Now your excerpt about the pack mules reminds me of something else:
The differences between Scott's and Amundsen's preparations for their South Pole expeditions, and...the VERY different outcomes.
Scott did not use the best animals for that hostile climate, and suffered terribly.
Amundsen chose the right pack animals - the dogs, I think...the particular names escape me! - and made history.
so in a different way, that story bears out your thesis Cannoneer...
Thanks for the tile, engrpat. I'll find it.
The date 1886 is cited here. I think that means that Indian wars had already been going on for 300 years. Lets say that resettlement to reservations had been going on since Jefferson was president. Our problem with Iraq is unrealistic magic thinking and impatience. Or, is it just ambitious democrats?
Malamute?