Re: [SG]? & Re: Rescuing livestock

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>From the little reading/history shows I've done/seen on the period,
this
is supposedly one of the more prevalent myths concerning the US West.
It makes great cinema though.
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The little I've read sez the same thing about your descriptions, but I'd
hoped, vainly I see, that one thrown-off comment wouldn't cause a
totally
OT post such as yours.

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Just look what happened to Jesse Jame's gang in Northfield Minnesota, to
see what happened when the "defenseless townsfolk" reacted fast enough
to respond in force to a raid.
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If I care to comment, in detail, on a fairly atypical occurance fairly
late
in the settling process, as much of your comments are, given my own
Nebraska was a state within three years of the end of Civil War, I'll
send
it directly.

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Wasn't there a (bloodthirsty to carnivores/omnivores) vegetarian race In
Traveller - some kind of Centaur type race?
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K'kree.

There was a 'herd' mentality; I think, as opposed to pack mentality. It
seemed a subtle difference: both weakened resolve if not working with
those
of close ties.

The_Beast

-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon

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