A Land Remembered question

I just reread A Land Remembered for my challenge book. I love that story and can't put it down. I have always liked Emma as my favorite character. I think the author keeps her a bit in the background and mostly one dimensional, but there are enough clues there that give her humanity and a gentler touch to the hard life of the Florida Cracker. She inspires me.

My main criticism is that once Zech dies and the story is left to Sol it is almost like the author just needed to get to the end of the story. I would have liked about another 200 pages to fully experience Sol and his growing businesses. I understand that the focus of the story is pre-1920's, but I was dissatisfied there were so many gaps from there forward to Sol's death.

I have lots of favorite parts, but I think my most memorable part is when Sol sees the havoc wreaked to the homestead by Donovan and then realizes exactly why Toby is mad about developing the wilderness south of Okeechobee into farmland.

This is a must read book in my estimation. The author drops you right into life in early Florida from pre-Civil War to the late 1960's. You can vividly feel the hunger, privation, and uncertainty of the Florida swamp and scrub; and hear the cracks of the whips as cowboys on marshtackies popped cows out of the swamp.

What a great challenge! Your review really brings the Cracker history to life.

I loved that book, too, and I am from Washington, DC! I spend one month a year in FL and would love to know what other Florida-centric books you are reading. Are there any as good as A Land Remembered?