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re: The Spanish were wrecking shop in the New World...then they met the Comanche
Posted on 8/4/21 at 10:29 pm to TidenUP
Posted on 8/4/21 at 10:29 pm to TidenUP
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the Rangers for sure but only after Sam Colt provided the six shooter
Sam Walker designed the Walker Colt.
Had five shot Patersons before that... Colt's 1st revolver sold to the Texian Navy.
Colt's 1851 "navy" revolver cylinder is roll marked with a scene of the Texian Navy fighting the Mexican navy at the battle of Campeche as an acknowledgement of the Texas navy being his only real customer loyal to him prior to going back into business.
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Posted on 8/4/21 at 10:30 pm to AgCoug
If you liked that book, try “ Blood and Treasure” about Daniel Boone
Posted on 8/4/21 at 10:34 pm to AgCoug
And after you’ve read Empire of the Summer Moon, read “The Son” by Philip Meyer for some awesome historical fiction.
Fun fact, I’ve used Empire as a travel guide in TX/NM and it’s been really fun.
Fun fact, I’ve used Empire as a travel guide in TX/NM and it’s been really fun.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 10:37 pm to blueboy
What a weird, wild and very OT way for an otherwise innocuous thread to develop.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 10:39 pm to victoire sécurisé
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Spain had all sorts of trouble in the early 1800’s. Napoleon overthrowing the monarchy. Civil War. Simon Bolivar liberating South America.
Also a buncha baws whoopin their arse in Baton Rouge and kicking them out of West Florida.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 11:35 pm to LSUfan20005
Try The Frontiersmen by Alan W Eckert. This was about settling the Ohio territory. Great book.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 1:34 am to TidenUP
The Colt Walker, sometimes known as the Walker Colt, is a single-action revolver with a revolving cylinder holding six charges of black powder behind six bullets (typically .44 caliber lead balls). It was designed in 1846 by American firearms inventor Samuel Colt to the specifications of Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 4:11 am to BowlJackson
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where you fantasized about raping women
I was talking about taking wives, not rape.
Edited. Good grief.
This post was edited on 8/5/21 at 4:15 am
Posted on 8/5/21 at 4:13 am to tadman
quote:Clancy sucks. I would say that Cormac McCarthy makes McMurtrys work look juvenile on a similar note. And I love McMurtry
His books were amazing and pretty much ruined lesser novels for me. I once tried to read a Clancy novel and found it utterly juvenile.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 4:25 am to weagle99
Which one is Poon?
Posted on 8/5/21 at 6:13 am to Peepdip
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I would say that Cormac McCarthy makes McMurtrys work look juvenile on a similar note.
McCarthy just writes depressing novels with no payoff. Just horrible thing followed by horrible thing followed by horrible thing the end. It’s just not enjoyable to read his book, which is certainly not the case with McMurtry.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 6:15 am to brsa
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buffalo hump stole cpt skulls' horse. crazy sumbitch went to get it back
Kicking Wolf stole the Buffalo Horse.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 6:56 am to TidenUP
The whole point was to hide…if done well enough, you would think it’s just a lone horse running from the battle.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:00 am to CrimsonFever
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"A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning"
Descriptive, but did the Comanche kill all his periods?
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:06 am to tadman
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tadman
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Thalia series or the Duane Moore series
Thanks for the recommendation. I found the Thalia trilogy pretty easily on Amazon. But, not coming up with anything on the Duane Moore series? Is that also McMurtry? Thanks.
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:20 am to Jim Rockford
quote:One bad-assed dude. Anyone read any books about his life and can recommend?
Ranald McKenzie
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:21 am to weagle99
The OG of OGs
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:29 am to BeepNode
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arguably the best horseback warriors in the world.
You mean the best in North America
The Mongol hordes of the 13 and 14th centuries would’ve laid absolute waste to them
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:32 am to fr33manator
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Descriptive, but did the Comanche kill all his periods?
Ever read McCarthy’s books?
Posted on 8/5/21 at 7:38 am to Hangover Haven
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The Comanche and the Apache we not to be fricked with...
Up until they got fricked with?
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