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.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
”The Vidette - Custer Trooper” – art by W. Herbert Dunton - 1914
The picture evokes a romantic reaction, but having ridden in the winter, in the snow, my thoughts go to being cold and wet without the capacity to get warm.
Brig - there are a lot of pictures of guys doing stuff in an ice storm on a horse, but the artists who depict that have never been there. And you're there until the work is done. Frostbite is a genuine problem.
The picture evokes a romantic reaction, but having ridden in the winter, in the snow, my thoughts go to being cold and wet without the capacity to get warm.
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DeleteI've never been so cold as I was pushing cows in a freezing rain in the high country. Don't ever care to do that again.
Brig - there are a lot of pictures of guys doing stuff in an ice storm on a horse, but the artists who depict that have never been there. And you're there until the work is done. Frostbite is a genuine problem.
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