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RE: Queen of the Cowtowns - Dodge City

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ha! the Man! I love number cruncher guys! I will probably put this in my post, is it okay if I give you credit for finding this out?
that was a fortune back then, my gosh! well at $3 per head and .25 per tongue, that adds up. the carasses were left to rot but for years afterwards the farmers would go and collect the bones and sell them for something like 6 or 7 dollars a ton and factories back East would buy them to make China and fertilizer. I'm guessing those were two different types of factories.

The place was totally lawless and wild but there was still the Cowboy Code man! there was a morality instilled in people back then that even the lawless followed. at least concerning females.

there were so many people getting killed in fights that they named the cemetery Boot Hill because they died with their boots on. shoot I forgot to put that in the post, I am too rushed on these things, like I told you about before. I didn't even read it because I figured i was so rushed I wouldn't like it.

well after years of fighting the feminists have made sure there ain't none of that in the general population.

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Oh, go ahead and put it in without attribution. They aren't really my numbers. I just located a site that does it and threw in a $100 for 1850. Not that big of deal, but I agree, you should totally use the amount.

Wiping all the buffalo out was a tragedy of immense proportions. Letting perfectly good meat rot was another. I know refrigeration wasn't around quite yet, but I do hope that someone got some of it at least.

I actually wondered about the name, though it didn't cross my mind that it came from all the killing. I would think though, that most deaths would occur with the wearer's boots on if they weren't dying in their sleep, or taking a shower or something like that. Kind of funny how some things become important enough to name hills after them.

re: feminists

Not sure if you're referring to chivalry here or not, but that's kind of the odd thing about feminism. It depends on the woman. That movement is fractured and headed in so many different directions it's really hard to get a handle on it completely.

Seems to me the Golden Rule still applies. If I want to be treated in a polite, fair, friendly manner, then I probably should do the same, regardless of who it is. Period. :)

howdy again Glen.. yes sir, the buffalo slaughter was shameful and the meat just fed the buzzards and coyotes. I've seen photos of hundreds of carcasses
lying in the sun rotting. That meat could have all been hung up and dried like the Indians processed it.

Boot Hill..yeah well unless it was an accident most people died of some kind of sickness just like today and it was alarming how many were being killed by others. almost all shot.
yes sir, The Golden Rule still applies for Believers but the problem is of course that half the world ain't Believers. the Mormons been slackin.
lol, just teasing of course. everybodies been slackin.

the problem is of course that half the world ain't Believers.

I wonder about that. I keep hearing how people are moving away from formal religion, but yet there seems to be plenty of people believing in something. The Golden Rule in and of itself, while based on words spoken by Christ, is still pretty much common sense. If you don't want someone yelling at you, don't yell at them. If you want people to treat you in a certain way, then treat them that way.

While I do belong to a formal religion that is based in Christ, I know there are billions around the world who believe in similar concepts, but involving different beings, concepts or names for concepts. While I don't think that all religions are one (kind of hard if they're all different), I can see people trying to seek for something more than themselves.

I am in agreement that we're all slackin' to some degree. Some more, some less. My thought, though, is that the bad apples and the troublemakers are truly less than half, and while some of it might be unbelief, a lot of it is confusion and not knowing where to find light and truth. A lot of those folks are still following some kind of moral code until they actually do find something more fulfilling.

well well well..Mr. Glass is Half full! lol. mr. optimism.
howdy today Glen... well sir, I don't disagree with any thing you said and I SO hope that you are right about people looking for the truth.

My idea is NOT that half the world are bad apples, I agree that they are a small percentage. I was just saying that half the world don't even believe in our God.

My thinking is that humans are naturally selfish and act in their own interests. We who are truly born again struggle with this but those who aren't saved don't, for the most part, they just do whatever it takes to get themselves ahead in life.

but I so hope that half the world is seeking the light and the truth. I believe there will be a great End Times Revival and I hope it starts in D.C.!

True, half the world has a different belief than any flavor of Christianity. And some of it, the farther East you go, gets more into philosophies or concepts that fashion experience and behavior than focusing in on a being to emulate or follow. It's a little less structured and lot more free form, but in reality, a lot of what's being taught is good, it's just more ethereal and not flowing through anyone, like Christ.

As for the Middle East and many other parts of the world, those folks are generally practicing what seems like to us a very harsh version of an Old Testament religion. More don'ts than dos and a lot more immediate corporal and capital punishment.

In those cases, I wonder just how much of it is belief versus fear of trying anything else.

I know what you're going for with the end times starting in D.C., and that's as good a group as any to start with. Unfortunately, I think we're talking about a lot of death, destruction and suffering everywhere before Christ comes to clean up, and then we're talking the Middle East again. At least first. :)

I'd like to think there's some optimism to it, but it's more of a perspective that things could always be worse, as well as better, and that while things are progressively getting worse, it's more because the majority are allowing the minority to get away with it, because of whatever. Time, their own needs, they're own confusion over the matter, fear, etc.

I could be wrong, but I don't think we're quite at Sodom and Gomorrah with Abraham asking the Lord if he would spare the cities if there's only so many good people left. Then basically whittling it down to the point where Abraham knows he's got to move in and get Lot and his family out of there because there really aren't enough good people there to stay the Lord's wrath.

I can see it coming. That's the direction were headed. As of this moment, though, we're still not there yet.

yes sir...sir Glen..I think, and I know it seems like most people on this platform disagree, but I think we are a long way from the destruction of the country. so many people on here think we are and maybe they're right.
I used to think so but after ..lets see I was in college in 1974 so for 44 years I've heard this talk of the destruction and utter Mad Max situation type talk and I just don't see it as being imminent.

I agree that we should be some type or degree of preppers but I'm not convinced we'll need to be in our lifetimes.
I think we'll have a major revival way before the collapse comes though, I think there is going to be another great period of prosperity and peace for this country ushered in by this coming revival. I really do.

One reason is the tremendous growth of Spirit-filled churches with increased manifestations of works of the Spirit like healings and miracles of all kinds. but that also is one of the signs we have been expecting as part of the End Times scenario.

I agree. The US has been incredibly resilient despite every attempt to knock her down, both foreign and domestic, and I believe it is because there are still enough good people to warrant providence's protection.

I was in grade school in 1974, but as you say, the end of the world is near has been something that's been going on for a long time. Everyone loves to predict it, no one wants to do anything about it, which includes washing their own dirty laundry. If we just all attended to our own business, shored up our own sins and weaknesses, and let others do the same, everything would be fixed.

But we don't even work hard enough on it ourselves, so how can we expect anyone else to do it. The problem isn't 'theirs'. It's 'ours'.

As I said before, being prepared to some degree for various eventualities, especially the smaller ones is just smart. It doesn't have to be major.

I would love for there to be an age of prosperity that lasted for ten or more years. That would be awesome. I'd like to know that it was happening, and I'd like to be a part of it. :) I'm glad to hear you say you believe in such a thing because I've been thinking that there needs to be a greater push for good before it all comes to an end. It might be happening and I'm missing the boat on that one, too.

yes sir I believe that we will see it soon and don't worry you won't miss it, everyone in the world will know about it. I believe that inspite of our many sins as a nation that God will use America even more in a final, world-wide revival and it will be America's greatest time, her Golden Age for a period.. to be used to the maximum in order to fulfill her purpose and calling which is to be a light unto the nations and to spread the Gospel to all people everywhere.

I know that's not what the globalists have in mind for us but they will be thwarted.. at least for a time.

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