This is High Border Country — the northern tongue of Idaho, called generally the Panhandle; Montana, the third largest state in the Union; Wyoming, almost to its southern border; and Dakota, down into the region of its eastern boundary “high” both in the
sense that it is a country of high plains and high mountains and because it is the northern boundary of the United States.
This also is High Border Country; the fight of river men and mountain men up the wild Miz-zou-rye for beaver pelts during the 1810’s and ’20’s and century; big-money years on the plains in the 1910’s and ’20’s — for the wheat ranchers, the cattlemen, the sheepmen, for the copper barons in Butte, the silver barons in the Coeur d’Alènes, the lumber barons in the mountains; depression in the ’30’s, and the growth of the vast northern dust bowl; Fort Peck Dam today, the world’s greatest earthfill. — Book promo on dust cover
Reviews of High Border Country should be entrusted to novelists since it is one of many current books which are historically based, but in which the emphasis is upon the telling of a good story. The book is superb, rapidly moving description, generously sprinkled with potent adjectives and conversation which skillfully etch the portraits of he-men, and in some cases of he-women, who careen through a famous or an infamous career, usually to a sudden death with their boots on. The book is one of the best collections of tall tales of the northern high plains which have been produced. It is possible that it may give a new name to the upper Missouri country of Montana and portions of the adjoining Dakotas, Wyoming, and Idaho in which it has its setting. — A partial review from A Review Of Books
A good interview transcripts that discusses Trump’s bully tactics to control Panama, Greenland and Canada; maybe even Mexico.
Well, America can live isolated. I mean, America has the ability to become self-sufficient in absolutely everything, but that’s not enough for it. Being self-sufficient isn’t enough for the US. It wants to be able to gain all of the economic surpluses from the rest of the world. And that’s really what it’s had. It’s a colonialist country, not a military colonialist in Greenland or others, but an economic and financial colonialist. That’s what’s taking place. And this is considered something that you don’t talk about in polite company. And it needs to be taught. I’m sure that the BRICS countries in their meetings together, certainly the Chinese and the Russians are talking about it, but it’s not being talked about in the countries that are the most immediate targets of American foreign policy. And needless to say, these are the countries that are the friendliest to America.…
American policy lives in the short run. Financial policy lives in the short run. Trump will be out of office in four years. So will most politicians in the world. Politicians live in the short run. Diplomacy lives in the short run. And America feels that if it can smash up the world and make a grab bag that it can, in the short run— yes, it’ll interrupt American trade and finance too. But in the long run, America can be self-sufficient. Europe can’t. And Mexico can’t. And Canada can’t. — US Economic Colonialism On Notice by Michael Hudson