Missive #528

Bent’s Fort was a landmark of the American frontier, a huge private fort on the upper Arkansas River in present southeastern Colorado. Established by the adventurers Charles and William Bent, it stood This is another good book about the history of the West in the United States. Lavendr has written a lot of them so I have many more to read. until 1849 as the center of the Indian trade of the central plains. David Lavender’s chronicle of these men and their part in the opening of the West has been conceded a place beside the works of Parkman and Prescott.

Trump included this in a recent Truth Social posting. ” He [Musk] even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States.” Apparently he has either forgot, or never knew, that the Republican Party was a third political party that did succeed. He accuses Musk of “going off the rails” while he has gone completely off the rails of his promise not to start any new wars. He has joined with Israel in the war against Iran which will cause some of his former supporters to move to the American Party. I’m afraid that his narcissism has overwhelmed his good sense.