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Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:40 pm to JEC119
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I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I've been singing that song for 30 years and always said "Horn of Mexico" and I just realized that doesn't make sense.
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:42 pm to JEC119
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I was a sailor I was borne upon the tide And with the sea, I did abide I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed But I am living still
One of my favorite songs.
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:49 pm to Jim Rockford
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How do you get there?
Kit Carson walked it twice scouting for the US Army back before the Gold Rush. Went through the AZ and Southern Cal deserts. Dude was tough as nails.
Posted on 3/26/25 at 8:03 pm to Jim Rockford
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1. Oregon Trail
Pros: cheapest.
Cons: DISSENTARY.
Posted on 3/26/25 at 8:13 pm to Jim Rockford
I'm currently dying of dysentery so I'm a goner before even starting.
Posted on 3/26/25 at 9:04 pm to Jim Rockford
Gila trail makes the most sense, since I’m coming from Texas. Don’t have to deal with snow, but there’s not a lot of water either. Hope the Rangers and Mexican government cleared most of the Apache out.
Posted on 3/26/25 at 9:05 pm to JEC119
I’d just stay home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Posted on 3/26/25 at 9:34 pm to LSUtoBOOT
The trail is how I would have gone.
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Took my family away from my Carolina home Had dreams about the west and started to roam Six long months on a dust covered trail They say heaven's at the end, but so far it's been hell
And there's fire on the mountain, lightning in the air Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there
We were digging and sifting from five to five Selling everything we found just to stay alive Gold flowed free like the whiskey in the bars Sinning was the big thing, Lord and Satan was the star
And there's fire on the mountain, lightning in the air Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there
Dance hall girls were the evening treat Empty cartridges and blood lined the gutters of the street Men were shot down for the sake of fun Or just to hear the noise of their forty-four guns
And there's fire on the mountain, lightning in the air Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there
Now my widow, she weeps by my grave Tears flow free for her man she couldn't save Shot down in cold blood by a gun that carried fame All for a useless and no good worthless claim
And there's fire on the mountain, lightning in the air Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there Fire on the mountain, lightning in the air Gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there Waiting for me there
Posted on 3/26/25 at 9:49 pm to Jim Rockford
The age of gold by hw brands details this
Great book for those interested about various groups and how they got there and the trials they endured
Great book for those interested about various groups and how they got there and the trials they endured
Posted on 3/26/25 at 9:51 pm to Jim Rockford
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Oregon Trail
Pros: cheapest.
Cons: Six months or more. Injuns, disease, starvation.
"Six long months on a dust covered trail...they say heaven's at the end but so far its been hell."
Posted on 3/26/25 at 10:04 pm to Jim Rockford
Hastings Cutoff, nice easy shortcut
Posted on 3/26/25 at 10:17 pm to Jim Rockford
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Boat to Panama, across the isthmus by donkey, another boat to California.
Pardon me, but I believe most went through Nicaragua!
Posted on 3/26/25 at 11:43 pm to Jim Rockford
Avoid Utah based on what I just watched on Netflix.
Damn Mormons.
Damn Mormons.
Posted on 3/27/25 at 12:22 am to Cheese Grits
When I got there I would see what miners were spending their money on and enter that business. (run a brothel and bar in the meantime)"
a brothel and a bar room is what miners spent their money on.
a brothel and a bar room is what miners spent their money on.
Posted on 3/27/25 at 1:47 am to Jim Rockford
One of my [however many great] grandfather's took the Oregon Trail and later traveled south to become the founder of Chico, Ca('s stable boy).
My mom's side of the family took the Mormon Trail. Some of them in Mormon handcart companies, like one of my great grandmothers, who, widowed, in the first few days of the crossing, pulled an infant daughter, and everything she owned, in what was essentially a rickshaw, all the way from Council Bluffs,IA to SLC, before she was 18.
Driving through much of the landscape that they traveled is a humbling experience, Some of the routes through the Cascades and other ranges are unbelievably rugged. I imagine many feel the same when confronted with the rugged landscape all across America that our 'people' journeyed.
My mom's side of the family took the Mormon Trail. Some of them in Mormon handcart companies, like one of my great grandmothers, who, widowed, in the first few days of the crossing, pulled an infant daughter, and everything she owned, in what was essentially a rickshaw, all the way from Council Bluffs,IA to SLC, before she was 18.
Driving through much of the landscape that they traveled is a humbling experience, Some of the routes through the Cascades and other ranges are unbelievably rugged. I imagine many feel the same when confronted with the rugged landscape all across America that our 'people' journeyed.
Posted on 3/27/25 at 4:24 am to Jim Rockford
Kudos to TommyCheeseballs for this recommendation on Book Board. Great read.
Posted on 3/27/25 at 4:52 am to Loup
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dengue hemorrhagic fever
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Wtf is even that?
I'm not sure but it sounds pretty unpleasant.
Posted on 3/27/25 at 5:15 am to Loup
quote:Haitian mosquito aids
Dengue hemorrhagic fever
Posted on 3/27/25 at 5:30 am to Espritdescorps
In The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, it tells of Justice Harlan's black brother Robert, a former slave, who grew up in Kentucky.
Robert went to the California gold fields via the perilous Panama crossing. The boat that picked him up on the west side was a piece of junk, and it was a miracle they made it.
What is more astonishing to me is that Robert made a fortune of about $50,000 and returned via Panama to Cincinnati. How does a man carry a fortune like that across the continent and not get robbed/killed along the way?
I think the book described him as bringing the actual gold, not paper money, back with him. The travelers would hire porters/guides to help them across Panama. Who would be surprised if the porters decided to murder him in the jungle and take the gold?
Robert went to the California gold fields via the perilous Panama crossing. The boat that picked him up on the west side was a piece of junk, and it was a miracle they made it.
What is more astonishing to me is that Robert made a fortune of about $50,000 and returned via Panama to Cincinnati. How does a man carry a fortune like that across the continent and not get robbed/killed along the way?
I think the book described him as bringing the actual gold, not paper money, back with him. The travelers would hire porters/guides to help them across Panama. Who would be surprised if the porters decided to murder him in the jungle and take the gold?
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