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.
Interestingly, the early Americans didn't have the technology to make this kind of structure - they couldn't weave canvas. But I suspect the versions made from buffalo hide were warmer.
Toasty... with the right family.
ReplyDeletelil fire right in the middle, a bottle of Fireball, a full belly...ahhhhhh....
ReplyDeleteThey forgot the Buffalo hides for winter.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, the early Americans didn't have the technology to make this kind of structure - they couldn't weave canvas. But I suspect the versions made from buffalo hide were warmer.
ReplyDeleteHaving actually camped in the winter inside a similar structure in the Rockies I can tell you it don't matter WHAT you do it's buttass cold.....
ReplyDeleteThey should have a liner for winter.
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