Monthly Archives: May 2022

Memorial Day

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Mustang

Each year, the people of the United States set aside the last Monday in May to remember our fallen service members.  The observance is a recent addition to the federal calendar, however.  And how America’s various communities choose to observe … Continue reading →

Posted in CIVIL WAR, HISTORY, MILITARY | 12 Comments

An Act: To Provide for the Protection of Texas

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Mustang

According to some modern sociologists, Texas culture is among the major influences of American society today.  Even despite waves of immigrants (an amalgamation of Tejano, Anglo, Irish, Cajun, and African cultures) and the many tragedies impacting life in the Lone … Continue reading →

Posted in CIVIL WAR, FRONTIER, HISTORY, LONE STAR, NATIVES | 2 Comments

The Devil in John Marshall

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Mustang

Introduction There was nothing easy in the process of creating a new country called the United States, but if we endeavor to understand that process, then it becomes more likely that we will better understand how we’ve arrived at our … Continue reading →

Posted in COLONIAL PERIOD, HISTORY | 10 Comments

A Black Speck

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Mustang

A black speck appears against the sky, and it is plain that it moves.  … Another instant and man and horse burst past our excited faces and go winging away like the belated fragment of a storm.  —Mark Twain (Roughing … Continue reading →

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Hell’s Fury

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Mustang

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. —William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697)[1] Between 1960-63, the ABC Television Network hosted an entertaining crime drama called The Naked City.  The star … Continue reading →

Posted in CIVIL WAR, FRONTIER, HISTORY, THE LADIES | 8 Comments