The Barefoot Mailman Author:Theodore Pratt The time was the 1880's, when Miami was little more than a ...swamp...It was in this rough and ready Florida that young Steven Pierton took the job of "barefoot mailman"--carrying letters barefoot over 100 miles of gleaming white sand between Jupiter Lighthouse and Miami, trying to cope with the elusive, enticing...Adie, and fighting to thwart t... more »he schemes of the unscrupulous land speculator, Syvanus Hurley.« less