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That is good news and will look forward to it.

I must admit to having a quandry with Brown's book, especially to authenticity of it (guess it stems back to Dr. Iggers histiography class during graduate school days). Brown cites these wonderful and wise statements by all these Indian chiefs in a day when there were no recordings, etc., available and I wondered when I read his book, "who in the heck was writing all this down and how was it recorded."

So....that's my only beef about the book.

i read an article on this a few weeks ago. it said they only use the last two chapters as the book is way too broad. therefore they only cover the wounded knee part. it has been a long time since i have read the book as to the quote situation but who really knows what anybody really said without recordings. memories are funny things and we tend to make heroic quotes from our heroes.

"the film explores the United States' obsession with its manifest destiny, .."

I wonder if historians consider that "manifest destiny" has been revived?
Did it ever go away? Seems to be working now except there's new boundaries, like the Middle East.
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Amen Brother Lwood....amen.

As I recall, the Mountain Meadows Massacre involved pioneers from Arkansas and from Missouri.

You may be correct about the new boundaries for "Manifest Destiny." As originally beheld by many Americans for decades, of all the people who inhabited this planet, God had picked us out to be a 'chosen' people, a 'select' people, a 'people' and it was our destiney to control all of North America (some even said one tip of the American Eagle's wing should be over the North Pole and one tip over the South Pole) and it was our mission to bring the blessings of liberty and democracy to all people under our flag.

When a group of ministers visited with President McKinley in 1900, he explained to them his reasons for fighting in the Philippines to maintain American ownership instead of giving them their freedom by saying that God told him it would be dishonorable to let them go but America was to "christianize them, civilize them and to do the best we could towards them." Sounds a lot like today, does it not?

When we defeated Mexico in 1848, many Americans wanted us to take all of Mexico instead of half of it. We made several efforts in invading Canada to bring them under the blessings of the American flag. They resisited, of course, and we failed in showing them the true way. God always speaks to leaders, whether they are American, German, French, Russian or leaders in the Middle East.

Great, is it not?

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was believed to have been in revenge for the killing of top Mormon Parley P. Pratt 150 years ago the 13th of this month.

Fort Not-Mormon hosted a Parley P. Pratt Conference a few weeks ago......this thing is still big news if you are a Mormon or likes to study them.

Parley P. Pratt was released from jail in Van Buren after being acquitted in a wife stealing incident when a posse of decidedly Non-Mormons shot him down outside of VB.

His grave at Fine Springs is a sacred Mormon holy site. Fine Springs is north of the first bend in US 71 north of Alma. Click on my name for more on ole Parley.

Old Hector was a persistent dude, especially in a day when much travel was so difficult. What ever happened to him.

The article has a good bibliography. I always appreciate that.

dbi there were fanchers always in ft smith when i was growing up, are they related?

I've wondered the same thing zonker, but I don't have a clue.