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.
Just finished Ambrose's book on building the transcontinental railroad. They lost a lot of surveyors and track-layers to the Indians. Sherman warned the tribes what would happen to them if they continued the attacks. And Sherman was a man of his word. One of the main reasons the government was happy to support the building of the railroad, it reduced the costs and time of manning and supplying the Frontier Forts. They were spending millions on mule skinners and wagons. The railroad turned the frontier and the territories from a burden to an asset.
I cannot imagine being a paleface spending time in the wild west.
ReplyDeleteWander around south Philly for that experience.
DeleteI can, we use to play cowboys and injuns. Cowboys always won. Calvary, and pioneers...not so much.
ReplyDeleteJust finished Ambrose's book on building the transcontinental railroad.
ReplyDeleteThey lost a lot of surveyors and track-layers to the Indians. Sherman warned the tribes what would happen to them if they continued the attacks. And Sherman was a man of his word.
One of the main reasons the government was happy to support the building of the railroad, it reduced the costs and time of manning and supplying the Frontier Forts. They were spending millions on mule skinners and wagons.
The railroad turned the frontier and the territories from a burden to an asset.
I'm not a big reader, but if you're into American and Western history you won't be able to put that book down. It's great.
DeleteBTW, the title of the book is "Nothing Like It In The World".
Being out in the wilderness exploring where everyone is a danger. That was a long time ago from where I'm sitting but the world is still a big place..
ReplyDeleteThe Amazon and much of sub-Sahara Africa is still wilderness and full of danger.
DeleteOakland is full of danger.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very long time for that horse to be still - a long line of Indians comin'....
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was going to say.
ReplyDelete'bout showtime.
Which one is Elizabeth Warren ?
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Warren!!! Too funny!!!
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