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The Road On Which We Came: A History of the Western Shoshone

by Steven J. Crum

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“Manifest Destiny, depicted in paintings as an angelic woman in a diaphanous white gown floating serenely, yet watchfully, over the immigrants heading west, was quite a bitch in reality. Anyone not under her wing and not part of the American vision was going to be trampled. Those outside the fold were manifestly destined to be nailed.”
― Gregory F. Michno, Depredation and Deceit: The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico

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“I don't know if Bando believed in an afterlife...so I don't know if I'll be seeing him again. But he have me a memory of peace and beauty..that I'll carry with me...as I walk the road to Hell.”
― jo duffy, Wolverine Classic, Vol. 5

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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Only an academic could state the obvious and pass it off as wisdom." -Moist Von Lipwig (T.P., Going Postal)”
― Terry Pratchett

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“Clay pushed his body off him and mumbled another apology - because, enemy or not, when you hit a man in the nuts with a magic hammer the least you could say was sorry.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

tags: apology, clay-cooper, hammer, sorry

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