From: clough@texas.net   
      
   Todd wrote:   
   > Alas, Gerald, the group actually covers all aspects of the historical North   
   American West ;)   
   >   
   > We Canadians, not to mention our Mexican neighbours, often wonder how it   
   ever became the "American"   
   > West :P   
   > --   
   > Todd   
      
   Nor would we turn nose up at commentary on South American practices,   
   much being the same but for some terms, and some being quite different   
   ways of accomplishing the same thing. And the history of the West must   
   include such things as the Panamanian passage, which was almost a   
   microcosm of the North American frontier, with railroad barons, bandits   
   and vigilantes.   
      
   And I suppose that he who makes the myth make money makes the name, and   
   the American western did that.   
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
                         clough@texas.net   
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