Big water -- Lake of legend -- Battle on the lake -- Course of empire -- "Cow cavalry" -- Gold on the hoof -- Disston's kingly domain -- Exploration of Okeechobeeland -- "Water will run down hill" -- "Land by the gallon" -- "The Florida muddle" -- Drainage in the doldrums -- Steamboats on the lake -- Catfish by the Seine -- The saga of Pogy Bill -- The Ashley Gang -- Circuit riding by motorboat -- "Doing damn-fool things" -- Land of the red, white and black -- "Duchess of Moore Haven" -- Hell and high water -- "John the Baptist of the Everglades" -- The cattle kingdom -- The vegetable kingdom -- The agro-industrial empire -- Winter visitor - labor style -- Redskin remnants -- Not a vanishing Eden -- The unfinished work.