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      • 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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Stand Your Ground

The New American Digest Posted on March 31, 2025 by DTMarch 31, 2025

Case settled today. Incident occurred last fall within a city. No word on what other issues Mr Y had to endure.

"The County Prosecuting Attorney issued the following statement: "This was an unfortunate and tragic event that resulted in the loss of a life, and I extend my sympathies to the family of Mr. X as they grieve. However, under Idaho law, individuals have an unequivocal right to defend themselves, their families, and their homes from violent attacks. Idaho’s self-defense and ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws are clear: when an individual is faced with an immediate and unlawful threat of serious bodily harm, they are legally justified in using force to protect themselves."

"The evidence in this case—including witness statements, forensic analysis, physical evidence, DNA evidence, and video footage—demonstrates that Mr. Y acted lawfully. He was violently attacked at his own home and responded with justified force. Idaho law presumes that a homeowner acting in defense of their habitation does so with reasonable fear of imminent peril, and my office will not second-guess the fundamental right of self-defense."

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Reporting Yesterday’s News Today!

The New American Digest Posted on March 31, 2025 by DTMarch 31, 2025

"The recent New York Times investigation into America’s “hidden role” in the Ukraine conflict has confirmed that the Pentagon played a key role in most of Kiev’s significant military operations against Russia."

That's been obvious to all since - what? 2016? Think Burisma: Biden, Pelosi, Kerry, Romney ... and who all else?

The surface of this fiasco has barely begun to get scratched. Russia "winning" this mess would certainly let some cats out of the bag, eh? Must be why so many want this war to continue.

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I don’t need no stinkin’ rules… do I?

The New American Digest Posted on March 31, 2025 by JeanMarch 31, 2025

it is my inclination,
when there is no stipulation,
to run amok
until I'm stuck
in full-blown consternation.

my half-wit trail blazing
can leave me more than crazing.
I huff and wheeze
and groan and squeeze,
stuck in mental constipating.

I'm planning propositions
based on learned intuitions.
one good deal
would grease the wheel,
and keep me out of institutions.

if someone did the laundry
that would lessen much the quandary,
to leave more time
to make more rhyme
and go back to being bawdry.

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O-o-o … The Colors

The New American Digest Posted on March 31, 2025 by DTMarch 31, 2025

Seems I was at this party some 50 years ago ...

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She stopped struggling…

The New American Digest Posted on March 30, 2025 by JeanMarch 29, 2025

First published on Sunday, April 12, 2009

He lifted her skirt.

"Oh my pretty girl." he whispered.
"You wore the garter belt I like so much."

He almost regretted killing her quite yet.

~

Married five years. They both wanted children.
Or, so he thought.

Her first mistake was leaving the birth control pills in her lingerie drawer. With a bracelet he'd never seen before.
People get careless when their deceit goes on too long.

That was six months ago and he'd been collecting evidence and plotting ever since. His original plan did not include killing.
He wanted to catch her in the act, beat the shit out of whichever prick was there and, spend some months making her life miserable.

In the end, though, the idea of long, drawn out drama was not appealing. Better to end it quickly and move on.

When his job necessitated traveling, he called her every morning and she called him every evening.
Turned out that schedule left her evenings free for other things.

When he saw this week's schedule had him working two separate projects, he decided it would be the best scenario for covering his tracks. He wasn't due to come home for two more days. That would explain why the vase of roses was still on the dresser with a card that said, "Can't wait to see you tomorrow. Love, Joe."
The dead, naked guy beside her on the bed was Sam.

Sam's neck was twisted in a most unnatural angle. As was hers.
No blood. No mess.
He reached up to close her eyes and pull her skirt down a bit.
He couldn't help but leave her, his wife, with a tiny bit of dignity.

Living in a heavily treed area with distant neighbors made it easy to hide his car and walk unnoticed to the house. With several hours of moonless dark still in the evening, he'd have no trouble going back the way he came. He'd be back at the hotel in plenty of time to make his morning call to her. And leave a loving message.

Perhaps Joe, the bouquet-guy, would be the one to find this scene. If not, he'd make another call tomorrow night, leave another message and then call her sister to ask if she'd seen his wife.
Either way, he would be the broken-hearted, grieving husband however he got the tragic news.

He walked to the bedroom doorway and looked back to say,
"It was fun while it lasted, wasn't it?"

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For jd

The New American Digest Posted on March 29, 2025 by DTMarch 29, 2025

It seemed you might be interested ...

The Tomb of St John, the Apostle

"last home of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ"
interior of the shrine
Entrance to the city of Ephesus from harbor
Apostle Paul walked on this path
He lived here for 3 ½ years
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Egret

The New American Digest Posted on March 29, 2025 by DTMarch 29, 2025

for Anne

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Ephesus

The New American Digest Posted on March 28, 2025 by DTMarch 28, 2025
Library of Celsus

Apostle Paul walked here. One of seven churches mentioned in Revelations. Gospel of John may have been written here; John's tomb is nearby. One of the great ancient cities of the world.

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Another thought—

The New American Digest Posted on March 27, 2025 by AnneMarch 27, 2025

I guess I should add this to "rules" ... but I've implied it:
-- I reserve the right to take comments which might get lost and turn them into posts.

I can still hear her words now— forty years later. They come in over my shoulder like a small wisp of fog. They caused a twist of fear to go through my gut back then, and they still do. 

She was so young then twelve or thirteen when she asked me: 
“Do you think it is ok for a woman researcher to steal a man’s research and claim it as her own work– my mom says it’s ok because women have been held back for so long.” 

When I look at all the cultural destruction and the waste and fraud that has been left behind for today’s president to clean up, and I remember how easily it was for the past two generations of female leadership to demand silent obedience. I hear those words again. It seems they became the guiding principle for every female seeking a position of authority ever since. 

It’s not so much that the ideals of fair play and equity they espoused were wrong—it is the lack of ethics with which they tried to enforce their brave new world. 

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Fly Geyser

The New American Digest Posted on March 27, 2025 by DTMarch 27, 2025

Formed when ranchers digging a well punched through a geothermal field in far north-western Nevada. The water was too hot and the well abandoned. A second well was dug and capped; the cap failed and this geyser was the result. The resulting thermal field now covers over 50 acres.

Once on the extremes of "middle-of-nowhere", the Burning Man people (from California, where else?), after ruining Black Rock Desert, poked their fingers into this property, bought it, and have "developed" it into a fee-based, limited-access nature walk.

This photo was taken several years before Burning Man was organized.

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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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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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