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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1758050" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>It was all happening about the same time. Cattle hit both regions around the same time due to the Spanish. </p><p></p><p>The Spanish abandoned the cattle ranch and it was taken over by natives in the 1700s. Meanwhile the Spanish had moved up though modern day Mexico and Texas during the 15th and 16th century. The missions had massive herds of cattle handled by the vaqueros. </p><p></p><p><em>The second generation to settle in the Florida territory after the Spanish were pioneers who traveled south through the state in the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Control of Florida was still disputed by Spain and England, so settlers in the state lived outside the political control of both nations. Cattle rustlers, charged with rounding up the loose cattle in Central Florida, used long, braided leather bullwhips to bring cattle out from the underdeveloped forest brush. The men would flail the whips with so much force that the tips would actually break the sound barrier, creating a cracking sound — actually a small sonic boom. Thus, a name for these Florida cowboys was born. Stories quickly spread about the rustlers' individual whip-cracking sounds that allowed them to identify each other from far away.</em></p><p></p><p>According to the articles the cracker cowboy really didn't start up until around the late 1700s. The Vaqueros had already been operating organized herds for a 100, or maybe 200 years, before.</p><p></p><p>Then both regions started moving cattle around the time of and after the wars.</p><p></p><p>Im not claiming either is better or worse or any thing like that. Im just pointing out history is not supporting yalls comments about cracker cowboys operating hundreds of years before cattle in Texas. Cattle have been organized in herds by the missions around where I live since the 1600s. </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ha.034[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1758050, member: 6291"] It was all happening about the same time. Cattle hit both regions around the same time due to the Spanish. The Spanish abandoned the cattle ranch and it was taken over by natives in the 1700s. Meanwhile the Spanish had moved up though modern day Mexico and Texas during the 15th and 16th century. The missions had massive herds of cattle handled by the vaqueros. [I]The second generation to settle in the Florida territory after the Spanish were pioneers who traveled south through the state in the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Control of Florida was still disputed by Spain and England, so settlers in the state lived outside the political control of both nations. Cattle rustlers, charged with rounding up the loose cattle in Central Florida, used long, braided leather bullwhips to bring cattle out from the underdeveloped forest brush. The men would flail the whips with so much force that the tips would actually break the sound barrier, creating a cracking sound — actually a small sonic boom. Thus, a name for these Florida cowboys was born. Stories quickly spread about the rustlers' individual whip-cracking sounds that allowed them to identify each other from far away.[/I] According to the articles the cracker cowboy really didn't start up until around the late 1700s. The Vaqueros had already been operating organized herds for a 100, or maybe 200 years, before. Then both regions started moving cattle around the time of and after the wars. Im not claiming either is better or worse or any thing like that. Im just pointing out history is not supporting yalls comments about cracker cowboys operating hundreds of years before cattle in Texas. Cattle have been organized in herds by the missions around where I live since the 1600s. [URL unfurl="true"]http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ha.034[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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