Ozymandia

OZYMANDIA is true. It is down to earth American history, the story of threefamilies of three entirely different cultures whose lives intertwine during the mid1800s in the heartland of America. Jacobs crossed the Atlantic by choice, leavingbehind a rich culture for a hawkers promises in the new world. Tin Cup was aCherokee, a man of wisdom and wealth. His family was uprooted from its ancestralhome and sent west to Oklahoma by the United States Government in 1838. Georgeescaped the African-American fate of slavery only to become a Cherokee servant.George was a pragmatist, not just a man of his time, but a man of the future who hada daughter that jes would not lissen. OZYMANDIA tells of Jacob, arriving at hishomestead with a two man saw in his hand and fi nding trees ten feet thick, poisonoussnakes as big around as his thigh and beasts waiting to eat him for dinner. The booktells in detail of the suffering and heartbreak of Tin Cup and his family and peopleduring their long walk west during the winter of 1838-39.

One reads of George, a man anyone would like to have as a friend, who not onlymade life, but made life well worth living. These people, their old time religion, oldtime philosophers with their now time philosophy, along with a few hair brainedindividuals made our America of today. While young readers will enjoy OZYMANDIAas an adventure story, older readers may understand it as a parallelism, perhaps sharingthe travelers observations as portrayed by Shelley in his poem, OZYMANDIAS.