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Title: Time Machine
Post by: Henry4440 on September 02, 2008, 01:54:55 PM
Let's say you have an opportunity to go back in time and have one day. The machine can access only the years between 1861 and 1886. You can observe, but you cannot be seen and be harmed.
What  year and event would you chose?

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engine!
 ;)
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Tensleep on September 02, 2008, 04:37:57 PM
Probably one of the great Indian battles of the 70s.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 02, 2008, 04:52:24 PM
The Gun fight at the OK Corral.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Arcey on September 02, 2008, 05:36:06 PM
Any day, anywhere as long as it’s about fifty degrees with a steady drizzle…..
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 02, 2008, 05:53:46 PM
Dream on Cowboy!
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Scattered Thumbs on September 04, 2008, 10:34:50 AM
Finally going to find out how it really went down in LBH  ::)
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Arcey on September 04, 2008, 11:16:53 AM
Custer lost…….
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Scattered Thumbs on September 04, 2008, 11:34:02 AM
Custer lost…….

That much I know.

I wanted to know if it was on the first or the second half.  ;D
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Arcey on September 04, 2008, 11:45:14 AM
Ya could see it comin’ in the first quarter. At half time, even the commentators were gettin’ it right. Fourth quarter they were just goin’ thru the motions. Didn’t even use their time outs after the two minute warnin’.  No use in it.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 04, 2008, 12:28:09 PM
The odds makers had Custer at a Million to one odds.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Arcey on September 04, 2008, 12:40:49 PM
Yeah ‘n I took Custer ‘n the points. Shouldah known better when ‘e didn’t take the Gatlins. Live, lose yer money ‘n learn…..
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Leo Tanner on September 04, 2008, 12:44:31 PM
I heard Jimmy the Greek's great granpappy was there.  He called it right off the bat.


Leo
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 04, 2008, 05:05:16 PM
Arcey, You got $13,000 Dollars You ain't usin'?  I found a bargain in a fine lookin' Gatling gun.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Arcey on September 04, 2008, 05:14:01 PM
Naw, that’s what I had ta pay the feds for the honor of keepin’ a l’il profit from sellin’ the condo. Roughly 15%. Obama will make it fair fer the peeples. He wants ta raise it ta 25%.

Shame on me wantin’ ta keep what I earned. Selfish, selfish, selfish. Greedy, greedy, greedy.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Forty Rod on September 04, 2008, 08:52:16 PM
Promontory Point, Utah Territory
May 10, 1869

After the ceremonies I'd ride over to Brigham City and see if I could find my great, great grandfather and his families.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 05, 2008, 12:23:15 AM
Arcey,  Shame on you!
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Scattered Thumbs on September 05, 2008, 02:52:38 AM
Ya could see it comin’ in the first quarter. At half time, even the commentators were gettin’ it right. Fourth quarter they were just goin’ thru the motions. Didn’t even use their time outs after the two minute warnin’.  No use in it.

Thanks.

Didn't know you was there.  ;D
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 05, 2008, 06:53:12 AM
Arcey and I watched on Pay Per View on the Dish Network.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Arcey on September 05, 2008, 07:02:48 AM
Yeah. Picked that’n the last opportunity someone offered time machine rides.

It was real nice. Up o’er the gang fight in one them three sided UFO thingys. The Grays were fantastic hosts. Kept the ice cold beer, chips ‘n salsa comin’ ‘n, oh man, that steak  Best I ever had. Ya might say the salad was outtah this world.

‘N them l’il android girls with the micro skirts. Hehehehehe. Best say namore……..
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 05, 2008, 09:14:14 AM
Definitely a night to remember!
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Arcey on September 05, 2008, 09:28:52 AM
Just stick ta the Pay per View story ‘n we’ll be in good shape, mi amigo.

Damned if I didn’t get wore out. Wish they’d run me back to when I was 25……
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: litl rooster on September 05, 2008, 10:28:36 AM
Just stick ta the Pay per View story ‘n we’ll be in good shape, mi amigo.

Damned if I didn’t get wore out. Wish they’d run me back to when I was 25……



don't we all....


So is it true did Custer really wear Arrow Shirts?
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Lucky Irish Tom on September 05, 2008, 10:29:43 AM
Damned if I didn’t get wore out. Wish they’d run me back to when I was 25……

I'm not sure I could live through all that again!
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Arcey on September 05, 2008, 11:39:14 AM
Sure love ta try.

If it were me y’all’d never wipe the grin off my face or get the coffin closed.
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Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 05, 2008, 11:44:25 AM
Party Hats for everyone!
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Post by: Leo Tanner on September 05, 2008, 12:58:21 PM
I took the bargain tour >:( 
They fed us some stuff called soilent green or somethin like that.  Not too bad, but definately weren't the delux treatment you guys got.


Leo
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 05, 2008, 01:47:03 PM
Like Arcey said, That's my story and I'm stickin' to IT!
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Delmonico on September 05, 2008, 06:42:13 PM
As a person who has studied LBH battle, I come off with a different take than most, I think he could have won and won big time, but a lot of stupid little things went wrong. :)  His run around to the north some think were to capture the wimmin and children leavin' the camp, would have stopped it pretty short.

The gatlin' guns would have saved his butt, by the time he got them drug over that rough country with the worn out horses they used for them, there would have been nuthin' there for him to capture but some horse poop and Indian poop, the Indians said they were gonna break the camp up the next day.  Durn heavy cumbersome things were good for a fixed defense, not rough Montana hills and a Cav charge.

BTW the ones in use were the older models in 58 rimfire and had a very short range and jammed bad.


Myself I would have liked to be taken back to June 26-28 on the South Canadian in the Texas Panhandle and see The Second Battle of Adobe Wall, Billy Dixon, Jim Hannrahan, Bat Masterson and the other guys.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Leo Tanner on September 05, 2008, 07:24:30 PM
There was a program on a while back wherein they studied the battlefield with a fine tooth comb. 
     These guys determined it was a matter of tactics.  The soldiers would dismount and stand their ground to fight an the indians fought from horse back.  What they described based on the evidence made sense, but they didn't have no time machine.


Leo
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Delmonico on September 05, 2008, 07:46:02 PM
There was a program on a while back wherein they studied the battlefield with a fine tooth comb. 
     These guys determined it was a matter of tactics.  The soldiers would dismount and stand their ground to fight an the indians fought from horse back.  What they described based on the evidence made sense, but they didn't have no time machine.


Leo

Can't think of his first name, Fox is the last, has wrote a couple books, got a few problems with some of his comments, but I think he's closer than most on what happened.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 06, 2008, 01:05:08 AM
Del, You brought up something I know a little about. The site is on private property on a ranch near Spearman, Texas. That's only about an hour and a half from my hometown. I was at the site one time, must have been about 69. There's not much left but a Historical Marker which talks about the battle and Billy Dixon's long shot.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Delmonico on September 06, 2008, 09:17:22 AM
Del, You brought up something I know a little about. The site is on private property on a ranch near Spearman, Texas. That's only about an hour and a half from my hometown. I was at the site one time, must have been about 69. There's not much left but a Historical Marker which talks about the battle and Billy Dixon's long shot.

That battle has always fasinated me, since I have a lot of interest in the hide hunters.

What most don't know, Dixon made the real long shot that afternoon, but in the mornin' he made another at around 800 yards.  BTW on the long shot Dixon had three targets on horses, he called the center one before he shot.  Accounts from the Indians said it was a glancin' shot to the side of the head, did not break the skin, poor fella died three days later.  A modern ER could have relived the pressure to the brain most likely and saved him.
Title: Re: Time Machine
Post by: Texas Lawdog on September 06, 2008, 02:53:44 PM
Del, I will try and get some pictures up there if I ever get back up there.