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Good Bones is a story of courage, perseverance, and a pioneer family's lust for life. A historical memoir, it tells the story of Florida's expansion in the last decades of the 1800s, and of the slow arrival of true civilization in the Sunshine State during the early part of the twentieth century. In the years following the Civil War the federal government encouraged Americans in other states to risk their safety and comfort to settle the Florida wilderness. The Wrights and McPhersons were two families who answered that call. When children of those families were joined in matrimony, a legacy began which persists to this day. It wasn't easy. The early years were marked by battles with mosquitoes and a sometimes uneasy coexistence with the Seminole Indians. In those early years, the railroad had not yet reached past Jacksonville, roads were sketchy at best, and rivers offered the most reliable highways for travel. Land for citrus groves had to be carved from the dense subtropical forests. Survival required a determined and hardy breed of people, but despite their challenges, the pioneer families were bent on living life to its fullest. They enjoyed music, hunting and fishing, picnics, and, of course, they fell in love, married and raised families to be proud of. The strength of those bloodlines continues today in the ancestors of those pioneers who tamed the Florida landscape.

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