A History of Florida to 1990

“In the Alachua prairie, near present-day Gainesville, a thriving cattle industry developed in the 17th century… In the first half of the 18th century the cattle ranches in Alachua collapsed under pressures from English and Indian rustlers… By 1763 the interior ranch lands were untended domains of buffalo, deer, wild black cattle, and ungoverned human runaway natives, blacks, Englishmen and others (9).” AN257

From Mose in Secondary Literature by Amy In the Alachua prairie, near present-day Gainesville, a thriving cattle industry developed in the 17th century… In the first half of the 18th century the cattle ranches in Alachua collapsed under pressures from English and Indian rustlers… By 1763 the interior ranch lands were untended domains of buffalo, deer, wild black cattle, and ungoverned human runaways—natives, blacks, Englishmen and others (9). AN486