[PDF] Florida Cowboys eBook

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780813034089

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Visit a Florida where sunburn is the result of honest, hard work--not an afternoon at the beach "Without its lush ranchlands, there would be precious little left to see of old Florida, and nowhere for some of our most endangered wildlife to survive. Carlton Ward's colorful tribute to this dwindling frontier is also a call to save what remains of it. The alternative is unthinkable."--Carl Hiaasen "Ward's masterful photographs go beyond pictures of cowboys and the Florida landscape to taste the life, feel the land, and appreciate the importance of the past, present, and future of ranching in the unique environment of Florida."--Todd Bertolaet "Exploring the rich history and culture of the Florida ranch, this book opens a window to a world that many Floridians are unaware of, and teaches us why we should all care about this disappearing way of life."--Jason Hahn Drive a few miles beyond Disney World, past the gaudy souvenir shops, all-you-can-eat buffets, and chain hotels, and you'll find the largest producing cattle ranch in the world. Indeed, nearly one-fifth of the state is devoted to the cattle industry, and these working ranches play a vital role in Florida's economic health. Yet even as encroaching urban sprawl threatens their way of life, photographer Carlton Ward has been documenting the often unseen world of Florida cowboys. Every day before dawn, they saddle their horses, coil their lariats and whips, and ride out to work the herds. Over 15,000 ranches raise nearly two million head of cattle--the living legacies of the longest history of ranching in North America. Florida cowboys share their land with bears, panthers, and other endangered species, along with irreplaceable wetlands that help sustain the state's strained water resources. Complemented by twenty historical, cultural, and environmental essays from Dana Ste Claire, Joe Akerman, Auduon of Florida, and the Seminole Tribe, among others, Ward's stunning photographs capture the grit and raw beauty of inland Florida, its enduring cowboys, and the land they protect.

Author : Jon Kral
Publisher : Longwind Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cowboys
ISBN : 9780965812870

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Captures the essence of the Florida cowboy through compelling photographs.

Author : Carlton Ward, Jr.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2012-10-14
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780813044118

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Every day before dawn they saddle their horses, coil their lariats and whips, and ride out to work the herds. They are Florida Cowboys living legacies of the longest history of ranching in America. They are also the guardians of the landscape they share with endangered wildlife and irreplaceable wetlands. Drive a few miles down the road from Disney World and you ll cross a ranch with more cattle than any other in North America. Carlton Ward s stunning images reveal a world at the heart of Florida that few tourists or residents ever see. These postcards will take your breath away with their raw beauty and grit."

Author : Patrick D Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1561645826

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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Author : Tim McBride
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250051282

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In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit. McBride had been unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers--middlemen between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors in Miami. His elaborate team comprised fishermen, drivers, stock houses, security--seemingly all of Chokoloskee Island was in on the operation. As McBride came to accept his new role, tons upon tons of marijuana would pass through his hands. Then the federal government intervened in 1984, leaving the crew without a boss and most of its key players. McBride, now a veteran smuggler, was somehow spared. So when the Colombians came looking for a new middle-man, they turned to him. McBride became the boss of an operation that was ultimately responsible for smuggling 30 million pounds of marijuana. A self-proclaimed "Saltwater Cowboy," he would evade the Coast Guard for years, facing volatile Colombian drug lords and risking betrayal by romantic partners until his luck finally ran out. A tale of crime and excess, Saltwater Cowboy is the gripping memoir of one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history.

Author : Jimmy Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2016-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1365451771

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Biography of a Florida Cracker Cowboy and his life growing up as Florida was being pioneered and settled. Throughout his adulthood raising a family, finding Jesus and overcoming cancer.

Author : David Carlton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477268553

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This book is a collection of poetry and experiences related by a Florida Cowboy. The Author explains the inspiration that led to most of these poems, and includes a brief personal history of himself and the cattle industry in the state of Florida in his Introduction to the book. He will continue writing poetry, as this has become a part of his life. You can keep updated on some of Davids latest cowboy poetry, as well as other Cowboy Poets by going online to http://www.cowboypoetry.com/davidcarlton.htm .

Author : Jim Bob Tinsley
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813009858

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"Recounts a time when range wars, cattle drives, rustling, street brawls, and rum running were commonplace in Florida. Though the focus is on Mizell, Tinsley also gives an engaging history of Florida and the cattle industry."--Tampa Tribune

Author : Stan Zimmerman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 161423356X

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Why Florida has been a smuggler’s paradise for centuries—and how traffic in everything from weapons to exotic flowers has shaped the state’s history. Amateur smugglers may sneak a box of Cuban cigars into the U.S. here and there—but in the big picture, untaxed and untraced commerce, aka contraband, is a trillion-dollar-per-year global business. New technologies to discover and curb smuggling are met by equally well-equipped perpetrators, determined to stay below the radar. With its long coastline, hundreds of remote landing strips, and airports clogged with sun-seeking tourists, Florida is a superhighway of smuggling. It is easy to move illegal goods like weapons, drugs, slaves, exotic birds and flowers, all while avoiding the best efforts of U.S. and international customs authorities. Who does this smuggling? Well one Florida governor and the wife of another, for starters. Everyone from hardscrabble commercial fishermen, Spanish explorers, Mafia mobsters, crew chiefs for fruit pickers, respected attorneys—and even one Florida governor and the wife of another. This fascinating history covers the role of smuggling in Florida history, including its discovery and settlement, the Seminole Wars, and the Civil War. With stories of land booms, money laundering, drug runners, and more, this is a book that leaves no stone unturned—or suitcase unopened

Author : Miles H. Plowen
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440129001

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Best friends since their meeting in 1891, native Texan cowboys Jeremiah Coxin and Earl Ray Remmick struggle to make a living herding scrub cattle in central Florida.