And with CM’s artwork, makes me almost (almost) wish that I was a bra for Sam. Or Kiko. Or any of the Double Dee’s resident femme fatale. Talk about support!
The railroad syndicates were owned by “Old Money” back east. “Old Money” didn’t like all that virgin land in the west being owned by uppity peasants.
So the railroads demanded the government give them very wide “right-of-ways”. Thereby giving “Old Money” de facto control of the new territories. Going back to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
The real “fun” began during Reconstruction, specifically from 1867 (the start of U.S. Army surplus selloffs from the Civil War) to 1876 (the actual establishment of the Indian reservation system under the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851).
The Indian nations received a massive influx of Union Army surplus arms, notably Spencer repeating carbines, the most extensively-produced metallic-cartridge arm of the war. Officially, they were provided via the Indian Bureau (later the Bureau of Indian Affairs) for “hunting”. Most actually ended up with the war bands.
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), shipments of Spencers intended for the French Army were diverted to the “traders” along the U.S.-Canada border, who sold them to the war bands in the northern U.S. territories. The switches usually happened at Halifax, with the crates of Spencers sent north by railroad for loading aboard freight carriers being instead sent west by Canadian Pacific, and the ships loaded with crated Enfield muzzle-loaders.
To an inspector unfamiliar with either one, as most French inspectors were, a crate full of Spencers with big, thumb-cocking hammers, and a crate full of Enfields with big, thumb-cocking hammers looked remarkably alike if they just opened the lid, looked inside in the bad light of a dockside warehouse, and closed it again.
2. U.S. Army kills off the Indians, taking heavy losses in the process. (see “Little Big Horn”, “Fetterman massacre”, etc.)
3. Both sides having been heavily attrited, the railroads move in with their private armies and take control.
4. Land ends up in control of “Old Money”, as it should be, according to them.
The historical evidence is extensive. But most historians, who don’t “like guns” and have fully bought into the whole “oppressed indigenous peoples” story, can’t be bothered to look.
I’m a data geek. I looked, or rather, I found the data while looking for something else. Namely, tracking where all that Union Army hardware went after Appomattox.
As with most “history” of the American Frontier, when the facts didn’t match the legend, the legend got printed because it gave the historians the warm fuzzies about how righteous they were.
But what really happened was very different, and it wasn’t nice at all.
“As with most “history” of America, when the facts didn’t match the legend, the legend got printed because it gave the historians the warm fuzzies about how righteous they were.
But what really happened was very different, and it wasn’t nice at all.”
Perfect description of the cause, the advent, and the aftermath of the Civil War.
That legend, and those fuzzies, and that righteousness, has been taught falsely and erroneously for all these years and still is embraced by so many on both sides of that war and the current one. And no, not nice at all.
Thanks to you for your “rabbit-hole” reporting, to Woodman for his amazing support, and to the Artiste for creating the venue for it all.
Wow. Thanks B. Woodman for the sponsor . Awesome history, Eon. (Smiley dreams, Cowgirls , six-packs and shirtless ). Yes, would make a great screensaver.
As a side note, here in Arizona most of the Fed land (38% of the state) doesn’t look anything like East Texas. If it were owned by the state, I’d probably have access to a lot less of it to freely roam and hunt jack rabbits with my AR. Any additional $ would go to the Katie Hobbs Oligarchy.
You beat me to it. The State owned land is worse than the Feds. I’m sure it’s worse in NM, CO, etc. If only there were a non-violent way to end the Hobbs Regime (on anniversary of Breed’s Hill).
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
I will continue to Thank the Artist and our sponsor contributors. Just as I continue to claim nuking DC would help clean out the rats harming this country.
Unfortunately, the people in D.C. who are least valuable are those who are most protected. Soon after 9/11, there was construction for a ‘visitors’ center’ at the Capitol building that was almost certainly a cover story for building underground bunkers for Congress to hide in.
The official report seems to carefully dance around the issue of exactly why construction was fast-tracked after 9/11 and why it cost much more than the initial estimates.
Note that the ballroom that Trump wants to build at the White House also has an underground military bunker underneath it that will be ‘rebuilt’.
April 20, 2026 at 1:54 am
Henry
“Unfortunately, the people in D.C. who are least valuable are those who are most protected.”
Hey, didja read today about all the security Charlie Kirk’s shooter got on the way to the courtroom? Six or more security snipers on nearby roofs covering the walking path.
We give leftist murderers better security than we give Republican presidential candidates.
April 19, 2026 at 11:07 am
PCChaos
Thanks Woodman. Thanks Eon. Thanks Chris. The curvaceous lovelies have made a rauny day bright.
Why do the two girls sound as though they were educated in different parts of the country?
Or if you prefer, why does one of them sound less well spoken than her sister…
I had read (or heard) some time back that after the U.S. Civil War, or the war of Northern Aggression as many Southerners may refer to it, that the U.S. Government took up millions of acres of the newly admitted States to the Union post 1865. The reasoning behind this, as was explained, was to make any future states attempting to secede the Union nearly impossible because the Feds own so much land within those states.
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B Woodman,
Thank you for your support of DBD.
A new Homestead Act for all that Federal land out west?
I like it!
A’y’all are more than welcome for the support.
And with CM’s artwork, makes me almost (almost) wish that I was a bra for Sam. Or Kiko. Or any of the Double Dee’s resident femme fatale. Talk about support!
Bryan Adams has songs on his album “18 til I die” : That will fit your request : Track #6 then tracks 1,2,&3
But first you gotta be a “Real Cowboy”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsbf9ltfLjU
History lesson;
It all went back to the railroads.
The railroad syndicates were owned by “Old Money” back east. “Old Money” didn’t like all that virgin land in the west being owned by uppity peasants.
So the railroads demanded the government give them very wide “right-of-ways”. Thereby giving “Old Money” de facto control of the new territories. Going back to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
The real “fun” began during Reconstruction, specifically from 1867 (the start of U.S. Army surplus selloffs from the Civil War) to 1876 (the actual establishment of the Indian reservation system under the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851).
The Indian nations received a massive influx of Union Army surplus arms, notably Spencer repeating carbines, the most extensively-produced metallic-cartridge arm of the war. Officially, they were provided via the Indian Bureau (later the Bureau of Indian Affairs) for “hunting”. Most actually ended up with the war bands.
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), shipments of Spencers intended for the French Army were diverted to the “traders” along the U.S.-Canada border, who sold them to the war bands in the northern U.S. territories. The switches usually happened at Halifax, with the crates of Spencers sent north by railroad for loading aboard freight carriers being instead sent west by Canadian Pacific, and the ships loaded with crated Enfield muzzle-loaders.
To an inspector unfamiliar with either one, as most French inspectors were, a crate full of Spencers with big, thumb-cocking hammers, and a crate full of Enfields with big, thumb-cocking hammers looked remarkably alike if they just opened the lid, looked inside in the bad light of a dockside warehouse, and closed it again.
As to “Why?” it was simple and brutal;
1. Indians kill settlers. Preferably, exterminate them.
2. U.S. Army kills off the Indians, taking heavy losses in the process. (see “Little Big Horn”, “Fetterman massacre”, etc.)
3. Both sides having been heavily attrited, the railroads move in with their private armies and take control.
4. Land ends up in control of “Old Money”, as it should be, according to them.
The historical evidence is extensive. But most historians, who don’t “like guns” and have fully bought into the whole “oppressed indigenous peoples” story, can’t be bothered to look.
I’m a data geek. I looked, or rather, I found the data while looking for something else. Namely, tracking where all that Union Army hardware went after Appomattox.
As with most “history” of the American Frontier, when the facts didn’t match the legend, the legend got printed because it gave the historians the warm fuzzies about how righteous they were.
But what really happened was very different, and it wasn’t nice at all.
clear ether
eon
eon
Thx for the history lesson. Very enlightening, entertaining, and educational.
Ay yup. And if you are paying attention, history repeats itself.
Excellent presentation eon…
And inadvertently explaining something else;
“As with most “history” of America, when the facts didn’t match the legend, the legend got printed because it gave the historians the warm fuzzies about how righteous they were.
But what really happened was very different, and it wasn’t nice at all.”
Perfect description of the cause, the advent, and the aftermath of the Civil War.
That legend, and those fuzzies, and that righteousness, has been taught falsely and erroneously for all these years and still is embraced by so many on both sides of that war and the current one. And no, not nice at all.
Thanks to you for your “rabbit-hole” reporting, to Woodman for his amazing support, and to the Artiste for creating the venue for it all.
Chris, that title pane could be a mural by itself. Tasty, sir.
A computer screen saver?
I’d buy a copy.
Marlborough Men!
Zar Belk!
Wow. Thanks B. Woodman for the sponsor . Awesome history, Eon. (Smiley dreams, Cowgirls , six-packs and shirtless ). Yes, would make a great screensaver.
As a side note, here in Arizona most of the Fed land (38% of the state) doesn’t look anything like East Texas. If it were owned by the state, I’d probably have access to a lot less of it to freely roam and hunt jack rabbits with my AR. Any additional $ would go to the Katie Hobbs Oligarchy.
You beat me to it. The State owned land is worse than the Feds. I’m sure it’s worse in NM, CO, etc. If only there were a non-violent way to end the Hobbs Regime (on anniversary of Breed’s Hill).
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Solzhenitsyn
Still waiting for an English version of Solzhenitsyn’s “Two hundred Years with the Jew”.
Great silhouette of Mari.
I will continue to Thank the Artist and our sponsor contributors. Just as I continue to claim nuking DC would help clean out the rats harming this country.
Kafiroon
I would say that it needs several neutron bombs as the buildings are worthy ! But the “people “ inside are NOT!!!!!
Unfortunately, the people in D.C. who are least valuable are those who are most protected. Soon after 9/11, there was construction for a ‘visitors’ center’ at the Capitol building that was almost certainly a cover story for building underground bunkers for Congress to hide in.
The official report seems to carefully dance around the issue of exactly why construction was fast-tracked after 9/11 and why it cost much more than the initial estimates.
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R42397/R42397.3.pdf
Note that the ballroom that Trump wants to build at the White House also has an underground military bunker underneath it that will be ‘rebuilt’.
“Unfortunately, the people in D.C. who are least valuable are those who are most protected.”
Hey, didja read today about all the security Charlie Kirk’s shooter got on the way to the courtroom? Six or more security snipers on nearby roofs covering the walking path.
We give leftist murderers better security than we give Republican presidential candidates.
Thanks Woodman. Thanks Eon. Thanks Chris. The curvaceous lovelies have made a rauny day bright.
Alaska, 223 million acres federally owned, over 60%.
The big winner (loser) is apparently Nevada, which is 80-85% federally owned, depending on what branches you count.
Why do the two girls sound as though they were educated in different parts of the country?
Or if you prefer, why does one of them sound less well spoken than her sister…
Kiko’s “Texan” language is getting a bit thick.
I had read (or heard) some time back that after the U.S. Civil War, or the war of Northern Aggression as many Southerners may refer to it, that the U.S. Government took up millions of acres of the newly admitted States to the Union post 1865. The reasoning behind this, as was explained, was to make any future states attempting to secede the Union nearly impossible because the Feds own so much land within those states.
It’s an interesting theory …
Also all of the state capitols
Well they got their shirts on kid, sorry, BUT…
They More Cowboy Than You (or any of those fedgov clowns).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsbf9ltfLjU
The keffiyeh kind of ruins the cowboy effect.
A hoot!