"When everybody has a gun on his hip, they tend to avoid confrontation."
1 posted on
06/24/2005 9:28:52 PM PDT by
neverdem
To: neverdem
I live in the West and South Dakota is no where near here.
2 posted on
06/24/2005 9:36:04 PM PDT by
bnelson44
To: neverdem
The Westerners in this history survived by learning to get along...They damn sure weren't socialists either.
To: neverdem
That's the line! Great to see that in the Times, lol!
I love Deadwood, it has really inspired in me and interest in the old west that I didn't have before.
11 posted on
06/25/2005 2:57:30 AM PDT by
jocon307
(Can we close the border NOW?)
To: neverdem
>>Nor is it like the previously fashionable history depicting the settlers as heroic individualists who tamed the frontier by developing the great American virtue of self-reliance. <<
Really?
What were these brave men and women to strike out, alone, or in small groups, to settle a wild land, far from civilization? Urbanite drones?
These settlers were rugged individuals. They had to be self-reliant to survive.
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