BROOKSVILLE — Florida Cracker Kitchen's inverted cowboy boot logo — seemingly plastered on every pickup truck in Hernando County — may someday be just as ubiquitous across the state.

About 20 miles east of Lake Wales, just up the road from Highway 60, Lake Kissimmee State Park re-created an 1876 cow camp in the heart of Central Florida. A decade after the Civil War, Florida ...

About 20 miles east of Lake Wales, just up the road from Highway 60, Lake Kissimmee State Park re-created an 1876 cow camp in the heart of Central Florida. A decade after the Civil War, Florida ...

The annual Cracker Trail Ride, which began over the weekend, is altering its route slightly as it clomps through Florida’s midsection. Nearly 150 people signed up to ride their horses for nin… ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida would recognize the Florida Cracker cattle as the official state cattle under a bill passed by the House. The House unanimously passed the bill Wednesday to ...

Entrenched in Florida folklore, romanticized in the literature and celebrated year after year in festivals throughout the state, the Florida Cracker culture nonetheless is poorly understood.

Readers: Is the crack of the whip near the ear of a stubborn cow the origin of "Florida Cracker?" About 20 miles east of Lake Wales, just up the road from Highway 60, Lake Kissimmee State Park ...

"At one point, they ran feral in Florida, well into the '40s," said Dr. William Broussard, who owns the state's largest Cracker Cattle herd at his ranch in St. Cloud. "They had to adapt." Even ...