Atlas Obscura
Cow Camp at Lake Kissimmee State Park in Lake Wales, Florida
If you think of states like Texas when it comes to the earliest days of cattle in America, you'll actually want to reorient your map towards Florida. That's because in the early 1500s, it was Florida where the first Spanish conquistadors arrived, bringing along a small herd of Andalusian cows and horses. In the approximately 500 years since, the animals they left behind have adapted to Florida'…