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An Addendum About My Personal View of Mormons
I didn’t say this in the post because I didn’t think it needed saying, but I think it might. I’ve got nothing bad to say about Mormons. I’ve never been ill-treated by them, cheated by them, lied to...
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Vacating the Premises – A Vanishing Act
The mountain I used to prospect for several years is covered with ruins wherever there is water. Big ruins. I used to sit on one near my camp and try to imagine what it must have been like. One...
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The Ruin Skull – A Long Day Ago
No one remembers anyone Who remembers anyone Who remembers Why she died But there she is Wealthy woman young Good teeth, No slave. Those killers Didn’t kill the slaves Took them away squat beneath The...
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Gamblers, Gambling and Risk-taking
Previously blogged May 17, 2005 Saturday a recently acquired friend and I revisited one of the sites I spent a lot of time puzzling over during the search for the lost gold mine. The place was the...
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Massacre Canyon – Long After the Dust Settled
Hi readers. I might have once thought I knew what a massacre was, but time’s eroded my perspective. During the mid-1990s I made the toughest backpacking trip of my life to spend 8-9 days in there to...
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Pieces of the Past
When Keith and I were in the fifth grade one of our classmates at Central Grade School , a girl named Ruth Durett, came to school with an ornate, silver-handled dagger she’d dug up in her back yard....
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The Boy Captives – J. Marvin Hunter – Book Review
Hi readers. Thanks for coming for a read. I bought this tome in a thrift store in Kerrville before I knew it’s the hottest piece of literature to be had in TimeWarpVille [Junction], Texas. I...
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Where Were You When The World Ended?
The End Of The World by Archibald MacLeish Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot The armless ambidextrian was lighting A match between his great and second toe, And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting The...
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Learning handy skills while defending the US
When I joined the US Army in 1961 it had a lot of attractions for a young man of 17. First off, it didn’t involve going to work in a moly mine in Questa, New Mexico. Secondly, it was the Berlin...
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Mongolian Yahooan Wildfire Treasures
Now that Yahoo’s decided to protect us by making us agree to let them read, store, and use all of our emails any way they want to there’s not much point going over there. Except to find out whether...
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Forgotten Lost Victories – The Modocs – 1852
Bringing civilization to Native Americans was never easy. Almost every step of the way the tribes selfishly hoarded the lands they depended upon, frequently resorting to violence when whites who...
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Hungry for heroes? Find a thief, a robber, a killer, or an aristocrat
Good morning readers. Thanks for coming by for a read. I was thinking last night before I dozed off about what TV, movies and fiction have done for us that reality couldn’t. I concluded it all...
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Getting had by Indians – taking the long view
Hi readers. Thanks for coming by for a read. Europeans thought they were getting a fairly good deal when the Indians snookered them into paying a bunch of beads and mirrors for Manhattan. As...
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Time to lighten up a bit – Communist hell on the Zuni Reservation
I wrote this after a weekend spent with a once-lady-friend who spent her career as a high school librarian on the Navajo and Zuni Reservations. Cataclysmic Doggerel A schoolmarmish lady in Zuni Had...
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Minneconjou Lakota Texan – another busted stereotype
A few old guys of the same species sitting around Kerrville, Texas wondering where the world went. Each too different from the others to guess which parts they missed. Old guy the others knew walked...
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The best and the worst
A significant percentage of US voters believe Ronald Reagan was the best president in US history. Despite Iran/Contra, arms for hostages, and trickle-down economics. History is not the long-suite among...
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Asian grocery mystery
Hi readers. Thanks for coming by for a read. A few days ago Jeanne decided to give me a shot of rare pleasure. She took me to my favorite place in the Kansas City area: A giant Asian grocery store....
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Back when the world was young
Here are a couple of historic postcards showing how this place looked sometime between 1895 and 1933 when the original hospital was torn down. Those trees are either larger, or many have died and...
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Remembering the Fallen from All Eras who died for our property rights.
Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO. Hi readers. Thanks for coming by for a smile. I was sitting in the Silver clinic waiting area at the KCVA Medical Center today and got some really...
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A block or so away from the Huron Cemetery sits the best bookstore in Kansas City Metro area. Prosperos. If you click the link below you can access a lot of photos to explain why it’s the best...
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