A copy of Wondrous Times on the Frontier by Dee Brown arrived in my mail on Monday. Took 2 days to get off my TBR pile :7
A load of Vignettes about life in the west. Only 50 odd pages in and have caught up with Prince Alexi's buffalo hunt with Custer and Co and Horace Greely's ride from Virginia City to Placerville mentioned in Bendigo Shafter and other stories and would have been the road used in Comstock Lode. Greely's description of the road matches Louis almost to a T.
Les Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back..
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Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
#2. "RE: It only spent two days on my TB" In response to Reply # 0
Just finished the chapter that included comments on Mirages (Common in the clean air of the west at the time) This proposition is put forward and I am quoting the relevant section.
"Elizabeth Custer saw one the morning her husband marched away forever from Fort Abraham Lincoln with the seventh cavalry - high in the sky a winding column of wagons and horsemen and marching men. Sitting Bull may have seen one in his vision of blue coated soldiers falling from the sky with their heads down and hats falling off."
Any comment or thoughts? Les Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back..
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Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
#3. "RE: It only spent two days on my TB" In response to Reply # 2
Yup...saw one once a long time ago. Basically a projected image. The one I saw was water...heading East out of California toward Vegas. There was something else about it, but I can’t remember what it was other than the fact it wasn’t really there or anywhere near there. Definitely a “looky there” moment though. It may have just disappeared as I rode toward Vegas, but it was too long ago for details. They say they can be photographed...wish I had known that at the time.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN
