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Fence cutting in Brown County Texas
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McClellan Saddle
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Billy Dixon's Long Shot
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'and I try to read data compiled by accredited historians. Where do you get yours?'
So anyone not having your PC history outlook is unread and the only one with the 'correct truth'.
How very typical and so predictable.
Iran Aten was one of the Rangers assigned to stop fence cutting. After months of frustration, he wrote a letter to HQ that he had developed a Fence 'Boom'. A devide that would explode when the wire was cut. This info was released to the publis, by...
'There are no words to describe the shame I feel for this part of American history....'
If I substitude Taliban, Al Quida or Radical Islamic for Mandan, Arikiara or Blackfoot would it sound better to you?
NDNs were not the innocent carefree fun l...
The McCellan was, supposedly, designed with onlt the comfort of the horse in mind. If you've ever seen an old Santa Fe Saddle I think you'll see where the ideal for the McCellan came from.
Mike Venturino took the question to Aberdeen Proving Ground and they proved that the shot was possible. I've read that Quanah Parker stated that the Brave was hit and knocked unconscious but recovered. There were numerous witnesses. BTW, all the w...
Actually, most of Texas insisted on the Rio Grande, but in fact the Republic's authority, when it could be exercised at all, controlled about one good rifle shot west of the east bank of the Nueces. The big reason Texas insisted on the Rio Grande ...
I didn't say Texas joined the union in 1850. It took several years and a war with Mexico to get the whole mess straightened out. In fact only one guy wanted the Texas border with Mexico to be the Rio Grande, Sam Houston. Houston argued with the US...
First off, you've got the date wrong. Texas joined the Union by treaty--the only state to do so--in Feb, 1846, not in 1850. Texas had a treaty-legal but unenforceable claim to about the eastern 2/3 of New Mexico--including Santa Fe--the Oklahoma p...
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