Posted on 05/04/2005 4:45:53 PM PDT by CHARLITE
That's was not from the Tombstone Tumbleweed (Chris' paper). It was from the Tombstone Epitaph, the original Tombstone newspaper that can still be subsribed to. I get both. :-)))
I thought he had bought the Epitaph and changed the name or something!
As a matter of fact it wasn't decided and even when it was decided by law it was a packed Court. If the legal citizens of the respective states in the Southwest choose to vote to secede, I wish them good luck in their future and their endeavors.
If someone here knows of a good one on the Mexican/American war please let me know.
Nope. Different paper entirely. The Tombstone Epitaph is still kicking and is the longest running newspaper in U.S. History. "The Paper Too Tough To Die." :-)
That part I heard...over and over again...used to see it on every box they had in that town...oish. You'd think they could give it a rest.
Tombstone is a nice little town now, mostly retirees and people who ply the Tourist trade. Maybe the Epitaph won't die, but there sure ain't much point in having two papers there! I guess Chris needed something...
LOL, it is such an advantage to join up with Mexico....
What a line of bunk.
You know, we still have that cannon. It's sitting in the museum in Gonzales. I'm pretty sure that if Mexico starts something we'll trot it out and use it to good effect. Texans are weird like that (and that's a good thing).
It was two weeks, IIRC, and CA was never recognized as a nation by anyone else. It had no identifiable central goverment and had no defense forces of any kind. CA has NO claim, sorry.
Texas, on the other hand, had a standing Navy (which did very well against the Mexican Navy) that continues to this day as part of the USN. We had an army, of sorts; we were actually recognized as a nation by other countries, and we had foreign embassies. We had our own currency, a central government, and a Constitution. The state Capitol is taller than the US Capitol. Heck, even the UN says that we were/are a country, albeit annexed by the US.
"Save your Confederate money; the South will rise again."
" It had no identifiable central goverment "
Wrong, Monterey was established as the Capitol and a provisional government was in place.
"Provisional government"....
And it was recognized as a government by.... Nobody.
No defense forces, no currency, no laws. That's not a government, that's anarchy.
Stick your texas where the sun doesn't shine!
I don't have to recognize that desolate wind blown POS piece of real estate any more than you recognize California as a nation!
No other countries recognized CA as a country. The Republic Of Texas had foreign relations with England and France, to name a couple - and was recognized as a sovereign nation by many others.
As for the rest of your post, you've obviously never been to Texas, or you'd realize just how wrong you are - as I used to be when I lived in the People's Republik of Kaleephorneeyah. I might also remind you that we 1) have more oil than you do, 2) have more guns than you do, and 3) make a large part of your electricity. Would you like rolling blackouts to return to your fly-spotted state?
I've driven across your POS, flew one of my nephews belongings to Houston when he left the Navy and went to work flying for Delta, flew his brother to Beeville when he entered flight training for the Navy, picked up packages that were missed in El Paso and flew them back to Burbank, and usually stopped for fuel at Marble Falls when flying south east. You couldn't pay me to live there. I'll stay right here in California where my family has been for over 200 years.
By the way, this is a picture of East Texas. You basically only saw West and some of South Texas. The rest of the state is much different. Kind of like thinking that CA is only like the area around Needles or the Cajon Pass.
Try "Gone for Soldiers" by Jeff Shaara.
Thanks for the tip. Will check it out.
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