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Heroes of the Plains by James William Buel Book Review

This massive tome of ‘historical’ biographies includes every Western trope you have ever known. Published in 1883. It really is fun to read, a little tiresome after eleven hundred pages. The Mason author was tasked with making heroes out of all these secret society men. And they all ended up on the side of goodness and grace, doing their best to kill the indians.

Saloons, gambling, whiskey, overland dispatches, wagon trains, government forts, buffaloes, and killing indians.

Mostly killing indians.

The adventure of the west includes trapping, hunting, drinking whiskey, playing cards, riding horses and mules, marksmanship, and killing indians.

This is frontier land. Secret society touchstone for everything we were told about western expansion, the heroes of the day.

For example, Buffalo Bill kills indians out of Ft. Laramie during the hunting season, and then makes his way to New York City where his theater company recreates his battles on stage for the goddamn yankees.

Killing two indians with one bullet, scalping indians, convalescing at mother’s house after being wounded by indians, trapping beaver and otters, and killing indians.

FYI: Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill are two different men both tasked with killing indians.

Here’s a list of Frontier Men:

Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, “White Beaver,” Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe…

I’ll meet you on the Western Plains, Frontier Land, where we can ride the runaway mine train, eat churros, buy plastic trinkets, spend our fake money, kill the indians, and worship these Western Heroes. Face mask and mark of the beast required.

Next stop, TomorrowLand.

Book available here.

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Heroes of the Plains by James William Buel

Book last read: 2024-05-13 08:28:45
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Highlight: teeming harvests, happy homes, the building of cities, extension of commerce and all attendant blessings.
Notes: Lockdowns, face mask, social distancing, forced vaccines.

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Highlight: His earliest desire was for fire-arms, and by bartering a number of childish trinkets, at the age of eight years he became possessed of the greatest treasure his youthful fancy had ever pictured — a little single-barreled pistol.
Notes: You’ll shoot your eye out.

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Highlight: St. Louis was to him a painted panorama, as mysterious as the labyrinths of the pyramids ; the steamboats were novelties like the palaces of necromancers, and this new life to him had such a strange aspect that it was very like a second birth.

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Notes: Vaccine mandate.

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Highlight: Red Legs,” or anti-slavery forces in Kansas,
Notes: Pro native extermination.

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Highlight: entered a claim of one hundred and sixty acres of the finest land in Monticello township, Johnson county, Kansas,
Notes: I would like to enter my claim now.

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Highlight: The bowie in Bill’s hands now did desperate work, plunging from one heart into another, and drawing great fountains of blood which spurted about until the floor was fairly flooded

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Highlight: This combat, of one man fairly whipping ten acknowledged desperadoes, has no parallel,

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Highlight: Truly, it was a position almost as hot as that which tradition tells us the Hebrew trio occupied on a memorable occasion,
Notes: Shadrack meshack and abendigo

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Highlight: they counted up about $750, principally in paper money of State bank issue.
Notes: Fake money.

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Highlight: Curtis again employed him to strike the Confederate lines
Notes: Wild Bill Hickok.

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Highlight: A series of questions soon convinced Bill that the negro was loyal at heart and could be depended on to keep a’ secret.

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Notes: Infiltrate enemy lines.

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Notes: Puma

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Highlight: The Rebs convicted me on mighty little evidence, and here I am now in a bad pickle
Notes: Confeds rooted out the spy.

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Highlight: to the condemned spy it was worth more than all the castles of polished ivory that the fabled Arabian Magi could have created,

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Highlight: he was now a man with all the vigor God had so bounteously lodged in his well developed sinews.

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Highlight: in an instant the rusted blade was thrust into the throat of the sleeping victim and his neck almost severed in twain.
Notes: Confed is dead.

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Highlight: he shot the three with such precision that each tumbled to the ground with a mortal wound.
Notes: Wild Bill

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Highlight: Bill gave her the name of Black Nell, and giving much care to her training, she became the heroine of many adventures, which will be recorded in a subsequent chapter.
Notes: Alright! horse adventures!

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Highlight: The Choctaw and Cherokee Indians, also some of the Creeks and Osages, were employed as soldiers by the Confederates,
Notes: Civil Native War

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Highlight: if you deceive me in the least thing, one of us will have to die.
Notes: Face mask science.

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Notes: Useless or worthless showy things.

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Highlight: Drawing from his belt two pistols Bill threw one to Conquering Bear and told him to defend himself ; but the Indian knew the deadly aim of his antagonist and refused to fight with the pistol.
Notes: Jeje

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Highlight: men rarely become so lost to discretion as to fail in their respect for leaden pellets.

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Highlight: Bill proposed to fight any four of the men with pistols at a distance of five or fifteen paces,

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Notes: Seedy and run-down.

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Highlight: Wild Bill was made chief of scouts under the former, and Buffalo Bill filled the same responsible position under Gen. Carr
Notes: Buffalo and Wild Bill are two different people.

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Highlight: Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill were the heroes of that day, and their deadly rifles did the execution of an entire company ; without regard for the danger they incurred,

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Highlight: Well, a country of that kind is better than the one you came from, where there isn’t a fellow who knows his own father,” replied Bill.
Notes: Prophecy fullfilled.

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Highlight: so that but one of two alternatives was left, either get out of the crowd like a coward, or fight like the brave man he was.

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Highlight: the Englishman manifested no disposition to become better acquainted, as the intimacy had already been disagreeably close.
Notes: Lol. Wild Bill smacked this man on his limey face.

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Highlight: men whose desires and ambitions never rose above a full whisky bottle,

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Notes: Without criminal guilt.

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Highlight: His first appearance on the stage was made in New York City,

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Highlight: This completed a perfect picture of frontier happiness, for such contentment is rarely found even in the most sumptuous elegance of metropolitan mansions.
Notes: Escape to the wilderness.

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Notes: Heaven on earth.

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Highlight: and the citizens who attended the trial at once went to their homes and cleaned up their weapons.

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Highlight: Bill was the most expert pistol shot that this or any other country ever produced.
Notes: Hehe.

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Highlight: No civil law reaches him ;

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Highlight: In short, there is no nature so readily conformable to all the ways of life as his, and under all circumstances there is always a sparkling effervescence of spirit about him which can only find comparison in a newly opened bottle of extra-dry champagne.
Notes: Buffalo Bill is a wine spritzer.

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Highlight: Every reader of American history is familiar with the disorders which followed close upon the heels of the ” Enabling Act.”

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Highlight: She was a woman of unusual bravery, well suited for a pioneer’s wife, and yet a lady well educated and used to the refinements of the most cultured society.

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Highlight: he speedily became a recognized leader in the most thrilling: adventures.
Notes: Buffalo Bill

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Highlight: Mary Hyatt, a flaxen-haired, pretty little miss, with roguish smile and cunning eyes, was also a pupil in the log school-house and sat on a seat so near Billy that she became his dear charmer and condensed all his ambitions in the one desire to gain a reciprocal feeling.

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Highlight: proved to be the initiatory ceremony which conferred on him the first degree as a Knight of the Prairie,
Notes: Secret society ass kissing.

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Highlight: To appreciate the dangers which such a journey invited at that date of Western settlement it is only necessary for the reader to know the fact that in addition to the occupation of the country by Mormons, hundreds of different warlike tribes of Indians infested every ravine and mountain pass, many of these pests of the great West being employed by the Mormons to massacre overland freighters and emigrants.
Notes: Mormon emigrant wars.

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Highlight: Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson’s army, then operating against the Mormons.
Notes: Ask Circe.

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Highlight: he never stopped to pray or ask advice ; but gathering his gun in common with the others got behind the wagons and began pouring swift lead into the Indians.

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Notes: Ask Circe. Overlanders.

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Highlight: Joe Smith, Jr., who was acting as a spy for the Mormons,
Notes: CIA

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Highlight: they found themselves covered by Mormon rifles.

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Highlight: he is now comparatively well educated, acquired almost wholly by extensive travel and association with polished people.

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Highlight: Even to this day to speak of Dave Harrington in Buffalo Bill’s presence will
Notes: Bring tears. Rescued from dugout.

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Highlight: the longest and best ridden pony express journey ever made.
Notes: Three hundred twenty miles

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Highlight: pony express had become a thoroughly established institution, frequently transporting money and other valuables,
Notes: Pony transport money.

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Highlight: This last trip had proved so disastrous that it was determined by the stage company not to rely any longer on the U. S. troops stationed at various posts in the West, but to use their own volunteer employes in an administration of frontier vengeance on the murderous Indians.

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Highlight: expending a pistol cathartic
Notes: Pistol whip to the head.

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Highlight: There, under the prairie sod, where the winds gambol ceaselessly with waving grasses and spontaneous flowers

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Highlight: Serving in this double capacity
Notes: Commie double agents everywhere.

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Highlight: Billy was then, as he is now, certainly one of the handsomest men in America,

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Highlight: Not only was she well connected and a lady of most admirable character, but she also possessed a beauty of face and perfection of form which were well nigh irresistible ; large, lustrous, brown eyes, beautifully arched with elegant brows ; skin fair as the lily, a mouth which seemed to invite kisses, and hair profuse as a Naiad’s and black as a raven’s wing;.

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Highlight: Winter is always a gay season in the city with its theatres, balls, society gatherings, sleigh-riding and various recreative sports,
Notes: Face mask. Social distance death cult required.

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Highlight: To appreciate the extent of this slaughter, by approximate measurement , these buffaloes, if laid on the ground end to end, would make a line more than five miles long, and if placed sideways, on top of each other, they would make a pile over two miles high.

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Highlight: the feat appears too incredulous for belief were it not for the most indisputable evidence, easily attainable, which makes disbelief impossible.
Notes: Lol

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Highlight: Having now succeeded as both fighters and hunters, the party returned to the fort with trophies of their adventures and received well deserved compliments from Gen. Carr for their deeds.

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Highlight: Such fighting, such riding, and such marvelous intrepidity combined, were doubtless never equaled, and if but this act alone could be credited to the valor of Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill theirnames would deserve inscription on Fame’s enduring monument.

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Highlight: bodies of no less than fourteen white persons, pilgrims on their way to Pike’s Peak, mutilated beyond recognition ; their scalps torn off, tongues cut out, legs cut open and bodies full of arrows.

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Highlight: The firm of Cody & North is known among cattle men in every part of America ; they now have seven thousand head of eattle
Notes: Buffalo Bill and Col. North.

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Highlight: Buffalo Bill instantly leaped on his horse, bare-backed, and started for the scene of trouble, regardless of Indians or thought of danger.

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Highlight: Bill turned around, and taking Lucretia Borgia, his rifle,
Notes: Is this Caesar incestual sister rifle name?

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Highlight: May you live long and prosper. Amen !” The ceremony being completed, Bill kissed the bride, after which there was an adjournment for irrigating purposes.
Notes: Hehe.

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Highlight: It was this inability, or real indisposition, of the Government to enforce the terms of the treaty of 1868 that led to the bitter war with Sitting Bull and which terminated so disastrously on the 25th of June, 1876.

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Highlight: But Custer was there at the head, like Spartacus fighting the legions about him, tall, graceful, brave as a lion at bay, and with thunderbolts in his hands.

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Highlight: Like a strong oak stricken by the lightning’ s bolt, shivering the mighty trunk and bending its withering branches down close to the earth, so fell Custer; but like the reacting branches, he rises partly up again, and striking out like a fatally wounded giant lays three more Indians dead and breaks his mighty sword on the musket of a fourth ; then, with useless blade and empty pistol falls back the victim of a dozen wounds.
Notes: Great Custer Death scene.

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Highlight: He would not have shrunk from fighting a duel with any living man ; so he shouted back to the chief : ” I’ll fight you ; come on ; let Indians and white men stand off and see the Red Chief and Long Hair fight with rifles.
Notes: Buffalo Bill

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Highlight: After eating a breakfast of bacon and crackers,

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Highlight: Their entertainments are in the open air, being usually given in fair grounds, and consist in shooting, reckless riding, lassoins; elk and buffalo, illustrating Indian attacks on stage coaches, in canons, and on settlements.

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Highlight: The personality and situation are therefore true to life.
Notes: life of true fraught with lies.

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Highlight: He was a man about forty years of age, perhaps older, over six feet in height, and possessing a well proportioned frame. His head was covered with a luxuriant crop of long, almost black hair, strongly inclined to curl, and so long as to fall carelessly over his shoulders.
Notes: California Joe

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Highlight: Look a hyar, Cap, when I make up my mind to kill Injuns no man can pervent me,” replied Joe,

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Highlight: at the rate of five dollars each.
Notes: Indian scalps for sale.

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Highlight: he dexterously cut out a large circular piece of scalp and hair, cramming each scalp into his waist-belt as it was extirpated
Notes: California Joe

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Notes: 1869 army rations. Check canning tech history.

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Highlight: One of the first offices opened by the United States for the sale of lands west of the Mississippi was in the vicinity of Boonslick in the year 1818,
Notes: Missouri

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Highlight: lam an American, and no coward;
Notes: He said with face mask on.

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Highlight: Carson sincerely mourned the loss of his young wife, who, though she was an Indian, possessed many noble qualities of heart,

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Highlight: , he started West with the intention of engaging in the Mormon war which was at that time creating a furore of excitement throughout the country, and especially in the West.
Notes: 1858

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Highlight: I would prefer that you would not run your big sweaty hands over that gun,

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Highlight: I have long since learned how to talk to such roaring nobodies.
Notes: FBI

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Highlight: he knew no more about water service than a Government contracter did of the Golden Rule.
Notes: Lol

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Highlight: special bounty act,
Notes: Surrender covid operators. Or else.

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Highlight: but on the occasion when he partook of it he felt that it was as delicious as the manna that heaven distilled to save the chosen of Israel.
Notes: Mule meat.

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Highlight: Being a thirty-second degree Mason, even at this early age, Frank was
Notes: Jelly jars full of bull urine.

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Highlight: White Beaver, being always a favorite with the ladies, was paying attentions to a very estimable young lady, not with any view to matrimony, but because her society was agreeable.
Notes: Hehe

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Highlight: But such characters, in the end, nearly always met their just fate at the hands of some cool, determined man like White Beaver, Wild Bill or Buffalo Bill, to whom the West owes a debt of gratitude it can never fully repay.
Notes: 32 degree jelly jars in deep freeze.

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Notes: Medicinal mason remedy.

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Highlight: Any of his office employes will hold a copper cent between their fingers and let him shoot it out at ten paces, so great is their confidence in his skill
Notes: mason initiates.

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