This Leather-Bound Classics Series edition, published by Printers Row Publishing Group in 2017, is authored by the Editors of Thunder Bay Press and features illustrations. The book, intended for young adults and adults alike, stands at 544 pages in length and is a valuable resource for those interested in the history and political science of the United States.

The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need.