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Would Do, Could Do and Made Do: Florida's Pioneer Cow Hunters Who Tamed The Last Frontier
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by Nancy Dale
Sales Rank: 2083053
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List Price: $14.95
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on 9-13-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 150 pages
Published by: iUniverse, Inc. November 28, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0595415687
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0595415687
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 7.2 ounces
Product Description
The small family ranch today is struggling to survive in Florida, jeopardized by unmanaged urban sprawl and explosive population growth with over 1,000 people a day moving into the state.
Today, land has more value than heritage, but, this hearty culture of individuals face the future with hope and promise that bailed them out against all odds in the past.
Florida’s pioneer “cow hunters,” today’s cattle ranchers, live through tough words of forebearance expressed by Bud Adams, The Adams Ranch, Ft. Pierce: “Cattlemen have always operated on the fringe. They have settled the frontier and lived apart from urban society. They have had little protection of the law, the market, prices and no protection from the weather. They have had the freedom to operate and the freedom to fail. They have made money, lost fortunes, endured hardships of heat, cold, drought, freezes and floods and they wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.”
Hopefully this book will be well-worn in time, passed on to future generations who will take up the chalice, follow their predecessors and write their own unique history of Florida cattle ranchers.
About The Author
Nancy Dale, a native Miamian and author of Where the Swallowtail Kite Soars: The Legacies of Glades County, Florida and the Vanishing Wilderness is a nationally published writer, newspaper correspondent, college instructor and Allied Member of the Florida Cattlemen’s Association. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication/Broadcast Journalism and lives in Sebring, Florida. Contact: www.nancydalephd.com.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: "Would Do, Could Do and Made Do": Florida's Pioneer "Cow Hunters" Who Tamed The Last Frontier (Hardcover)
Florida may now seem to be the land of beaches, theme parks and sprawling planned unit developments, but it wasn't always this way. In, "Would Do, Could Do and Made Do", Nancy Dale takes you on a trip into Florida's not too distant past and into the lives of Florida's pioneer, "Cow Hunters" (cowboys). Before air conditioning, doppler radar and the interstate, there were enterprising families carving out an existence in the untamed tropical wilds of Florida. Nancy Dale brings it all to life in a way that is part news report and part conversational recounting as told through interviews with those that lived the experience. Photos throughout the work put faces to the names, and the well worn features of many tell their own tales of lives well lived and well worked. Having lived in Florida for twenty years (a new kid compared to these folks), I have crisscrossed the state several times. If you travel only the coastlines you might never know that at its heart Florida is an agricultural power house. We're not just talking oranges here. Sprawling cattle ranches line the roads that travel east and west through the state. Yet still, each time I travel those roads I see change. I see growth and encroachment. Nothing stays the same, but in "Would Do, Could Do and Made Do" we are given some bit of hope that if there is one thing that might be able to outlast the sprawl, it is the will of these early Florida pioneers, these Cow Hunters.
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