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Letter: Brighty the Burro Was Killed and Eaten by Tourists
Tuscson.com ^ | Ricardo Small

Posted on 08/20/2025 8:48:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The legend of Brighty the Burro of the Grand Canyon excludes the whole truth. During a winter when some tourists were stranded at the Grand Canyon and were out of food, they killed Brighty and ate him. This factual omission is typical of Park Service personnel who often try to deceive the public. They now say they did nothing wrong in letting the Dragon Bravo fire burn out of control and destroy the North Rim. Far from the truth. The Park's superintendent and every single one of the honchos who let that fire get out of control are criminally negligent and should be fired. You do not allow a fire to burn during the hot, dry summer months in a forest where the fuel load is extreme. You wait until the winter months to use fire to thin out that dense vegetation.

Ricardo Small


TOPICS: Food; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: brightytheburro; burros; dragonbravofire; fire; grandcanyon; parks; parkservice; stranded
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1922.


21 posted on 08/20/2025 10:07:26 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: nickcarraway

Tastes kinda like burnt spotted owl.


22 posted on 08/20/2025 10:08:48 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: ConservativeMind

I couldn’t agree more.


23 posted on 08/20/2025 10:09:20 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: ConservativeMind

Eatchicken and alaskan salmon. Would never eat a burro.


24 posted on 08/20/2025 10:15:02 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: Veto!

My wife says horse meat is quite tasty, but I haven’t had it yet.


25 posted on 08/20/2025 10:18:29 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

No horsemeat for me. I occasionally contribute some $$$ to a wild horse sanctuary in CA.


26 posted on 08/20/2025 10:30:52 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: Freedumb

That’s great.


27 posted on 08/20/2025 10:38:08 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: dayglored; x
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
28 posted on 08/20/2025 11:42:54 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: nickcarraway
"Brighty", who lived in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River from about 1892 to 1922.[2]

This article is inane starting with this one hundred year old claim, to condemn National Park Staff for a recent act of God.

29 posted on 08/21/2025 12:14:37 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: nickcarraway

“tourists”?????

They misspelled *illegals*.


30 posted on 08/21/2025 1:05:41 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: nickcarraway

Could you have posted that this didn’t just happen recently but that was OLD news?

After the recent illegals eating a bald eagle news we heard, this is very believable as a recent incident.


31 posted on 08/21/2025 1:08:34 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: higgmeister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXn0uIF60iU
Could be worse.


32 posted on 08/21/2025 1:20:40 AM PDT by steve8714 (Latin Mass is beautiful. Even though the music wasn't written by pedo Jesuits.)
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To: ConservativeMind

That you know of….


33 posted on 08/21/2025 1:25:21 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: Freedumb

“All they had was Brighty and some stale tortillas. But necessity being the mother of invention the starving tourists invented the Burrito!”

They’re lucky Alfred Packer wasn’t in their group.


34 posted on 08/21/2025 1:57:17 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: metmom

Correct.


35 posted on 08/21/2025 2:35:00 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: nickcarraway

According to the informaiton released by the NPS, lightening started the fire on 4 July 2025. The lodge, the cabins and the BRASS statue of “BRIGHTY” burned down on 13 July 2025. Usually it takes about three days to start smoking in the forest. In the old days, we had lookouts in towers watching for smoke. Not they have idiots sitting at computers shopping on Amazon. Something should have been down about that lightning strike long before it was.


36 posted on 08/21/2025 4:37:24 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialist communism, but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It destroyed one of the most scenic venues in Arizona where thousands of honeymooners enjoyed a site far different and far more bucolic than the Canyon’s hectic south rim.


37 posted on 08/21/2025 5:44:56 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

The South Rim has turned into a joke. Another Las Vegas Turned Disneyland. The place has been ruined.


38 posted on 08/21/2025 5:47:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialist communism, but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Bookshelf

Now that they’ve built motels from Flagstaff and Williams to the South Rim, trying to get into the Canyon is like trying to get into the Super Bowl. The whole north rim has been destroyed by the Dragon Bravo fire. I don’t know what’s going to happen there but you can bet, it won’t ever be what the old North Rim was. They’ll turn it into another Disneyland.


39 posted on 08/21/2025 6:15:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialist communism, but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: nickcarraway
"If the statue saga has a happy ending, the real-life demise of Brighty does not. In 1922, Brighty was snowed in with two desperados. Trapped in a cabin for three months, the men survived but Brighty didn’t—one night, he was made into burro steaks. When the meat ran out, the men boiled Brighty’s bones for soup."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-was-brighty-the-burro-grand-canyon

40 posted on 08/21/2025 7:07:03 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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