Florida Cattle and Cracker Cowmen | Untold Stories | Florida History
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- Опубліковано 18 бер 2021
- Long before Florida was famous for its oranges, beaches and tourist industry, there was the cattle trade. North America's first cattle were introduced in Florida in 1521. Over the years, the state's cattle industry thrived through numerous wars, The Great Depression, insect invasions, hurricanes and land development. This is the story of the people and places that made it possible.
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***Where did the term "Florida Cracker" come from? **ua-cam.com/video/ABrQpvUrLaU/v-deo.html** ***
See my note below. The OED is SLIGHTLY more reliable than Wikipedia!
Thanks for helping. Too many Yankees and flatlanders have no idea what this word means.
Wikipedia ?? Now there is an indisputable purveyor of their own truth.
I'll stick with OED and other sources for truth, as well. . Thx.
My family ran cattle in Florida from 1820 till 2005. When I moved to Tennessee. If Florida was able to go back in time, when I was a child . I would move back asap. I miss the old Florida where there was lots of woods, not houses. I still run cattle here in Tennessee. Have lots of woods and no near neighbors. Proud to be a 6th generation Cracker. No matter where I live will always be a Cracker.
Born and raised a Florida Cracker. Nowhere I wind up, my heart remains in old Florida.
You lost you're cracker card when you left Florida.
Well it's even worse now. I grew up in the country in Brooksville and it has built up so much now there's barely any woods left anymore😭😭 I miss it terribly 😔
@@glossymoss03 Myself as .Have deep roots in Hernando county in the Spring Lake area. I remember hwy 50 as 2 lane shell based. I miss the old FL ...
@@darlenehoover6577 like me with Arkansas
I dated a woman from central Florida years ago. She had horses, beef, goats and a 3 legged donkey. The name of her operation was Cracker Hammock Ranch. This Yankee from coastal Maine sure learned alot from this country girl. She gave me the book " A land Remembered "" and said there would be no more kisses , until I read that book !! I was a speed reader for sure. She was a good kisser. So yeah, I was motivated. I love ranch life. What a wonderful welcome to another of the aspects Florida has to offer.
I'm 33, grew up in Cape Coral & Fort Myers until I was 20. I love these old Florida Untold Stories docs so much. So nostalgic ❤️
My family is still involved in Cattle Ranching in South Okeechobee. Still have My Great Grandfather's Bull Penis Bull Whip over 100 Years old...still works.
Florida Born and Raised. Love my state. ❤️
The development of the county I live is heartbreaking. The big cattle families sold out and now storage lots and dollar store are there now. Where there was once pastures its multi family units and pools. I didnt grow up in a farming family but I have a strong drive to move my family into that. Hopefully it happens so I can pass on that tradition.
This is a great series. I am a fifth generation Florida Native and did not know a lot of this in the video. Thank you.
Pam, I imagine you've read, "A Land Remembered" A 'must read' for everyone who loves this state. John 3:16
My sons are 9th generation Floridians. My great-great-grandparents settled on the land that is now Highlands Hammock State Park. They were Florida crackers that drove cattle to Punta Rassa ( near Sanibel Island) and sold it to men who were taking it by boat to Cuba. I am so thankful to have many of the photographs of their time while they worked the cattle. I am so thankful for this video and have shared it with my children and grandchildren. Thank you
That lady said it ALL. All there will be in Florida is people. No food being raised just people !!! WOW
Great info of the hidden Cattle industry in Florida
This is awesome. I live in Tallahassee been here since I was 5 from North Carolina never knew we have cowboy’s in Florida . I moved to Texas for 4 years to the outskirts of Houston and came back to Tampa then back home to Tallahassee with my first cowboy hat 😅.
Love this series!! Thank you!! I am new to fl. And like hearing about the history!!
Awesome documentary I love Florida history
Thanks for uploading these films!
I’ll keep it short… thank you for your time and speaking about this. My first hand experience as a meat cutter that’s been in the business for 45 years 34 of it spent with one supermarket I’ve noticed the decline in the product that comes in !especially from national beef packing where they’re just where they used to trim a lot of the fat off of like the boneless top chuck especially the top round super fatty ! Excel trimmed off the sides just like take it off the sirloin and where it falls it falls horrible. Besides small heard … fat cattle and packers selling fat !! Not like it was! I’ll show pictures if interested. Thanks again!
Good site PBS quality
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Cowboy Americanos
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I am enjoying these videos. I am a descendant of Captain F.A. Hendry.
Generations cracker, grew up around cattlemen and small rodeos.
Florida was great then, but i have to admit my ancestors were tough, if you didn't have screens
the mosquitoes would eat you alive. We had a little window unit for the whole house, no heat of course. Lot of folks didn't
have air conditioning at all.
Orange groves, cattle fields, the beaches were wild even then, not crowded like they are now.
I miss it, now when I want that kind of feeling I go to the Carolinas or Georgia, Tennessee etc. One of these days I will leave and
not come back, this kind of crowded rude humanity makes it no longer what it once was.
I can imagine California was like this, I saw it in the beginning of the 80s and could only picture it 20 years before that.
the most recent flood of new yorkers have no idea that florida is historically one of the most yeehaw places in the country
and thats just sad
There's a good book called "Florida Cowman" with a lot of history. It's leather bound with a cowboy popping a whip on the cover.
This is a thoughtfully presented piece. A book with parallel material I read inspired significant personal changes. "The Silent Bridge: Echoes of the Unspoken Past" by Emma Wick
Id love to hear about the old time and blues traditions from the State.
I grew up in Miami and sure would love to go home but it would have to change
A good historical fiction book that covers several generations of Crackers is called A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith.
I love that book.
I was at a reading of his works ,by his son, in Cedar Key , Fl. a number of years ago. It was a wonderful evening and the packed house was a tribute to his fathers works. And we all got some insight to who Patrick Smith was. He was a remarkable man, and I can recommend anyone to read some of his works. It will give a clear picture of what was what , back then.
Most cracker cattle swam ashore when storms sank the galleons along the florida east coast during the 15 hundreds,and horses too.and hogs.they had couple hundred years and became numerous.and tough.
Lovely
There is corporate farming and not many family farms survive that. Whimsical fun is the substitute. Lobbyist are not our friends. Vote
My Family hunted wild cattle in a place called San Pedro Bay Florida,
Madison FL.
Great story thanks.
Is there a part 2? I didn’t see anything about the Partin’s.
Seminole in the Creek language means "Runaway"
Look at Babcock ranch , that is where we are going. It took them 10 years to get the permits they needed to destroy one of the original ranches of the day .
Gone and never going to be able to replace .
Tampa was a cow port during the Spanish American War shipping cattle and men to cuba
What is the song at the end
Many don’t know Florida used to be all back waters 30 years ago
"Seminole Wind" song
John Anderson
I remember the 50's on
Cracker" ACTUALLY appears in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and dates from the 1500's! But the folk tales about it are too popular to bother actually doing any research!
William Shakespeare used the term cracker
Delete the fountain of youth statement, Ponce was looking for Bimini & gold ..he and Colon didn't realise the lands the Taino were describing was the Yucatan. The various Spanish historians sensationalised Ponce' trip with the fountain of youth story almost 20 years later.
I don't think the tanio were in Florida.
@@siksika4603 no ponce de leon was governor of Puerto rico and visited cuba many times and those places (the greater Antilles) had taino people lived on those islands. And he spoke with them.
@@morgandarby2364 gotcha
@@siksika4603 yes they were, 2 Taino guides from San Juan with Ponce at 1st landing of Florida
The Taino knew very much about Florida, and lands abutting the gulf of Mexico, conducted trade
i saw let them raise cows, the more cows they have.. the less the panthers will eat our poodles
Ft Myers what's up
Hey, it is pretty awful that you try to rename the Trail of Tears to the Trail of Wars 11:04
Is this another restriction imposed on the education system by your government?
Greenbelt law-allow me to pay almost 0 taxes on land I'm trying to sell for $500k per acre. Absolute joke.
The sheer ignorance and racism that naturally came out of Nell G, she said what’s gunna happen is one day we’ll be like the people in India, or Africa , we not gon’ have any food. 🤣 awe man
Sad, that they use a white man colored up to re enact the natives. This cut is too deep to heal.
Then wallow in your misery or get busy living. Why is looking forward so hard for many?