stan: the term cracker, also refers to a drover, who was so adept at making a bullwhip crack, that it conveyed commands, without the necessity of applying the whip to flesh...
cracker skills are described in a wonderful novel titled "A Land Remembered" by Patrick D. Smith...it describes the origins of the south florida cattle industry, in the decade after the civil war...the main character is a drover from south georgia who moved south after helping to repel the yankee invaders at the battle of olustee in 1864...
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