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Offline Roger Kettle

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Just a great name.
« on: July 01, 2017, 10:45:41 PM »
The book I'm currently writing (which, I'm confident, will be available in 20-25 years) involves a fair amount of research into the history of the Old West. Honestly, it's going to be humorous but I will be covering some of the darker days of that period. I won't bore you with the details but one of the incidents I cover is the "Sand Creek Massacre"---a horrific, almost genocidal act in the Indian Wars. One of the guys involved was called Morse Coffin. Now that is just one great name.

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« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2017, 06:45:16 AM »
So where are you getting all the research materials for this?

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Re: Just a great name.
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2017, 09:21:09 AM »
Excellent name, but it's no Sandy Buttcheeks (who,by all accounts, indulges in his own Sand Creek Massacre whenever it gets too hot and he runs out of the cream).
I apologise, in advance.

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Re: Just a great name.
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2017, 09:28:08 AM »
So where are you getting all the research materials for this?
I have over 200 books about the Old West, in general, and Custer, in particular. And, yes, I've read them all.

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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2017, 04:18:10 PM »
I have over 200 books about the Old West, in general, and Custer, in particular. And, yes, I've read them all.

By this time next year there will be another bunch of historians who claim the complete opposite.

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« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2017, 04:44:54 PM »
 ;D
Yes, there are those of a dogmatic bent in most fields.

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Re: Just a great name.
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2017, 11:57:06 PM »
Excellent name, but it's no Sandy Buttcheeks (who,by all accounts, indulges in his own Sand Creek Massacre whenever it gets too hot and he runs out of the cream).

Such painful memories, Tarks.

But it was really the assault at my Horseshoe Bend that ended up causing the battle of Big Hole!

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« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2017, 10:29:01 AM »
Fewer details, please.