A Land Remembered HB

A Land Remembered opens in 1968 with the rich but despondent Solomon MacIvey as he cruises along Biscayne Bay in his silver Rolls Royce, then jumps back in time to 1858, when his grandfather, Tobias MacIvey, arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son. The sweeping story that emerges over the span of the next 114 years is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of a swamp. They survive and prosper but at a high cost.

Here’s how they started their humble trek into the Florida wilderness in 1858: