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Key West on the Edge: Inventing the Conch Republic

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How the unique island city came to be a major tourist destination

Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award

Key West lies at the southernmost point of the continental United States, ninety miles from Cuba, at Mile Marker 0 on famed U.S. Highway 1. Famous for six—toed cats in the Hemingway House, Sloppy Joe’s and Captain Tony's, Jimmy Buffett songs, body paint parade "costumes," and a brief secession from the Union after which the Conch Republic asked for $1 billion in foreign a...