Published in The Cattleman Magazine, Sept. 2005

A year before Baron G. Collier used his own money in 1923 to stretch the first road across the wild and intrepid Everglades that would eventually link Naples, Miami, and Tampa, Robert Roberts, Jr. and his pioneer family had already planted deep roots in an even more remote part of South Florida’s Big Cypress swamp in a town, yet to be named, Immokalee.

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