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Pat, Region 5 of the Forest Service is California, and this pack string works within that state and in some adjacent states. There are similar strings in other FS regions like on the Shoshone NF in Wyoming (Region 2, used to be out of Edwards, CO), in Montana out of the Nine Mile Remount Station, th...

Forest Service pack strings used to be funded at local levels (ranger district and forest level), but when needs and funding changed years ago many strings disappeared, with the few remaining ones being funded at the "regional" level, covering multiple states. Today, local ranger districts...

Amazing. And I think he said he built the machine he uses to fit everything together. That took some doing for sure.

Nice account and documentation, Pat - thanks, very interesting. Out of curiosity, did you see evidence of artifacts e.g. cartridge cases, etc.? Some sites I've been to that are not open to the general public still have such evidence, and it's always interesting to see that in order to help form a pi...

I've been reading this book in spurts, am close to the end, it is definitely written like what we would call a boy's adventure book. What I find interesting about it is the seemingly accurate historic references such as details of peace talks and participants, fort construction, interactions with Ca...

Years ago, based on the title, I bought a book online 'With Carrington on the Bozeman Road' (Joseph Mills Hanson, 1912), not knowing anything about it. It is a part of the '"Among the Sioux" Series', which I don't know about. When it arrived back then I learned it is (I think) a work of fi...

I am so glad someone is curating these invaluable pieces. Thanks, Ralph.

Couvi, the only issue I have is with the word "many", which has not been my experience. "Some" would have been a better choice of words IMO, unless you're just one of those people who buys only rank or untrained horses. And I believe some (or many?) of the horses that have an is...

Couvi, the only issue I have is with the word "many", which has not been my experience. "Some" would have been a better choice of words IMO, unless you're just one of those people who buys only rank or untrained horses. And I believe some (or many?) of the horses that have an iss...

The link I listed doesn't seem to connect, not sure ..... here's another attempt:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/reco ... es-ww1.htm

Here's a link to a nice site about cavalry and infantry regiment diaries - not personal accounts, but accounts by unit of normal activities, losses, etc.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/reco ... s-ww1.html

Thanks, Tony! I enjoyed that a lot and learned something, too. I don't know what my father and his people called the long trumpet, though I suspect they called it just that, and not a bugle - I imagine it is only lay folks like myself who today might make that mistake. He played in the Boy Scouts, t...

Great timing, my family was just looking at this picture the other day, it's my father circa mid to late 1920's playing the trumpet (?) as a Boy Scout in Colorado. We were trying to figure out if this is indeed a trumpet he's playing, a long bugle, or ...?

What a character - good grief! Interesting guy!

That all makes sense, Bill. And it sounds like authors sometimes blur lines between tribal mounted groups, militias and cavalry.

Couvi, I'm in about the middle of this book now, have found it interesting, as you apparently did. A couple of points seem to stand out to me, including the idea coming from the author that the Comanches were the first and most successful North American tribe to seize use of the horse from the Spani...

Just saw a movie today. And it was good. Not awesome to my regret. Jeff Bridges with all his talent couldn't overcome Duke but looks and plays good. Hailee Steinfeld was awesome there. My question about the saddles used in the movie - it is Mexican stock saddles with horn or some Californian of sam...

Saw it tonight with my youngest son and his brother's bride-to-be. Intense, and very very good. Interesting give and take between the two adults on the subject of Army of Northern Virginia and Quantrell's Raiders, eh? I think so, too, Joe. I had never read the book before, am almost finished with i...

We saw the new True Grit movie over Christmas with relatives who are movie buffs but aren't into the Western genre so much; they liked the new movie a lot, as did I. I sure agree with Frank and Pat's assessments of both movies. In the 1969 John Wayne version, my wife and I always get a kick out of S...

Thanks, Pat, I'll sure look forward to reading more of Morris' work - I certainly enjoyed The Rise of TR. He's been an interesting contradiction for me, in that he was the kind of person who was super aggressive, knew what it took to climb the ladder, which in today's political environment, I'm fair...