Ziba King was Florida's version of a cattle baron. He came to Manatee County from Georgia after the Civil War and immediately began his rise in local folklore. He stood six-and-a-half-feet tall and ...
Around 1862, a cow hunter by the name of Morgan Mizell and his wife, Mary Fletcher Tucker, moved from Hernando County to a little-populated area in Manatee County called Horse Creek. A year later, ...