What is "okeechobee"

Usage examples of "okeechobee".

The Everglades were drying up, the coral reefs were dying, Lake Okeechobee was choking on man-made poisons and the bluegills were loaded with mercury.

Decker also knew about the two family banks in Boca Raton, the shopping mall in Daytona Beach, and the seventy-five thousand acres of raw cane west of Lake Okeechobee.

After all, Bock wasn't the only grower going broke in Immokalee or in the so-called green belt surrounding Lake Okeechobee.

Send him up to the Okeechobee bureau to cover Cucumber Jubilees for the rest of his life.

But now the Okeechobee muds, clouding the river, were turning the flow of silver fishes farther and farther offshore into the Gulf.

The rookeries over by Lake Okeechobee, they was shot out in four years, and by the turn of the century the west coast birds was giving out, from Tampa all the way south to Cape Sable.

You take some of them ragtag Muskogee Seminoles up around Lake Okeechobee, a lot of 'em's got a big swipe of the tarbrush, but you'd never know it from the way they act toward colored people.

One day she was able to buy Okeechobee catfish, which she fried, together with hush puppies, and she served steak fries and collard greens on the side.