In 1858 Tobias MacIvey abandoned his Georgia farm, loaded his meager possessions and his wife and infant son in a wagon, and headed south into the Florida wilderness to search for a new life. What follows in A Land Remembered is a big, rough-tough, folksy Florida saga- three generations of the MacIvey family(1858-1968) from a dirt-poor cattle-droving cracker (cattle rancher who cracks a whip) to a Miami real estate Tycoon. 
 
But it is also an epic portrayal of the American pioneer will to survive against all odds. And finally it wis the story of the land, how at first bare surivial is scratched from itand then how it is exploited far beyond human need.