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Some might argue shooting the buffalo was kinder than shooting the  
Indians.The Palo Duro Canyon is a nice weekend drive for a Benz coupe owner.  Also, 
down toward the east end of the Canyon is the town of Turkey, Texas,  home 
of Bob Wills. Does anyone remember when he sold more records on an annual  
basis than many other singers combined? I am fairly certain he never shot any 
 Indians or buffalo. However,
he may have been a bit of a bull shooter.
 
Tom Seitz 
1990 560 SEC
 
 
In a message dated 12/13/2009 4:48:49 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
J.Hirsch at mac.com writes:

American  Values:  
There is a museum in Canyon Texas.   The Panhandle Plains Historical  
Museum Canyon.
 Canyon is near Amarillo and also the gateway to Palo Duro  Canyon.  Palo 
Duro  is one of the best kept secrets in the US, a  very good rival to the 
Grand Canyon without the people and red  tape.
In the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum  one  of the many  great rooms   
has on one wall a photograph that is 18  feet wide  by 24 feet tall.  
At first looking at the photo it appears to be a  dark mountain with  two 
light  "specks" at the bottom of the  mountain.  
Adjacent to the photo is a copy of an "act of  Congress" dated  1867 or 
1868...the exact year I do not recall and a caption for the  photo.
The two specks are two men, the mountain behind them is not a mountain  but 
buffalo hides pile almost 80 feet high.
The letter explains the cause of the mountain which I will  paraphrase.
It was decided by Congress that the best and quickest way to do away with  
the Indian problem...native Americans was to slaughter the buffalo.  
By committing genocide to the buffalo the Indian  nations would  eventually 
collapse and cease.


So much for "red-blooded-American values" a smaller  Congress and  simpler 
times.


By the late 1890s there were no buffalo on the great plains of the US.  In 
1904 or so the soon to be state of Oklahoma had to buy some buffalo  from 
the Bronx Zoo to reestablish  buffalo stock in the state.  The only surviving 
buffalo at the beginning of the 20th century were in  N Y C at the Bronx zoo.


I am always curious at to whose family  "family values apply  to?"
The Munsons,  the Manson Family, the Hatfields and McCoys?,  etc.
keep cruisin
Jay H


  




 
 
On Dec 13, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Dan Landiss wrote:


Wow! I didn't intend to stir up a firestorm. I  thought it was pretty clear 
that I was engaging in a little good-natured  teasing of the original 
poster for revealing the email addresses of a  hundred more potential spam 
targets.

That said, I wonder what it is  that encourages the people who compile 
these collections of fake reports to  do so? There is enough going on in the 
world that is both true and unusual  to keep all our mailboxes full forever. 
What is gained by false  embellishments? Truth is already "stranger than 
fiction."

Of greater  concern to me are the growing number of super-patriotic, 
super-militant  rants that clutter my Inbox every day. They preach loudly and at 
great  length about "love of country" and "American values," but I have to 
wonder  if monologues that show such intolerance of other views, other  
nationalities, and other religions are really showing "American values" or  love 
for the principles that America was built on. 

Not that anybody  on THIS list would send such.....................

on 12/13/2009 2:56  PM:  
Let the  inquisition begin :)


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