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Archive for June, 2009

Boone’s Day; or, Not the Boone of Boone’s Farm

We have Daniel Boone’s ADHD to thank for the western two-thirds of the United States. June 7 is a day that lives in glorious Disney colors or one that lives in infamy, depending on whether you were not or were a Native American. 
On June 7, 1769, Daniel Boone crested a summit in the Appalachians and [...]

Dude!!

A Western definition:
Dude (dood) n.
Usually an Easterner, but it can be used to call anyone obviously unready for the West–such as if a person is wearing street shoes, too-fancy clothes, or unable to ride a horse or track game or make coffee in a tin can. A dude is usually mocked mercilessly (see The Virginian, [...]