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  • Articles
    • 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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Out In The Great Basin

The New American Digest Posted on January 12, 2025 by DTJanuary 12, 2025
Occasionally the herds will gather in the remote valleys and they seem thick as buffalo.
They spook easy though - then nothing left but a cloud of dust hanging in the air.
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Escape!

The New American Digest Posted on January 11, 2025 by DTJanuary 11, 2025
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Out And About

The New American Digest Posted on January 10, 2025 by DTJanuary 10, 2025

For where it is, this is an improved road. My kind of country.

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Canadian Fruit Market

The New American Digest Posted on January 9, 2025 by DTJanuary 9, 2025
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Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

The New American Digest Posted on January 8, 2025 by DTJanuary 8, 2025

Oh, the joys of site administration ... :)
"Requested mail action aborted, mailbox not found"

I really shouldn't complain about fake email addresses 'cause I do it myself sometimes.

However - just to let you know - sometimes I'd like to ask some of the readers here if I have permission to turn some of their comments into posts. I'd prefer not to do that in open forum; I make such requests through the site email service.

In any case, if this did turn into a subscription site (to block hackers and trolls) like Gerard implemented in the later days of American Digest, a legit email address would be necessary for confirmation - especially if a subscription fee became necessary.

Your choice though - but this is supposed to be a community site.

Comments, please.

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Now, Now Folks

The New American Digest Posted on January 8, 2025 by DTJanuary 8, 2025

Re: Some earlier comments on an earlier post.

I don’t know who’s wrong or right and won’t take sides other than ghostsniper is a regular. I'm not sure who Clementine is but he/she/it is also welcome here.

Point being, I really don’t want this site to turn into a platform for pissing matches.
I have a hard enough time being "nice" myself.

I get enough nastiness reading the news and this site is intended to help me - and all of you - maybe escape all that.

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Silversmith

The New American Digest Posted on January 8, 2025 by DTJanuary 8, 2025
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The People

The New American Digest Posted on January 7, 2025 by DTJanuary 7, 2025

Of course, most revolutionists do not ... really ... want change. They simply want to sit in the driver's seat.

But does he not claim to be acting for the people?

The people is an abstraction. It is one of those general terms that has no meaning in fact. For "the people" is in reality many peoples, with many interests, many possibilities. It is always interesting to me that none of these persons who claim to act for the people have ever consulted the people themselves.

Louis L'Amour - Rivers West

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I Understand Y’All Have Run Into A Bit Of January

The New American Digest Posted on January 6, 2025 by DTJanuary 6, 2025

Be careful out there now ...

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January 6 – Insurrection Day

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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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The New Neo
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The Feral Irishman

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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