And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Or Mormonopia. Give credit where it's due, those folk picked a great spot to found a city, and then did a fine job of putting one together. Good people.
I cant figger out his braids are they wrapped with something?looks kinda like fur.whats the significants of they way their done? I would say the uniform is his just by the way it fits him. your friend truckwilkins
I wonder where he got the dragoon uniform and kepi? ....
ReplyDeleteLikely fought in the Black Hawk and Walker wars.
DeleteI'm curious as to whether the photographer carried a trunk of uniforms, etc, or if these were their personal garments.
ReplyDeleteThe state of Utah is named for the Ute Nation.
ReplyDeleteBut, the Mormon pioneers actually hated that name, which was forced on them by the folks in Washington, D.C.
The Mormons wanted to call their territory, later to become a state, "Deseret", a word found in The Book of Mormon, which means, "Honeybee".
Or Mormonopia. Give credit where it's due, those folk picked a great spot to found a city, and then did a fine job of putting one together. Good people.
DeleteThey picked land that nobody else wanted so that people would leave them be. And then they went to work and made it their own.
DeleteEven the Indians didn't want the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
DeleteThe word, "Ute", means, "Mountain Dwellers".
ReplyDeleteHere's the URL for my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!) strumming my guitar and singing a "UTE INDIAN LULLABY":
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/6Z6VPCMl_7U
Nice, J-R! That makes my day.
DeleteAre these the Utes that My Cousin Vinny was talking about?
ReplyDeleteI cant figger out his braids are they wrapped with something?looks kinda like fur.whats the significants of they way their done? I would say the uniform is his just by the way it fits him. your friend truckwilkins
ReplyDelete