RICKJJ59W
Well-Known Member
ORIGINAL: cordilleran
Nineteenth Century western expansion is truly the story of strong people taking a chance. Those of inferior stock stayed behind choosing to linger back east with its own unique predictability. I suspect a large percentage of ancestral descendents currently reside in the urban sprawl content with the myriad problems associated with living in contemporaneous urban bedlam. When one extracts an artifact from the west coast dating from the late 1840s through the 1850s it speaks volumes of the fortitude of folks who "bet it all" on a dream. The fence-straddlers, on the other hand, remained in their safe bouroughs lacking initiative. These Woody Allen types had little more to discuss daily other than hangnails, rising tax rates and the infrequency of oysters on the half shell. The same phenomenon plays out cross-culturally with the geographic locations of the Southern Paiute (digger indian). Strong-willed and deliberate Amerindian nations such as the Ute to the east, Shoshone and Nez Perce (to the north) and Navaho and Apache to the south of the Paiute, forced these digger indians to live a beggarly life of subsistance eating insects and living in the dirt. They lacked ambition (fight) and as such were relegated to a place no one else would choose to inhabit. Today, the southern Paiute reservation encompasses less than two city blocks in Cedar City, Utah, and the handful of inhabitants quest for little more than a government-sponsored subsistence lifestyle. I can further draw distinctions between peoples as diverse as the Nederlanders, Hottentots and Obama supporters.
Another words...Dem boyz had no glass [8D]