How a Series of Early Fires Influenced the Town's Development

Volume II of Epic Fires of Fort Myers chronicles four major blazes and half a dozen smaller fires that nearly scuttled the city's transformation in the early twentieth century from a frontier cow town into a flourishing center of commerce, citrus production and tourism. Had the wind been blowing in the other direction or the volunteer firefighters been less courageous or tenacious, Fort Myers could have very well endured the same catastrophic destruction that Jacksonville, Gainesville and K...