[ProtectOurFreedom]

Long ago I read a book about the western frontier in the mid 18th century. One torture account really stuck with me. The Indians opened up your abdomen, tied one end of your intestines to a stake, and forced you to walk around the stake, winding your intestines thereupon.

Not sure if it is true, but how ghastly and horrible that would be.

[Caipirabob]

I haven't finished the book despite owning it for several years. I just could not. It's that bad.

But we have made so much progress beyond what the left wants for us. There's always some lefty idiot trying to stir trouble. It will be up to us conservatives, to unite all our people in common cause for freedom and to build a future for all of us together.

[fso301]

There are many accounts through the centuries detailing the sort of things Indians did to captives.

[IncPen]

Long ago I read a book about the western frontier in the mid 18th century. One torture account really stuck with me. The Indians opened up your abdomen, tied one end of your intestines to a stake, and forced you to walk around the stake, winding your intestines thereupon.

That was the fate of Jacob Greathouse and his wife, as recounted in "The Frontiersmen", and excellent book by historical fiction writer Allan W. Eckert.