[LadyX]

Hate to tell you, but Florida is a big cattle state, too - all around where I grew up.

I have been present when the cow fries were 'created' - had my own quarterhorse, too!
Been around all the brandin' and other stuff..:)))

[LadyX]

We had 1,000 acres of land ourselves, and allowed use of nearly all of it to our good friends who were cattle ranchers.
They had literally thousands of acres (yes, Florida) and sold large tracts of it to create Port Malabar and environs.

[COB1]

"Hate to tell you, but Florida is a big cattle state, too "

Yeah, I heard tell of a few cattle that drifted off our ranches here in Texas and made it across Louisiana and Mississippi without the alligators eating them.
Since there were only fifty thousand or so of them, the cowboys didn't think they were worth the time to round up.