[W126 Coupe] Fw: Stella Awards

[Jay Hirsch]

If you go  slightly north  and  east about  120 miles you are in  
Vernon, TX  home of Roy  Orbison
and the Wagoner  Ranch/Estate.    Biggest ranch under one fence in  
the US, over 500,000 acres
Electra  Wagoner    the daughter of W T Waggoner had a car named  
after her, the 1959  Buick Electra.  Electra was married to John Biggs.
She was an accomplished artist and sculptor.
In 1959, John  Biggs' brother-in-law, Harlow H. 'Red' Curtice,  
President  of Buick Motors, Division of General Motors, named one of   
their luxurious Buick models, Electra.

Shooting the buffalo may not have been kinder than  shooting the  
Indians, it was a longer more painful existence for the Indians.
  Wounded Knee aside

Jay H

On Dec 13, 2009, at 8:21 PM, AZTECPILOT at aol.com wrote:


> 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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