Posted on 04/30/2017 8:45:19 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Well, guess we will never know.
Should this bother us? Not sure. At this point it is really not that big a thing. But with newspaper reporting in the 1800's so distorted, should we really think our "Fake News" is that new?
Well, in some ways it is. Back in the 1800's it was done to sell newspapers. Now it is done to promote an agenda.
Is that any different? Well, yes it is. Slimy reporting to sell papers comes from the public who consume the lies. Now, the Slimy reporting is paid for those who promote the agenda, a relatively small number of people.
So, the whole system is corrupted by distorted reporting today. It is on a whole other scale of offense.
What?
They had fake news in 1880 too?
Well, he DID NOT count Mexicans and Indians!
Not as many as John Wesley Hardin, Clay Allison or Killin Jim Miller, who BTW, was lynched April 19th 1909.
Of those three, Allison, was said to have been a maniac. Pure nuts.
Not that the others were not.
Long and short? They were certainly built up as being bigger than they were in real life.
Eastern Tabloid news. smile
This probably was much over rated too.
Well what is the straight scoop on Big Irving?
I don’t even know who he was. But I bet my friend Tom does.
This is what he writes about. And he is pretty knowledgeable.
At times he writes about current events too.
But most of the time he writes about Western and Indian history. And he is good at it.
There is a big archive of stuff, index is on the right margin of the page at the link.
I think there is an email function on the page. If not, I do have his email somewhere.
Sorry I cannot answer your question.
They can all talk as much as they want, but the most killings ever was the Tewksbury-Graham feud in the Pleasant Valley of AZ.
That one went on for a long while and the estimates were anywhere of 35 to 50 killed. It even involved Tom Horn. That feud spread out to include nearly all of northern AZ. They call it the AZ wars around Flagstaff.
To this day people tell me that feud is going on, except there isnt any killings anymore.
And they thought the Hatfield-McCoy feud was bad?
I’ve got to get some rest. Sorry.
Wife has doctors appointment early tomorrow.
Have a good night.
Does that explain what is happening in the Middle East?
smile
Put this under the For what it's worth, and that's not much at all. :-)
Well, if that is a feud, then that would put the AZ wars to shame.
Hardin was steely and a crack shot
The Kid shot folks often in remote areas of central New Mexico so who knows
I know this
Pat Garrett got what was coming to him same as Charlie Ford did
The Pleasant Valley War is mentioned in the novel, Collateral Crimes, as Young, Arizona is one of the settings for the story, which also involves ATF gun running similar to Fast and Furious, which is also mentioned.
"Collateral Crimes is the best crime thriller I’ve read in years."
-Marshall Trimble, Arizona State Historian
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