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10-06-2012, 01:24 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
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Washington DC has always been a favorite city to explore. Charleston, SC and the entire ACE Basin. The multitudes of old forts along the East Coast. Indian Mounds. Remnants of Sherman's march. Anywhere and anything to do with the Appalachians.
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10-06-2012, 01:31 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011 Location: West Virginia Posts: 1,339
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Originally Posted by Judy Ann  Washington DC has always been a favorite city to explore. Charleston, SC and the entire ACE Basin. The multitudes of old forts along the East Coast. Indian Mounds. Remnants of Sherman's march. Anywhere and anything to do with the Appalachians. | I like the Smithsonian and National Galleries, and the Lincoln Memorial, Otherwise, if I never have to go back in that hellhole, I'd be perfectly happy.
Sometimes I think that a 50 Megaton nuke during the State of the Union Address would be a great improvement....
Then I remember who the Vice President is....
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10-06-2012, 11:55 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: eastern idaho Posts: 527
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I really like the Bighole Natl monument in Montana, which is one of the significant battlefields from the Nez Perce war of 1877. Nearby is Bannock, a cool ghost town. I like ghost towns in general. Martin's Cove on the high plains of Wyoming is a site significant to the history of the Mormon migration, special to me since I had a number of ancestors who made that difficult trek. I also really enjoy the Pueblo Indian sites that PPine mentioned.
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10-07-2012, 11:08 AM
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#14 | | eyebp's mentor
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Texarkana, TX Posts: 138
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Asking what my favorite historical site is would be about like asking me who was my favorite child. Just about anywhere I go has some historical significance. I"m one of those that likes to stop at every historical marker along the way.
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10-07-2012, 12:07 PM
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#15 | | Forester
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Minden, NV Posts: 1,631
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Theo,
That is a good thought. I agree. Being retired, I now have the time to stop at all the little road side markers. One of my favorites is the gravesite of Juan Baptiste Charbonneau in eastern Oregon. He was the son of Sacajawea, adopted by Capt Clark and schooled in Europe, speakintg 7-8 languages. He was traveling across OR and contracted pneamonia and died in what is still the middle of nowhere. As a Lewis and Clark ophile, it was an amazing experience to visit his grave site with no one around.
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10-07-2012, 01:54 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Liberty, N.Y. Lower Catskill Mountains. Posts: 2,345
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Hi...
Thanks for the reminder about the Minisink Battlefield marker. The way that it's written, you can almost visualize where the Indians...under Chief Joseph Brandt...and the white settlers...fought it out there in the 1700s.
It might surprise some people to know that probably as many Indian wars were fought in the East as were fought in the West...!!
Maybe sometime the the film makers will start realizing that.
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10-07-2012, 02:30 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Idaho Posts: 3,805
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Originally Posted by Pathfinder1 Hi...
Thanks for the reminder about the Minisink Battlefield marker. The way that it's written, you can almost visualize where the Indians...under Chief Joseph Brandt...and the white settlers...fought it out there in the 1700s.
It might surprise some people to know that probably as many Indian wars were fought in the East as were fought in the West...!!
Maybe sometime the the film makers will start realizing that. | Most of the wars fought in the west were wars of extermination by the US Army. Film makers have glamourized the western wars but in reality, whenever it came to a full pitched battle, the Indians kicked a$$. Just ask Custer if you ever meet him. Most of the "real wars" was the cavalry wheeling cannons up and lobbing grapeshot onto the women and kids. (Sand Creek, Bear River Massacre, Sheepeater War, Big Hole Battlefield, [all the Nez Perce wanted was to be left alone and escape the slaughter] etc. etc.) Furthermore, a lot of white men dressed like indians wiped out a lot of wagon trains.
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10-07-2012, 02:51 PM
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#18 | | eyebp's mentor
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Texarkana, TX Posts: 138
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Originally Posted by Pathfinder1 Hi...
Thanks for the reminder about the Minisink Battlefield marker. The way that it's written, you can almost visualize where the Indians...under Chief Joseph Brandt...and the white settlers...fought it out there in the 1700s.
It might surprise some people to know that probably as many Indian wars were fought in the East as were fought in the West...!!
Maybe sometime the the film makers will start realizing that. | Just started re-reading Allan W. Eckert's "Winning of America" series.
this series cover events of the eastern frontier from the mid 1700's up through the early 1800's. Just as much history then as in the old west.
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10-07-2012, 03:28 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011 Location: West Virginia Posts: 1,339
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The Battle of the Fallen Timbers near Toledo is a pretty interesting site. It pretty well broke the hold of the Indians over the then "Northwest".
Eckert's "That Dark and Bloody River" is a good account of the figting for the Ohio Valley.
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10-07-2012, 06:46 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Liberty, N.Y. Lower Catskill Mountains. Posts: 2,345
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Hi...
I remember reading about Custer's refusal to take the three gatling guns which were available to him.
If so, his vanity really got a hold of him that time...!!
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