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.
Friday, August 13, 2021
Mehkskeme-Sukahs, Blackfoot Chief and Tatsicki-Stomick, Piekann Chief, plate 45 from Volume1 of ‘Travels in the Interior of North America’, 1834, Karl Bodmer
If you've never been there go see the natural forts where the Crow and Blackfeet battled. On the highway between Denver and Cheyenne. Imagine what went on those days. Incredible.
If you've never been there go see the natural forts where the Crow and Blackfeet battled. On the highway between Denver and Cheyenne. Imagine what went on those days. Incredible.
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