The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Fetterman Masscre (12/21/1866) - Dec 1st, 2004

Wild West Magazine | December 1997 | B.F. McCune and Louis Hart

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Gail.

[Darksheare]

OKers!

Hi Sam!

I'll be back in a bit.

[snippy_about_it]

You don't think the Indians were confused and thought they were fighting the Japanese by any chance do you.

LOL.

[snippy_about_it]

Amen. Good morning Mayor.

[snippy_about_it]

Cool. Thanks PE.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning feather.

[snippy_about_it]

Shipments, grrr.

[snippy_about_it]

When did snippy give you a raise, eh?

He's worth every penny. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Starting today since it's the forst of the month. :-)

[colorado tanker]

Nice thread. I always wondered where the name Ft. Fetterman came from.

Lesson for today: never underestimate your enemy.

Neither side knew that the Powder River Basin held much more wealth than its surface grassland. Today, the area is one of the richest coal producing regions of the U.S., producing much enviro-friendly low-sulfer coal.

[Darksheare]

I'm back.

I remember having to unload a semi trailer by hand once.
Sporting goods store.
All kinds of really heavy stuff.
And all our pallet jacks were mysteriously missing.

And I was told to do this alone by myself.
So I grabbed the nearest taller bulkier types I could find and had them unload the trailer with me.

I hated Wednesdays.
They were ALWAYS the day the shipments came, and they were always late.

[SAMWolf]

Today, the area is one of the richest coal producing regions of the U.S., producing much enviro-friendly low-sulfer coal.

IIRC, Clinton put a lot of it off limits so his Indonesia buddies could sell their coal instead.

[SAMWolf]

So I grabbed the nearest taller bulkier types I could find and had them unload the trailer with me

An option not available to me, unless you count Snippy. ;-)

[Darksheare]

I know, it's just you two.
*sigh*

She's gonna get you about part of that you know.

[Iris7]

I am familiar with the materials you refer to.

The West did not become squeamish about violence until quite recently, making a long change from hard boiled points of view in the 11th Century to those of today. (And harder points of view during the Roman period.) I would say this change is due to lack of real enemies, eminent ones that evoke true fear. Easy luxury, that is. Improving technologies played a big part.

I was not in particular danger during my Viet Nam days. I had spent half of my life in East Asia by then, though, and Viet Namese body language was totally readable. There was a period of time when I did not think I was going to be able to avoid capture if I happened to survive. Things worked out, though, and I did not have to make the final choice.

One of the reactions to long term heavy fear is personal recklessness. A sort of "get it over with" motivation, though it comes across beforehand as bluster. Seen that one more than once. Pretty common. Suspect Fetterman of being of that sort.

[snippy_about_it]

An option not available to me, unless you count Snippy.

Cute, real cute......

[Darksheare]

[To Sam]
We're doomed.





RUN for it!

[SAMWolf]

I know, so far so good, maybe she'll miss it. ;-)

[U S Army EOD]

I doubt if Fetterman knew anything about the way Indians fought. This was basically the same attitude that the Johnson administration had toward the NVA and VC. They believed that if you could show just one John Wayne movie in Hanoi the NVA would give up.

[Darksheare]

She saw it... post 56.