HE NAVIGATED A FROZEN RIVER TO CHASE SOME BOAT THIEVES
Teddy spent the early months of 1886 at the Elkhorn Ranch, a North Dakota establishment located on the banks of the Little Missouri River. Roosevelt and his two hunting companions, Bill Sewall and Wilmot Dew, purchased a “clinker-built boat” to ferry them across the frozen river. After a particularly unfruitful hunting expedition one morning, the men returned to the river to find their vessel had been cut from its rope and taken to parts unknown. A normal man might have lamented the loss of the boat, but Teddy didn’t take kindly to theft.
So he, Sewall, and Dew spent the next three days building a boat from scratch. Once the makeshift boat proved navigable, the trio set off in search of the stolen clinker. Roosevelt’s account in his 1888 memoir, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, details a miserable pursuit:
“For three days, the three men navigated the icy, winding river among the colorful clay buttes hoping to take the thieves captive without a fight. A shootout was a concern, for Roosevelt noted that “the extraordinary formation of the Bad Lands, with the ground cut up into cullies, serried walls, and battlemented hilltops, makes it the country of all others for hiding-places and ambuscades.” However, Roosevelt was certain that the thieves would not suspect that he was in pursuit, for they had stolen virtually the only boat on the river. Roosevelt, Sewall, and Dow battled against the elements, too, enduring temperatures down to zero degrees Fahrenheit”.
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They finally reached the trio of thieves, who were led by a man named Finnigan ― “a hard case” who “had been chief actor in a number of shooting scrapes”. Roosevelt and his men had little trouble overpowering the thieves and tying them up. But upon returning to the ranch with their quarry, they encountered an “impassable ice dam” that took them eight days to finally cross. Roosevelt entertained his freezing men and their bootless captives by reading from a copy of Anna Karenina that he brought aboard; by many accounts, he watched the men for more than 40 hours without sleep. When the party reached land, Roosevelt performed his duties as deputy sheriff and arrested the three men, rather than ordering them to be hanged ― a progressive legal decision, in those days

Its a damn shame the wild west isn't a thing anymore.

Scratch that

Its a damn shame the wild west is no longer based as fuck

The wild west is now democrat cities after dark

Its a shame we arent in tribal times anymore. Things were much more simpler back then

Pass that

I would have said fuck this shit and lived with the tribes

Live free and wild

Tribe life till a bad harvest

Then you're bonk

Thats why you hunt

Fish

Gather

That can only sustain so much before its depleted

Not if you are a nomadic people

There were less people back the

Till you come to someone else's land

Then

Early America was much more violent than today.

Course it was

And it was more honest

I mean, it sounds great. Until your wife dies in childbirth, or your tribe is wiped out by some disease. Or you run into a bigger tribe that thinks you look funny and wipes you out.

duels to settle disputes

Indians & nomads did real fucked up shit

Tribes sound good in theory. In practice, not so much.

Trump is sounding confident

@SilverWolf Bring back dueling. 95% of this shit ends overnight.

Trump always sounds confident

Unga bunga the Indians didn't rape and pillage because they didn't have words for it and was acceptable in their society unga bunga

Im not saying go completely back abandoning our technology, but if we return to old ways of farming and not relying on the cities we will be much more happy as a people

@C4X3 it was just another day for them

It's like drinking water & jerkingb off

I think I said this before weeks ago, how pissed off do you have to be at someone to say "that's it, duel me, one way or another, one of us is going to die"

Well I know two fucks that used to be here that would have an axe imbedded in them

Dueling should be a thing

Less shit talk

Less problems

Tribe life "oops, I stepped on a rock & my foot got infected. Guess I'll just die"

The entire black community would cease to exist if they settled everything with duels