Archive for May, 2009
Robert B. Parker: Not a bad Western writer for a crime novelist
As crime/private eye novelists go, Robert B. Parker of “Spenser” fame is not too bad of a Western writer, too.
If you are completely unfamiliar with the private-eye character Spenser of novel and television fame, you must be living in an alternate universe, or completely uninterested in detective fiction/crime novels. Tell me that isn’t true. I’m a major Spenser fan myself, and I’ve read just about all of Robert B. Parker’s novels, including the Sonny Randall crime novels, his first Phillip Marlow novel, and all but three of his “non-genre” novels. So, yes, I am a big fan.
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Lakota are proud people; honored to have known some of them
Most “white men” call them the Sioux, but their preferred cultural name is “Lakota.” The Lakota are a proud Native American people (and most of them prefer “Indian people” to “Native American”) who inhabit reservations mostly in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska. Their traditional ancestral lands are in those areas of the High Plains, with special feelings for the regions we know as the Black Hills and the Badlands of North and South Dakota.
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One of great captains in the Old West was Spaniard Juan Bautista de Anza
One of the greatest generals who ever walked the Old West may very well have been a Spaniard.
New Mexico’s Governor Juan Bautista de Anza was not only brave in battles during New Spain’s Indian wars, but also brokered a peace in New Mexico and Texas that lasted for a period of two decades. During this period of peaceful coexistence, Spaniards, Mexicans, Anglos, Comanches, Apaches, and many other groups intermingled freely, trading and prospering together.
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History of Old West means not just U.S. but Spain, Mexico
I was just reading something online that reminded me of something we lovers of the Old West often forget: Any history or discussion about “the Old West” means not just the United States, but must include a lot of Spanish and Mexican history.
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