Bowie’s Men Charge Mexican Supply Train at Grass Fight The brittle winter grass crunched beneath their boots as James Bowie’s cavalry pressed forward through the mesquite thickets. November 26, 1835, dawned cold and crisp near Alazan Creek, five miles southwest of San Antonio de Béxar. The glint of morning sunlight caught rifle barrels as forty…
Category: Historical Study
On This Day in History: 1963 – JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
60 Facts About the JFK Assassination 1. On Nov. 11, 1963, President Kennedy laid a Veterans Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. 2. He would be buried at the cemetery exactly two weeks later. 3. Jacqueline Kennedy rarely traveled with her husband on political trips but decided to fly with…
On This Day in History 1945: Nuremberg War Trials Begin
At the end of World War II in Europe, the victorious Allied powers created the first international court to try war criminals from Nazi Germany. Headquartered in the German city of Nuremberg, the first and most famous trials of the major war criminals were held between November 20, 1945 and October 1, 1946, with…
The Noticing
H/T Outlaw Josey Wales
The Scofield Bible: The Root of Christian Zionism in America
A few years after the publication of the Scofield Bible in 1909, the Federal Reserve Act was slipped into law in 1913. The Rothschild Central Banking Cabal family behind that draconian legislation also funded the creation of the Scofield Reference Bible, the most common Bible found in American Churches today. This Bible had passages rewritten…
The Guns of Faction: Part One
The Guns of Faction: Part One My 2019 novel, Faction, was recognized by many readers as having weapons which seemed at first glance exotic, but were, in fact, rather straightforward, off-the-shelf weapons with slight modifications to make them more useful in urban operations. Let’s examine them in this series, one by one. The criteria for…
When the Law Failed, Citizens Turned to Colts for Frontier Justice
When the Law Failed, Citizens Turned to Colts for Frontier Justice Minnesota lay many saddle hours away, so Frank and Jesse James, with the Younger boys and three others, traveled from Missouri by rail. They bought horses for the final leg – fine animals, new to Northfield on September 7, 1876. The men’s dusters…
The Legend Of Charley Askins by Skeeter Skelton
The Legend Of Charley Askins by Skeeter Skelton Shooting Times Magazine In The West Wing of a secluded, tile-roofed Spanish home in San Antonio, Texas is a room that is one of my favorite retreats. It’s a large room, carpeted with the rich hides of Polar and Kodiak bears and tigers. A long…
On This Day in History 1938: Orson Welles Reads ‘War of the Worlds’ over Radio causing Mass Panic
Panic Over War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds, the science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells telling of a space ship from Mars landing on Earth and causing panic, death and destruction, was published in 1897. On this day in 1938 actor Orson Welles allegedly caused real-life panic across America when he presented…
“Suffering is our Leverage”
Senate Democrats BLOCK Bill to Pay Troops and Essential Federal Workers Working Without Pay During the Shutdown These pieces of political monkey shit don’t seem to have a grasp on political history as it relates to what happens to corrupt Governments and politicians or the fact that there is a very large…