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“Alien Minds” by E. Everett Evans. Reading: Fantasy Press, (1955). First edition. Art by Hannes Bok. by Leo Boudreau

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“The ability to read minds isn't an unmixed blessing, so learns George Hanlon, Secret Operative of the Inter-Stellar Corps. His unique gift helps him with his assignments, of course -- except that he has a lot of trouble with alien minds. He encounters a whole planet full of alien minds on Estrella when the semi-human inhabitants of this Earth-like world of another sun decide that they want nothing to do with the Federation Planets. Hanlon's investigation's lead him into complications and troubles, all of which contribute to the entertainment of this tale of intrigue on a distant world. The striking jacket of this book is by the master of science fiction art – Hannes Bok.” [Summary at Goodreads.com]

Pining for the Past by tomraven

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What I am laying before you is my whole soul; otherwise I would rather have kept silent, as I do not like to lose words over things that everyone knows as little about as I do. What else is it but human destiny to suffer out one's measure, drink up one's cup?--And if the chalice was too bitter for the God from heaven on His human lips, why should I boast and pretend that it tastes sweet to me? And why should I be ashamed in the terrible moment when my entire being trembles between being and nothingness, since the past flashes like lightning above the dark abyss of the future and everything around me is swallowed up, and the world perishes with me?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther)

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Good read by W. Michel Kiteley

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Labor day... NO labor. Just because a lot of folks are exercising, eating and playing, it does not mean others can not pop easy chairs in the shade and read the paper and pay no attention at all. Papa reads and mama puts in her tuppence worth. I didn't notice if she had a rolling pin with her waterside kit. The entire east end of the lake is so shallow, it is lousy with cattails/bull rushes but not here. The shore still leaves plenty of unused shade under trees. I have seen that this lifestyle is in vogue by the Seine in Paris as well on many stream sides in Europe. Build it and they will come. Someone said that.

It took a lot of extra editing effort to hold yet expand the entire range of tones in a backlit and hazy shot like this. Both highlights and shadows hit gamut. It seems haze is settling down in the valleys. I wasn't sure I could pull any of this out of the haze. I certainly held all the detail on the cottonwood tree and in the shady grass. I was alway a sucker for the stages of fade found in the steps from the foreground to the Divide. This is on the south of McIntosh Lake in what is designated Dawson Park.

A whole section of the parking is designated as temp car parking for float craft (only) loading and unloading. It was pretty busy. The folks in the Avon raft are not serious about speed and should take some time coming in to the official disembarking spot.

I knew that the parks and the path that circles McIntosh Lake would be a busy venue for folks biking, picnicking, walking, sitting, exercising and playing on the holiday. I decided to join in, if I could find a parking place. I guess it is still good form to get wet at the end of summer. People at play, I guess the birds can fish here too. Eagles have been spotted around here but they could be after the prairie dogs on the opposite shore. There are a couple of inconvenient outhouses for those who are willing to put in a bit of walk. This is officially Dawson Park but Flanders Park is on the north side. Both are on the lake loop walk and trail. I made it out here twice last weekend. I guess that Longmont is still a community in the control of the citizens and voters. Hell hath no fury for a town council that doesn't maintain our parks. It's becoming difficult getting around the construction in town as Longmont lays its own fiber internet cable. TaTa overlords.

Exercise. It's not always easy doing what you need to do when one option is relaxing in the shade around McIntosh Lake Park. Some other folks are trying to up their health and longevity if not their knees. I come out here to end up lopsided by carrying the full frame camera with 200mm zoom and monopod. Others are into dogs and Cokes. In the distance across the fields is Hygiene with the silo on main Street. Picnics in the park are dandy. The sky looks pretty foreboding and the humditty is already up. Smoking pot in public places is outlawed, at least in Denver but now we can have that same crowd in parks using the dissolvable strips. There's never enough slack for some dodging exercise. Fortunately, we keep losing the really stupid to butane and marijuana experiments.

“Famous Fantastic Mysteries,” Vol. 3, No. 1 (April, 1941). Cover art by Virgil Finlay for Francis Stevens’ book-length novel, “Claimed.” by Leo Boudreau

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“What was the dread secret of the clouded emerald-like box with its blood-red, ‘sinking’ inscription? And what had it to do with the horror that threatened all connected with the eccentric millionaire who owned the box?”

The millionaire’s niece and doctor are “swept up into a nightmare chase across the Atlantic in a desperate battle with eldritch forces from a drowned kingdom.”

[Synopsis at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/4358436-claimed]

The novel first appeared in 1920 as a three-part serial in Argosy magazine. The author, Francis Stevens (pen name of Gertrude Barrows) has been called “the most gifted woman writer of science fiction and science fantasy between Mary Shelley and C. L. Moore.”

Pan Books 53 (1948). First Printing. Cover Art by J. Pollack by Leo Boudreau

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In 1907, as Special Corresondent of the "Daily Mail," Edgar Wallace visited the Belgian Congo to investigate the "rubber atrocities," and traveled a thousand miles up the River Congo on a little steamer with a cannibal crew to a mission-station; there he eagerly absorbed every detail of native life and customs and even studied the local language. The next year, having been dismissed from the "Daily Mail," he was in urgent need of money and secured an introduction to the editor of the "Weekly Tale-Teller." She suggested that he should write some African stories for her magazine. Wallace thereupon created Mr. Commissioner Sanders (a character who owed something to the famous explorer Sir Harry Johnston), and produced a series of stories whose immediate success he was quick to exploit by inventing another character, Lieutenant Tibbetts, nicknamed "Bones"-- the type of courageous "silly ass" later to be popularized by P. G. Wodehouse. Both these characters appear in the present volume. [Source: "About this book" on the back cover]

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals.

Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author.

In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.

He is most famous today as the co-creator of "King Kong", writing the early screenplay and story for the movie, as well as a short story "King Kong" (1933) credited to him and Draycott Dell. He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, the Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime. [Source: the Goodreads website at www.goodreads.com/book/show/1363197.The_Traitor_s_Gate]

All That Remains by tomraven

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With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive will be the ones that are most compatible with us: the weedy species--from mosquitoes to coyotes--that thrive in continually disturbed human-dominated environments.

— The End of the Wild (Boston Review Books) Stephen M. Meyer

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Digbeth, Birmingham, December 1977 by David Rostance

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A procession of three WMPTE Daimler Fleetlines, No. 4601 bringing up the rear, on the south-eastern approach to the city centre in Digbeth, Birmingham, 15th December 1977.

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A cropped version of this photograph appears on the front cover of The Silver Skeleton by Michael Preston, a novel set in mid 1980s Birmingham which I can heartily recommend. For further information see: www.goodreads.com/book/show/36697717-the-silver-skeleton

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F-14A "Persian Tomcat" by Ralph Savelsberg

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After the 1979 Iranian revolution, the Tomcats continued to serve with the newly formed Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF). However, the crews, many of whom had been trained in the US and were closely associated with the previous regime under the Shah, were mistrusted. Some of them fled the country and others were even jailed. When war broke out with Iraq, in 1980, the Air Force badly needed its Tomcats, however, and some of the crews were reinstated. Stories about the jets' effectiveness vary. The official line is that only few aircraft were operational and were mainly used as flying radar stations. Unofficial accounts, such as Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat, by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop, mention Tomcats achieving dozens of kills against the Iraqis.

Darkness and Light by Benjamin Von Wong

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“There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.

No third party at all, but treason occurs sometimes.”

― Toba Beta

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Women's Sphere by Sylvia Armstrong

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Avon 496 (1952). Cover by Victor Olson. Reprint of Avon 178 (1948). by Leo Boudreau

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First published by Doubleday in 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression, an era whose seamy side it depicts, and only recently rediscovered, "Fast One" by Paul Cain (one of the mystery men of American literature) explodes into real life with the story of one of the toughest characters ever to emerge in American fiction.

Paul Cain is the pseudonym of Peter Ruric, a man who emerged from nowhere in the 1930s, wrote "Fast One" and several short stories and movie scripts, and then disappeared. Nothing more has been heard of him. Gerry Kells, the antihero of his shocking, brutal novel, is equally mysterious. A loner with a reputation but without a visible past, Kells simply appears, re-arranges the lives of the Los Angeles underworld, and then is heard no more.

Only the strong prosper in the world of the depression. Seemingly amoral, Kells does prosper. He strikes to survive, kills without conscience, without time for conscience. But he never becomes a mere killing machine. His integrity, his humanity, abides in a code demanding that he pay for all services: those rendered for him, those rendered against him.

Fast paced and very readable, the novel limns a true character who should take his place in our national literature, if only for his representation of the individual will to survive in one of the toughest times in American life.

[Source: Goodreads website at www.goodreads.com/book/show/441818.Fast_One]

Wishing You All a Very Happy Holidays from Nevada City, CA by Foothills Rambler

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Here's wishing all of my Flickr Friends a memorable Holiday Season. I hope that you and your families are happy, peaceful, full of good health, and safe from harm. I'd also like you to know that I deeply appreciate and value every one of you and take great joy in both commenting on your wonderful photos and receiving your comments on mine.

At this time of the year I always try to reflect on what is important to me. I think Erma Bombeck said it well in her piece entitled "If I Had My Life to Live Over." It's included in the following link. Enjoy.

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My Year of Meats by DES Daughter

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A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love - by Ruth Ozeki

When documentary maker Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavoury truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. And the battle with 'big beef' will be on in earnest.

DES is incorporated into the plot, but appears more centrally at the novel’s end than at its beginning. My Year of Meats follows a bi-racial filmmaker named Jane as she makes a series of episodes for Japanese television about how American women prepare beef – Jane’s work is paid for and sponsored by BEEF-EX, a US-based meat lobby seeking to expand its market in Japan. Jane films a series of US families, each of them making a beef-based dinner. Along the way, Jane – who is a DES daughter – investigates the beef industry in the US, the use of DES in cattle feed, and the effects of DES on people exposed to DES in the food industry and agribusiness as well as in medicine.

Ruth Ozeki's much-loved debut novel, winner of the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, represents the entertaining face of ecological activism. My Year of Meats will delight fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver.

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33/365 : Chapter One by ♥GreenTea♥

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I'm currently reading The Ghost of Marlow House on the Kindle Paperwhite my husband gave me as a Christmas present. ^__^

It's nice having a light weight device for reading and plus I've been finding all sorts of ways to get ebooks at no cost. Either through amazon prime reading, using my amazon digital credits or checking out ebooks through the library; I haven't actually needed to pay for any of the ebooks I have read so far. ^__^

"T W I L I G H T" - Just A Street Shot, Lucknow by anandamoy chatterji

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“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”

― Anne Wilson Schaef

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Incense Smoke 1 by Julia Grace Arts

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One ball of coffee icecream and a goodread. Bliss.

Eine Kugel Kaffeeeis und ein gutes Buch. Herrlich.

2022 - Vancouver - The West End Sex Workers Memorial by Ted McGrath

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The West End Sex Workers Memorial sits outside of Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Anglican Church on Jervis at Pendrell.

The memorial, dedicated 16 September 2016, consists of a retro lamp post with a red bulb on top.

The memorial honours sex workers who frequented West End streets until the early 1980s, when they were driven out by city hall, police and the provincial government.

The early 1980s marked the full-fledged anti-prostitution crusade to purge sex workers from the West End.

Critics say the displacement of the sex trade, first from their apartments to the streets and alleys, and then out of the West End altogether, forced them into the unsafe conditions that eventually made them easy prey.

Many ended up in Vancour's notorious Downtown Eastside were many ended up dead - think serial killer Robert Pickton and others.

The city paid for the memorial, a cost that Coun. Andrea Reimer said was equal to the $28,000 in fines collected from sex workers through a 1982 city anti-hooker bylaw that was later deemed unconstitutional.

If one was interested in more about the sex trade in Vancouver's West End, here is a short book to read.

Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

by Aaron Chapman.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/58991331-vancouver-vice

Bonita Store (1898), 1 mi. NW of jct. of AZ 266 & Arizona Industrial School Rd, Bonita, Arizona, USA by Steve Minor

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Bonita, AZ (unincorporated, pop. 1,872)

• one-story adobe structure on a cobblestone foundation [1898 photo] [1982 photo] • last vestige of the 19th c. town of Fort Grant, Arizona Territory (A.T.), site of Billy the Kid's first kill • built by Danish immigrant Andrew M. "Andy" Johnson (1860-1917) & British-born Henry F. "Barney" Knowler (c. 1863-1906) • both had served together as soldiers at the nearby military post

Camp Grant

• Camp Grant, aka Fort Grant, was established at the foot of Mt. Graham in 1872 • it replaced the original "Old" (1860) Camp Grant, which once stood about 65 miles to the NW [photo], but was abandoned after the 1871 vigilante-led slaughter of Apache Indians known as the Camp Grant massacre • Apaches Tell Their Story • list of Indian Massacres

• the first troops arrived at "New" Camp Grant in 1873 [photo] • personnel included American Indian Scouts

"The bleakness of the natural environment was more than matched by the drudging monotony of the life and work at the fort and the bad relationships between the officers and enlisted men." —Pvt. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, ERBzine

• quartered 35 mi. from the nearest town & provided with necessities only, Fort Grant troops lived a spartan life, with one exception: evidence suggests that alcoholic drinks were sold at the installation's Norton & Stewart store after it took over the operation of the fort's sutlers store • still, to satisfy demand for goods & experiences unavailable at the post, a civilian community unofficially known as Camp Grant (later Fort Grant) began to take root

Bonita

• c. 1876, enterprises such as Atkins' cantina & "hog ranch" (bordello), & Cahill's blacksmith shop were established beside or in some instances on the post, as was the Hotel de Luna [photo], basically a restaurant with bunks • nearby, McDowell's general store, [map], occupied the site on which the Bonita Store now stands

• one of the town's first entrepreneurs, saloonkeeper George Warren Atkins (1846-1888), was a Confederate veteran who moved to the area in 1876 • strapping Irish immigrant Francis P. (Frank) "Windy" Cahill (c. 1845-1877), an ex-infantryman who had served at the old Camp Grant, opened a smithy nearby

• Boston-born John H. Norton (1846-1911), owner of several Arizona businesses & founder of nearby Willcox, AZ, opened his first store at Camp Grant • another still stands in Willcox [photo]

• Canadian Miles Leslie Wood (1848-1930) owned the Hotel de Luna (1876) • he variously served as the town's justice of the peace, constable & sheriff • having arrived at Tucson in 1869, he is considered Arizona Territory's sixteenth settler • worked as a butcher at the old Camp Grant • moved to the new military post c. 1875 • a year later, "Adobe Tom" Varley (1854-1925) built his hotel

• the waiter at the Hotel de Luna restaurant was Caleb Baines Martin (1848-1926), a former slave from Natchez, MS • arrived at Camp Grant with the cavalry, 1870 • by 1887 he was a successful rancher • his Martin Wells Ranch grew to 640 acres with 300 head of cattle • the family produced 3 Generations of Black Cowboys • in 1991, grandson Caleb Banks Martin (1909-1992) was inducted into the Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame • Jesse Martin Washington • The Caleb Banks Martin Family

• Ohio-born merchant Milton McDowell (1841- post-1883), arrived at the settlement & by 1874 was justice of the peace • that year he opened a mercantile & brewery at the site of the present Bonita Store [1876 newspaper ad] • another establishment patronized by the troops was Lou Elliott's dancehall & a brothel run by George McKittrick, who doubled as deputy sheriff

• the settlement's population grew to ~1,000 • c. 1879 it was officially designated "Fort Grant" & c. 1884 renamed "Bonita," perhaps after the nearby Sierra Bonita Ranch, the town's social center

"Bonita was a gun-shooting, whisky-drinking, hell-raising town with a dozen saloons, gambling joints and a red light district." —Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), 14 Dec, 1966

• all enlisted men at the post were paid $13 once a month (in 1864 black soldiers had demanded and won equal pay from the Union Army) • each payday the town's population spiked as soldiers packed its venues, joined by an influx of gamblers, hangers-on & prostitutes who rotated in from Tombstone and Tucson • locals who were usually just occasional patrons would save up to join the payday debauchery —Did you know what Fort Grant Dragged in with it, part one, by Danny Haralson, Eastern Arizona Courier

Henry Antrim arrives

• 17 year old Henry Antrim, alias "Kid," arrived at Camp Grant in 1876 having never killed a fellow man • by the time he moved on to New Mexico he was well on his way to becoming Billy the Kid, the storied gunslinger who rode with the Lincoln County Regulators [photo]

“...as fine looking a lad as ever I met. He was a lady’s man and the Mexican girls were all crazy about him. He spoke Spanish quite well." —Frank Coe (1851–1931) [photo], one of the Kid's best friends & a fellow Regulator during the Lincoln County War... more…

"…he weighed about 125 pounds and was five feet seven inches tall, and as straight as an arrow. The Kid had beautiful hazel eyes. Those eyes so quick and piercing were what saved his life many a time." —Frank Coe

"He… had very small hands and feet. His two front teeth were large and protruded. He was a nice and polite chap. —Dr. M. G. Paden Lincoln County resident

"He was not handsome, but he had a certain sort of boyish good looks. He was always smiling and good-natured and very polite and danced remarkably well ...." —Paulina Maxwell [photo], supposedly the Kid's sweetheart —Arizona Highways, August 1991 • [photos] of Lincoln County War participants

A killing at Milton McDowell's

• in 1874, Scottish-born John R. Mackie (or Macky) — a 24 year old 6th Cavalry private who would soon be Kid's partner — shot T.R. Knox in the neck during a card game dispute at McDowell's • Mackie & McDowell were charged with attempted murder, the latter as an accessory • both were released after the shooting was ruled self defense on the grounds that Knox was a "muscular man" who acted in a "violent and riotous manner" against a person who was "no match for him"

Henry Antrim, horse thief

• the Kid briefly worked as a cook & bussed tables at the Hotel de Luna, before turning to theft with his accomplice, John Mackie…

"Soldiers would come from Fort Grant to visit the saloons and dance halls here. Billy [he was still Henry] and his chum Macky would steal the saddles and saddle blankets from the horses..." —Miles L. Wood, Justice of the Peace

"Wood recalled one occasion when two officers attempted to secure their mounts by running long picket ropes from the hitching rail outside to the bar inside. 'Macky talked to the officers,' said Wood, 'while Billy cut the ropes from the horses leaving the officers holding the pieces of rope.'" —Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life, Robert M. Utley

• a formal complaint accusing Antrim of horse theft was sent to Constable Wood by Camp Grant's Major Charles Compton

• Antrim & Mackie awaited breakfast at Wood's Hotel de Luna • as Wood approached their table with a serving tray, he suddenly pulled a gun from under it • arrested them for horse theft & delivered them to Fort Grant's stockade in shackles applied by Cahill, the blacksmith • Henry promptly escaped through the building's chimney —What Fort Grant dragged in with it, part two, Danny Haralson, Eastern Arizona Courier

Antrim's first kill

• on the evening of 17 Aug, 1877, Frank Cahill accosted Antrim at Atkins' cantina • eyewitness Augustus Montague "Gus" Gildea (1854-1935), an army scout, Texas Ranger and later an outlaw, recalled the encounter in a 1931 interview with a reporter for The Tucson Citizen:

"Billy the Kid… came to town, dressed like a country jake, with store pants on and clodhopper shoes instead of boots. He wore an old six-shooter in the waistband of his trousers…

"The blacksmith, Cahill, frequented George Atkins' saloon. He was called 'Windy' because he was always blowin' about first one thing and then another. Shortly after the Kid came to Fort Grant, Windy started abusing him.

"He would throw Billy to the floor, ruffle his hair, slap his face and humiliate him before the men in the saloon. The Kid was slender, no match for the blacksmith, a burly man with a gruff voice and a blustering manner.

"One day he threw the youth to the floor. He pinned his arms down with his knees and started slapping his face…

"People in the saloon were watching the two on the floor. Billy's right arm was free from the elbow down. He started working his hand across and finally managed to get hold of his .45.

"All of a sudden it was absolutely silent in the saloon —not a sound. The blacksmith evidently felt the pistol muzzle rammed against his side for he straightened up. Then there was a hell of a noise and a lot of smoke. Windy fell over to one side as the Kid wiggled loose and ran to the door. He jumped into the saddle on John Murphy's racing pony and rode out of fort Grant.

"When I came into town the next day from Colonel Hooker's ranch where I was working, Murphy was storming around and cursing the Kid, calling him a horse thief, murderer and similar names. I told him he would get his horse back, that the Kid was no thief.

"In about a week one of Murphy's friends rode into town on Cashew, Murphey's horse, saying that the Kid had asked him to return the animal to its owner."

• Arizona Weekly Star, 23 August, 1877: "Frank P. Cahill was shot by Henry Antrim alias Kid at Camp Grant on the 17th, and died on the 18th. The following are the dying words of the deceased:

"I, Frank P. Cahill, being convinced that I am about to die, do make the following as my final statement: My name is Frank P. Cahill. I was born in the county and town of Galway, Ireland: yesterday, Aug. 17th, 1877, I had some trouble with Henry Antrim, otherwise known as Kid, during which he shot me. I had called him a pimp, and he called me a S____ of a b____, we then took hold of each other: I did not hit him, I think: saw him go for his pistol, and tried to get ahold of it, but could not and he shot me in the belly…"

• with Henry Antrim already on the run, the coroner's inquest declared him guilty of murder • Gus Guildea saw it differently: "He had no choice; he had to use his equalizer."

• on August 18 a "citizen," presumably Cahill, was buried in grave No. 12 at the Fort Grant Cemetery • the marker [photo] is absent legible identification —The Billy the Kid Reader, Fredrick Nolan

Roberts buys Bonita Store

• Milton McDowell sold his business & the original building on this site to British immigrant William Roberts (1845-1911), who years later (1889) relocated to accommodate not only his store & saloon, but also a hotel & a stage line

• Roberts' new location proved unpropitious for business • next door was a shabby establishment known as "The Hook," a “hog ranch” & dance house where "colored women of the most notorious character… hold high carnival, quite frequently resulting in the killing of one or more of the nation's defenders." — The St Johns Herald (St Johns, Arizona), 07 Aug, 1890

• a month before Roberts moved in, Camp Grant was abuzz over an incident at the "Hook" • in a dispute over a money game, Pvt. Horace Johnson, a Buffalo Soldier, slapped feisty courtesan Fannie Oliver & stormed off, then reappeared • Oliver, whose trail of arrests included assault & battery in New Orleans, vagrancy in Galveston & assault with a .45 in El Paso, pulled a pistol & shot Johnson dead • a few weeks later the saloon was set ablaze, allegedly by Johnson's comrades • Buffalo Soldiers of the American West • [photos]

• in 1890 Roberts and "Hook" owner James W. Cress (1856-1890), having already established a contentious relationship, argued over a fence Cress had erected • the dispute ended with Roberts — Bonita's Constable — chasing Cress & firing 3 shots into his back, although Roberts later claimed that Cress fled after his first shot & only the last two were back shots • this was just one of the six shootings in Bonita that day, three of them fatal • Roberts was found not guilty of murder —All about the ‘Hook’ by Danny Haralson, East Arizona Courier

• his business in a tailspin, Roberts sold off his holdings, made some investments & eventually became the honorable Judge William Roberts, Kirkland, A.T.

A race for $20,000,000

• a year after the Kid killed Windy Cahill in Atkins' cantina, George Atkins shot & killed 28 year old William Wade in what was ruled a justifiable act • business, already slow, got worse • in July 1879, Pima County sued his Atkins' Dance House at Fort Thomas for $37 in back taxes • by the end of the year, Atkins had closed down & moved on

• he settled in Tombstone Canyon at Bisbee, a young mining town founded in 1880 • built a home at Castle Rock [photos] beside the stone cabin of pioneer prospector George Warren (1835-1923) • invested in Tombstone & Bisbee mines • opened one of the four original saloons in the new town of Charleston

• on July 3, 1880 Warren, while drinking with Atkins in (presumably) his Charleston saloon, claimed he could outrun a man on a horse in a 100 yard race • he then proposed a wager: his stake in the rich Copper Queen Mine against Atkins' saddle horse & mining claims • challenge accepted

• in front of a small crowd, Warren drove a stake into the ground at 50 yards (46 m), counting on gaining enough ground to win while rounding it, just as he'd witnessed as a 10 year old watching the man vs. horse races of his Apache captors

• at the sound of a gunshot they were off • Warren did gain the lead on the turn but Atkins, fiercely spurring his mount, blew past him • victorious, the former Camp Grant saloonkeeper sold his share of the Copper Queen for US $250K, estimated to be worth about US $20MM in 2016 dollars —A Footrace to Obscurity, Tom Rizzo

• the following year, Atkins signed an oath accusing Warren of insanity • after a hearing, Warren was declared insane & placed in confinement, but later discharged

• George W. Atkins died, age 43, at Tombstone & was buried in Boothill Graveyard

• George Warren died penniless & was buried in a pauper's grave • his body was later moved to a prominent place in the cemetery where a monument was erected honoring him as a Bisbee pioneer • his image appears on the Arizona State seal [photos]

McDowell moves on

• his Camp Grant store sold, by July, 1879 Milton McDowell opened a mercantile in the new town of Charleston • partnered with with A.T. Gattrell (1844-1925), a man who would soon parlay his "meanest saloonkeeper in Charleston" reputation into a judgeship • McDowell was also a principal in the Smith-McDowell Brewery, a partner in Brook's Saloon & Charleston's deputy sheriff • he married in 1882

Massachusetts-born Amos Wells Stowe (1828-1883) had claimed the 160 acres used to develop Charleston in 1878 & laid out a twenty-six block grid w/sixteen lots per block • He offered free 3 yr land leases that required the purchaser to invest at least $100 in improvements • at the end of the lease, the purchaser was to pay Stowe the price of the lot with the improvements —Wikipedia

• by May 1879, approximately 40 buildings, most adobe, had been erected • many residents worked at Millville, on the opposite bank of the San Pedro River • population peaked at ~425 —photos, Wyatt Earp Explorers

"They didn't begin their day down there till dark, and then they whooped it up. Election days were the richest of all. The townspeople never pretended to come out of their holes to vote. The Cowboys, hundreds of them, would come in on their Sunday horses, tank up and then proceed to capture the ballot box and stuff it as they please." — John Dunbar, editor of the Phoenix Gazette, Arizona's Rustler King, Wagons West Chronicles, Oct. 2016

• McDowell's mercantile had plenty of competition that included at least 4 Jewish store owners: Herman Wellisch, Harris Aaron, Sam Katzenstein, who was also Charleston's postmaster, & Tucson's Louis Zeckendorf • Aaron also partnered with Jack Schwartz in a saloon [photo] until Schwartz, aka Jacob "J.W." Swart, killed the asst. foreman of a mill & fled Charleston • Schwartz had purchased the saloon in 1881 from Frank Stilwell (1856-1882), who was killed the following year by Tombstone deputy marshal Wyatt Earp (1848-1929) • Blood on the Tracks… Wyatt Earp vs. Frank Stilwell, True West

• as deputy sheriff, Milton McDowell served papers that resulted in the garnisheeing of fellow Charlstonian George Ellis's wages • Ellis, an asst. foreman at a smelter, later responded by ambushing The deputy with a Winchester rifle: "...the ball striking McDowell just to the left of the backbone and angling to the right, passed out in front below the right shoulder." —Weekly Republican (Phoenix, Arizona), 7 Jun, 1883

• Ellis fled & McDowell survived, only to be arrested on a charge of insanity 2 months after he was shot • he was declared insane due to "hallucinations," i.e., falsely believing he was the owner of the Copper Queen Mine • he was then sent to the California State Insane Asylum at Stockton

• having suffered crippling financial losses, Stowe's Charleston townsite was sold for $1,000 a day before it was to be auctioned off on the Tucson Courthouse steps • after the 1887 Sonora Earthquake rendered all of its buildings uninhabitable, Charleston became a ghost town

Epilogue

"Today, apart from the Bonita store… a huge barn of a place with fifteen-foot-high ceilings, everyone of those buildings is gone…" —Frederick Nolan, The Billy the Kid Reader

• Bonita prospered for nearly three decades until Fort Grant was abandoned in 1905 • in 1910 the census confirmed that the prostitutes, dance houses & all save one of the mercantiles were gone, leaving the Bonita Store and the memory of Billy the Kid as the sole survivors of the town's heyday in the Old West

• Miles L. Wood purchased the Bonita Store, which was operated by his DuBois descendants for decades before it closed down

• Fort Grant is now an Arizona state prison • Facebook

• though a quiet town with a fraction of its former population, Bonita attracted national attention one last time in 1901 when local cattle rancher D.R. Thomas and his Black Movement to Central Africa petitioned the U.S. Congress to purchase land in Africa & populate it with black Americans, enabling them to build a free and independent government of their own

• in 2011, the Upham tintype of Billy the Kid — the only available image of him with sufficient provenance to be universally accepted as authentic — was purchased for $2.3MM by libertarian billionaire William Koch

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Monumental (Little Finland) by Jeff Clay

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Nevada | Gold Butte National Monument

Snicket Photograph by Serina Hartwell Author of The Hidden Saga - http://www.serinahartwell.com Goodreads Author - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8146251 Amazon - http://viewauthor.at/Serina_Hartwell Flickr - https://flic.kr/s/aHsk6An8TF by Serina Hartwell - Author

Lake Rotoma by tomraven

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"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing."

- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Photographic Memory: Bay of Plenty Series #1

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Easter 2023 gift idea for those who love to read! by John Russell

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My first award-winning book, "Riding with Ghosts, Angels, and the Spirits of the Dead," is available at most online booksellers, and will make a great Easter Gift for friends, family, and loved ones who love to read!

SILVER AWARD from the Nonfiction Book Awards (2021)

BRONZE MEDAL from the Readers' Favorite International Book Award Contest (2021) *

FIVE STAR REVIEW from Readers' Favorite (2020)

LONGLISTED for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards (2019) *

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High of 7/100 in Best Sellers (in category)

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Foreboding by tomraven

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"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art."

— Federico García Lorca

With the financial stormclouds gathering again I fear our much vaunted western civilisation is on the verge of a major shipwreck against the immovable cliffs of our unsustainable lifestyles and expensive foreign wars.

These are the cliffs between Anglesea and Bells Beach on Australia's Surf Coast... otherwise know as the Shipwreck Coast and home to many a shipwreck over the years.

Surfcoast Dreamscapes Series #3

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أحببت الآنترنت من آجلك انت فلآ تدعني اكرههَ

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Ring Arch by Jeff Clay

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Arches National Park

High & Dry by tomraven

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"Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky.

But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind."

— Barbara Kingsolver (High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never)

Another scene from the surreal and beautiful landscape of Dungeness. There is a remarkable and unique variety of wildlife living at Dungeness, with over 600 different types of plant (a third of all those found in Britain). It is one of the best places in Britain to find insects such as moths, bees and beetles, and spiders; many of these are very rare, some found nowhere else in Britain.

The flooded gravel pits, both brackish and fresh water, provide an important refuge for many migratory and coastal bird species. One of the most remarkable features of the site is an area known as 'the patch' or, by anglers, as 'the boil'. The waste hot water and sewage from the Dungeness nuclear power stations are pumped into the sea through two outfall pipes, enriching the biological productivity of the sea bed and attracting seabirds from miles around.

Dungeness Dreaming Series #5

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A Reading Challenge in 2018 (1/52) by Carol VanHook

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EVERY END HAS A START

Last year, funny to say that as last year was just two days ago, I completed a reading challenge in GoodReads of 100 books. I read adult novels and brand new books in children's literature for the year! I did reviews on these new children's lit in GoodReads and Pinterest, as well as a few featured in Twitter and Flickr. My goal is to do this again in 2018, hoping others might join me in this challenge. The end of last year's success is the beginning of this year's challenge!

Wonderstruck is on my bookshelf. I have read The Invention of Hugo Cabret and others by Brian Selznick! He is an incredible author / illustrator! I am looking forward to reading this soon!

Creation Story Mural (2018) by A.Davey

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Earl Davis

"This mural is a representation of our first ancestor Hahness and the birth place of our people, Saddle Mountain."

Shoalwater Bay Heritage Museum of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe, Tokeland, Washington.

"The tale of the origin of mankind, or rather of their tribe. The Chinook and Chehalis appear to have the same account that was related to me several times by different Indians,

but they did not agree together in detail. The substance of the tradition is this:

"Ages ago, an old man named Toolux ( or the South Wind), while traveling to the north, met an old woman, named Quoots-hooi, who was an ogress and a giantess. He asked her for food, when she gave him a net, telling him that she had nothing to eat, he must go and try to catch some fish. He accordingly dragged the net, and succeeded in catching a grampus, or as the Indians called it, 'a little whale.' He was about to cut the fish with his knife, when the old woman cried out to him to take a sharp shell, and not to cut the fish crossways, but to split it down the back. Without giving heed to what shesaid, he cut the fish across the side and was about to take off a piece of blubber, but the fish immediately changed into an immense bird, that when flying completely obscured the sun, and the noise made by its wings shook the earth. This bird, which they called the Hahness, then flew away to the north and lit on the top of the Saddleback Mountain, near

the Columbia River. Toolux and the old woman then journeyed north in search of Hahness, and one day, while Quoots-hooi was engaged in picking berries on the side of the mountain, she found the nest of the thunder-bird, full of eggs which she commencedbreaking and eating and from these mankind were produced.”

"The Thunder-bird came back, and finding its nest destroyed, returned to Toolux for redress; but neither of them ever after could find the ogress, although they regularly returned to the north every year.”

"It is probably this tradition which has caused their present superstitious beliefs that the first salmon caught must not be cut across, but must be split down the back, and then

split in thin flakes. If it should be cut contrary to their practice, then all the salmon will leave, and no more be taken that season. The same result would ensue if a salmon's heart

should be lost or eaten by a dog."

-quote from The Northwest Coast; or, Three Years at Shoalwater Bay, James G. Swan, 1857 page 203-204. (2)

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"In 1849 James Swan turned his back on his wife and two children, a prosperous ship-fitting business, and the polite and predictable world of commerce in Boston and fled to the newly opened gold fields in California. Soon sick of the bonanza society, he emigrated to a shallow harbor called Shoalwater Bay (now Willapa Bay) north of the Columbia River in Washington Territory."

"Swan eagerly became a part of the frontier community, enjoying the company of both the white settlers and friendly Indians in the area. First published in 1857, his classic account of the western frontier remains fresh and timely for the modern reader. Swan saw himself as both an observer and participant in a barbaric invasion. His interest in the Indians and his acceptance of them as individuals of importance and integrity emerge clearly in a lively and informed narrative."

www.goodreads.com/book/show/281142.The_Northwest_Coast

"You may not remember the Time... (365/19, Jan. 19, 2021) by Irmeli Hasanen

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...you let me go first.

Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go.

Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up.

You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you:

Today, no matter what it takes,

we ride home together.”

― Brian Andreas, Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/together

Born today: Móricz Zsigmond by Nori (Nóra Mészöly)

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1942. Vintage photo, Budapest

Notable Hungarian author, Zsigmond Móricz

He was born on this day in 1879.

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La ley del espejo by Anita Vela Photography

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¡Hola! Os dejo con la reseña de La ley del espejo de Yoshinori Noguchi.

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The great gig in the sky- pink floyd. by NikkiNikNak1 ☾☀

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Moon. by NikkiNikNak1 ☾☀

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I took this picture then added the overlay of the branches. I really like how this picture came out! Looks sort of spooky and reminds me of halloween. :) One of my favorite pictures to be honest :)