Amos J. Cummings

"In 1873, an adventurous New York City newspaper correspondent came to Florida and revealed the beautiful, the odd, and the dangerous to his cosmopolitan readership. "Ziska," a pioneer in human-interest reporting, stripped away the veneer of paradise for the droves of northerners being drawn to this southern wonderland and contrasted the Big Apple with the "land of flowers." No topic was too far removed or unimportant for his readers. Ziska covered...