***Where did the term "Florida Cracker" come from? **kzitem.info/news/bejne/oniot6SsjqR9lIo** ***
@kingdaviYT049
Жыл бұрын
See my note below. The OED is SLIGHTLY more reliable than Wikipedia!
@dixieboy5689
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for helping. Too many Yankees and flatlanders have no idea what this word means.
@dixieboy5689
Жыл бұрын
Wikipedia ?? Now there is an indisputable purveyor of their own truth. I'll stick with OED and other sources for truth, as well. . Thx.
@seymourwrasse3321
3 ай бұрын
@@dixieboy5689 flatlanders? as opposed to the mountaineers in Fl.
@johnedward-yk6rt
2 ай бұрын
Surprisingly no one has touched upon the definition... The word cracker come from the cracking of the whip to round up the cattle... I'm not a native Floridian although I've lived here for 53 years I was born in Duluth Minnesota and even I know that...
@bcn365
Жыл бұрын
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 ❤️
@karenstrawbridge6473
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@darlenehoover6577
Жыл бұрын
Born and raised a Florida Cracker. Nowhere I wind up, my heart remains in old Florida.
@keithqueen352
Жыл бұрын
You lost you're cracker card when you left Florida.
@glossymoss03
Жыл бұрын
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 😔
@lamontpearce170
Жыл бұрын
@@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 ...
@tobyhorn9641
Жыл бұрын
@@darlenehoover6577 like me with Arkansas
@leanneadams2549
6 ай бұрын
That lady said it ALL. All there will be in Florida is people. No food being raised just people !!! WOW
@williamjones3462
3 ай бұрын
I grew up in Arkansas, daddy was a farm mechanic. The farmer allowed us 1 acre for a garden and 5 acres for pasture. We raised our food (except coffee, sugar and flour) We slaughtered our cows, pigs and chickens. That is a reality check leaning nothing in life is free except sunshine and rain
@tamarlicalzi6184
3 жыл бұрын
Florida Born and Raised. Love my state. ❤️
@Jerseydaves
6 ай бұрын
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!
@kv2723
Ай бұрын
Environmental extremists do not want meat available to ppl. Period. This shortage and these outrageous prices is intentional. China is buying up our farmland. It's all intentional.
@samflower31
2 ай бұрын
My great grandfather was a cattle rancher in the Kissimmee\StCloud area, I am an 8th generation Floridian on one side, from the Raulerson family line.
@pamshewan9181
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@rogerdevero8726
2 жыл бұрын
Pam, I imagine you've read, "A Land Remembered" A 'must read' for everyone who loves this state. John 3:16
@katherinemoore52
Жыл бұрын
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
@JeffEarnest
3 ай бұрын
Not many of us left
@lordthunderchicken4636
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@monicaridlehoover3599
Жыл бұрын
A good historical fiction book that covers several generations of Crackers is called A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith.
@dixieboy5689
Жыл бұрын
I love that book.
@dixieboy5689
Жыл бұрын
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.
@russpost2557
9 ай бұрын
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 .
@lynnchaney5258
2 ай бұрын
Babcock Ranch does have a plan to maintain and operate cattle operation there. I have toured it. very interesting. Not every ranch in Florida offers tours to the public.
@lisatowe778
Жыл бұрын
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.
@Flacowboy4hire
8 ай бұрын
Great info of the hidden Cattle industry in Florida
@pvb876287
2 ай бұрын
Absolutely great doc. Valuable knowledge for the citizens of Florida. Incentives to develop the cattle industry in Florida, while preserving natural habitat.
@leighallen9255
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Miami and sure would love to go home but it would have to change
@JeffEarnest
3 ай бұрын
It's a crying shame what the greedy political idiots did to this state. I am a 5th generation Florida native and all of my relatives are spinning in their graves. It does my heart good to hear that you know the truth about our proud native Floridians that still live here. We are getting less and less and that's a shame. We're going to try to educate you how we do it in the south. But you will understand what the truth is.
@davidash2727
4 ай бұрын
Good site PBS quality
@robertbachelor6993
Жыл бұрын
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.
@marialuizasantos7336
8 ай бұрын
Top as histórias desses bravos homens ABÇS a VCS amigos Cowboy Americanos Do Netao
@mjford6152
Жыл бұрын
There is corporate farming and not many family farms survive that. Whimsical fun is the substitute. Lobbyist are not our friends. Vote
@BobF510
10 ай бұрын
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
@johndekoyer7588
2 жыл бұрын
Seminole in the Creek language means "Runaway"
@tyranhepburn600
Жыл бұрын
Many don’t know Florida used to be all back waters 30 years ago
@ZarpeParadise
10 ай бұрын
"Seminole Wind" song John Anderson I remember the 50's on
@freddyhernandez4914
5 ай бұрын
What is the song at the end
@AmericafromthegrindWolfe
2 ай бұрын
Which was a good educational video I really appreciate it. Born and raised here in Florida 45 years. I'm always trying to figure everything out. And I find the history to be so important in The Way of Life. As a carpenter making most money in the new construction and is 3 I sympathize with the old times the old ways because it's just so much common sense. There is so much over developing taking place. This new construction is just BS to me. I wish it would stop so we could preserve as much as we can. By now. I watch so much of this state. Just go to ruins. I miss the forest that I grew up in the Saint Lucy river. There's a mud hole now, and so many other ones. Are the Indian rivers bend destroyed for the most part? I just makes me so sad, it's so horrible to watch.
@jimhurleywhitakerjr
2 ай бұрын
Love the Taylor Guitar Co. Music album tracks
@DoIoannToKnow
11 ай бұрын
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
@laurastewart9877
3 ай бұрын
And we actually have a little town called Yeehaw Junction!
@DoIoannToKnow
3 ай бұрын
@@laurastewart9877 I pass through it on route 60 often. I always shout yeehaw passing the cows
@lao1634
2 ай бұрын
Yes it is
@rfs2942
3 жыл бұрын
Lovely
@peterburke8650
3 жыл бұрын
Great story thanks.
@thepamela050
Ай бұрын
I came from the Parkers where Bone Mizelle was their cattle foreman...
@chrisrogers5814
2 ай бұрын
Florida had the largest uninterrupted ranch in north America
@lorrainemjavorsky6140
3 ай бұрын
Do you have a TWH now or still ride a Cracker?
@lizgibson5266
2 ай бұрын
Cattle ranches are dissappearing as fast as orange groves. Everybody's growing houses now. You only get to sell them once.
@stevewilson1388
3 ай бұрын
@24:01 "by the late 1800's Florida was considered the last frontier in the US"?? Really?
@lizgibson5266
2 ай бұрын
We grew bramer cows in my neighborhood. We had no idea what a brahma was 😂
@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS
Жыл бұрын
i saw let them raise cows, the more cows they have.. the less the panthers will eat our poodles
@TheWizardGamez
2 ай бұрын
shoutout nell gammage for saying that shit with her chest. i was agast for a couple seconds but hey. what can i expect rip probably
@evelitalian
2 ай бұрын
Did they have to whip the horse?
@krazyykuban31
10 ай бұрын
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
@lizgibson5266
2 ай бұрын
As a Florida native I understand where she's coming from. Farmlands, groves, and ranches are disappearing at an alarming rate. They are being replaced by golf courses and neighborhoods. I remember when you didn't see foods from other countries in the grocery stores. Most of what you ate was grown here in Florida.
@Cat-ik1wo
2 жыл бұрын
Sad, that they use a white man colored up to re enact the natives. This cut is too deep to heal.
@buckodonnghaile4309
Жыл бұрын
Then wallow in your misery or get busy living. Why is looking forward so hard for many?
@jonathanwoodham4165
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@earth_ling
3 ай бұрын
Lived there for years. Did you know the Aerietta’s that ranched in Port Mayaca. Two brothers from Puerto Rico started it. They were there for decades as ranchers. Grew up with their kids.
@lao1634
2 ай бұрын
My prayers to you & your family what our government is doing to American farmers is horrible What development is doing to Florida is awful Thank you for holding on to old Florida ❤🙏
@znmcg
2 ай бұрын
@@earth_lingwe have the palm tree farm in port Mayaca now where there was a orange grove. Small world
@earth_ling
2 ай бұрын
@@znmcg Man I think that I spent most of my youth around Port Mayaca. There’s a grave yard beside hwy 76…a lot of folks around there believe that there are “haints” around it…and some have been known to speed up when going by so as to keep them from catching a ride in your car with you…lol. A good friend of mine was a State Trooper around that area and heard that from several speeders that he had stopped along that road. A good friend of mine hit a herd of cattle on that stretch of road in the middle of a heavy fog. Almost killed him. He was coming back to his home late…they had got loose and were standing in the middle of the highway. He was Cowboying somewhere heading back to Okeechobee.
@sarahmiller3941
2 ай бұрын
I'm related to the Kilpatricks through my maternal grandmother.
@dixieboy5689
Жыл бұрын
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.
@hampton4454
4 ай бұрын
I am enjoying these videos. I am a descendant of Captain F.A. Hendry.
@jamesbass7981
Жыл бұрын
My Family hunted wild cattle in a place called San Pedro Bay Florida, Madison FL.
@Ravenoflight2275
5 ай бұрын
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 😅.
@werepat
Жыл бұрын
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?
@kingdaviYT049
Жыл бұрын
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!
@michaeldinkins9145
Жыл бұрын
William Shakespeare used the term cracker
@reecedobson4740
Жыл бұрын
Awesome documentary I love Florida history
@Chris-vp2lm
Жыл бұрын
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.
@deborahbreeden4394
2 ай бұрын
My uncle rented a spot from 1000 acres in Lutz in the late 1960s to raise hogs. I drove by there in 2023. It was all houses. I used to ride my cousin's pony. I'd spend the whole day exploring the land. It was a blast!
@rbnhd1976
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading these films!
@robbierussell5964
2 жыл бұрын
Is there a part 2? I didn’t see anything about the Partin’s.
@kjnest
Жыл бұрын
Love this series!! Thank you!! I am new to fl. And like hearing about the history!!
@Bobman4671
Жыл бұрын
Id love to hear about the old time and blues traditions from the State.
@grahamhuls2716
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@siksika4603
3 жыл бұрын
I don't think the tanio were in Florida.
@morgandarby2364
3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@siksika4603
3 жыл бұрын
@@morgandarby2364 gotcha
@grahamhuls2716
3 жыл бұрын
@@siksika4603 yes they were, 2 Taino guides from San Juan with Ponce at 1st landing of Florida
@grahamhuls2716
3 жыл бұрын
The Taino knew very much about Florida, and lands abutting the gulf of Mexico, conducted trade
@brassmonkey7566
Жыл бұрын
Tampa was a cow port during the Spanish American War shipping cattle and men to cuba
@AmericafromthegrindWolfe
2 ай бұрын
Another display of how mankind is the enemy to the world. It is blows. My mind what's amazing that this world is even still here right now
@Victorio-f9y
2 ай бұрын
So who is the Ponce de León that lived in El Paso Texas?
@nevertoopoortotour.3033
2 жыл бұрын
Ft Myers what's up
@lizgibson5266
2 ай бұрын
I remember when Kissimmee was a cow town.
@chrisrogers5814
2 ай бұрын
Abilene Kansas to Kissimmee FL I get it
@vakkerdame8557
2 ай бұрын
Some of this seems so barbaric, but history tends to be. Interesting info regarding our sunny states past.
@jesslynrooks4468
2 ай бұрын
This is how we lived. It's not bullshit Yellowstone . We rolled out Before day light 😂 You took care of those cows and they took care of you
@asullivan4047
2 ай бұрын
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still pictures/drawings/maps/reenactments/guest speakers sharing their knowledge & experience. Pertaining to the past & present cattle industry.
@michaelsorrentino-yp7nb
2 ай бұрын
Born in Dade County in the mid 50s and never knew all of this fascinating history. Very interesting stuff right here !!
@squarecracker
Жыл бұрын
Greenbelt law-allow me to pay almost 0 taxes on land I'm trying to sell for $500k per acre. Absolute joke.
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