Gazetteer
Usage examples of "summerlin".
In the Civil War, Jake Summerlin sold cattle on the hoof to the Confederacy and smuggled cattle through the Union blockade to sell in Cuba.
Langford and James Hendry had bought in the eighties from Jake Summerlin were still the foundation of the Fort Myers economy, as the cattlemen-traders extended their concerns to land development, rail commerce, and banking.
The Hendrys and Summerlins, Captain Jim Cole and the Langfords are feeling very patriotic these days.
In recent years, with Doc Langford and the Hendrys, who bought out the Summerlins at Punta Rassa, Cole made a fortune provisioning the Rough Riders.
As Jake Summerlin used to say, Cole sat a horse with as much style as a sack of horse shit.