What an odd claim. Where was he living from 1795 to 1799, when everyone else seems to think he was living in the state of Kentucky?

Kit Carson, and Marco Polo, would be two people whose careers I know of, primarily (and vividly) through Classic Comics.

Human memory is visual, or more strongly so than that communicated by reading.

It is for this reason that we remember the movie, typically, better than the novel (think ‘The Big Sleep’), and the comic book treatment better than some dull high school history text.

37 asks what happened to history? The answer is there is room for all those people. The history you and I were taught, by ignoring the aboriginal inhabitants, the black slaves, the likes of the Chinese migrants who built the railways, and the women, was an entirely partial and incomplete history.

USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-629) was a nuclear missile sub in the “Fighting Furriner” series, along with foreign flag heroes Kamehameha, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Sam Houston, and foreigner allies Simon Bolivar, Casimir Pulaski, Lafayette and don Vallejo.

I don’t want to argue the case, but Wikipedia quotes about a military officer being directly or indirectly responsible…. is hardly the same thing as being a murderer.

Summer=Linen trousers.

There might still be some elderly Texas oilmen that would wear a linen ensemble in summer, but they seem to be a vanishing breed. A relentlessly-mocked vanishing breed, in the vein of “It’s hot out! Why are you wearing a suit?”

Who wears jeans? Do you fancy yourself a cowboy?

Duh. He’s living in Tucson. Everyone living in Tucson fancies verself a cowhand. Bolo ties were de rigeur for gentlemen dressing up for church (twenty-five years ago, anyway). And cowboy boots are far more prevalent than people who actually ride horses.

Anyway, I could see someone not being dressed for the trail if caught off-guard by an unplanned stop. However, I’m curious as to why Mr. Yglesias was wearing a Brooks Brothers suit jacket on a motorcar trip… especially with that ensemble. Kids these days.

We’ll stay happy and beautiful here in New Mexico. Don’t have enough water to support all of you anyway.

1) I meant “Brigham Young’s winter home,” not his summer one. My apologies. Brother Brigham can be criticized for a great many things, but constructing a summer retreat from Salt Lake City in the heat of St. George, Utah, shouldn’t be added to the list.

2) Cedar City has Southern Utah University, which is a (I think) surprisingly active place for both Utah and for being located in a small rural outpost in the midst of the southwestern desert. Their Shakespeare festival in the summer is great fun, and high quality too; I’d put it on par with any regional festival anywhere in the U.S.

3) Yes, St. George, along with many other hundreds of square miles in the part of the country, was hit hard by the fallout from Nevada’s nuclear testing. It took years of work before Utah’s Republican representatives took up the fight in DC, and many years more before the relevant documentation was finally brought to light, which included a statement from some Defense Department flunkie in the 50s defening above ground testing by pointing out that any potential fallout would only affect a “low-use segment of the population.” Compensation finally came, but too late for many.

4) That MY had never heard of Kit Carson before leaves me flabbergast. Still, in fairness, it might be worth grabbing some blogger over at Red State, sending them to New York City, and see if they don’t stare blankly at some historical marker for Robert Moses.