To: westmex
didn't your State belong to Russia at one time
that explains your cool climate
To: palo verde
Don't think Russia exerted much influence here..They had a fort down in Calif. though..We had trouble with the Brits though. Hudson Bay Co. had a fort on the Columbia River by Portland OR. and there was the Pig War in the San Juan islands. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany mediated that dispute...
......Westy.....
620 posted on
06/18/2002 6:48:16 PM PDT by
westmex
To: palo verde
Blame the Russkies!! lol...when they sold it, was the weather a kicker thrown in as part of the deal?lol
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