By Old Hoppy May 28, 2009 in Western Writers | 0 Comments
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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By Old Hoppy May 20, 2009 in Indians-Native Americans | 0 Comments
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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By Old Hoppy May 16, 2009 in Indians-Native Americans, Mexican history, Old West History | 0 Comments
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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By Old Hoppy May 16, 2009 in Old West History | 0 Comments
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.
Indeed, we “Anglos” are so ethnocentric that we sometimes forget the founding of Jamestown by “white” Europeans in 1607 was preceded by a town founded somewhere on Georgia’s Sapelo Island in 1526 by the Spanish explorer Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon. Why, shoot, various Spanish and Portuguese explorers and fishermen beat “us” to America by 100 years.
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By May 14, 2009 in Old West Collectibles | 0 Comments
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By Old Hoppy May 14, 2009 in Old West Collectibles | 0 Comments
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By Old Hoppy May 5, 2009 in Old West Collectibles | 0 Comments
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