Florida Cow Hunter
Jim Bob Tinsley, the number two inductee into the National Cowboy Song and Poetry Hall of Fame, has written the first book on Bone Mizell, a man who used his sense of humor to survive in the Florida cowman’s world at the turn of the century, a world of cattle wars, vigilante actions, hangings, fence-cuttings, and Cowtown duels. “Bone Mizell was just a typical cowboy—the way Paul Bunyan was a typical lumberjack.”
"Recounts a time when range wars, cattle drives, rustling, street brawls, and rum running were commonplace in Florida. Though the focus is on Mizell, Tinsley also gives an engaging history of Florida and the cattle industry."—Tampa Tribune
“The only volume I have seen that contains such a complete collection of anecdotes involving the celebrated Bone Mizell. Anyone interested in frontier history, scholars or otherwise, should find [it] interesting and informative.”—Joe A. Akerman, author of The Florida Cowman“The single greatest source of information on Bone Mizell....Tinsley has skillfully brought together a detailed and accurate description of the Mizell’s life and times and the early cattle industry in South Florida [which] helps the reader understand what conditions and environment contributed to the transformation of a plain cowhunter into the ‘Will Rogers of South Florida.’”—George Lane Jr., former publisher, The Arcadian
Author of many works on Florida and Western subjects, Jim Bob Tinsley lived in Ocala, Florida, and Brevard, North Carolina. His book on cowboy music, He Was Singin’ This Song, has become a classic.
