Let's find Nate's rifle. He made the same mistake many (all?) of us have made and is now trying, against long odds, to redeem things.

(A nod to Tam)

Trevanian Had the Words for It

The Dismality Index around here is setting records. Color it gray, wet it down, fire up the fog machine.

In "The Main," which all should read, Trevanian's Montreal street cop called it "pig weather," and I've never happened across a better term.

Hubris in Red Cloud's War

A knoll just beyond Lodge Pole Ridge where 79 American soldiers died with their ball-enhanced, judgement-deprived Captain William Fetterman. On Dec. 21, 1866, the entire command was suckered into ambush and wiped out by Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors of Red Cloud and Roman Nose near Fort Phil Kearny on the Bozeman Trail in northern Wyoming.

Fetterman had earlier bragged that with 80 cavalrymen he could "ride through the entire Sioux nation."

September, 2009

Altitudes

Autumn yields to winter in the high

country of the northern Wasatch range.

(Southeast Idaho, October 2009)