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    New Alamo Museum

    Private venture, immediately adjacent to the Alamo plaza. http://battlefortexas.com/ $20 to get in, essentially collecting the admission that the Alamo doesn't (the Alamo is free). But..... COOOOOOL artifacts :bow: like... Santa Anna's dress uniform, captured at San Jacinto, ornate as all...
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    Which Indian (from India) Brown Bess?

    At reenactments down here (Texas) we are chronically short of Mexican soldados. Being a Texian is easy and fun, but soldaldos gotta wear wool and march and stand at attention and all that stuff. So, more than a few guys switch teams at events as necessary. I expect I will too. Even without the...
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    TVM Tulle?

    If you buy a smoothie from TVM make sure the barrel is tapered as every known original was. I didn't know to ask about this and they sure as heck don't mention it otherwise. Otherwise, like mine, you end up with a gun that is heavy, muzzle heavy and with a barrel that looks like a length of...
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    The thing is about movies like Jeremiah Johnson, it had people you could like in them. People you wouldn't mind being like. Jeremiah Johnson spawned a whole bunch of Grizzes and Bear Claws and who knows who else in a kazillion rondy's over the next thirty years. So who cares if the depiction...
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    Joe, the slave who became an Alamo legend.

    Waiting for the book here. I'm curious for any insight as to the motive for him embarking on that monumental journey back to Alabama. Kin? A woman? Who knows. Or could have been that, having been randomly passed on in probate to the legal ownership of strangers as he was, the Travis family...
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    Joe, the slave who became an Alamo legend.

    Just heard about this recent (2015) book in Wild West magazine. Fer those out of the loop, Joe was William Barret Travis's personal slave who by his own account witnessed Travis die at the Alamo and is one of the few survivors of that fight. He is THE main source of first-person accounts we...
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    Leo up for an Oscar? Sounds like Tom Hardy's gonna get ROBBED. Fitzgerald, along with that helpful Pawnee, were the two best characters in the movie.
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    Minor detail I noticed the second time around. DiCaprio has a bristle pan brush and vent pick hanging on them familiar chains from his shooting bag strap. The pan brush is absolutely brand-new, spotless :grin:
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    Jamestown ca. 1610.... http://www.charlesmann.org/articles/NatGeo-Jamestown-05-07-2.htm Even in their own villages and farm fields, the Indians couldn't escape the invasive species brought by the English””pigs, goats, cattle, and horses. Indians woke up to find free-range cows and horses...
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    Seems like further East they woulda fit. Hogs made a way-early impact on the Frontier because of the Euro practice of free-ranging them. Point of interest "Cohockton" or "Coshocton" is Algonquin for "place of hogs", there being a town in New York and another in Ohio, both of 18th Century...
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    Well, I'm one up on most here because I seen it twice already. Looked extra careful at that scene and no, there's no way he had time to reload so it HAD to be a two-shooter :wink: ...and turns out people were immune to hypothermia back then, or at least Glass was. Otherwise the problem with...
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    I've been as loud a critic as anyone here. But the bottom line is, when all is said and done, this is a decent, serious attempt at a movie that probably is the best and most accurate depiction of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade ever put to film. I'm very grateful for that :thumbsup:
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    Seen it. Bottom line is few will go see this movie a second time except for us. BEAUTIFUL scenery, images you wish you could pause the movie and just stare at for awhile. Probably the prettiest I've seen in a movie. All the violence, and there's a lot, seems realistic; messy and clumsy and...
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    Best book on F/I war

    Yep, and a fine read. Also by the same author... "Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763" is full of quotes from first-person accounts. http://www.amazon.com/Redcoats-British-Soldier-Americas-1755-1763/dp/0521675383 "War on the Run" is another fine Rogers bio...
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    New Movie The Revenant?

    Thanks for the correction, and again congrats :hatsoff:
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