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Published: 2019-04-09 04:04:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 617; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 20
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Rose has a number of interesting items from her family heritage. For example, she has this photo dating from the 1870's. One of her ancestors is standing in front of her dogtrot cabin, resolutely holding her rifle close at hand. The family resemblance is striking!
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This is nice.
These old photos are always interesting.
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Probably a huge event in her life to have a photo taken! Thanks!!
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Hopefully not! It's hard to know exactly when this photo was taken but the RED RIVER WAR of 1874-75 pretty much cleaned up the Comanche problem in Texas. Besides, since this is Rose's great-something grandmother, we know she lived to raise a family!
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The west could be pretty wild in those days; also, the nearest grocery store could be quite some distance away and as likely as not their meat supply was still 'on the hoof' and not inclined to come to would-be predators willingly!
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Not to mention Indians, although that was pretty well solved by the 1870's in Texas.
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Another reason I once heard mentioned why the west was wild was former federals and confederates moving west, getting mixed together and 'fighting the Civil War' all over again.
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Further north, a great many veterans with nowhere to go and nothing to go home to went to work building the transcontinental railroad. It's been said that they were instrumental in pushing the tracks east to west. They were accustomed to working in teams or units, with a "sergeant" in charge, and endured harsh conditions without much complaint. They worked hard and played hard in the hell-towns that followed the end of track.
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Land of the free, BECAUSE of the brave!
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Huh. I wonder if she had blue hair and all that? Not that you can tell with the kind of photos they'd have the means to take in that time, but yeah.
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Ask Matthew Brady!
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_B…
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Oh, right! Hadn't occurred to me that there was more than one Matthew Brady for some reason
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That's OK. I wasn't familiar with the OTHER one!
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