Word: jacklin
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Florida tourists, viewing the Florida scrub from an Oklawaha River steamer, find it picturesque but not enticing. Even most Florida crackers think the scrub too bewilderingly wild to live in. But this impenetrable-seeming wilderness of pine and sand was just suited to Lantry Jacklin's taste. Onetime moonshiner in Ca'lina, he had killed a revenue man and fled to Florida; the scrub seemed the safest place he could find...
Young Lant, Jacklin's youngest son, shot up like an indigenous growth. When the rest of the children married and moved away, with old Lant dead, the youngster stepped easily into his daddy's shoes. For a while he made a good living for his mother and himself by hunting and fishing. Then hard times came. Lant salvaged and rafted cypress logs down to the sawmill; when there were no more to salvage he made the supreme sacrifice of trying to get a job in a mill. But he was just as pleased when there were no jobs...