02148cam a2200313 i 4500 681644390 TxAuBib 031104s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781400049479 1400049474 (OCoLC)18964 GZD eng GZD OCLCQ BAKER YDXCP OCLCG GVA OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO OXB TxAuBib rda Standiford, Les. Last train to paradise : Henry Flagler and the spectacular rise and fall of the railroad that crossed an ocean / Les Standiford. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, 2002. xi, 272 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ;PB ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in hardcover by Crown Publishers, in 2002. Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264) and index. ""Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad--one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler's dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as 'the eighth wonder of the world.' Standiford brings the full force and fury of 1935's deadly 'storm of the century' and its sweeping destruction of 'the railroad that crossed an ocean' to terrifying life. Last Train to Paradise celebrates a crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition in a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature's wrath.""--Jacket. Flagler, Henry Morrison 1830-1913. AD LIT. Florida East Coast Railway History. AD LIT. Railroads Florida History. AD LIT. History. Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830-1913.