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Freeman
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7. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   I would live in Mora, New Mexico and teach at St. Mary's College. Hopefully some of the Sackett kids would be my students. (The college closed its doors in 1884).


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1. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   Northern New Mexico or Colorado, pretty cattle and elk country.
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2. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   I would go as far as possible from the aftermath of the Civil War. Maybe a rancher in Montana--feeding this great nation's recovery.


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3. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   Building the rairoad across the west to the Pacific
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DocKaty
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4. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   I'm thinking Southern Colorado. Most likely ranching but with a law degree in case things didn't work out. (Have to have a "Plan B")

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5. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   LAST EDITED ON 02-04-12 AT 10:19 AM (Pacific Time)
 
Oh, this is such fun. Horse/cattle rancher in Montana 1877. My hobbies, sewing and cooking, would be quite profitable as well And, my gun collection would be unequaled

Happy Trails ...


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6. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   At my present age, I'd open a General store/restaurant in Oklahoma City. But if I was a young man ...

Wow, just after the Civil War, huh? ... Well, I reckon I'd head out for the Oregon/Idaho country for cattle and Nez Pierce horse ranching.
Also I'd do a bit of mining. I believe I'd have enough land to "have it all" as I'd be like Ben Cartwright. But, as I remember, he had a devil of a time holding onto it. I reckon it is a safe assumption that if'n you have something of worth, somebody will try and get it from you. By hook or crook. So I'd keep my guns oiled and loaded.

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Freeman
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7. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   I would live in Mora, New Mexico and teach at St. Mary's College. Hopefully some of the Sackett kids would be my students. (The college closed its doors in 1884).


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8. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   I've been inside that college in Mora behind St Gertrudes Catholic Church several times as a 10-11 year old until Father Jim Burke threw me and my brother out of the gym for playing there without his permission...he threatened to send us both to the Springer Boys School and then went to our house to say "hi" to our mom with a big smirk on his face...he scared the carp out of us because he was a big man all dressed in black like a tall headless horseman. We then found out later turns out he was friends with both my mom and dad from many years earlier and just wanted to get inside our heads which he did very well


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Freeman
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10. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   Rick, I have had menudo at a small cafe in Mora. Did not realize the old college building still existed. Will have to go back some day and check it out. The Christian Brothers ran the college from 1865 - 1884. They stil run St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe, since 1859.


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12. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   I would try to hire on with the rail roads, travel all over on the "cars" as a conductor or brake man, etc..

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I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die dogs--I was a man before I was a king!
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9. "RE: Back to 1865"
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   I would have a rancho a good days ride north of Los Angles Calif and raise horses and afew cattle . I would also have a lil rancho in some small cove on the beach , a easy days ride in a buck board as I love the pacific, what beautiful sunsets,maybe I could , would build a small sailboat , man I miss sailin ,and ahh , the sea food , pry off abalone right off the reefs as I did growin up in southern cal , nothin better and I would plant alot of oranges Oh What Fun...Stumper

Dave Cort


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11. "RE: a juvenile delinquent....."
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   LAST EDITED ON 02-06-12 AT 05:01 PM (Pacific Time)
 
.....with a high-power rifle.

I'd be a buffalo hunter. Probably operating out of Dodge City and Denver as long as the southern herd lasted. Then moving north to operate out of Ogallala and Miles City when the hunting moved on to the northern herd.

That might offend some folks who look at the buffalo slaughter (and truly it was a slaughter) from today's perspective. But in that era you would think differently and your outlook and values would be shaped by the events of your time.

"I'm often asked now what my feeling is toward myself that I helped wipe out a noble American animal by being a sort of juvenile delinquent with a high-power rifle. I always am frank in answering. I always say I am neither proud nor ashamed. At the time it seemed a proper thing to do. Looked at from a distance, however, I'm not so sure. The slaughter was perhaps a shameless, needless thing. But it was also an inevitable thing, an historical necessity." - Former buffalo hunter Frank Mayer (died at 104, 1850-1954)

"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen." - Jeff Cooper


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13. "RE: a juvenile delinquent....."
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   Think TD has it nailed for me. I like the sound of that breeding Nez Pierce horses and running cattle up in Idaho/Oregon country.
As an aside, I would have thought being an undertaker in one of those Kansas trail towns might have been a lucrative profession!

WelshBob


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14. "RE: a juvenile delinquent....."
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   And be sure and not let the Indians get ya, son!

Tennessee Dave

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