Seaville carries the imagination back to 1951 into the life of a young able-bodied seaman on a trip by merchant ship from New York to Spain, Trieste, and beyond....

Seaville:A Blue Water Adventure

Literature & Fiction

Richard Miller

Genre Fiction

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Tanglefoot, an illustrated factual fiction, follows the trail of Captain George Wellington Streeter from the Civil War, through his traveling road show featuring a trunkless white elephant, and, thence, on to Chicago where he built a steamboat. A tremendous storm stranded her in shallow water on a sandbank. As he could not tow her free, he filled in the surrounding area with sand and debris from construction sites. When he claimed formal title to his homemade island and connected it to the shore and began selling cheap lots he precipitated a long and dramatic struggle with a consortium of neighboring millionaires who coveted his land and loathed the sight of the shacks and tents of Streeterville. For decades, resorting to legal actions and police raids and thugs and hired killers, his adversaries tried to drive him out. With the help of writs and Winchesters, butt strokes and bludgeons, amiable judges and friendly reporters, and of the widespread sympathy generated by this dramatic struggle staged in full view of everyone, the Captain defended Streeterville until he died at eighty-four. This story is one of dramatic confrontations between selfish aspirations to rise to the summits of society and power and the pioneer spirit with its egalitarian vision. In a deeper sense, Tanglefoot is about a civil war going on inside all of us. It is a real life dramatization of the many faceted American dream. Today Captain Streeter’s District of Lake Michigan, the area on the lakeshore just north of the Chicago River, is part of the Gold Coast, the Miracle Mile. People still call it Streeterville.

Tanglefoot, an Almost True Story of Civil Wars And Cities

Miller, Richard Connelly

Biographies & Memoirs

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