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    • The Overland Stage
      • The Holladay Overland Stage: 1 – The Central Route
      • The Overland Stage – 2 Company Operations
      • The Overland Stage – 3 Exploring The Route – An Overview
      • The Overland Stage: 4 – South Platte/Julesburg/Ft Sedgwick
        • Jack Slade
      • The Overland Stage: 5 – Julesburg to Junction Station (aka Ft Morgan)
      • The Overland Stage: 6 – Junction Station to Latham
      • The Overland Stage: 7 – Latham Crossing to Fort Collins
      • The Overland Stage: 8 – LaPorte to Virginia Dale
      • The Overland Stage: 9 – Virginia Dale to Cooper Creek
      • The Overland Stage: 10 – Cooper Creek to Pass Creek
        • Fletcher Family
      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
      • The Overland Stage: 12 – Bridger Pass to Duck Lake
      • The Overland Stage: 13 – Duck Lake to LaClede
      • The Overland Stage: 14 – LaClede to Almond
      • The Overland Stage: 15 – Almond to Rock Springs
      • The Overland Stage: 16 – Rock Springs to Fort Bridger
      • The Overland Stage: 17 – Fort Bridger to Weber Station

I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush … Gerard Van der Leun

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One can hope, one can do

The New American Digest Posted on February 16, 2025 by DTFebruary 16, 2025

Ghostsniper submitted this as a comment but it appears to be copyrighted material. I'll provide the (dead) link but it's best if I don't publish material not mine or any particular commenter's.

GOLDEN AGE THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE by EKO
Feb 15, 2025

eko dot substack dot com/p/golden-age

Sorry ghostsniper - I trashed the comment but I thought it was worth letting people know where to go to read it.

As what's-his-name says: New Rule
Please don't submit copyrighted material that you don't own. I'll post a dead link to the material though.
Thanks

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Overland Stage – Part 9 Virginia Dale to Cooper Creek

The New American Digest Posted on February 16, 2025 by DTFebruary 16, 2025

Part 9 - Virginia Dale to Cooper Creek is now live.

After heading north a mile or so out of Virginia Dale, the stage line crests a ridge and enters into Dakota Territory. The far side of the hill drops down into the Laramie Plains; a vast valley of fine grasslands with no "civilization". There is no city of Laramie, no Fort Sanders, no railroad - nothing excepting a small handful of stage stations, scattered groups of Indians from various tribes, and ever-present bandits. The stations are lined up in almost a straight NW line 45 miles to the far edge of the valley just beyond the Cooper Creek station.

Coming up next: Cooper Creek to Pass Creek

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Sunday Apostasies

The New American Digest Posted on February 16, 2025 by DTFebruary 16, 2025

To which I neither accept nor deny but which I present to simply stir the pot.

I see two possibilities - on the face of which, neither seems likely:
Mankind was "made" ... or mankind "just happened"

Could it be that "Eternal Life" is just another form of Hell?

The three religions of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Jews: It never happened
Christians: Yes it did
Muslims: Yes it did, but it was our guy, not yours

“History records the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each other’s throats because they couldn’t agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut.”

Christianity: 30% of world - 2.4 billion (about 1.4b Catholic)
Islam: 2 billion
Judaism: 15 million

non-religious: 1.4 billion

Matthew 12
[34] Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
[35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
[36] And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

I sometimes think all gods exist: they all sit in a cosmic tournament poker game, playing for souls.

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Rules

Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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    Art appreciation... a good and healthy activity. It's civilized. Here's a painter who's having a stellar existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kOlx6lXpEk

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    "...Having a record does not define you or your character...."I think that most of us knew that those school-day threats…

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    Any time I see images like these I am reminded of my Mom and her family. Thank you, DT.

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    Lost another one of the good guys. RIP the Z Man.


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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you

Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'

I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it


Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood at the edge of dawn.


From Gerard's site. The picture always caught my eye.

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