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Post by Blunashun on Feb 3, 2023 1:18:37 GMT
I just ordered four more books on the old west. Many have come out since I was in school. Thank goodness. Unexplored characters. Under-investigated people. Outlaws my school library didn't have books on. Indians. 10 more went in my cart.
Got a book on the Apaches from Cochise to Geronimo. Put a book on hold about Quanah Parker. He was half white & half Comanche. The Comanches actually had such a hold on Texas that many Americans turned tail & ran back east.
Cherokee Bill & the Rufus Buck Gang. Most were half Cherokee & half black. They ran amok in Oklahoma territory. When they finally brought Cherokee Bill to a hangman's noose & asked him if he had any last words, he said something like - 'Just get on with it.'
Harry Tracy. He was a member of The Wild Bunch. This guy was Clint Eastwood before there was a Clint Eastwood. He aimed at you, he hit you.
Ben Thompson. He was an Englishman by birth. Also one scary psychopath. He was assassinated, along with King Fisher, in Texas.
John Wesley Hardin. He supposedly shot 40 men, not including Indians, Mexicans & ni**ers. He separated. Piece of trash.
Curly Bill Brocious, from Tombstone fame. Legend has it Wyatt Earp made up killing him.
Dave Rudabaugh. He ran with Billy the Kid & was decapitated in Mexico.
Billy the Kid.
Sam Bass. I was surprised at the amount of information available on him. He died at age 26.
This stuff interests me. People who just don't give a shit. People other people worship. People who refuse to live by the rules.
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 3, 2023 1:37:55 GMT
Two more were Bill Cook & Bloody Bill Anderson. Bill Cook ran a gang in Oklahoma that Cherokee Bill was a member of.
Bill Anderson was a ruthless fuck who ran a gang of marauders from Missouri into Kansas.
I watch old westerns where Quantrill & Anderson are glorified. They were killers of women & children.
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 3, 2023 1:42:33 GMT
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 3, 2023 15:34:10 GMT
Billy the Kid & Quanah Parker were on the porch this morning. That was fast.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Feb 3, 2023 20:21:27 GMT
Ima gonna guess most of the people ordering this flag have NO IDEA who Quantrill’s Raiders were and instead have adopted it as their Qanon symbol. Bravo, Amazon! GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 4, 2023 0:18:05 GMT
Ima gonna guess most of the people ordering this flag have NO IDEA who Quantrill’s Raiders were and instead have adopted it as their Qanon symbol. Bravo, Amazon! GO DODGERS!!! You're being generous. I'm sure they agree with slaughtering people who are anti-slavery. It just never ceases to amaze me how the wealthy get the poor to fight their battles for them. Even when it's against their interests. |
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 13, 2023 21:21:09 GMT
Can't find a good book on the Doolin Gang. I have this old one, written by an old racist. I don't know how The Hole in the Wall Gang came to be known as The Wild Bunch. The Doolin-Dalton Gang of Eagles fame was the original Wild Bunch. Butch Cassidy's gang was more popularly known as The Hole in the Wall Gang.
Bill Doolin was the smart member of The Dalton Gang. He knew the Coffeyville raid was stupid & avoided it. The Dalton Gang was wiped out trying to one-up their cousins (James-Younger Gang) by robbing two banks at the same time. Coffeyville was to the Daltons what Northfield was to the James Gang. The beginning of the end. Only Bill Dalton emerged from that intact. He was the weaker partner in the newly formed Doolin Gang.
I recall a very old Randolph Scott flick about Bill Doolin. Of course, Hollywood creates myths. Who is this Bill Doolin & is he real? Yes, he was. The Battle of Ingalls should rank right alongside the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in western lore. All it takes is one good movie.
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 13, 2023 21:50:08 GMT
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 20, 2023 1:21:28 GMT
I bought a bike from my neighbor. $50.00. It had been damaged trying to do stunts. A bicycle repair shop owner fixed it for $70.00. He said it was a thousand dollar bike. Now I'm left wondering how my neighbor got a thousand dollar bike.
It's hard getting used to a bike with shock absorbers under the seat.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Feb 20, 2023 22:14:00 GMT
I bought a bike from my neighbor. $50.00. It had been damaged trying to do stunts. A bicycle repair shop owner fixed it for $70.00. He said it was a thousand dollar bike. Now I'm left wondering how my neighbor got a thousand dollar bike. It's hard getting used to a bike with shock absorbers under the seat. My first job at 14 was in a small bike shop. We sold and assembled all the usual store brands, like Huffy, Schwin, etc. but also did high end, special order racing bikes as well. These would be built piece by piece, including bare rims which we would then hub, spoke and true by hand. I got to be REALLY good at that skill and I remember some of our high end titanium spokes were five or ten bucks a piece. I myself built a racer from scratch on a Peugeot frame with ALL the best calipers, brakes, pedals, shifters, wheels, etc. Since I got all the parts for cost and did all the work myself, it ran me a tick under a grand. I sold it ten years later for around $2,500. I think our top dollar bike was a Trek that ran around four large. Keep in mind - this was the mid-late seventies. That was (and still is) a helluva lot of money for a ten speed. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 20, 2023 22:18:59 GMT
I bought a bike from my neighbor. $50.00. It had been damaged trying to do stunts. A bicycle repair shop owner fixed it for $70.00. He said it was a thousand dollar bike. Now I'm left wondering how my neighbor got a thousand dollar bike. It's hard getting used to a bike with shock absorbers under the seat. My first job at 14 was in a small bike shop. We sold and assembled all the usual store brands, like Huffy, Schwin, etc. but also did high end, special order racing bikes as well. These would be built piece by piece, including bare rims which we would then hub, spoke and true by hand. I got to be REALLY good at that skill and I remember some of our high end titanium spokes were five or ten bucks a piece. I myself built a racer from scratch on a Peugeot frame with ALL the best calipers, brakes, pedals, shifters, wheels, etc. Since I got all the parts for cost and did all the work myself, it ran me a tick under a grand. I sold it ten years later for around $2,500. I think our top dollar bike was a Trek that ran around four large. Keep in mind - this was the mid-late seventies. That was (and still is) a helluva lot of money for a ten speed. GO DODGERS!!! Damn. I had a ten-speed bike that got stolen out of my garage years ago. Bought it in the 1990's for $130.00. I'm used to a solid frame. I need to ride this new bike everyday to get used to it. Part of the problem may be my age, & the fact this thing bounces around. |
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 20, 2023 22:21:03 GMT
No doubt this new bike must have better maneuvering capabilities than the former bike. But I had a concussion between then & now.
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 7, 2023 19:18:10 GMT
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Post by jrgreene6 on Mar 7, 2023 20:05:01 GMT
Nice! I remember seeing and falling in love with a Breitling Bentley watch on one of those goofy shopping channels. This dude proclaimed himself The Watch Commander and sold mostly mid-level brands (Tag Heuer, Omega, etc.). Every now and then he’d have something high end like Patek, Breitling - I don’t think I ever saw a Rolex on there. The Bentley was sweet but it was a bit out of my price range at the time. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 7, 2023 23:41:15 GMT
Nice! I remember seeing and falling in love with a Breitling Bentley watch on one of those goofy shopping channels. This dude proclaimed himself The Watch Commander and sold mostly mid-level brands (Tag Heuer, Omega, etc.). Every now and then he’d have something high end like Patek, Breitling - I don’t think I ever saw a Rolex on there. The Bentley was sweet but it was a bit out of my price range at the time. GO DODGERS!!! Gold & green go so nice together. Navy blue & forest green are my two favorite colors. |
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