By Old Hoppy Jan 31, 2009 in Old West Collectibles | 0 Comments
Civil War Currency, all Civil War currency not just Confederate currency, was treated with suspicion in the West from the time of the War right through the post-War era. Why? Probably because so many banks, Eastern and Western, went more than a little crazy with issuance of paper money, regardless of what federal Treasury and monetary policy was.
According to Foster-Harris in that wonderful book I’ve referenced here before — “The Look of the Old West” — “you’d better carry metal if you craved to buy anything” in the post-Civil War West. In the same source, Foster-Harris said there was little use in the West for currency or coin valued less than a quarter, known starting in 1871 up to the present as “two bits.”
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By Old Hoppy Jan 29, 2009 in Indians-Native Americans | 0 Comments
I live where winter just “kisses” the city most years, but I remember spending four winters on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota back when we were MUCH younger — and the one word that comes to mind is: “Brrrrrrrrrr”!!
I am not Lakota, or as most “anglos” call that ethnic group, “Sioux.” (Sioux was given to the three main branches of this ethic group by French explorers. They preferred the terms “Lakota,” “Dakota” and “Nakota.” The name “Lakota” seems to have become the preferred generic name for all three groups.) I lived on the Rosebud Reservation doing volunteer church work and making a living pumping gas at a local service station in Mission, South Dakota, the largest town and commercial center of the Rosebud.
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By Old Hoppy Jan 21, 2009 in Old West Collectibles | 0 Comments
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By Old Hoppy Jan 21, 2009 in Old West Collectibles | 0 Comments
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