tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post4626841738497880856..comments2024-03-28T05:15:00.483-07:00Comments on Buddies in the Saddle: Willis George Emerson, Buell Hampton (1902)Ron Scheerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-89915258885551239702016-01-02T21:16:59.091-08:002016-01-02T21:16:59.091-08:00Anybody interested in the John Mack bridge in Wich...Anybody interested in the John Mack bridge in Wichita Kansas? I can make you a very good deal. I have had the pleasure of swapping a few beers with Jesse Chisholm, great grandson of the cattle trail blazer by the same name. Actually he was a trader that traveled back and forth between Texas and Kansas so naturally he was the one to ask about a path from one watering hole to the next and sometimes they just followed the wheel ruts he had left behind so that's how the trail got it's name. There used to be a bar on 81 south of town locally known as the Chiz. The actual name was The Chisholm. A very very long tome ago it was the site of the first watering hole on the trail before you made your way into town a days ride later with your cattle. Wyatt Earp made a bid for sheriff in Wichita for a time but was run out of town after he and his brothers tried to assume duties as an unofficial licensing commission for various "entertainment" industries. The more things change the more they remain the same.Mothmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10775199965494740374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-74210431862959372142012-05-17T09:12:25.466-07:002012-05-17T09:12:25.466-07:00Melville was writing before the Internet. An onlin...Melville was writing before the Internet. An online version of MOBY DICK would have links to all that extraneous material and be half as long.Ron Scheerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357501069513854664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434602314756730550.post-80661703938118137432012-05-17T08:39:40.848-07:002012-05-17T08:39:40.848-07:00Moby Dick wanders around like that. Maybe that wa...Moby Dick wanders around like that. Maybe that was the influence. Earlier novels often had more of this kind of structure.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com