![]() They had on about four dollars worth of clothes between them, and rode McClellan saddles, with saddle-bags, and guns tied on before. There was none of the bilious fierceness and rearing plunge which I had associated with my friends out West, but as a fox-terrier is to a yellow cur, so were these last. Two very emaciated Texas ponies pattered down the street, bearing wild-looking individuals, whose hanging hair and drooping hats and generally bedraggled appearance would remind you at once of the Spanish-moss which hangs so quietly and helplessly to the limbs of the oaks out in the swamps. With me cowboys are what gems and porcelain are to some others. ![]() I was sitting in a “sto’un’,” as the “Crackers” say, waiting for the clerk to load some “number eights,” when my friend said, “Look at the cowboys!” One can thresh the straw of history until he is well worn out, and also is running some risk of wearing others out, who may have to listen, so I will waive the telling of who the first cowboy was, even if I knew but the last one who has come down under my observation lives down in Florida, and the way it happened was this: On assignment for Harper’s, he visited Arcadia in 1895 and wrote this article.Ĭontrasted from his familiar Western cowboys, who rode horned saddles and used saddle ropes, lariats and lassos, to handle Longhorn cattle on grassy plains and brush country, the Florida cow hunters rode hornless McClellan Army-surplus saddles, didn’t use saddle ropes, used cur-dogs to drive cattle into log pens for handling much smaller cattle grazing on a flat and sandy landscape, with miles of straight pine timber with scrub palmettos and tough wiregrass on an unfenced open range. ![]() Transcribed by Spessard Stone from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine of August 1895įrederic Remington (1861-1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer, who specialized in depictions of the old American West. Frederic Remington’s Cracker Cowboys Of Florida
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