[sportutegrl]

It turns out that John Wayne movies may be more accurate than American History textbooks.

That would explain this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2646278/posts

(McClintock Offers History Lesson).

[Milhous]

Johnson County War

The Johnson County War with its overtones of class warfare and intervention of the President of the United States to save the lives of a gang of hired killers and set them free, does not fit well with the American myth of the west.

[Paladin2]

3-7-77

[iowamark]

Before Fort Sumter, when Americans wanted land from Indians, they bought it.

Is there anyone who is actually ignorant enough of history to believe this?

[3niner]

Before Fort Sumter, when Americans wanted land from Indians, they bought it.

The author doesn't seem to have heard of the Trail of Tears.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It is aggravating when all sides in a historical “debate” foul things up so terribly.

To start with, by far the most aggressive action every taken by the US against the Indians was done by Andrew Jackson (D).

“Indian removal was a policy to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 26, 1830.”

When the Civil War came around, and the Union Army was pulled out of the western territories, the Indians saw it as a sign that they could do whatever they wanted, which meant raids, homicide, and theft on a grand scale.

Which is why when the Civil War ended, the Union Army headed West, to *stop* the Indians from this campaign of rapine. Generals Philip Sheridan (PBUH) and W.T. Sherman (PBUH) had no sense of humor about these things.

Typically, the Indians would raid in spring and summer, then go into winter camps. During winter, as far as *they* were concerned, they were peaceful, and “minding their own business”. The white man, however, did not have such a short memory. And they also had the ability to conduct winter military operations.

But even pointing this out is unfair, as most of the military leaders in the West went to great lengths to *not* be belligerent to the Indians, in fact, often acting as peacekeepers between hostile Indian tribes.

Washington, D.C., however, had its own ideas, and would have been more than happy to have seen the Indians wiped out. And it was the US military that usually stood in the way of such barbarity.

Indeed, parts of western history are filled with violence, but other parts are indeed peaceful, with the great desire of frontier people to again have civility and prosperity.

[Georgia Girl 2]

An armed society is a polite society.

[x]

DiLorenzo happens.

Is he the most aggressively moronic man in America?