Drop the fishing stories!
Are you crazy?
Great…now we’ll here nonstop liberal yakking about how BBIPOCs built the country. It’s yet another “underserved, unrecognized community.”
Biden will stutter horribly as he tries to get “BBIPOC” out, but it will sound normal and nobody will notice.
Neat stuff!
Sadly, a bunch of jackasses are doing their best to tear it all down.
Thank you for posting this. A perfect opportunity to reflect on the role of jackasses in American history.
I’ve always heard that gold prospectors used them because they could survive on most any kind of vegetation, whereas horses required much more food and water.
Reparations for the burros!! No justice No peace
Fascinating!
I’ve recently moved to
“Prospecting Country”.
The mid 1800’s is alive and well in my Neighborhood!
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Keep it up, Thanks!
I once watched a course on You Tube on the history of Western Civilization. The professor made the argument that the success of our civilization was due to the donkey. It seemed a ludicrous theory on it’s face but when he explained it it actually made sense. The donkey was the main source of transport for goods between the civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Levant into Egypt. All the progress of our civilization in it’s formative years, was literally carried on the back of an ass
They are not bad eating either. When I was a kid they had a huge community Burro BBQ every year. On the ranch Grandma would shoot a couple a year and make jerky of the whole thing. Pretty good stuff.
We had three Burros back in the eighties/nineties along with our horses. Fun, loving animals. So much fun to play with them, and just be entertained by their antics.
They love you to pet them, and whisper in their ears. They love to play, and run. So much love.
That was an incredible read and, I daresay, the most sweet thing I have read in a long time. Really makes you question what we as individuals and as a society take for granted. Your grandfather sounded like a very interesting man.
Thank you for sharing.
PING to burros article by my grandfather. And a HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of you!
Thank you mairdie. What an excellent forebear you chose! I appreciate your sharing his stories.
How could burritos have anything to do with building the west?
Taco Bell didn’t invent them until 1948, and by then, the west was already built. Mostly.