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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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Ruby Ridge

The New American Digest Posted on August 21, 2026 by DTAugust 3, 2026

Just to remind you that your government will entice you to break a law then shoot your family, friends, and pets for doing so.

... and blame it all on white supremacists.

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Back

The New American Digest Posted on August 19, 2026 by DTAugust 19, 2026

Safe and sound - but not recovered yet.

Later. Few more days. Let the tire hum fade away.
Anyone ever notice the line stripes are Morse for the letter "K"? At least in whatever state I was in ...

Weekend. Still working on canned NAD.

Thanks for the submissions. Several came in while I was on the road; I will get to them.
Not tonight.
:)

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Butterfly On Weed

The New American Digest Posted on August 19, 2026 by DTJuly 29, 2026
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Tunesday: Dwight Yoakam – Thousand Miles From Nowhere

The New American Digest Posted on August 18, 2026 by DTAugust 5, 2026

A sample of some obscure - and maybe not obscure - tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.

Today's selection: Dwight Yoakam - "Thousand Miles From Nowhere" 1993

Song peaked at #2 on Billboard charts.

Dwight Yoakam born 1956 in Pikeville, KY - deep down in the coal country. I believe he's famous.

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jd Suggests …

The New American Digest Posted on August 15, 2026 by DTJuly 29, 2026

... this article at A Midwestern Doctor regarding the benefits of DMSO therapy

BurningPlatform Headline:
"From Sharper Night Vision to Curing Lifelong Blindness — How DMSO Heals Each Level of Vision Loss"

DMSO (Dimethyl Sulfoxide ~$8/oz OTC)
Interesting that "Low Oder" is specified.

jd highly praises "A Midwestern Doctor" as a regular read.

I recall hearing about DMSO in the late 70s - I believe legality-to-purchase was the issue. As I understand it (and worth every penny you paid for my opinion), DMSO is actually a carrier - absorbed through the skin, it carries the desired medication directly to the location needed. That was long ago but luckily my memory is still as sharp as a baseball

As jd suggests:
"That’s why I’m sending to you. Look into it, for your own sake. You must have something physically wrong somewhere. Then do with it what you like."

Worth looking into ...

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Brown-Eyed Susans

The New American Digest Posted on August 14, 2026 by DTJuly 24, 2026
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Michigan Dawn

The New American Digest Posted on August 12, 2026 by DTJuly 24, 2026

The morning after ...

It may be that I'm "camping" right about here as you read this. Probably not - but maybe ...
First time back in these parts in at least a decade.

I grew up in lake country ... or maybe it was better described as patches of high ground in a big swamp. Warm ice filled depressions left behind after Global Warming melted all the glaciers hereabouts.

This was one of those lakes. Lots of them around here.
Had a name but who knew it? Who cared? It was the place ...
"... out where the road tees off by Grass Lake. Turn right, take the next left - about ½ mile down on the right"

One of the places where the ghosts of my past make themselves known. Parties on the "beach" - beach being where the undergrowth along the shore had been trampled down to sand. Someone may have brought a keg. Or two. Someone's field got raided again for fresh sweet corn. Hand-rolled somethings by the campfire - bottle being passed around. Maybe a game of poker played on a stump. Skinny-dipping in the midnight waters.

Giggles in the night.

Must have built immunity up from the mosquitoes ...

Then it was getting light again ...

17 was a good age ...

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Tunesday: Detroit City

The New American Digest Posted on August 11, 2026 by DTJuly 19, 2026

A sample of some obscure - and maybe not obscure - tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.

Today's medley selection: Bobby Bare (1963) & Tom Jones (1967) - "Detroit City"

Bobby Bare
Tom Jones

What if home is Detroit City?
What if I'm actually in Detroit City as you listen to this?

Back home by next week - God willin' and the crik don't rise ...

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Canola Fields

The New American Digest Posted on August 10, 2026 by DTJune 25, 2026

The Palouse - SE Washington

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Haiku for you…

The New American Digest Posted on August 9, 2026 by DTAugust 3, 2026

published by Jean July 9, 2026

summer swelter is 
heavy on the leaves, almost
as if raindrops fell.

sweet peonies fill
my eyes with beautiful pink 
feathers of petals.

the sun is shining
somewhere every day. Be glad
when it blesses you.

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

“This is the day which the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it”
Psalm 118:24


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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