A Land Remembered

"A Land Remembered" by Patrick D. Smith is a book about the MacIvey family and how they started out in the 1800s in Florida to being very successful and wealthy until the 1960s. I have only read 21 out of the 45 chapters, but so far, I have loved the book and look forward to more reading in the future. The book begins with Tobias MacIvey and his wife Emma and there son Zech moving from Georgia down to Florida. After living in the scrub for a while, their house was burnt down and forced them to move down south to a place called Kissimmee. Tobias began to work in the cattle industry which sold for 16 dollars a cow, which back then, was a lot of money. He hired three men, Skillet, Frog, and Bonzo. They began to get very wealthy and loved the work they were in. Skillet brought his wife to join the family which Emma enjoyed because there was finally another female in the house. Zech is my favorite character because ever since he was a little boy, he excelled at everything he did and never showed fear or cowardliness. He is currently seventeen and just met a girl that wasn't his mother for the first time in his life and is going crazy. The last chapter I read showed a couple of men hung the grandson and friend of Keith Tiger, a long time friend of Tobias. This made Tobias very mad and he punished the men then sent out for the Okeechobee to look for Keith Tiger and give his village the twelve cows that he had promised when he gave them to his grandson. This book is very addicting and cannot wait to read the second half of the book and see what adventures await the MacIvey clan.