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Warpy

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3. I was a squirrely kid who watched westerns in the 50s

Reply to AnotherDreamWeaver (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 28, 2012, 08:19 PM

Sep 2012

and decided if I was alive back then, I'd join the Indians. The last things I wanted were corsets, high buttoned shoes, and enforcing the moral order in a frontier town or being the town saloon floozie with even tighter corsets.

I haven't read the book. I don't wonder at the choice. It's likely what I'd have done.

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Tired of war's bloodshed, tribe resorts to its old traditions [View all] Jim__ Sep 2012 OP

Savagery is in the eye of the beholder Warpy Sep 2012 #1

+1 Not long ago I read the life of Mary Jemison AnotherDreamWeaver Sep 2012 #2

I was a squirrely kid who watched westerns in the 50s Warpy Sep 2012 #3

I first picked up a book called "Ride the Wind" about a girl captured in Texas AnotherDreamWeaver Sep 2012 #4

Yes and no. Igel Sep 2012 #5