Miami, U.S.A.

Updating this new edition through the 1990s, Muir brings the story of the frontier post transformed by Flagler, Tuttle, and a host of near-legendary figures and events to a new century of readers. To those who reflect on Muir's colorful epilogue, the city's primitive origins barely 100 years ago will seem improbable, the characters and events of the boom, crash, and war years astonishing, and the pace of its growth and transformation since that time barely believable.