[B4Ranch]

Not saying what's true and what isn't.


The winner always writes the history books and of course they tend to leave out the unpleasantries.

How many times have you heard a police chief mention 'his' crooked cops? That tends to be a subject that's off limits except to very few.

[hoosierham]

Now I suppose a search of my shelves,boxes,and piles of books is in order.

I have a old book claiming to be the true history of the Rangers and it names times people and places where the Rangers were morally and legally wrong such as the time they attacked the wrong ranch ,killing 5 or so Mexicans who were guilty only of minding their own business. A close look at Western history shows some killers turned lawmen because fewer people tried to kill them if they wore a star.Sometimes it takes a real b*****d to stop the outlaw b*****ds.

Gunsmoke was television entertainment not history.

[R. Scott]

The winner always writes the history books and of course they tend to leave out the unpleasantries.

I was fortunate to belong to a clan that kept a nearly continuous family history for several centuries. I haven’t been to a reunion in many years, but the high point for me was when the clan historian would open a chest and pull a volume at random and read an account from “way back when”. It wasn’t all nice and sugary sweet. The Ewings (McEwen back then) had some hard core frontiersmen.