Title page -- p.1 Copyright -- p.2 Title -- p.3 Table of Contents -- p.5 Appreciation -- p.6 Prologue -- p.7 Chapter 1: In the days of long ago -- p.9 Chapter 2: The first settlers come -- p.27 Chapter 3: Then came the homesteaders -- p.47 Chapter 4: Life among the pioneers -- p.70 Chapter 5: In the days of the vigilantes -- p.79 Chapter 6: The Scots come - and go -- p.92 Chapter 7: The village of Sarasota is born -- p.101 Chapter 8: The Seaboard almost starts a boom -- p.133 Chapter 9: A new era dawns -- p.155 Chapter 10: During the turbulent Twenties -- p.191 Chapter 11: Sarasota made a modern city -- p.225 Chapter 12: Depression - war - and afterward -- p.243 Chapter 13: And there are those who work -- p.252 Chapter 14: Sarasota County in review -- p.261 Chapter 15: Lest we forget -- p.281 Chapter 16: Who's who in Sarasota -- p.297 Full-size photos from Chapter 16