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17 images Created 17 Feb 2016

Great Florida Cattle Drive '16

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  • Sarah Carter, 13, rides her horse bareback on the back side of the Silver Spurs Arena in Kenansville, after the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16 ended.  Carter of Jacksonville had friends and family that were on the drive.<br />
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  • J. Dawe-Ivines one of the many women participating in the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16 and experience life as it was for a Cow Hunter in Florida during the 1800s. Women, Native Americans, African Americans and Hispanics all worked as Cow Hunters in Florida and the rest of the Americas.  <br />
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  • Three hundred and fifty-six  registered participants drove the cracker cows from South St. Cloud about 60 miles over six days during the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16 to the Silver Spurs Arena in Kenansville. <br />
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  • Max Coggins, 8, his grandfather and trail boss Mike Wilder and twin brother Rhett Coggins lead hundreds of cracker cows and riders in the Great Florida Cattle Drive 2016 in Kenansville, FL. The Great Florida Cattle Drive is a living history to commemorate Florida's Cow Hunters living in the 1800's  The re-enactment of what life was like during a cattle drive in the same area of Florida recreating, the challenges, hardships and good times for modern day Floridians to experience. <br />
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  • Jonnie Wall-Flewelling eagerly kisses her husband Greg Flewelling on his horse on his return from the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16 outside the Silver Spurs Arena in Kenansville. <br />
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  • Benjamin Depart The Cracker Tenor plays his song "Cow Hunter Dreams" for the crowd gathered and waiting for  the participants in the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16 at the Silver Spurs Arena in Kenansville. <br />
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  • A hand painted horse with the history of Florida and the Great Florida Cattle Drive painted on it sits just outside the Silver Spurs Arena in Kenansville. The painted horse was given away in a raffle with a host of other items related to the cattle drive.<br />
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  • The Great Florida Cattle Drive '16 riders rest their horses in the tall grasses of  Kenansville.  The riders traveled from as far away as Germany, England, South America, California, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and nearby states like Georgia and Alabama. <br />
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  • Two modern day Cow Hunters David Medina (center) and brother Delio Medina (right) of Miami take in the scene at the end of the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16. <br />
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  • Justin Mickelsen, 13, demonstrates his whip cracking ability atop his horse at the end of the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16. "Awesome." said Mickelsen of Mobile, Alabama about his six day trip into the Florida wilderness.   <br />
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  • Donna Compton, of Youngsville, NC removes her hat during The Star Spangled Banner at the end of the The Great Florida Cattle Drive '16.   <br />
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  • Hundreds of sightseers, family and friends waited anxiously for the return of the Cow Hunters on a six day trip during the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16 ends.<br />
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  • Nearly five hundred head of cracker cows and other cattle made the almost 60 mile trip from St. Cloud to Kenansville during the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16 to commemorate the life of a Cow Hunter in the 1800s.<br />
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  • Lori Wilfcord-Herbenick, Jacksonville, waters her daughter Katana's horse Flicka, after their six day 60 mile journey though Florida's back country in the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16. <br />
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  • Along with the 400 plus riders and volunteers on the trip about 20 wagons braved the six day and 60 mile Great Florida Cattle Drive '16.<br />
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  • Many of the of the participants dressed in period clothing during the Great Florida Cattle Drive '16. <br />
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  • After completing nearly 60 mile  Great Florida Cattle Drive '16, cracker cows and cattle rest at the water hole near Silver Spur's Arena in Kenansville. WILLIE J. ALLEN JR.
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