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Front Porch Stories--Tales of the Hendry Family, Pioneers in Florida's Peace River Basin
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by Ella Kathryn Hendry
Sales Rank: 1944964
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List Price: $24.95
$18.96
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on 9-13-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 268 pages
Published by: Tabby House January 1, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1881539237
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1881539230
Book Dimensions:
10.7 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Reader Reviews
My chief objection to this book is it perpetuates the myth about "Crackers." In 1895 artist-writer Frederic Remington came to Florida and wrote a story about Cracker Cowboys and their whips. The whip part got remembered, and the part about them being rustlers and thieves got forgotten. The Hendry's, especially, had a difficult time with these rustlers, and there were range wars at times. The so-called Cracker Cowboys were hired by powerful and influential interests to steal the cattle. My old man was a rustler! and stole many a herd of cattle here in Florida, but in the 1950s and 60s. Anyway, in the 19th Century Floridians generally regarded "Crackers" as lazy drunks who made their living stealing chickens & hogs, begging, and hunting. Prince Achille Murat observed that they generally squatted on private land until forced to leave, and I have read where they often camped on town squares and other public places, and made a nuisance of themselves.Crackers were at the bottom of the social order in Florida. Most Floridians did not consider themselves to be Crackers in those days. Today these Crackers would be called "trailer-trash" or "homeless." And throughout the 19th Century Floridians made fun of them and ridiculed their ways. And it's all there in the periodicals and newspapers of those times. But the book is interesting, otherwise, and excellent when the author writes about what she knows.
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