Pratik Pandey

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When Bertha Honore Palmer (1849–1918) arrived in Sarasota in 1910, Florida’s cattle industry was still largely a rugged, male-dominated frontier. Most local herds roamed wild and thin-ribbed, descended from the hardy but scrawny Spanish cattle first brought over in the 1500s. Branding, rounding up, and driving the animals across open range was dangerous, sweaty work—considered no place for a society matron from Chicago. But Bertha Palmer wasn’t just any woman.