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.
Charlie Russell and Frederick Remington, the two greatest. My Dad said Russell generally painted his horses healthier looking, Remington more realistic based on the times of their era.
Cowboy Hall of Fame was my daycare center I had free reign. Mom was a docent before I started school.
The TSA looking for over size tubes of toothpaste. (FYI; the TSA was supposed to stop terrorists but the have NEVER caught a single one in over 20 years. Your taxes at work.)
TSA is a joke. If the jihad wanted to shutdown air traffic again with lots of casualties what better place than the TSA line now. And when they take your oversized toothpaste away - because it might be a bomb - they put it in a nearby can with all the other potential bombs.
They squeezed three abreast on the bench seats and one sat on the floor. Haven't you ever seen the first remake of 'Stagecoach' (1966)? It's a great movie.
As Elmo noted, they were 6-passenger stagecoaches. And the Chinese coolie (the one with the pistol in his face) would have ridden on the roof or in the boot; no one would have let them into the coach proper.
The purpose of TSA was to accustom Americans to doing whatever they’re told, no matter how obviously pointless and outrageous. Judging by the public’s response to the forced lockdowns, masking, social distancing and vaxing, TSA’s mission was accomplished.
The highwayman's name was Big Nose George. After he was lynched in Rawlins, Wyoming in 1881, some of his skin was made into a pair of shoes and a portion of his skull into an ash tray.
“Bail up, your money or your life!” Stagecoach (mostly Cobb & Co.) and Royal Mail robberies were a real problem in each of the Crown colonies in Australia during the 19th century. The bushrangers did a roaring trade, especially during the gold rushes. Each colony had troopers, or ‘traps’, but police in Queensland, dedicated to hunting them down. The bushranger was generally home-grown, but some early ones were escaped convicts, and a very few were Aborigines.
Now it's called income taxes.
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"THE HOLD UP", by Charles Marion Russell
ReplyDeleteCharlie Russell and Frederick Remington, the two greatest. My Dad said Russell generally painted his horses healthier looking, Remington more realistic based on the times of their era.
DeleteCowboy Hall of Fame was my daycare center I had free reign. Mom was a docent before I started school.
Bear Claw
The TSA looking for over size tubes of toothpaste. (FYI; the TSA was supposed to stop terrorists but the have NEVER caught a single one in over 20 years. Your taxes at work.)
ReplyDeleteTSA is a joke. If the jihad wanted to shutdown air traffic again with lots of casualties what better place than the TSA line now. And when they take your oversized toothpaste away - because it might be a bomb - they put it in a nearby can with all the other potential bombs.
DeleteOur enemies laugh at us.
I count 7 passengers from a 4 person stage. Sitting on somebody's lap?
ReplyDeleteThey squeezed three abreast on the bench seats and one sat on the floor.
DeleteHaven't you ever seen the first remake of 'Stagecoach' (1966)? It's a great movie.
As Elmo noted, they were 6-passenger stagecoaches.
DeleteAnd the Chinese coolie (the one with the pistol in his face) would have ridden on the roof or in the boot; no one would have let them into the coach proper.
The purpose of TSA was to accustom Americans to doing whatever they’re told, no matter how obviously pointless and outrageous. Judging by the public’s response to the forced lockdowns, masking, social distancing and vaxing, TSA’s mission was accomplished.
ReplyDeleteThe first known stage robbery, led by Tom Bell.
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Hung when he was 26 years old.
@Elmo
ReplyDeleteHanged. "Hanged" means "put to death by suspension from the neck."
Hung. "Hung" means "suspended from above" such as a picture frame.
Dan Kurt
Was that called "Carriage Jacked"?
ReplyDeleteHe's the dandy highwayman they're too scared to mention...
ReplyDeletelooks like they emptied the Clown Coach
ReplyDeleteThe highwayman's name was Big Nose George. After he was lynched in Rawlins, Wyoming in 1881, some of his skin was made into a pair of shoes and a portion of his skull into an ash tray.
ReplyDelete“Bail up, your money or your life!” Stagecoach (mostly Cobb & Co.) and Royal Mail robberies were a real problem in each of the Crown colonies in Australia during the 19th century. The bushrangers did a roaring trade, especially during the gold rushes. Each colony had troopers, or ‘traps’, but police in Queensland, dedicated to hunting them down. The bushranger was generally home-grown, but some early ones were escaped convicts, and a very few were Aborigines.
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