home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.old-west      Discussing the wild west, frontier life      1,275 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 711 of 1,275   
   Clem Mattis to All   
   Re: Essential Old West reading   
   18 Jan 05 20:11:26   
   
   From: clematis@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article ,   
   zulu.pacifier.com@shell1.pacifier.net says...   
   >   
   >Clem Mattis wrote:   
   >   
   >> The TIME/LIFE LIBRARY OF THE OLD WEST is a   
   >> useful source for getting an overview, in   
   >> spite of claims that it errs in some instances.   
   >   
   >"Claims" ?  This series is probably very good,   
   >but it is a fact that in the volume "The   
   >Soldiers", the writer's treatment of Custer   
   >was among the worst subjective *shit* I've   
   >ever read.  What's worse, that material has   
   >probably been many people's *only* source   
   >of knowledge of Custer.   
   >   
   >Bob Tiernan   
      
   That makes you one of the referred to claimants!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca