From the back cover...

The author of "Pinellas Peninsula," June Hurley Young does what she promises in writing a popular history of Pinellas county. There are no gaps between yesterday and today. Word flow easily in her light narrative style as she traces happenings from prehistoric times to 1996.

Beneath the "down-home earthiness" of oral history, interviews with "old-timers" is the bedrock of facts garnered in years of research. This pictorial history is the first one published about Pinellas since 1929.

Young brings the reader a glimpse of the early Tocobaga Indians who reveled in Florida's primeval splenor until they were captured and subjugated by the Spanish explorers.

As the saga unfolds it reveals the hardships and victories of pioneers, fishermen soldiers and naturalists; and a new breed of Indian, the Seminole, who ran from the Creeks to find their new land...

Previously unpublished pictures enhance the Pinellas story -  its evolution from a "quiet health resort to winter toa vital exiting place to live."