Cracker Chuck Wagon Sepia
by D Hackett
Title
Cracker Chuck Wagon Sepia
Artist
D Hackett
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Photograph - Digital
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Cracker Chuck Wagon Sepia by D Hackett
Taken at Cracker Country, Florida State Fairgrounds Tampa Florida
A chuckwagon or chuck wagon is a type of wagon historically used to carry food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and Canada.[1] Such wagons formed part of a wagon train of settlers or fed traveling workers such as cowboys or loggers
Two Hundred Years of Tradition: The Great Florida Cattle Drive of Ought 6
ByNancy Dale
The 1800s cattle drives are carved deeply into the legends of Florida history when cow hunters drove their herds over hundred of miles on the old cracker trail to markets in Punta Rassa, shipping them aboard paddle boats to Cuba and Key West to replenish the beef supply after the Civil and Spanish American Wars, and by train from Ft. Pierce north to the breadbasket of the country.
Marked by long days over rutted, dusty trails, through swamps and across Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River, skilled horsemen along with their faithful cur dogs, gathered together in the annual round-up to minister to their trade. Working thousands of cattle across Florida, camping along the way for weeks at a time, the cow hunters settled down nightly in encampments, greeted at dusk by the welcome waft of hot vittles (sometimes entrails) cooked up on an open fire minded by the chuck wagon chef that lured their tired and dusty bones back to the cow camp to hunker down for the night beside their brooding herd. The clank of tin cups and the lowing cows echoed into sunset as the glowing embers slowly sank into nightfall and the cow hunters marked the close of day. Resting upon saddles and blankets, the great story tellers began their art of warming the spirit, weaving together an oral history of humorous stories collected along the way, spun around the campfire with some songs, as the sun melted into the horizon and night settled over fading embers into a canopy of stars.
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