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Post by chardvc on Jan 30, 2016 5:11:00 GMT -6
Lubetkin is a fiction writer. According to reviews of the book (and others of his) he weaves newspaper sources together to form a plausible novel. Always tricky "weaving" newspaper reports.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jan 30, 2016 10:03:16 GMT -6
I suggest you read his book before passing judgment. (Are you channeling Dark Cloud?)
John is one of the best writers out there. His writing reads beautifully like great fiction, but it is not.
Diane
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Post by herosrest on Jan 30, 2016 10:30:01 GMT -6
DucemusIt took a while to hit some of his other work, which is quite thorough and incidental to LBH, with good background as bibliography shows. There is insight and a refreshing avoidance of the 7th Cavalry thing other than it being incidental to progress. ebook-finder.com/ebook.php?id=oZf_BwAAQBAJI haven't read Custer's Gold - www.amazon.co.uk/Custers-Gold-United-Cavalry-Expedition/dp/0803257503 but have found that Lubetkin is very well researched with interesting information. Bouyer for example, scouted with the 1872 survey expedition along the Yellowstone. It's a broader socio-economic interest. Whether you realise it or not, virtually all writers and many students involved with the battle are conjuring the triumvirate of blame by various techniques and designs. The Pease Bottom fight did not abate until some artillery arrived and drove off lingering bands still trying to do some damage. Same occurred with the 1874 civilian expedition. He (Lubetkin) is not most battle buffs cup of cider, and the chapter's are coincidental to the story which was Cook, the railways ant their high finance which..... crashed. Sonething to do with too much credit and too little cash flow. Cooke started a major recession. As the railways recovered, so did the US although a hill of pure high grade silver helped things along - until the Nex Perce stole it all. ]]I threw the link up because it was relevant to some members efforts with modelling LBH and the ambush aspect. Fellows D. Pease was priorly Indian Agent for the Crows, then set up Fort Pease and was in the East at the time of the battle, arranging finance to bring in a couple of smelters. He settled Stillwater for a while later during the 80's rail boom, had trading enterprises immeditely after the battle, and was all round interesting. Married into the Crow tribe, his wife is equally interesting. I think that the family is still tied to Lodge Grass. www.myheritage.com/names/fellows_pease If you get to moving beyond the immediate battle, Pease is not a bad starter for ten. Sorry, started waffling. Be well. fortparkerhistory.org/the-history-of-fort-parker/
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Post by herosrest on Jan 30, 2016 10:51:54 GMT -6
DucemusJust for the hell of it, i'm stuggling for the name.... David Jansen... one armed man.... ho hum! Custer's fourth doctor was delayed in arriving to the expedition. He was a geologist explorer type previously involved with Yellowstone Park, so I guess Norris the Superintenent from 1877 who visited during the officer reburials and removed a ton of relics from LSH and Charley Reynolds remains; the doctor became Governor of the U.S. Mint when silver laws were being enacted. How odd. The name is... Custer's 4th doctor... was Kimble. lbha.proboards.com/thread/4219/custers-missing-doctor-james-kimballVoila - catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009037861And, his boi - A soldier-doctor of our army, James P. Kimball, late colonel and assistant surgeon-general, U.S. Army by Kimball, Maria Porter (Brace) Mrs. archive.org/stream/soldierdoctorofo00kimbrich#page/n9/mode/2upNot a lot of people know this. Yates wife was the daughter of the Senior Engineer planning the rail route. Milner Roberts. Her brother, I think, was Custer's secretary but didn't ride with the regiment on 22nd June. Everyone still wonders how Libbie Custer found out what she knew. There she is, 5th from the right, at the 10th Anniversary. Ssssh.... it's a secret. The day did not go well. Benteen got wound through the roof by Fred Server..... who was Company G, 2nd Cavalry with Terry, and in 1886 ran the hotel at Crow Reservation besides....... interpreting. Benteen did not have a good experience. Edgerley, Benteen, Godfrey, McDougall......... hehe Custer! I think that Mrs. Custer gave fred.... what for! In 1887, he was suspended for drunk and disorderly conduct at Fort DuChesne, Utah. He was convicted and faced dismissal from the Army, but President Grover Cleveland reduced his sentence to a one-year suspension. It's quite a story. She got him! fin
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Post by tubman13 on Jan 30, 2016 12:09:31 GMT -6
That is not a 44 year old E.B. Custer, the gentlemen would have seated her and centered her in the photo. If you think it is, please supply support. Mrs. Custer had nothing to do with Utah. I have read the incident report.
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Post by herosrest on Jan 30, 2016 12:18:40 GMT -6
Ducemus
I don't think that Benteen would have stripped off in front of her and had a wee over his tent, he just did that to the Brigham Youngs, newly arrived from West Point. In effect, he was caught short and thoroughly embarrassed. Seems to have become a life time habit. He was a good soldier but blew it on the 25th June. What ever went on - he knew that his regiment was commited to an attack and not valley hunting ad nausea.
Simple conclusion. She was avoiding the press and had motive. That is her. Proof = your eyes.
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Post by chardvc on Jan 30, 2016 15:35:06 GMT -6
Yawwwwwwn. Source of the photo?
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Post by herosrest on Jan 30, 2016 16:43:29 GMT -6
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Post by chardvc on Feb 2, 2016 6:28:42 GMT -6
Still waiting.....
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Post by edavids on Feb 2, 2016 9:34:49 GMT -6
Hope you are not holding your breath.
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Post by herosrest on Feb 3, 2016 18:09:13 GMT -6
Yawwwwwwn. Source of the photo? DucemusIt was D. H. Barry, (D.H. Barry collection) 25th June 1886 taken at Camp Baldwin in the Little Bighorn. Just at right of image and along from the sword, a dog is lying on the ground - out of picture.
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Post by chardvc on Feb 4, 2016 0:28:14 GMT -6
Yawwwwwwn. Source of the photo? DucemusIt was D. H. Barry, (D.H. Barry collection) 25th June 1886 taken at Camp Baldwin in the Little Bighorn. Just at right of image and along from the sword, a dog is lying on the ground - out of picture. Funny - I do that search and I can't find the picture attributed to D. H. Barry or of Camp Baldwin. Perhaps it is me. Please can you provide the link.
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Post by tubman13 on Feb 4, 2016 6:42:40 GMT -6
Yo, Chard, I have always owned Labs, but you make me want to consider a Bulldog!
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Post by herosrest on Feb 4, 2016 6:54:17 GMT -6
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Post by chardvc on Feb 4, 2016 6:58:52 GMT -6
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