Hey Goose..

There is A Lykes Brothers cattle and land.. mostly on the west side of the lake.. it's a big operation.
and there is a Lightsey cattle company. but there closer to Kissimmee

Hey Cooter... sorry to hear that... I have had things like that happen over the years.. never did figure out what happened to some of them.

Went hunting today, took one of my 13 month old cracker curs and my two old dogs, it's the daddy and mama to the 13 month old, the male is 12 the female 8, the male winded off the tool box and bayed a hog for an hour I never could get to him.. the gyp trailed up a pretty good boar hog , her and the younger dog caught him, i did get that one.    I still can't get my pics up loaded.. is there anyone I can e mail them too and up load them for me ?

Hey Heat... I luv that to hear them stories... years ago all the fences were built with cypress or Liter post.. My granddad put in about 200 Liter poles back in the 50s for the old boat sheds at J&S fish camp.. he cut them in the corbet area.. they were 12 to 18 inches around.. 30 years later you still couldn't drive a nail in them they was so hard..  From the 30's to the early 50's My uncles used to cow hunt and move the cows from the west side of west palm beach to Okeechobee, said they did it once every year took 3 to 4 weeks, they had cow camps along the way and had supplies dropped to them by a guy in an old world 1 plane.. in the 30's they're were still a large group of seminoles  that had a village near Indiantown they said they would trade with them  along the way and sometimes hire a few of um, to help hunt the cows..  I remember as a kid saying to my Grandparents, there was really Indians there.. My grandma said to me , Good lord child where do you think the name Indiantown came from !!   

Hi SC   send me your e mail i will surely do that... thanks alot

Ok thanks

i'm about to give up trying to load pics... everytime I try it says folder full or that its too large... any advice ?

Nice to meet you guys too...

I keep trying to upload some pics of my dogs and it says its to big...  let me get my son or daughter over here to the house and see if they can figure it out, i'm not the most computer savvy person around...

Hey Boar Buster I lived off of 441 near J&S fish camp...   a good friend was the foreman on Latt Maxcy ranch there and my Grand parents were close friends with Duke Tucker who owned all the land from 441 to 710  and around the power plant.. I hunted all that land and work cows there.. we used to catch cows out of Barley Barber swamp...

Taz  those are good looking dogs

Great thread, I just joined and have been reading yall's post..  I grew up on the edge of lake okeechobee half way between Okeechobee and Indiantown.. have had old florida cracker curs my whole life, all out of old line cow dog stock.. I really enjoy hearing everyones stories.

Mine are mostly red or reddish tan with some white on a few, My uncle used to work on the Partin ranch back in the 60's some of my dogs bloodline come from their old stock, and some from lightsey cattle company near lake Kissimee... and the other line came from dogs my dad used to use that came from the Veal family, they used to run cattle in the JW Corbett area from the 50s till around 1970... these are old bloodlines that go back a hundred years that i know of...  they are rough long winded and have lots of sense...   my uncles and grandparents would work cows all week with them then hog hunt all weekend...