From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Steve Grimm"  wrote in message   
   news:103leuqi6c959ad@news.supernews.com...   
      
      
      
    It was Pullman building his railcars in Chicago furnishing the railroads   
   with   
   > passengers.  I'm sure there are other things in Chicago which had an   
   effect on the west.   
      
      
   I'll say one thing for sure, Steve, Cori may be legit (and she or he does   
   not sound much like a troll) and she or he's stimulated more conversation,   
   more traffic, and more thinking on this newsgroup than I've seen for awhile.   
   So long as we stay at least within the playground of the Old West, this   
   can't be all bad, eh?   
      
   Speaking of thinking, I just got into a book by Edwin Shrake, titled "The   
   Borderland."   
      
   Has anyone commented about this writer recently?  I have the feeling I've   
   seen his name fly across my screen, but can't recall where or when.  Has a   
   lot of historically accurate places and events, and well described, too.   
   But there, in addition to a lot of historical characters and places, there   
   are the false names and places tossed in.   
      
   I am not certain yet, that these may not have been accurate in 1840, but   
   unfamiliar to me.  I suspect his gimmick is to use fake names and places   
   when the individuals depicted are "bad guys"...  I guess I'll find out   
   before the end of the book.  Except for a good bit too much of graphic sex   
   and violence, it seems well researched and written.   
   I'm not prudish, either!   Just that this guy has crossed over the line,   
   several times, with that stuff.   Of course, it appears to be the   
   'pseudonymed' characters who are doing that.   Again, .... ?  Quien sabe?   
      
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