tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49592256082629167342024-03-08T02:03:13.527-08:00Stripes and Boots; The musings of Sergeant Shake-speareThe state of the world in the 21st century.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-69380303763090699722024-01-01T12:37:00.000-08:002024-03-01T21:16:05.616-08:00On the Trail of Wyatt Earp<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.38in; margin-right: 0.36in; margin-top: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>On</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>The</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Trail</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>of</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Wyatt</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Earp</b></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.02in;"><span class="sd-abs-pos" style="left: 3in; position: absolute; top: 0.2in; width: 237px;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIurUm1YZE1fyGeqUHH_NJnmKjJQFHKDgab2IKf-cCtIj4a_7v1bzoclHLiwDU1XZuo8JLwWdJXHa4pk37KqeYFy-upXD5VA9RVpBLvNj37vkz3msWLXoKaRqITXvKxg6IoSNc4wNMd2nw8cbVdGYa4zE71Qa4XSEMDo7Vcagvd2HURySn6hkZDIcYuWp/s884/wyatt%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="681" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIurUm1YZE1fyGeqUHH_NJnmKjJQFHKDgab2IKf-cCtIj4a_7v1bzoclHLiwDU1XZuo8JLwWdJXHa4pk37KqeYFy-upXD5VA9RVpBLvNj37vkz3msWLXoKaRqITXvKxg6IoSNc4wNMd2nw8cbVdGYa4zE71Qa4XSEMDo7Vcagvd2HURySn6hkZDIcYuWp/s320/wyatt%201.jpg" width="247" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.04in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.51in; margin-right: 0.36in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>The</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Wyatt</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Earp</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Arizona</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Photo</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.15in; margin-right: 0.51in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><b>By</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13in; margin-right: 0.33in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Gene</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Stevens</b></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">I've always been history buff. As a kid, I grew up hearing my Dad's world war two stories and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">watching</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">classic TV in Chicago during</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the 1960's and 70's. I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">had a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">healthy</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">dose of John Wayne movies and I was lucky enough to see the movie Shane on a full size theater screen in the basement of neighborhood friend, who's Dad was a projectionist in a theater in downtown Chicago. My Father recognized my love of history and when my eight grade class at the John C Coonley Elementary school in Chicago organized a trip to Washington DC before our graduation, he made sure that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">able</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">go,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">paid</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">for</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">trip.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">It</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">trip</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">D.C.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">really</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ignited</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a love in me for our history.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.1in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">I love the American West and Western movies, that's for sure.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I'm not really a collector of wild west items per se. I am a mainly a train buff and collector of old toy trains right now, and trains most certainly played a huge role in the settlement of the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">American</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">west.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">In</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">1990's,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">became</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">historic</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reenactor.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reenacted</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">multiple time periods, including civil war, World War two and fur trade period, particularly the Black Hawk War of 1832. It was my study of the Black Hawk war period that brought me into a deeper understanding of westward expansion. It motivated me to write a book on the first battle of the Black War called “Red Flag of Defiance”.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">The hobby also gave me the unique opportunity to travel all over the country, and to see many historic places. I walked on many battlefields and visited many historic sites. It was quite a journey.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I also collected and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">owned some original civil war related collectibles. Including tin types and carte de visite </span>photos of civil war soldiers.</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.13in; margin-top: 0.06in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2015</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">wife</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">made</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">our</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">first</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">trip</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Arizona.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">It</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">first</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">many.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">We</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">both fell</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">love</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">desert,the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">history</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">everything</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Arizona</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">had</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">offer.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">The</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">first time we visited there, I was compelled to go Tombstone. I had seen all the movies and westerns since I was a kid, and I wanted to see what the wild west was all about. My wife (Vicki) and I loved Tombstone so much that we decided to get married</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">there</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">2017.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">We</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">were</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">wedded</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">by</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">honorable</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Doctor</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Jay</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Linda</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">at the O.K. Corral. It was a very very special moment.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">As I previously stated, I'm not an avid collector of western related stuff. I do own many books on various historic subjects, a couple of books on Wyatt Earp, some artwork by CM</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Russell</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">own</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">some reproduction western badges. But</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">with that said,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">on</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">mission</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">transform</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">large</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">rock</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">garden</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">my</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">back</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">yard</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">into</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">life size wild west diorama. </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">So I went on a search through antique shops and ebay for western themed yard items</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">or</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">other</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">western</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">collectibles</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">would</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">look</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">good</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">my</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">yard.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">While</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">shopping online, I ran into a photo that caught my eye. It was listed as a “cabinet tintype photo of Described as; a "gentleman"</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">wild west originally from Arizona.'</span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Having</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">some</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">basic</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">understanding</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">period</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">(19</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">century)</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photos</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">from</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">my</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reenacting days.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">recognized</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">is</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">probably</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">an</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ambrotype.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">But</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">when</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">looked</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">at</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the photo, I was immediately struck by the mans face as being familiar. As I looked at it more, I felt that the photo looked like a younger Wyatt Earp. I'm not going out on a limb here, because I had no idea who it is (or was). The photo was listed for $40.00 dollars. And as I mentioned, I had a couple of tintypes and carte de visites in the past during my civil war reenacting days. Though, I personally thought that $40.00 was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">bit</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">steep</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">for</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">any</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">tintype.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">But,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">decided</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">buy</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">anyway.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">guess</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">just had see this photo for myself.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">Once</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">had</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">it</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">my</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">possession,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">stunned</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">by</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">resemblance</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">person</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">But</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">knew</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">at</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">point</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">just</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">another unknown person from the 19</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> century. I'm a bit of a digger and researcher, so</span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I started by doing some of my own comparisons. I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">first compared the photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to a couple of known photos of Wyatt Earp. And there were many anatomically similar features. Showing that the photo in question had many striking similarities to known</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photos.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Particularly</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">or</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">taken</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">while</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">he was in Lamar Missouri which is fairly clear Photo of Wyatt.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUowRmW4Bux2WHi-R3bSCmixaW5dgbhJvobNOC54FGrIOXfcwqa049MhNj-1WzuNx_e0G2Ky5VcijnFylmJiRJJMMzw8ynnIT9mYwOQzHWt4AFDqLJYEN3hr4Q_nPfpR-V-rrRwhZVk0yNx7fsQ5MZScVuNeJSbZgHNTDKwlcZdb8LgKfZbIpcj67PKaTN/s493/Lamar%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="377" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUowRmW4Bux2WHi-R3bSCmixaW5dgbhJvobNOC54FGrIOXfcwqa049MhNj-1WzuNx_e0G2Ky5VcijnFylmJiRJJMMzw8ynnIT9mYwOQzHWt4AFDqLJYEN3hr4Q_nPfpR-V-rrRwhZVk0yNx7fsQ5MZScVuNeJSbZgHNTDKwlcZdb8LgKfZbIpcj67PKaTN/s320/Lamar%20photo.jpg" width="245" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #1c2127;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">I was now seriously compelled to investigate the photo further. I went online and located a site that dealt with facial recognition (www.faceplusplus.com). I did some comparisons</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">with</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">known</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">picture</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">(</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">known</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">as</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Lamar</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo) and the comparison indicated a high probability 70%, in that the photo that I'm in possession is "probably" the same person as the person in the Lamar photo... Wyatt </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mw3yJnNewqbAX2sM-Vu992x89re1FJUtewpqlvA0hICawEeSR2XJtu5Vp12DV-oUlbef2TLVxsi0ZtDgPGyZQSxo273AgUMN580YiqEPnNrYw-zE2BqUq_3r099Tqgl4Jtd6NkGPXXn2cBkF8o0XaNIuQsk2_1hTIg9-D9ugT0yxZvIV2z3LHSB_SzUa/s1648/wyatt%20comparison.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1648" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mw3yJnNewqbAX2sM-Vu992x89re1FJUtewpqlvA0hICawEeSR2XJtu5Vp12DV-oUlbef2TLVxsi0ZtDgPGyZQSxo273AgUMN580YiqEPnNrYw-zE2BqUq_3r099Tqgl4Jtd6NkGPXXn2cBkF8o0XaNIuQsk2_1hTIg9-D9ugT0yxZvIV2z3LHSB_SzUa/w509-h273/wyatt%20comparison.jpg" width="509" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #1c2127;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.11in; margin-top: 0.05in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">I then did some additional comparisons to other known Wyatt Earp photos and those</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">comparisons</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">lead</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">me</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">believe</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">program</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">had</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">some</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reliability,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Though I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">cannot</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">vouch</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">for</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reliability</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">particular</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">platform.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">also</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">compared</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">it</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the photo of Wyatt as a child with his mother, and the comparison to the Wyatts childhood</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">face</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">also</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">scored</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">at</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">68%</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">positive</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">relation</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ambrotype</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in my possession. To help place the photo in context with its time period. Its worth mentioning that the photo processes of the day at changed in more modernized places, and that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the ambrotype photos had faded out of popularity in the east by the 1860's. But were still very much in use during that time by frontier photographers of the day, due to their ease of production. </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">At this point, I knew I needed more information, so I decided to reach out to the seller about the photo. All the seller would tell me was that the photo was purchased</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">from an auction house in Youngstown Arizona, and that the photo was by</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">itself, with no other</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">items. On</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">really</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">strange note, I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">tried to ask the seller more questions about the photograph, and I was rebuffed with hostility and shut down. Perhaps I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was either too assertive (which I don't believe that I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was), or the seller did not</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">want to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">divulge</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the exact</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">source.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">followed</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">up</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">by emailing two</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">auctions</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">houses in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Youngstown</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">area</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">see</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">if</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">they</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">knew</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">anything</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">about</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">One</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">said</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that they did not remember the photo. The other said that the picture looked familiar, but they could not recall anymore details. I had reached biggest obstacle in establishing any provenance.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.11in; margin-top: 0.05in; page-break-before: always;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;">Tombstone</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;">Times</span></span></span></b></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.09in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">All things considered, I felt that I needed to reach out to someone closer to Wyatt Earp</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">history.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I'm</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">never</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">one</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">consider</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">trail</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">cold</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">until</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I've</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">exhausted</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">any</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">all resources. So I contacted a resource in Tombstone Arizona, unfortunately. My source</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Tombstone</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">wished</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">remain</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">anonymous.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">sent</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">person</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">copy of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the picture to examine. I was actually expecting a response saying something like, “you must be crazy.. This isn't</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt Earp”. But then I received the following response from the anonymous source.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>I will start out by stating that I am not an expert on photo comparison, by any means.That said, I am always up to the challenge.</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Although, I cannot state it is not Wyatt Earp from first look, I will state that a few things come to my mind first of all ---Wyatt never wore a beard, much</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>less</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>an</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>"amish-style"</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>beard</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>with</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>no</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>mustouche.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Wyatt</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>always</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>had</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>mustache</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>in</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>every photo of him and this photo does not show a mustache. So, that alone makes me think it is not him.</i></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>He</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>does</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>have</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>similar</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>eye</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>slant,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>but</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>nose</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>quite</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>same.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>And</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>one</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>thing</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that really</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>helps</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>identify</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>photo</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>ears,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>unfortunately,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>part</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>of</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>image</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>clear enough to give a good comparison. The fact that the photo was originally found in Youngstown,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>AZ</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>doesn't</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>really</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>give</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>clue,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>since</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>city</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>in</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>biggest</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>county,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Maricopa, which offers more places for antiques to be sold. We are (sic) leaning towards the thought that it could be another Earp relative, but not likely Wyatt.</i></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Honestly, there have been so many other correspondences with photos of a man from that time - most all believing that they found the golden ticket to having an unseen image of the famous</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>man,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>I</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>have</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>rejected</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>forthright</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>any</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>thought</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>it</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>was</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>even</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>worth</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>researching</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>let them know it was one of many that people think might be the famous Wyatt Earp but is just another old west photo of an old west man. But, that said we think that this is worth further investigation since there is at least some resemblance.</i></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">I have to say, that I was very surprised and elated, though very cautiously optimistic</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">by the response. I was most definitely happy that I wasn't the only one who saw the same face that I did,</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">didn't</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">automatically</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">dismiss</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">find,</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">..</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">well..</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">Call</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">me</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">crazy</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">or</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">accuse</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">me</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">trying to hoodwink the public.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">But with that said, many people who do historic research frequently suffer</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">slings</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">arrows</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">when</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">they</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">try</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">reveal</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">discovery</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">new</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">things.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">I</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">understand</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">why my source wants to stay anonymous. I too have suffered similar slings and arrows for this find.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">And I expect to suffer more. But with that said, I've had some time to study and research more, and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">I'd like to address a couple of Comments for the sake of investigative clarity .</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinr82UQv_L2z3qCbbdPQ_oWpEvIWLOzoWws9DrdSB1WX0N8aRNbCRRTyCOAIYuz2JOhUVU7fWJUT0YChr83rH3410ETTB8hCLo4iak8dXDp5LrLhhpGuTN9bvZaNH5VpuApKQgFrN8TRLAVX3o-nykJcfPPvspXlKW4_Aa6g9euSsmMsQekhP4Xs5lAFVI/s884/wyatt%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="681" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinr82UQv_L2z3qCbbdPQ_oWpEvIWLOzoWws9DrdSB1WX0N8aRNbCRRTyCOAIYuz2JOhUVU7fWJUT0YChr83rH3410ETTB8hCLo4iak8dXDp5LrLhhpGuTN9bvZaNH5VpuApKQgFrN8TRLAVX3o-nykJcfPPvspXlKW4_Aa6g9euSsmMsQekhP4Xs5lAFVI/s320/wyatt%201.jpg" width="247" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">“ </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Wyatt never wore a beard, much less an "amish-style" beard with no mustouche. Wyatt always</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>had</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>mustache</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>in</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>every</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>photo</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>of</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>him</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>this</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>photo</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>does</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>show</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>mustache.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>So, that alone makes me think it is not him.”</i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI330rgDNfKv2_kAu3Fp_vBJIJBOk9Uqf_No5rnv5nBgJ84JVCQr4mEShEg6T4Oshr9F7qHK33_vYW_1atOsAAn-z0_b3e03myt7vpx0Y0APpYD1JBttUCwcxLkwVTqiq9v1__0lsjPHKoamtYskL8JH7qkfh9JKikA0csx9HK2R1iRF0tjwTnECUvYTze/s493/Lamar%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="377" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI330rgDNfKv2_kAu3Fp_vBJIJBOk9Uqf_No5rnv5nBgJ84JVCQr4mEShEg6T4Oshr9F7qHK33_vYW_1atOsAAn-z0_b3e03myt7vpx0Y0APpYD1JBttUCwcxLkwVTqiq9v1__0lsjPHKoamtYskL8JH7qkfh9JKikA0csx9HK2R1iRF0tjwTnECUvYTze/s320/Lamar%20photo.jpg" width="245" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /><i><br /></i></span></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.01in;"><span class="sd-abs-pos" style="left: 3.19in; position: absolute; top: 0.19in; width: 202px;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.03in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 15.68px; margin-right: 0.17in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">The above photo is popularly known as the Lamar photo, take during Wyatt Earp's time in Lamar Missouri. Its very apparent by this photo that; Wyatt as what vaguely appears</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">be</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Mustache</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">what</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">appears</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">be</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">small</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">beard</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">or</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">beginning</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of one, suggesting that this could have been when he decided to start wearing facial </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">hair.</span></span></p></li></ul><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.02in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 15.2px; margin-right: 0.34in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Its</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">also</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">apparent</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">he</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">has</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">what</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">appears</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">be</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">small</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">beard</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">or</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">late</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">adolescent </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">growth.</span></span></p></li></ul><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>'He</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>does</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>have</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>similar</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>eye</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>slant,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>but</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>nose</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>quite</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>same.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>And</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>one</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>thing</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that really helps identify a photo is the ears, and unfortunately, that part of the image is not clear enough to give a good comparison.”</i></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">The</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">Arizona photo appears to be a similar late adolescent growth somewhat like the Lamar</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">photo.</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">But</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">Longer.</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">If</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">is</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">Earp,</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">may</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">have</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">been</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">taken</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">during the Earp family transit to or arrival in San Bernadino California from Pella Iowa.</span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>And</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>one</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>thing</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>really</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>helps</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>identify</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>photo</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>ears,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>unfortunately,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>part</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>of the image is not clear enough to give a good comparison.”</i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.02in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 15.2px; margin-right: 0.17in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">A</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">close forensic examination of the photo cleaned up the photo and indicated (and is visible)</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">features</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ears</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">both</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Arizona</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Lamar</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photos</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">are</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">similar.</span></span></p></li></ul><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.17in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">“</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>but</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the nose</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>quite the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> same”</i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.2in; text-indent: 0.18in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>In the book “The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp” By</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Author and Illustrator, Bob Boze Bell, lays out a clear and concise timeline of Wyatt Earp's life. On page 18 the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Author tells us that Wyatt, Barely 20 years old “Finds his true calling when he encounters whiskey peddlers, whores, and gamblers who follow the (railroad) tracks. He is facinated by their lifestyle,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>smart</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>enough</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>to</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>play</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>their</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>game</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>bold</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>enough</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>to</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>stand</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>up</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>to</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>their</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>games.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>He</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is also exposed to one of the most popular sports on the railroad construction sites – Boxing.” </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">It was during this time that Wyatt both a bidder and a boxer. He sometimes competed, sometimes promoted and occasionally refereed fisticuffs. It is possible that the change in Wyatt's nose was due his boxing activities during this time? Its not only possible, but </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">probable.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-top: 0.1in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h1 align="LEFT" class="western" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 64px; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.38in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">In</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">book</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Famous</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Gunfighters</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Western</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Frontier</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">by</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">W.B.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">(Bat)</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Masterson, He states;</span></span></h1><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>I have known Wyatt Earp since early in the seventies,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>And I have seen him tried out under circumstances which made the test of manhood supreme. He landed in Wichita Kansas in 1872,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>being</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>about</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>26</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>years</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>old,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>weighing</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>in</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>neighborhood</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>of</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>one</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>hundred</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>sixty pounds, all of it muscle. He stood six feet in height, with light blue eyes, and a complexion bordering on the blonde.</i></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">Where</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Could</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">The</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">have</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">been</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Taken?</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">In</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">spring</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">1864,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Rousseaus</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">three</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">neighboring</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">families---the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earps, the Curtis'es, and the Hamiltons,---left Iowa and moved out west.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">The expedition west had a diarist along by the name of Sarah Jane Rousseau. She was eager to escape from the bitter cold Iowa winters. Suffering from a debilitating case</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">rheumatism,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">she</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">hoped</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">she</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">could</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">find</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">relief</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">from</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">her</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">crippling</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">disease at her new home in California. Whereas</span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.24in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>On</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>May</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>12,</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>1864</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>the</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>four</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>families</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>embarked</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>by</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>wagon</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>train</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>for</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>southern</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>California, rendezvousing</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>at</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>the nearby</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>town of Pella, where</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>wagon</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>master,</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>Nicholas</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>Earp and his family lived. Sarah Jane Rousseau, virtually unable to walk by this time, began her wonderful journal of the group's experiences which eventually took them to the town of San Bernardino. Her diary was detailed with descriptions of the caravans' day-to-day life. Ref </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>https://<a href="http://www.sbcity.org/about/history/pioneer_women/sarah_jane_rousseau.asp">www.sbcity.org/about/history/pioneer_women/sarah_jane_rousseau.asp</a></i></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.09in; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">It is well known fact that the Earp family was very mobile and on the move most of their lives. As the civil war subsided, the American west was opening up to settlement and Nicholas Earp, Wyatt's father was on the move in pursuit of a better life. In late 1864, the Earp family departed Pella Iowa on a wagon train bound for San Benadinos California, by way of Salt Lake City Utah. In the book </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Pioneer Photographers</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>of</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>the</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Far</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>West:</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>A</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Biographical</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Dictionary,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>1840-1865</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>,</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;">There</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">is</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ample</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">information to indicate that there were photographers present in both Salt Lake City and San Bernadino California.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.1in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">But</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">again,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">if</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">subject</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">is</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">The</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">best</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">chance</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">sitting for a photo would have been in San Bernadino. It was in the new frontier town of San Bernadino, that another new person had also settled into the area right around the same time as the Earp Family and his name was Maurice A. Franklin. And he arrived in San Bernadino in 1864. Franklin set up a photograph shop on D street, Not far from where the Earp family had set up camp upon arriving in California.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-top: 0.07in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 1.12in;"></p><h1 class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-right: 0.46in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Another</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Piece</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Puzzle</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">on</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Trail.</span></span></span></h1><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.18in; text-indent: 0.12in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">While searching for additional information online, I ran into a video of a</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Writer by</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the name of Nick Cataldo. He appeared in a 2016</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">program on C-Span</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in which he spoke about a book that he had written, called “The Earp Clan, The Southern California</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Years.”.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As I listened to Nick talk about his book, I realized that he had another piece of the puzzle that I was searching for. I purchased a copy of Nicks</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">book.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">On</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">page</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">under</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">subtitle</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“Notorious</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“D</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Street”</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nick</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">tells</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">story</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">early</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">years of San Bernadino and the Corner of Third and D street which became known as Whiskey Point. Nick also states that “The town that greeted them (The Earps) was pretty tough. San Bernadino featured a number of saloons, gambling halls, and a flourishing red light district on south “D” Street. It also proved</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">be</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nick</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Earp's</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">kind</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">town”.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">addition</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">saloons</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">cat</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">houses</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">San</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Bernadino. Other businesses sprung up. One of which was the photographic studio of Maurice Franklin, located near 3</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">rd</span></sup></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and “D” street.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.18in; text-indent: 0.12in;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji43OGkjbu-7zjYksZWqOrWq_EusjWune_wZuakrhoRpV-5JOoR0ileROAANGj4BGG4thajMJ6v84lomHztHEToBKvPYiJrK8-ZkKixUxcs6a-FVnz0zgfcwYbg-ZSAOIMMUnTG6Gcn7nMk-IyiuZVtrlag8VzyiXUkl1Oj0kfyd7En2lHp4_CfmMoLyoP/s449/bldg%20in%20san%20bernadino.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="449" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji43OGkjbu-7zjYksZWqOrWq_EusjWune_wZuakrhoRpV-5JOoR0ileROAANGj4BGG4thajMJ6v84lomHztHEToBKvPYiJrK8-ZkKixUxcs6a-FVnz0zgfcwYbg-ZSAOIMMUnTG6Gcn7nMk-IyiuZVtrlag8VzyiXUkl1Oj0kfyd7En2lHp4_CfmMoLyoP/w445-h291/bldg%20in%20san%20bernadino.jpg" width="445" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.14in;"><span class="sd-abs-pos" style="left: 2.31in; position: absolute; top: 0.31in; width: 377px;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.01in; text-indent: 0.07in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photo t</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">aken in the early 1870s</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">high-resolution scan later showed that</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Vale’s photography sign could</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">be</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">seen</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">on</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">upper</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">floor.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">upstairs</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">studio</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">had</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">been</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">gallery</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Maurice</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Franklin. Located at 3</span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and D Street.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1okJYuQDQ_CPCUnuWFJYFVXbAkCK3Hhv1c0ZhLNGsEBkqkWhNlSDZozwLngfhQ32wVo6Lb8MQPnSBAd_46Xp58O0S2hjk-aNsWlqTEURDBcjRGTMDqVt5ICHcxZzmGNBAUyscCKnfqKjZhWr8RTM6ioXynl_zTaOCgppRr7ibVKnFZBefzGYF5vybPSxb/s640/godfrey%20and%20vail%20photography.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="640" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1okJYuQDQ_CPCUnuWFJYFVXbAkCK3Hhv1c0ZhLNGsEBkqkWhNlSDZozwLngfhQ32wVo6Lb8MQPnSBAd_46Xp58O0S2hjk-aNsWlqTEURDBcjRGTMDqVt5ICHcxZzmGNBAUyscCKnfqKjZhWr8RTM6ioXynl_zTaOCgppRr7ibVKnFZBefzGYF5vybPSxb/s320/godfrey%20and%20vail%20photography.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.02in;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Forensic-investigation</span></b></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">In April 2021, I reached out to a police Forensic artist and re constructionist, Michael Streed, who</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">owns a company called </span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">SketchCop. Streed is one of the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">world’s leading forensic artists based out of Orange County, California and the Baltimore and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Washington D.C. areas. Streed</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">has</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">been</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">involved</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">law</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">enforcement</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">for</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">over</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">35</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">years</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">though</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">he</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">now</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">retired</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sergeant, he still works on cases for the Baltimore Police Department as their full-time sketch artist.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-left: 0.08in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ref</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/forensic-investigation/sketch-artist/"><span style="color: #00007f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/forensic-investigation/sketch-artist/</u></span></span></a></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">Streed analyzed the photo and compared them to three other known Wyatt Earp photos. Both Michael and I are former law enforcement so I could tell that we were both being very cautious about how we approached the situation. When we initially communicated, I was careful to conceal the identity of the photograph and my feelings about it. We drafted and signed a non-disclosure agreement. It was only after the agreement was signed that I told Michael who I thought the person in the photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Michael's</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">extensive</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">assessment</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">indicated</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">question</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was “highly likely” Wyatt Earp.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in; margin-top: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim4CWEtPi45_Og5YFKecBdenDsVXIZDjRXu7ULcmwUIwibIvUSp39WaulA0yWbcmXZ8dijs-CW6MOHIydLPThyOuuPmPQE4zGDZlSyJ7fvklp-LMFqy2OD6wUBUeCQLJTzerZKswW4Ug2hLApro0MOMyoEqo1A2BeIMiCVkUfj6oz6amXeXuq_trOR0BH5/s512/wyatt%20sketch%20cop.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="367" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim4CWEtPi45_Og5YFKecBdenDsVXIZDjRXu7ULcmwUIwibIvUSp39WaulA0yWbcmXZ8dijs-CW6MOHIydLPThyOuuPmPQE4zGDZlSyJ7fvklp-LMFqy2OD6wUBUeCQLJTzerZKswW4Ug2hLApro0MOMyoEqo1A2BeIMiCVkUfj6oz6amXeXuq_trOR0BH5/w295-h344/wyatt%20sketch%20cop.png" width="295" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #1c2127;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 1.41in; page-break-before: always;"></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.38in; margin-right: 0.36in; margin-top: 0.01in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Side</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>side</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>comparison</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Michael</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Streed</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“Sketch</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cop”</i></span></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.18in; margin-right: 0.36in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Questionable</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Photos</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>and</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Smoking</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> guns</b></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.1in; text-indent: 0.12in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Around 2015 stories began to surface in the news about the discovery of a previously unknown photograph of the famous outlaw, William H. Bonney aka Bill the Kid. The photo was apparently discovered</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">resale</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">shop</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Fresno</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">California.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">story</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">appeared</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">on</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">several</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">news</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sources</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">including True West Magazine. The following is an excerpt from news.justcollecting.com.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="color: #202428; font-size: medium;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Several photographs purporting to feature the legendary Old West outlaw have surfaced over the years, although all but one have been debunked by scholars. Most famously, a photo said to feature Bonney and his gang playing croquet at a wedding party in New Mexico was discovered in 2010 in a Fresno junk shop.That photograph was the subject of</i></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>a major</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>National Geographic documentary, and made</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>headlines</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>around</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>world</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>when</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>it</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>was</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>valued</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>at</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>up</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>to</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>$5</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>million</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>–</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>although</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>many</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>experts</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>have since dismissed its authenticity.”</i></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>ref</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><a href="https://news.justcollecting.com/billy-the-kid-outlaw-photograph-new-discovery-auction-texas/"><span style="color: #00007f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i><u>https://news.justcollecting.com/billy-the-kid-outlaw-photograph-new-discovery-auction-texas/</u></i></span></span></a></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.05in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">True</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">West</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Magazine</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">posted</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">very</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">detailed</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">article</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">about</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">discovery</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Billy</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Kid</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photograph. Ref </span></span><a href="https://truewestmagazine.com/article/billy-the-kid-experts-weigh-in-on-the-croquet-photo/"><span style="color: #00007f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>https://truewestmagazine.com/article/billy-the-kid-experts-weigh-in-on-the-croquet-photo/</u></span></span></a><span style="color: #00007f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Its very apparent that the author of the article and great care to take a very objective look at the information.</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.39in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">included</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">opinions</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">views</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">from</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">those</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">who</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">supported</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">authenticity</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photograph</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and those who had dismissed the authenticity of the new found photograph.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I myself have read many articles and viewed documentaries from both sides of the argument where the William</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Bonney</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photo</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">concerned</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">as</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">any</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">investigation.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">are</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">myths,</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">truth</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">lot</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">stuff in between.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I have to agree with one big statement in the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">True</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">West</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Article from Drew Gomber, from Lincoln County He states;</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.46in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">There</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">big</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">difference</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">between</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">documentation,</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">which</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">document</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">trail</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">that</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">leads</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">back</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">day</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">one,</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">and authentication,</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">which merely identifies the picture as</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">being from a particular period and sometimes, a place. Personally, I still have to go with documentation.”</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">—</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">Drew</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">Gomber,</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">Lincoln</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">County</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">historian</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">So</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">what</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Drew</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gomber</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">referring</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">white</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">elephant</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">room,</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">which</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">pertains</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“Provenance” which I refer to as “The smoking gun”.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In historic reenacting, Provenance was mainly found and authenticated via “primary source information” Not a copy. But original documentation.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This therefore must be acknowledged in the case of the photograph in my possession. Though, I have to note that unlike the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">William Bonney</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photograph.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Which is taken from quite a distance, and makes it difficult for the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">investigators to make a</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">better identification.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">possible</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Wyatt</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photograph is a</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">direct</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">close up in a more controlled situation lending itself to a better examination.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Another big difference is that the possible Wyatt photo is not for sale. It has not been shopped around for a positive answer to its authenticity and has only been shown to those people who I had hoped could help to establish provenance. But just like the William Bonney photograph, it lacks provenance. There is no smoking gun to connect the photograph to Wyatt Earp. So at this point, my investigation has only</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">forensic- investigative and circumstantial backed evidence.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">-Gene</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Stevens</span></span></span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.38in; margin-right: 0.36in; margin-top: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>On</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>The</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Trail</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>of</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Wyatt</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Earp</b></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.02in;"><span class="sd-abs-pos" style="left: 3in; position: absolute; top: 0.2in; width: 237px;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIurUm1YZE1fyGeqUHH_NJnmKjJQFHKDgab2IKf-cCtIj4a_7v1bzoclHLiwDU1XZuo8JLwWdJXHa4pk37KqeYFy-upXD5VA9RVpBLvNj37vkz3msWLXoKaRqITXvKxg6IoSNc4wNMd2nw8cbVdGYa4zE71Qa4XSEMDo7Vcagvd2HURySn6hkZDIcYuWp/s884/wyatt%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="681" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIurUm1YZE1fyGeqUHH_NJnmKjJQFHKDgab2IKf-cCtIj4a_7v1bzoclHLiwDU1XZuo8JLwWdJXHa4pk37KqeYFy-upXD5VA9RVpBLvNj37vkz3msWLXoKaRqITXvKxg6IoSNc4wNMd2nw8cbVdGYa4zE71Qa4XSEMDo7Vcagvd2HURySn6hkZDIcYuWp/s320/wyatt%201.jpg" width="247" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.04in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.51in; margin-right: 0.36in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>The</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Wyatt</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Earp</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Arizona</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Photo</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.15in; margin-right: 0.51in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><b>By</b></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.13in; margin-right: 0.33in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Gene</b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><b>Stevens</b></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">I've always been history buff. As a kid, I grew up hearing my Dad's world war two stories and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">watching</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">classic TV in Chicago during</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the 1960's and 70's. I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">had a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">healthy</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">dose of John Wayne movies and I was lucky enough to see the movie Shane on a full size theater screen in the basement of neighborhood friend, who's Dad was a projectionist in a theater in downtown Chicago. My Father recognized my love of history and when my eight grade class at the John C Coonley Elementary school in Chicago organized a trip to Washington DC before our graduation, he made sure that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">able</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">go,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">paid</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">for</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">trip.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">It</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">trip</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">D.C.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">really</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ignited</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a love in me for our history.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.1in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">I love the American West and Western movies, that's for sure.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I'm not really a collector of wild west items per se. I am a mainly a train buff and collector of old toy trains right now, and trains most certainly played a huge role in the settlement of the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">American</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">west.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">In</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">1990's,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">became</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">historic</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reenactor.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reenacted</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">multiple time periods, including civil war, World War two and fur trade period, particularly the Black Hawk War of 1832. It was my study of the Black Hawk war period that brought me into a deeper understanding of westward expansion. It motivated me to write a book on the first battle of the Black War called “Red Flag of Defiance”.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">The hobby also gave me the unique opportunity to travel all over the country, and to see many historic places. I walked on many battlefields and visited many historic sites. It was quite a journey.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I also collected and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">owned some original civil war related collectibles. Including tin types and carte de visite </span>photos of civil war soldiers.</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.13in; margin-top: 0.06in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2015</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">My</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">wife</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">made</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">our</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">first</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">trip</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Arizona.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">It</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">first</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">many.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">We</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">both fell</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">love</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">desert,the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">history</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">everything</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Arizona</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">had</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">offer.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">The</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">first time we visited there, I was compelled to go Tombstone. I had seen all the movies and westerns since I was a kid, and I wanted to see what the wild west was all about. My wife (Vicki) and I loved Tombstone so much that we decided to get married</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">there</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">2017.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">We</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">were</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">wedded</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">by</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">honorable</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Doctor</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Jay</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Linda</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">at the O.K. Corral. It was a very very special moment.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">As I previously stated, I'm not an avid collector of western related stuff. I do own many books on various historic subjects, a couple of books on Wyatt Earp, some artwork by CM</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Russell</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">own</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">some reproduction western badges. But</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">with that said,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">on</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">mission</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">transform</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">large</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">rock</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">garden</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">my</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">back</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">yard</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">into</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">life size wild west diorama. </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">So I went on a search through antique shops and ebay for western themed yard items</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">or</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">other</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">western</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">collectibles</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">would</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">look</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">good</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">my</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">yard.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">While</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">shopping online, I ran into a photo that caught my eye. It was listed as a “cabinet tintype photo of Described as; a "gentleman"</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">wild west originally from Arizona.'</span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Having</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">some</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">basic</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">understanding</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">period</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">(19</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">century)</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photos</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">from</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">my</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reenacting days.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">recognized</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">is</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">probably</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">an</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ambrotype.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">But</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">when</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">looked</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">at</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the photo, I was immediately struck by the mans face as being familiar. As I looked at it more, I felt that the photo looked like a younger Wyatt Earp. I'm not going out on a limb here, because I had no idea who it is (or was). The photo was listed for $40.00 dollars. And as I mentioned, I had a couple of tintypes and carte de visites in the past during my civil war reenacting days. Though, I personally thought that $40.00 was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">bit</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">steep</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">for</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">any</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">tintype.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">But,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">decided</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">buy</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">anyway.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">guess</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">just had see this photo for myself.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">Once</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">had</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">it</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">my</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">possession,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">stunned</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">by</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">resemblance</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">person</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">But</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">knew</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">at</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">point</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">just</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">another unknown person from the 19</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> century. I'm a bit of a digger and researcher, so</span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I started by doing some of my own comparisons. I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">first compared the photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to a couple of known photos of Wyatt Earp. And there were many anatomically similar features. Showing that the photo in question had many striking similarities to known</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photos.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Particularly</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">or</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">taken</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">while</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">he was in Lamar Missouri which is fairly clear Photo of Wyatt.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUowRmW4Bux2WHi-R3bSCmixaW5dgbhJvobNOC54FGrIOXfcwqa049MhNj-1WzuNx_e0G2Ky5VcijnFylmJiRJJMMzw8ynnIT9mYwOQzHWt4AFDqLJYEN3hr4Q_nPfpR-V-rrRwhZVk0yNx7fsQ5MZScVuNeJSbZgHNTDKwlcZdb8LgKfZbIpcj67PKaTN/s493/Lamar%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="377" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUowRmW4Bux2WHi-R3bSCmixaW5dgbhJvobNOC54FGrIOXfcwqa049MhNj-1WzuNx_e0G2Ky5VcijnFylmJiRJJMMzw8ynnIT9mYwOQzHWt4AFDqLJYEN3hr4Q_nPfpR-V-rrRwhZVk0yNx7fsQ5MZScVuNeJSbZgHNTDKwlcZdb8LgKfZbIpcj67PKaTN/s320/Lamar%20photo.jpg" width="245" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #1c2127;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">I was now seriously compelled to investigate the photo further. I went online and located a site that dealt with facial recognition (www.faceplusplus.com). I did some comparisons</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">with</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">known</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">picture</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">(</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">known</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">as</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Lamar</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo) and the comparison indicated a high probability 70%, in that the photo that I'm in possession is "probably" the same person as the person in the Lamar photo... Wyatt </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mw3yJnNewqbAX2sM-Vu992x89re1FJUtewpqlvA0hICawEeSR2XJtu5Vp12DV-oUlbef2TLVxsi0ZtDgPGyZQSxo273AgUMN580YiqEPnNrYw-zE2BqUq_3r099Tqgl4Jtd6NkGPXXn2cBkF8o0XaNIuQsk2_1hTIg9-D9ugT0yxZvIV2z3LHSB_SzUa/s1648/wyatt%20comparison.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1648" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mw3yJnNewqbAX2sM-Vu992x89re1FJUtewpqlvA0hICawEeSR2XJtu5Vp12DV-oUlbef2TLVxsi0ZtDgPGyZQSxo273AgUMN580YiqEPnNrYw-zE2BqUq_3r099Tqgl4Jtd6NkGPXXn2cBkF8o0XaNIuQsk2_1hTIg9-D9ugT0yxZvIV2z3LHSB_SzUa/w509-h273/wyatt%20comparison.jpg" width="509" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #1c2127;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.11in; margin-top: 0.05in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">I then did some additional comparisons to other known Wyatt Earp photos and those</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">comparisons</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">lead</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">me</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">believe</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">program</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">had</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">some</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reliability,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Though I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">cannot</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">vouch</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">for</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">reliability</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">particular</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">platform.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">also</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">compared</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">it</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the photo of Wyatt as a child with his mother, and the comparison to the Wyatts childhood</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">face</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">also</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">scored</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">at</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">68%</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">positive</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">relation</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ambrotype</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in my possession. To help place the photo in context with its time period. Its worth mentioning that the photo processes of the day at changed in more modernized places, and that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the ambrotype photos had faded out of popularity in the east by the 1860's. But were still very much in use during that time by frontier photographers of the day, due to their ease of production. </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">At this point, I knew I needed more information, so I decided to reach out to the seller about the photo. All the seller would tell me was that the photo was purchased</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">from an auction house in Youngstown Arizona, and that the photo was by</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">itself, with no other</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">items. On</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">really</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">strange note, I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">tried to ask the seller more questions about the photograph, and I was rebuffed with hostility and shut down. Perhaps I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was either too assertive (which I don't believe that I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was), or the seller did not</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">want to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">divulge</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the exact</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">source.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">followed</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">up</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">by emailing two</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">auctions</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">houses in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Youngstown</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">area</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">see</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">if</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">they</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">knew</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">anything</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">about</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">One</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">said</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that they did not remember the photo. The other said that the picture looked familiar, but they could not recall anymore details. I had reached biggest obstacle in establishing any provenance.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.11in; margin-top: 0.05in; page-break-before: always;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;">Tombstone</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;">Times</span></span></span></b></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.09in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">All things considered, I felt that I needed to reach out to someone closer to Wyatt Earp</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">history.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I'm</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">never</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">one</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">consider</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">trail</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">cold</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">until</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I've</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">exhausted</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">any</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">all resources. So I contacted a resource in Tombstone Arizona, unfortunately. My source</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Tombstone</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">wished</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">remain</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">anonymous.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">I</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">sent</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">person</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">copy of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the picture to examine. I was actually expecting a response saying something like, “you must be crazy.. This isn't</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt Earp”. But then I received the following response from the anonymous source.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>I will start out by stating that I am not an expert on photo comparison, by any means.That said, I am always up to the challenge.</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Although, I cannot state it is not Wyatt Earp from first look, I will state that a few things come to my mind first of all ---Wyatt never wore a beard, much</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>less</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>an</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>"amish-style"</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>beard</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>with</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>no</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>mustouche.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Wyatt</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>always</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>had</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>mustache</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>in</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>every photo of him and this photo does not show a mustache. So, that alone makes me think it is not him.</i></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>He</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>does</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>have</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>similar</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>eye</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>slant,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>but</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>nose</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>quite</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>same.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>And</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>one</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>thing</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that really</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>helps</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>identify</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>photo</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>ears,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>unfortunately,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>part</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>of</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>image</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>clear enough to give a good comparison. The fact that the photo was originally found in Youngstown,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>AZ</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>doesn't</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>really</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>give</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>clue,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>since</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>city</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>in</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>biggest</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>county,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Maricopa, which offers more places for antiques to be sold. We are (sic) leaning towards the thought that it could be another Earp relative, but not likely Wyatt.</i></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Honestly, there have been so many other correspondences with photos of a man from that time - most all believing that they found the golden ticket to having an unseen image of the famous</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>man,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>I</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>have</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>rejected</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>forthright</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>any</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>thought</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>it</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>was</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>even</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>worth</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>researching</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>let them know it was one of many that people think might be the famous Wyatt Earp but is just another old west photo of an old west man. But, that said we think that this is worth further investigation since there is at least some resemblance.</i></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">I have to say, that I was very surprised and elated, though very cautiously optimistic</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">by the response. I was most definitely happy that I wasn't the only one who saw the same face that I did,</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">didn't</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">automatically</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">dismiss</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">find,</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">..</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">well..</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">Call</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">me</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">crazy</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">or</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">accuse</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">me</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">trying to hoodwink the public.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">But with that said, many people who do historic research frequently suffer</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">slings</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">arrows</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">when</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">they</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">try</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">reveal</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">discovery</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">new</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">things.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">I</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">understand</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">why my source wants to stay anonymous. I too have suffered similar slings and arrows for this find.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">And I expect to suffer more. But with that said, I've had some time to study and research more, and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">I'd like to address a couple of Comments for the sake of investigative clarity .</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinr82UQv_L2z3qCbbdPQ_oWpEvIWLOzoWws9DrdSB1WX0N8aRNbCRRTyCOAIYuz2JOhUVU7fWJUT0YChr83rH3410ETTB8hCLo4iak8dXDp5LrLhhpGuTN9bvZaNH5VpuApKQgFrN8TRLAVX3o-nykJcfPPvspXlKW4_Aa6g9euSsmMsQekhP4Xs5lAFVI/s884/wyatt%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="681" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinr82UQv_L2z3qCbbdPQ_oWpEvIWLOzoWws9DrdSB1WX0N8aRNbCRRTyCOAIYuz2JOhUVU7fWJUT0YChr83rH3410ETTB8hCLo4iak8dXDp5LrLhhpGuTN9bvZaNH5VpuApKQgFrN8TRLAVX3o-nykJcfPPvspXlKW4_Aa6g9euSsmMsQekhP4Xs5lAFVI/s320/wyatt%201.jpg" width="247" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">“ </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Wyatt never wore a beard, much less an "amish-style" beard with no mustouche. Wyatt always</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>had</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>mustache</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>in</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>every</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>photo</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>of</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>him</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>this</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>photo</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>does</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>show</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>mustache.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>So, that alone makes me think it is not him.”</i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI330rgDNfKv2_kAu3Fp_vBJIJBOk9Uqf_No5rnv5nBgJ84JVCQr4mEShEg6T4Oshr9F7qHK33_vYW_1atOsAAn-z0_b3e03myt7vpx0Y0APpYD1JBttUCwcxLkwVTqiq9v1__0lsjPHKoamtYskL8JH7qkfh9JKikA0csx9HK2R1iRF0tjwTnECUvYTze/s493/Lamar%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="377" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI330rgDNfKv2_kAu3Fp_vBJIJBOk9Uqf_No5rnv5nBgJ84JVCQr4mEShEg6T4Oshr9F7qHK33_vYW_1atOsAAn-z0_b3e03myt7vpx0Y0APpYD1JBttUCwcxLkwVTqiq9v1__0lsjPHKoamtYskL8JH7qkfh9JKikA0csx9HK2R1iRF0tjwTnECUvYTze/s320/Lamar%20photo.jpg" width="245" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /><i><br /></i></span></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.01in;"><span class="sd-abs-pos" style="left: 3.19in; position: absolute; top: 0.19in; width: 202px;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.03in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 15.68px; margin-right: 0.17in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">The above photo is popularly known as the Lamar photo, take during Wyatt Earp's time in Lamar Missouri. Its very apparent by this photo that; Wyatt as what vaguely appears</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">be</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Mustache</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">what</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">appears</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">be</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">small</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">beard</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">or</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">beginning</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of one, suggesting that this could have been when he decided to start wearing facial </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">hair.</span></span></p></li></ul><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.02in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 15.2px; margin-right: 0.34in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Its</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">also</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">apparent</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">he</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">has</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">what</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">appears</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">to</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">be</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">a</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">small</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">beard</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">or</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">late</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">adolescent </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">growth.</span></span></p></li></ul><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>'He</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>does</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>have</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>similar</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>eye</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>slant,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>but</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>nose</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>quite</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>same.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>And</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>one</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>thing</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that really helps identify a photo is the ears, and unfortunately, that part of the image is not clear enough to give a good comparison.”</i></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">The</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">Arizona photo appears to be a similar late adolescent growth somewhat like the Lamar</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">photo.</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">But</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">Longer.</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">If</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">is</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">Earp,</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">this</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">may</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">have</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">been</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">taken</span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: Arial, serif;">during the Earp family transit to or arrival in San Bernadino California from Pella Iowa.</span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>And</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>one</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>thing</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>really</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>helps</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>identify</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>photo</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>ears,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>unfortunately,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>part</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>of the image is not clear enough to give a good comparison.”</i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.02in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 15.2px; margin-right: 0.17in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">A</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">close forensic examination of the photo cleaned up the photo and indicated (and is visible)</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">features</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ears</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">both</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Arizona</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Lamar</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photos</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">are</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">similar.</span></span></p></li></ul><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.17in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">“</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>but</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the nose</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>not</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>quite the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> same”</i></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.2in; text-indent: 0.18in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>In the book “The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp” By</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Author and Illustrator, Bob Boze Bell, lays out a clear and concise timeline of Wyatt Earp's life. On page 18 the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>Author tells us that Wyatt, Barely 20 years old “Finds his true calling when he encounters whiskey peddlers, whores, and gamblers who follow the (railroad) tracks. He is facinated by their lifestyle,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>smart</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>enough</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>to</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>play</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>their</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>game</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>bold</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>enough</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>to</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>stand</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>up</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>to</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>their</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>games.</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>He</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>is also exposed to one of the most popular sports on the railroad construction sites – Boxing.” </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">It was during this time that Wyatt both a bidder and a boxer. He sometimes competed, sometimes promoted and occasionally refereed fisticuffs. It is possible that the change in Wyatt's nose was due his boxing activities during this time? Its not only possible, but </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;">probable.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-top: 0.1in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h1 align="LEFT" class="western" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 64px; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.38in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">In</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">book</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Famous</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Gunfighters</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Western</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Frontier</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">by</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">W.B.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">(Bat)</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Masterson, He states;</span></span></h1><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>I have known Wyatt Earp since early in the seventies,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>And I have seen him tried out under circumstances which made the test of manhood supreme. He landed in Wichita Kansas in 1872,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>being</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>about</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>26</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>years</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>old,</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>weighing</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>in</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>neighborhood</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>of</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>one</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>hundred</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>and</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><i>sixty pounds, all of it muscle. He stood six feet in height, with light blue eyes, and a complexion bordering on the blonde.</i></span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">Where</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Could</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">The</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">have</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">been</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Taken?</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">In</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">spring</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">1864,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Rousseaus</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">and</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">three</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">neighboring</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">families---the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earps, the Curtis'es, and the Hamiltons,---left Iowa and moved out west.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">The expedition west had a diarist along by the name of Sarah Jane Rousseau. She was eager to escape from the bitter cold Iowa winters. Suffering from a debilitating case</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">rheumatism,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">she</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">hoped</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">she</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">could</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">find</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">relief</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">from</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">her</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">crippling</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">disease at her new home in California. Whereas</span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.24in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>On</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>May</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>12,</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>1864</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>the</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>four</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>families</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>embarked</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>by</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>wagon</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>train</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>for</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>southern</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>California, rendezvousing</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>at</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>the nearby</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>town of Pella, where</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>wagon</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>master,</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>Nicholas</i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i> </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>Earp and his family lived. Sarah Jane Rousseau, virtually unable to walk by this time, began her wonderful journal of the group's experiences which eventually took them to the town of San Bernardino. Her diary was detailed with descriptions of the caravans' day-to-day life. Ref </i></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><i>https://<a href="http://www.sbcity.org/about/history/pioneer_women/sarah_jane_rousseau.asp">www.sbcity.org/about/history/pioneer_women/sarah_jane_rousseau.asp</a></i></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.09in; text-indent: 0.05in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">It is well known fact that the Earp family was very mobile and on the move most of their lives. As the civil war subsided, the American west was opening up to settlement and Nicholas Earp, Wyatt's father was on the move in pursuit of a better life. In late 1864, the Earp family departed Pella Iowa on a wagon train bound for San Benadinos California, by way of Salt Lake City Utah. In the book </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Pioneer Photographers</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>of</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>the</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Far</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>West:</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>A</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Biographical</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Dictionary,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>1840-1865</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>,</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;">There</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">is</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">ample</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">information to indicate that there were photographers present in both Salt Lake City and San Bernadino California.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.1in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">But</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">again,</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">if</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">subject</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">is</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Earp.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">The</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">best</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">chance</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">of</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Wyatt</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">sitting for a photo would have been in San Bernadino. It was in the new frontier town of San Bernadino, that another new person had also settled into the area right around the same time as the Earp Family and his name was Maurice A. Franklin. And he arrived in San Bernadino in 1864. Franklin set up a photograph shop on D street, Not far from where the Earp family had set up camp upon arriving in California.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-top: 0.07in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 1.12in;"></p><h1 class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-right: 0.46in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Another</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Piece</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Puzzle</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">on</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Trail.</span></span></span></h1><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.18in; text-indent: 0.12in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">While searching for additional information online, I ran into a video of a</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Writer by</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the name of Nick Cataldo. He appeared in a 2016</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">program on C-Span</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in which he spoke about a book that he had written, called “The Earp Clan, The Southern California</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Years.”.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As I listened to Nick talk about his book, I realized that he had another piece of the puzzle that I was searching for. I purchased a copy of Nicks</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">book.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">On</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">page</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">15</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">under</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">subtitle</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“Notorious</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“D</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Street”</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nick</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">tells</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">story</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">early</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">years of San Bernadino and the Corner of Third and D street which became known as Whiskey Point. Nick also states that “The town that greeted them (The Earps) was pretty tough. San Bernadino featured a number of saloons, gambling halls, and a flourishing red light district on south “D” Street. It also proved</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">be</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nick</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Earp's</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">kind</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">town”.</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">addition</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">saloons</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">cat</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">houses</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">San</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Bernadino. Other businesses sprung up. One of which was the photographic studio of Maurice Franklin, located near 3</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">rd</span></sup></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and “D” street.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.18in; text-indent: 0.12in;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji43OGkjbu-7zjYksZWqOrWq_EusjWune_wZuakrhoRpV-5JOoR0ileROAANGj4BGG4thajMJ6v84lomHztHEToBKvPYiJrK8-ZkKixUxcs6a-FVnz0zgfcwYbg-ZSAOIMMUnTG6Gcn7nMk-IyiuZVtrlag8VzyiXUkl1Oj0kfyd7En2lHp4_CfmMoLyoP/s449/bldg%20in%20san%20bernadino.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="449" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji43OGkjbu-7zjYksZWqOrWq_EusjWune_wZuakrhoRpV-5JOoR0ileROAANGj4BGG4thajMJ6v84lomHztHEToBKvPYiJrK8-ZkKixUxcs6a-FVnz0zgfcwYbg-ZSAOIMMUnTG6Gcn7nMk-IyiuZVtrlag8VzyiXUkl1Oj0kfyd7En2lHp4_CfmMoLyoP/w445-h291/bldg%20in%20san%20bernadino.jpg" width="445" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #1c2127; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.14in;"><span class="sd-abs-pos" style="left: 2.31in; position: absolute; top: 0.31in; width: 377px;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in; margin-top: 0.01in; text-indent: 0.07in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photo t</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">aken in the early 1870s</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">high-resolution scan later showed that</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Vale’s photography sign could</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">be</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">seen</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">on</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">upper</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">floor.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">upstairs</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">studio</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">had</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">been</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">gallery</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Maurice</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Franklin. Located at 3</span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> and D Street.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1okJYuQDQ_CPCUnuWFJYFVXbAkCK3Hhv1c0ZhLNGsEBkqkWhNlSDZozwLngfhQ32wVo6Lb8MQPnSBAd_46Xp58O0S2hjk-aNsWlqTEURDBcjRGTMDqVt5ICHcxZzmGNBAUyscCKnfqKjZhWr8RTM6ioXynl_zTaOCgppRr7ibVKnFZBefzGYF5vybPSxb/s640/godfrey%20and%20vail%20photography.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="640" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1okJYuQDQ_CPCUnuWFJYFVXbAkCK3Hhv1c0ZhLNGsEBkqkWhNlSDZozwLngfhQ32wVo6Lb8MQPnSBAd_46Xp58O0S2hjk-aNsWlqTEURDBcjRGTMDqVt5ICHcxZzmGNBAUyscCKnfqKjZhWr8RTM6ioXynl_zTaOCgppRr7ibVKnFZBefzGYF5vybPSxb/s320/godfrey%20and%20vail%20photography.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0.02in;"><span style="color: #1c2127; font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Forensic-investigation</span></b></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">In April 2021, I reached out to a police Forensic artist and re constructionist, Michael Streed, who</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">owns a company called </span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">SketchCop. Streed is one of the</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">world’s leading forensic artists based out of Orange County, California and the Baltimore and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Washington D.C. areas. Streed</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">has</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">been</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">involved</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">law</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">enforcement</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">for</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">over</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">35</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">years</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">though</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">he</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">now</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">retired</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sergeant, he still works on cases for the Baltimore Police Department as their full-time sketch artist.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-left: 0.08in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Ref</span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/forensic-investigation/sketch-artist/"><span style="color: #00007f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/forensic-investigation/sketch-artist/</u></span></span></a></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;">Streed analyzed the photo and compared them to three other known Wyatt Earp photos. Both Michael and I are former law enforcement so I could tell that we were both being very cautious about how we approached the situation. When we initially communicated, I was careful to conceal the identity of the photograph and my feelings about it. We drafted and signed a non-disclosure agreement. It was only after the agreement was signed that I told Michael who I thought the person in the photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was.</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">Michael's</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">extensive</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">assessment</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">indicated</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">that</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">the</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">photo</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">in</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">question</span><span style="color: #1c2127;"> </span><span style="color: #1c2127;">was “highly likely” Wyatt Earp.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.14in; margin-top: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim4CWEtPi45_Og5YFKecBdenDsVXIZDjRXu7ULcmwUIwibIvUSp39WaulA0yWbcmXZ8dijs-CW6MOHIydLPThyOuuPmPQE4zGDZlSyJ7fvklp-LMFqy2OD6wUBUeCQLJTzerZKswW4Ug2hLApro0MOMyoEqo1A2BeIMiCVkUfj6oz6amXeXuq_trOR0BH5/s512/wyatt%20sketch%20cop.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="367" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim4CWEtPi45_Og5YFKecBdenDsVXIZDjRXu7ULcmwUIwibIvUSp39WaulA0yWbcmXZ8dijs-CW6MOHIydLPThyOuuPmPQE4zGDZlSyJ7fvklp-LMFqy2OD6wUBUeCQLJTzerZKswW4Ug2hLApro0MOMyoEqo1A2BeIMiCVkUfj6oz6amXeXuq_trOR0BH5/w295-h344/wyatt%20sketch%20cop.png" width="295" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #1c2127;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 1.41in; page-break-before: always;"></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.38in; margin-right: 0.36in; margin-top: 0.01in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Side</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>side</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>comparison</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>by</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Michael</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Streed</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“Sketch</i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #1c2127;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cop”</i></span></span></span></p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.18in; margin-right: 0.36in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Questionable</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Photos</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>and</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Smoking</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b> guns</b></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.1in; text-indent: 0.12in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Around 2015 stories began to surface in the news about the discovery of a previously unknown photograph of the famous outlaw, William H. Bonney aka Bill the Kid. The photo was apparently discovered</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">resale</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">shop</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Fresno</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">California.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">story</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">appeared</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">on</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">several</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">news</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">sources</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">including True West Magazine. The following is an excerpt from news.justcollecting.com.</span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="color: #202428; font-size: medium;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Several photographs purporting to feature the legendary Old West outlaw have surfaced over the years, although all but one have been debunked by scholars. Most famously, a photo said to feature Bonney and his gang playing croquet at a wedding party in New Mexico was discovered in 2010 in a Fresno junk shop.That photograph was the subject of</i></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>a major</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>National Geographic documentary, and made</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>headlines</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>around</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>the</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>world</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>when</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>it</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>was</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>valued</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>at</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>up</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>to</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>$5</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>million</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>–</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>although</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>many</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>experts</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>have since dismissed its authenticity.”</i></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>ref</i></span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span><a href="https://news.justcollecting.com/billy-the-kid-outlaw-photograph-new-discovery-auction-texas/"><span style="color: #00007f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i><u>https://news.justcollecting.com/billy-the-kid-outlaw-photograph-new-discovery-auction-texas/</u></i></span></span></a></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="break-before: page; margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.08in; margin-top: 0.05in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">True</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">West</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Magazine</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">posted</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">very</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">detailed</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">article</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">about</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">discovery</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Billy</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Kid</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photograph. Ref </span></span><a href="https://truewestmagazine.com/article/billy-the-kid-experts-weigh-in-on-the-croquet-photo/"><span style="color: #00007f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>https://truewestmagazine.com/article/billy-the-kid-experts-weigh-in-on-the-croquet-photo/</u></span></span></a><span style="color: #00007f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Its very apparent that the author of the article and great care to take a very objective look at the information.</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.39in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">And</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">included</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">opinions</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">views</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">from</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">those</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">who</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">supported</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">authenticity</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photograph</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and those who had dismissed the authenticity of the new found photograph.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I myself have read many articles and viewed documentaries from both sides of the argument where the William</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Bonney</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photo</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">concerned</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">as</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">any</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">investigation.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">are</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">myths,</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">truth</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">lot</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">of</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">stuff in between.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I have to agree with one big statement in the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">True</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">West</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Article from Drew Gomber, from Lincoln County He states;</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.46in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">“</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">There</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">big</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">difference</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">between</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">documentation,</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">which</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">a</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">document</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">trail</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">that</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">leads</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">back</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">day</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">one,</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">and authentication,</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">which merely identifies the picture as</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">being from a particular period and sometimes, a place. Personally, I still have to go with documentation.”</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">—</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">Drew</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">Gomber,</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">Lincoln</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">County</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, serif;">historian</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in; margin-right: 0.07in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">So</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">what</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Drew</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Gomber</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">referring</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">is</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">white</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">elephant</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">in</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">room,</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">which</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">pertains</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“Provenance” which I refer to as “The smoking gun”.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In historic reenacting, Provenance was mainly found and authenticated via “primary source information” Not a copy. But original documentation.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This therefore must be acknowledged in the case of the photograph in my possession. Though, I have to note that unlike the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">William Bonney</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photograph.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Which is taken from quite a distance, and makes it difficult for the</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">investigators to make a</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">better identification.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">possible</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Wyatt</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">photograph is a</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">direct</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">close up in a more controlled situation lending itself to a better examination.</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Another big difference is that the possible Wyatt photo is not for sale. It has not been shopped around for a positive answer to its authenticity and has only been shown to those people who I had hoped could help to establish provenance. But just like the William Bonney photograph, it lacks provenance. There is no smoking gun to connect the photograph to Wyatt Earp. So at this point, my investigation has only</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">forensic- investigative and circumstantial backed evidence.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-left: 0.08in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">-Gene</span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #202428;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Stevens99</span></span></span></p></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-17248486996448308192024-01-01T10:27:00.000-08:002024-01-09T12:38:49.214-08:00In Defense of Author Glenn G. Boyer ; A Review of the book Wyatt Earps Vendetta, Updated 01/01/2024<p> In Defense of Author Glenn G. Boyer </p><p> By Gene Stevens</p><p> Wyatt Earps VENDETTA BY GLENN G. BOYER</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmotlO_loGMgsWA96AVlU7R8Ci5hnx2n0MJhhH4weHGKBvqtAeM7CYj3CdrGm1JEaNtt1SxENCFiFVOQl1noS6CyftxbwTHWpzd64rvUMTmcr87rLFlF8FAo3tx6VqVxj-Ktj6jXTDk7iMzqLT8Mp30wVb_fVyHdR_sKHyFH6HKPkaGTkXw2Aj_wqOQjh5/s200/boyer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="156" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmotlO_loGMgsWA96AVlU7R8Ci5hnx2n0MJhhH4weHGKBvqtAeM7CYj3CdrGm1JEaNtt1SxENCFiFVOQl1noS6CyftxbwTHWpzd64rvUMTmcr87rLFlF8FAo3tx6VqVxj-Ktj6jXTDk7iMzqLT8Mp30wVb_fVyHdR_sKHyFH6HKPkaGTkXw2Aj_wqOQjh5/s1600/boyer.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>I've been meaning to, (and its long over due) in writing this review, and considering the nature of the review, I felt it necessary to be honest about my discoveries and assertions. I'd actually had an interest in Wyatt Earp, his life, and his life in Tombstone for a long time. I have been a frequent visitor of Tombstone Arizona for several years and even got married there in 2017. I learned a lot about Wyatt and Doc Holiday on my visits there, and have read various articles and books on Earp, and explored the Earp legend through the Lens of the Hollywood camera.</p><p> There's obviously a lot of variations on the story of Tombstone and Earp. The best of which is probably the 1993 film version of Tombstone. A movie which carried a lot of what was discovered by many writers and researchers. And one Writer in particular who was overlooked as a contributor, and that was an Author by the name of Glenn Boyer. As I watch the movie today, I filter much of what I see by what I read in Boyer's book Vendetta, and I see Glenn Boyers hand, his work and ideas in Tombstone. Though Glenn was not given one single line of credit in the movie. This is because Glenn had been an early victim of what appears to be cancel culture. It does not take a big stretch of imagination to come to the understanding that the fight in Tombstone was a political showdown between criminal democrat factions in and around Tombstone, and republican business interests and late comers to the region who were there because of the discovery of silver in Tombstone. This isn't imagination, its fact. </p><p> I had not even heard of Glenn Boyer and his extensive research into Wyatt Earp, until one day, when I had purchased a western collectable that was a probable piece of Erpania. I was conducting my own research on the item, which lead me down a dusty desert trail that lead across the United States from Pella Iowa, to San Bernadino California, Tucson Arizona and eventually to Tombstone Arizona.</p><p> It was there that I found myself posthumously introduced to Glenn Boyer, who had already passed away in 2013. His discovery prompted me to dig further and I began searching for books that Boyer had written and suddenly found myself in possession of one of his books The Earp Curse. I had no idea what the book was about when I ordered it online. But when it arrived, I realized that I was in possession of Glenn Boyer's detailed explanation of what had happened to him, The Earp Curse was a defense document and testament of what had occurred with the book Vendetta. It was the first time in my life that I had read a book from an Author who had been placed into a position of defending his life's work. A book in which he the Author had written to defend his own reputation. It was a really astounding moment in my own life, to realize that any person would be compelled to complete such a lengthy and detailed account, but I have to accept this document at face value, considering the deep political national experience that we have been going through for many years now. And after reading The Earp Curse I realized that my reading was well placed, in that, it was in the exact order of reading it juxtaposed with the book Vendetta. </p><p>I highly suggest, that if you choose to read Vendetta, that alongside it, you also read The Earp Curse. It will bring the situation into focus. There is some controversy about the book Vendetta, in which the Author, Glenn Boyer, was accused of falsifying information in the book. Though there is very little traction here in the way of true evidence that was presented to the public to point a clear finger of blame at Glenn or to provide contradictory evidence that proved Glenn wrong.</p><p> Accusation and character assassination seems to be the only avenues of approach to attack his works. One point that they attempted to attack was the characterization of his narrator Ten Eyck. In which Glenn states " The core of it is the "Ten Eyck Papers" As I call them. (sic). This appears on page VX of the Editors notes which seek to explain the foundation of the work that was completed in the writing of Vendetta. The following paragraph tells the reader the story of an Author who is attempting to protect the descendant of one of his sources from the wrath of the Ghosts of the Cow-Boys, and those who seek to be the king of the hill in western lore and the oligarchs of Earpania. One thing about Tombstone that I came to clearly understand was that the battle between democrat factions, and the image and story of Wyatt Earp, and those feelings related to the long and bloody history of Tombstone were still alive. I came to that conclusion, when I stood at the foot of the graves of the Clanton's and McLaury's at Boothill Cemetery. The grave there was built up, decorated and memorialized, as in... Not to be forgotten.</p><p>Page XV Editors Foreword</p><p><i>I am now under few constraints. Therefore, what follows is a very frank account at last. The core of it is the "Ten Eyck papers" as I call them<u>. Theodore Sr. demanded never to have his true name made public</u>. One of the major restraints under which this book must be presented. Naturally the same must apply to his son, who gave me the material, or it would be simple to identify the father. </i><i>The public may therefore conjecture that<u> this approach to relating history is a literary device.</u></i></p><p><i>-Glenn Boyer </i></p><p>The last sentence clearly tells us that Ten Eyck, was a literary device based on his informant who wished to remain confidential. One thing is clear, and that is that Glenn Boyer had something that no one else had, and that something was the plain and simple fact, Glenn had an intimate relationship with members of the Earp family that went back many years. And in the world of Earpania, this a thing that can generate a lot of jealousy. I had no idea that this state of mind even existed until, I myself started asking questions of my own. During my own research, and I was told by people very close in the circle in Tombstone, that my information would not be well received, because people would become jealous and angry, because they themselves were not in possession of what I had. This IS the FOUNDATION OF THE EARP CURSE. And it's very important to understand this before reading Vendetta.</p><p>In a 2009 Wild West Magazine interview; Boyer was asked about his relationship to the Earp family, and Boyer told of the beginning of his extensive relationship with the Earp Family,</p><p><i>Question; What is your family connection with the Earps?</i></p><p><i>Answer: My father was operating a shovel and rocker in Nome, Alaska, in 1901, on the Golden Strand. He was in the employ of a woman looking for her own fortune, whose husband was a saloonkeeper. Pa also worked for her husband as a “swamper,” or janitor, in his saloon. This couple was Wyatt and Josie Earp. My father paid little attention to the fact that Wyatt had earned a reputation as a dangerous lawman. </i><i>Later on, Pa, again working as an itinerate laborer, was thrown together with Earp in San Bernardino, Calif., while working orange groves owned by George Miller, a close friend of Wyatt’s. The two had met as teenagers in San Bernardino in 1864. Dad hit it off with Miller’s son, Bill. Given the closeness of George and Wyatt, it provided an opportunity for courtship between Bill and Estelle Edwards, the daughter of Adelia Earp Edwards, Wyatt’s sister. Bill and Estelle married a year later. Eventually, they became a second set of parents to me; likewise, they thought of me as a son.</i></p><p><i> ref https://www.historynet.com/not-married-to-wyatt-earp-glenn-boyer-interview/</i></p><p> In the opening pages of Vendetta, Glenn unveils the people, which he refers to as "informants" who helped him reach the pinnacle of his work. In his reveal, Boyer shows the reader, the portraits and names of those who came from the Earp lines and researchers, people who spent their life pursuing the Earp story. This section of the book covers sixteen pages. In other words, sixteen pages of references. I thought it was worth noting that these informants also included a researcher from Iowa by the name of Esther Colyn who was from Lenox Iowa, she passed away in 1973. Her timing and proximity to the story of Wyatt Earp is worthy of mention, because of the fact, that unlike modern day researchers, her time, place, proximity and unbiased position may have given her the best tools in which to research Wyatt Earps genealogy. I located her highly detailed obituary (see below) from the following source;</p><p>https://iagenweb.org/taylor/obituaries/lorelei3/buckley.html </p><p>Mrs. Chas. Colyn, 67, died at her home in Lenox after a lingering illness Tuesday.</p><p>Survivors include her husband, Charles, 2 step-daughters, Mrs. Avis Crawford and Mrs. Olive Ranck both of Portland, Oregon, 3 step-sons, Charles, David and John and their families all of McPherson, Kansas, 14 step grandchildren, two sisters, Miss Josephine Hulpieu and Mrs. Margaret Robb both of Dodge City, Kansas. Funeral services will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Salem. Church of the Brethren with Rev. Elmer West officiating. Burial will be in the Salem Cemetery. [Listed as buried in Fairview Cemetery, Lenox] Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday August 30, 1973</p><p>Colyn, Esther Hulpieu Irvine -Final rites were held at 2 pm Thursday, Aug. 30th for Mrs. Charles Colyn, who died Tuesday, August 28th at her home in Lenox after a lingering illness. Mrs. Colyn was born April 15, 1906 at Dodge City, Kansas, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hulpieu. She attended Dodge City public schools through high school, later receiving her BA degree from Southwestern College at Winfield, Kansas. She received her Master's Degree from the State University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas.</p><p>Mrs. Colyn worked as a laboratory and x-ray technician at Springfield, Mo., at Grace Hospital in Hutchinson and later at Eugene, Oregon. For a time she was micro-photographer for the Bonneville Power Administration at Portland, Oregon. An avid genealogist, she was an active member of the Genealogical Society in Portland, Oregon, while living there. Numerous papers and researches done by her are in genealogical libraries around the country. She published the book, "The Click Family Scrapbook."Mrs. Colyn had been very active in the Lenox area with handicapped and blind persons for a number of years.</p><p>She married William Q. Irvine in Eugene, Oregon Sept. 3, 1943. They lived in Portland, Oregon, where he died April 29, 1959. She married Charles A. Colyn Feb. 4, 1962, and the couple made Lenox their home,</p><p>Survivors are her husband, two step daughters, Mrs. Avis Crawford and Mrs. Olive Ranck both of Portland, Oregon, 3 step-sons, John Colyn, Charles Colyn, Jr., and David Colyn all of McPherson, Kansas, 14 step grandchildren and 4 step great grandchildren. Two sisters, Miss Josephene Hulpieu and Mrs. Margaret Robb, both of Dodge City, Kansas, as well as a host of friends also survive,</p><p>Glen Boyer states in the book "Vendatta"</p><p><i>"She traveled far and wide in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, interviewing Earps of Wyatts line, and compiled a genealogy and journal of recollections without parallel, which she gave to the author to perpetuate".</i></p><p><i>-Glenn Boyer</i></p><p>Vendetta</p><p>Vendetta, is the closest that any reader will ever get to know the truth about what happened in Tombstone, before, during and after the gun fight at the OK Corral. Vendetta does not have an index, the book is meant to be read from start to finish. It is also recommended that the reader review the Authors end note, and appendix. These are critical notes to pay attention to.</p><p>- Gene Stevens</p><p><i>Authors note;</i></p><p><i>Glenn Boyers Obituary</i></p><div class="subscriber-preview" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i><u>Glenn G. Boyer, an internationally recognized expert on the life of Wyatt Earp and other notables who swirled in the old lawman’s wake, died Thursday in Tucson. He was 89.</u></i></p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i>Boyer’s lengthy and thorough research brought the Old West to life for thousands of readers in a trilogy that culminated with “I Married Wyatt Earp,” the never-before-published story of Earp’s last wife, Josephine. The book, published in 1976, drew from family manuscripts and notes and remains popular today.</i></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i>The trilogy also included “The Suppressed Murder of Wyatt Earp” and “Wyatt Earp’s Tombstone Vendetta.” Boyer also uncovered the existence of Doc Holliday’s paramour, Big Nose Kate, and details about Earp nemesis John Behan.</i></p><div class="tnt-ads-container text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="tncms-region hidden-print" id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i>“Boyer was a giant in the field of Earp history,” said Ben Traywick, historian emeritus of Tombstone and noted Old West author. “Nobody could touch him.”</i></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i>Boyer was born in a log cabin in Wisconsin and, influenced by the attack on Pearl Harbor, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943. In 1944, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and pilot. In 1947, he joined the Alaska Air Command and served there until 1949.</i></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i> Over his 22-year military career, Boyer held several posts, including training officer of airborne radio officers for the Air Defense Command, Management Analysis, Air Operations Officer in Greenland and with the Pacific Air Forces. His most significant contribution was a statistical analysis of the F-100 aircraft that proved that overuse was leading to accidents and the planes needed more down time. The Air Force took his suggestions, resulting in saving an estimated 24 aircraft and an undeterminable number of pilots.</i></p></div><div class="tncms-region hidden-print" id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i>After retiring from the Air Force in 1965 as a lieutenant colonel, Boyer started his long quest in the field of Wyatt Earp. His childhood fascination with Earp culminated in a 40-year journey of exhaustive research. His many Earp contacts in California provided insights and history of the fabled Western hero. His closest contact was with Wyatt’s niece and husband, Estelle and Bill Miller, who provided previously unknown information and memorabilia.</i></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i>Boyer didn’t stop with Wyatt. His research took him through the entire Earp family, including Wyatt’s brothers, Virgil and Morgan, who along with Earp cohort Doc Holliday were participants in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span face="Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><i>Boyer lived in Tucson at the time of his death but also had lived and did research in much of Cochise County. His quest left nothing to chance and along the way he cultivated hundreds of sources dealing with the Earp story. One particular contribution was the details and background of Mattie Earp, Wyatt’s second wife, whose real name was Celia Blaylock.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i><span face="Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Over the years, Boyer expanded his writing to include the popular “Dorn” series, a fictional Old West character. He also wrote several books relating to Gen. George Custer, including one popular fiction offering, “Custer, Terry and Me.” He also was a significant contributor to several Western magazines, Arizona Highways, Popular Mechanics, Retired Officer and several scholarly journals. His last book, “Where the Heart Was,” is a fictional semi-autobiography depicting much of Boyer’s childhood. It was published in 2009. </span></span><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #444444; font-size: 17px;">Mr. Boyer is survived by his wife, noted poet and novelist Jane Candia Coleman; a son, Donald, of Hawaii; and a stepson, Daniel Coleman, of Arizona.</span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><i><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #444444; font-size: 17px;">Ref </span></i><a href="https://www.gvnews.com/news/local/noted-earp-historian-glenn-boyer-dies-in-tucson/article_6a144264-7892-11e2-b9cf-001a4bcf887a.html">Noted Earp historian Glenn Boyer dies in Tucson | Local News | gvnews.com</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Additional short article found on blogger about Glen.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><a href="https://rogershideout70.blogspot.com/2015/08/wyatt-earps-quotes-and-authorexpert.html?sc=1704831495523#c8628820616451463972">WYATT EARP'S QUOTES AND AUTHOR/EXPERT GLENN BOYER'S REMARKS (rogershideout70.blogspot.com)</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><br /></p><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="tnt-ads-container text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; text-align: center;"><div class="tnt-ads dfp-smart-ad" data-google-query-id="CJ37xqDnvIMDFViPpgQdecwMgA" id="tnt-smart-ad-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 40px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/132916964,1098308/gvnews.com/news/local_9__container__" style="border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto;"></div></div></div></div><div class="tnt-ads-container text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; min-height: 1px; text-align: center;"><div class="tnt-ads dfp-smart-ad" data-google-query-id="CJ37xqDnvIMDFViPpgQdecwMgA" id="tnt-smart-ad-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 40px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/132916964,1098308/gvnews.com/news/local_9__container__" style="border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto;"><br /></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-80787953210580244832023-08-23T22:51:00.005-07:002024-02-15T18:41:31.380-08:00Why We Need Trump Now By Gene Stevens<span style="font-size: medium;">There was a time in both historic reality, and artistic fantasy, when people reached a point in their lives when they felt a great struggle of spirit that inspired them reach for something higher than themselves. This spiritual crossroads could take the seeker in a number of directions. Some moved towards an intellectual pursuit of enlightenment through literature, poetry and music. While others challenged themselves physically in sports and others sought out the advice of family elders, consulted with personal Sages or came to God, repented, and prepared themselves for spiritual battle. And these are all great things and fueled great actions by American visionaries. </span><div><span style="font-size: medium;">However, today we have find ourselves trapped in a time of an out of focus and rough shod scattered field of intent, information, disinformation and misguided ideas. Ideas that come at us at such fast rate, that we barely have time to grieve the last thousand people that died in a suspicious and unresolved ways. </span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Be kind to people, everyone is going through a battle that no one but them knows about.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>A</span><span>dding to our issues, are other problems caused mainly by government involvement at many levels. And these problems included inflation and government overreach. None of this new at all. But what is new is the fact that inflation is at a point and place, that I've never seen before. There is absolutely no denying that everything has skyrocketed in price. Gas, Food, clothing, medicine, childcare, other products... Literally everything has gone up in price. Its </span><span>undeniable, and unlike anything ever seen in the past. And Americans are suffering under the financial fallout of a failed ideas of a poorly lead regime.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, Americans wake up everyday to a deluge of information that is intentionally mixed with lies, truth and gaslighting. This sounds like the language of demons. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Its no wonder that the suicide rate has climbed exponentially. And statistics reflected that the suicide rate was dominated by males. The rate of death is essentially the same as knocking out a whole battalion of able-bodied soldiers... Year after year, after year. One can only contemplate what the real plan is for our country. Especially when those in charge enable suicide by the destruction of self-esteem. This is a powerful weapon indeed. Add to this, a government who ran young families out of their jobs, and socially labeled people terrorists because of an overzealous response to apparently manufactured release of biological agent. And covid was the only disease that I've ever seen that was both called into existence by political decree and ended by political decree.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I could site many different historic aspects of what occurred in this country for the last three years, but it goes back much further that the 2020 election or the so-called insurrection on January 06th 2021. In my opinion it goes back to the American Civil war, but the most recent program-based changes to the United States started in Dealy Plaza in 1963, when JFK was assassinated. It was during the years following JFKs assassination that a rock-solid foundation was laid for a thing now known as the deep state. </span>The deep state system flourished after the Kennedy assassination. It fueled the Viet Nam war and the many subsequent conflicts since the fall of Saigon. And this new system essentially, and quietly took control of the United States. They formulated policy and kept us in a state of warfare since Saigon fell to the communists. But the deeper truth is that this system or apparatus was at war with itself and conducted its own secret wars around the world. The American people always had some basic knowledge of these activities, and citizens of the United States generally consented to such activities, as those political and military operations were directed outward towards our perceived enemies. Then, something really unexpected happened in 2016. And that was when Donald Trump ran for POTUS and was elected to POTUS..</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the things that Donald Trump stated over and over again during his campaign, was that he knew what was really going on, and that he was standing between the American people and a secret agenda that was grinding away throughout the world. I don't think anyone fully comprehended what any of this really meant. But as time progressed, and Donald Trump became the subject of an irrational threat fantasy that was being played out in media and social media. And as every week flew by since the fall of 2016, it became more and more apparent that the secretive apparatus had a real face and a real agenda which was no longer turned against a perceived enemy of the United States, but instead was in fact turned inward on the American people. And the faces, of those people and their agenda were known and understood by Donald Trump long before Trump decided to run for President. He had lived, worked and played alongside of the main players for many years. And he knew that the American people had a lot to be afraid of. And that the American people had no concept of what was moving against them. We did not know it then, but we know it now. And it was Trump who forced those players into the light so we would realize what we are dealing with. On some days the lack of justice is extremely frustrating. But in the absence of justice, we still have some opportunity to know and to understand what's happening. And it was Trumps tenacity that forced their hand. This is giving credit where credit is due. I am unsure of what our chances and probabilities of survival of the country are at this point in time, though I do know that Turmp delayed the ultimate end game plan for humanity by winning the 2016 election. He delayed not only during his Presidential term, but he continued to be a leader of a movement that gave people personal courage to stand up in their own communities. Theses grassroots warriors essentially became surrogates for Trump after Trump was run out of office and they maintained the program of delay to slow the internal forces that have been assailing the United States full force since 9-11. We are now entering the fall of 2023. It is very apparent that Donald Trump is going to try to gain the Presidential nomination for 2024. Even though he is currently under indictment under several levels of law in various states and the federal level. An action which is unprecedented in all of American history. He is still the favored candidate by voters.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> And that's easy to understand considering the fact that the system is punishing us the Voters the same way that runaway slaves were punished who escaped the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in the southern states. And people can see that not only with their eyes, but with their hearts and feelings. Many Americans and their families have suffered under persecution, and we can recognize what it is. In an interview just today with Tucker Carlson, Trump reminded us, reiterated his experiences during his administration and warned us about the total corruption that has seized control of our country and wellbeing. Its time to take serious stock in our country and to choose leadership that believes in our history and our freedom.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">We need Trump now.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-42997240371366844702023-03-06T14:34:00.005-08:002023-03-06T14:53:55.438-08:00DEI, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. A fireside spiritual perspective.<p> </p><div data-draftjs-conductor-fragment="{"blocks":[{"key":"f5it3","text":"\n","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"aq018","text":"By Gene Stevens; ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"4mrqa","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"bbt0m","text":" ","type":"atomic","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":1,"key":0}],"data":{}},{"key":"1olj","text":" For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":110,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":0,"length":110,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"f9uoa","text":"-Matthew 15:19","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":14,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":0,"length":14,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"8adkk","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"d0qtv","text":"DEI, Where did this all come from?","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":34,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":0,"length":34,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"6ijpm","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"3smlh","text":"Its been a pretty cold, wet and miserable winter in Iowa. Not to mention that the United States in general has not been the most hospitable place to live in during the last three years. The dark days of winter and the dark days of our country encourages me to seek out both the comfort of God and the warm of home and hearth. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"b4e4l","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"5qgkr","text":" I feel the need to let the holy spirit speak through me today because, First of all, I'm in my early sixties, I've lived in and visited a good portion of the nation and the world, I served in the military for eighteen years and I served within government as a professional in the legal field for over thirty years. I've had an exciting life. But all pride aside. I'm an imperfect person and a follower of Jesus.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"dnk2q","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"8ctbu","text":"Many of my contemporaries greatest fears when we were younger had nothing to do with their gender issues, getting gender reassignment, or equity, just because someone suggested to them that they might be in the wrong body. Our greatest fear was to be drafted into military service and being deployed to Vietnam. I didn't fear military service, because at the time I was very pro-military and was chomping at the bit to get into the service. And as soon as I turned eighteen, I raised my right hand, gave my oath to up-hold the constitution and swore to protect my nation. After that day I spent the rest of my life working in very altruistic jobs.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"uaus","text":" Then around 2014 certain social circumstance started to change my mind. That was six years after Barrack Obama was elected to office. That's when I began to see a tide turning, and things started to get pretty weird.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"vdll","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"8r4i3","text":" ","type":"atomic","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":1,"key":1}],"data":{}},{"key":"7mof","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"3vcln","text":"PhotoThe days of rage Chicago in the 1960's","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":43,"style":"ITALIC"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"3p2f2","text":"\n","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"4tjtc","text":" I'm no stranger to cultural revolutions and martial law. I was raised in Chicago during the 60's and 70's during the Vietnam war, the days of rage of the Chicago democratic convention, the assassination of Martin Luther King and riots, riots and more riots. Not to mention the Chicago seven trials that followed the days of rage in which seven co-conspirators were charged and tried in a very public show trial for crimes that took place in Chicago during that time. But nothing new was happening here, because Chicago had been targeted by anarchists going back to the late 1800's. And the socialist / liberal movements were alive and well there.. And apparently Satan was too.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"24k0k","text":"\nI wont pretend to have a college degree in history, I did however stand as an eye witness to many events that shaped our nation and lead us to where we are today. And, in my opinion, there are three major historic events that put us on the current road to perdition. The first event was the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 which changed the path of European history. It was a conflict which set the stage for other subsequent (and future) communist revolutions.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"3lug8","text":"\nThe second historical event, of which I was a direct and active participant, is connected to the first, and that was the long and protracted cold war. An active conflict in which the united states and other like minded nations fought back against the soviet union and communist Chinese forces, that occupied the dark space behind what Winston Churchill referred to as the “iron curtain”. That term coined by Churchill would stick to the world view narrative for the duration of this conflict. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"bt2h1","text":"\nThe the third event was, and would continue to be, an event which I believe is completely misunderstood by the American people. And that would be the sudden dismantling of the former soviet union and the symbolic destruction of the Berlin wall. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"6q7v5","text":"It was this particular event that would lead the world to believe that the cold war had finally come to an end. Many of us, including myself were fooled, and we assumed that we were entering a new and brighter age. This unfortunately could not be further from the truth, Because initially it looked like the world was more open for freedom of movement, freedom of expression and freedom of trade. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"5f4jt","text":"This seemed to be true until March of 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. I myself watched a Russian troops simply walked into Crimea and occupied the region. But this was not the army of the former Soviet union, because I had faced them in the past in various military operations, and was trained to identify their material of war. I knew their uniforms, equipment and weapons. But the new Russian army showed up in new uniforms, wearing new helmets, driving new vehicles and carrying updated weaponry. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"22itm","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"a3a7j","text":"It was in the moment that I knew that the west had indeed turned out the lights and gone to sleep. The Berlin wall had most definitely come down, but the end result was that the new Russian Army and communist ideology now had no boundaries. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":241,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"6ug8r","text":"\nBut 2014 wasn't the beginning, it was in fact the middle of the new phase, at least for the rest of the world. The American phase started in 2008, when Barrack Obama was elected. And he was from the most socialist aligned city in the nation, Chicago Illinois. It was in 2008, when our national identity began to slip away. And race and gender had nothing to do with it... But ideology did. Communist doctrine was (and is) the cargo, while the new race and gender cultural war is the vehicle that would deliver the ideology to its desired destination. And that destination is the hearts and minds of Americans, especially young Americans.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"duvtm","text":"\nAs Obama had declared in a speech in Missouri in 2008 in which he states;","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":1,"length":73,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"31r0h","text":"“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":1,"length":85,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":1,"length":85,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"eu38e","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"egj1j","text":"It was young Americans who became the target audience of a hijacked education system. All level schools from Kindergarten through masters degree programs had been infiltrated by liberal socialists. The indoctrination eventually evolved into CRT (Critical Race Theory), a program which systematically sought to dismantle the melting pot fabric of our Republic, an attempted to erroneously seperate Americans along the lines of race, gender and social class. An obvious attempt to repackage communist ideology to make it more sellable to younger Americans.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"6eqf8","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"fhnju","text":"But the idea of CRT came under attack many by concerned parents who flocked to school board meetings to contest the mounting damage being done to not only school curriculum, but tearing at the very fabric of families throughout the country. When it became obvious, school districts and school boards all over the U.S. realized that CRT had drawn too much attention, liberal acdemics did what they do best. The moved the goal posts and changed the language. CRT then became DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"8ckcg","text":"The DEI program moved onward and direct employees were hired at schools as DEI or Inclusion Officers. A title reminiscent of the Soviet political Commissar, or the Officers who would regulate political thought and political language. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"i3d6","text":"But now, DEI is in the bright light and in the sights of Iowa state Legislatos, and they seek to use their judicial power to stem the tide of this toxic doctrine. A bill currently in the pipeline is ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"1ju97","text":"HSB 218. A bill which seeks to regulate and to defund efforts to promote divisive programs in Iowa schools.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"ffnf3","text":"PROPSED LANGUAGE","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":16,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"b9ac0","text":"Sec.2.NEWSECTION.261J.2 Restrictions on use of moneys. A public institution of higher education shall not expend any moneys appropriated by the general assembly or any other moneys derived from bequests, charges, deposits, donations, endowments, fees, grants, gifts, income, receipts ,tuition,or any other source to establish, sustain, \nsupport,or staff a diversity, equity, and inclusion office, or to contract, employ,engage,or hire an individual to serve as a diversity,equity,and inclusion officer.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":17,"length":38,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":23,"length":31,"style":"UNDERLINE"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"35deg","text":"Its time for our legislators to move on HSB 218. Its time to stop the madness.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":78,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":0,"length":78,"style":"{\"FG\":\"#000000\"}"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"1tfqt","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"2d80o","text":"\"Sean Stevens of Heterodox Academy and Professor Mitchell Langbert of Brooklyn College have a new article published by the National Association of Scholars. They examined professors' self-identified political views, party affiliation, voter registrations, and FEC (Federal Election Commission) records of political donations. Their research appears to confirm that college professors in fact skew overwhelmingly left-wing in their political views, even more than many of us thought. If they are even mostly correct, the (left) liberal professor stereotype is absolutely grounded in reality rather than caricature.\"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":614,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":0,"length":614,"style":"{\"FG\":\"#000000\"}"}],"entityRanges":[{"offset":94,"length":11,"key":2}],"data":{}},{"key":"bl96v","text":"-https://mises.org/power-market/yes-college-professors-are-almost-all-left-wing ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":1,"style":"{\"FG\":\"#494e54\"}"},{"offset":79,"length":1,"style":"{\"FG\":\"#494e54\"}"},{"offset":0,"length":1,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":79,"length":1,"style":"ITALIC"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"9li8o","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"b2i35","text":"American school campuses are the proclaimed battleground of the left. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":70,"style":"{\"FG\":\"#494e54\"}"},{"offset":0,"length":70,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":0,"length":70,"style":"{\"font-size\":\"20px\"}"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"fmb1n","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"afqjv","text":"Transformation; Is it DEI (formally referred to as CRT) or socialism?","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":69,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"377fi","text":"DEI","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":3,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":0,"length":3,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":0,"length":3,"style":"UNDERLINE"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"2gkj9","text":"Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a conceptual framework that claims to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, especially in the workplace, including populations who have historically been under-represented or subject to discrimination because of their background, identity, disability, etc","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":254,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":272,"length":53,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":0,"length":32,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":34,"length":3,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"9vjfj","text":"\nSOCIALISM","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":1,"length":9,"style":"ITALIC"},{"offset":1,"length":9,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":1,"length":9,"style":"UNDERLINE"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"c8l4i","text":"A theory or system (conceptual framework) of social organization that advocates the ownership (people) and control of the means of production and distribution, capital, (workplace) land, etc.. by the community as a whole, usually through a centralized government. 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</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="ac5c8-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ac5c8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ac5c8-0-0">By Gene Stevens; </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="5km54-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5km54-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5km54-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><figure class="_2zSkX FSEVs" contenteditable="false" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="6kk8o-0-0"><div class="_1BaDs _2OtS3 _1yQyz CevUR _1vY1i ngUhQ f3bms4w _3eCPQ undefined kWFic" data-focus="true" role="none" style="cursor: default; position: relative;" width="20"><div class="_2kEVY" data-hook="imageViewer" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="_3WJnn _2i-Gt f3bms4w" id="new-image33" style="--dim-height: 299; --dim-width: 450;"><wow-image class="S8OAb" data-bg-effect-name="" data-has-ssr-src="" data-image-info="{"containerId":"new-image33","displayMode":"fill","isSEOBot":false,"imageData":{"width":450,"height":299,"uri":"648197_065d084f23b84929958ce6b2c1232218~mv2.png","name":"","displayMode":"fill"}}" data-src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/648197_065d084f23b84929958ce6b2c1232218~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_450,h_299,al_c,q_85,enc_auto/648197_065d084f23b84929958ce6b2c1232218~mv2.png" id="648197_065d084f23b84929958ce6b2c1232218~mv2.png"><img alt="" src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/648197_065d084f23b84929958ce6b2c1232218~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_450,h_299,al_c,q_85,enc_auto/648197_065d084f23b84929958ce6b2c1232218~mv2.png" style="height: 239px; object-fit: cover; width: 360px;" /></wow-image></div><div></div><div></div></div><div class="aWTlU" data-hook="componentOverlay" draggable="true" role="none"></div></div></figure><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="fg78h-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="fg78h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fg78h-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="4g5r8-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4g5r8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4g5r8-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">-Matthew 15:19</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="cnlb0-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cnlb0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cnlb0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="f5o7k-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f5o7k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f5o7k-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">DEI, (CRT) Where did this all come from?</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="el8cv-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="el8cv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="el8cv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="e5hfv-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="e5hfv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e5hfv-0-0">Its been a pretty cold, wet and miserable winter in Iowa. Not to mention that the United States in general has not been the most hospitable place to live in during the last three years. The dark days of winter and the dark days of our country encourages me to seek out both the comfort of God and the warm of home and hearth. </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="qth2-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="qth2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="qth2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="6mgkc-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6mgkc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6mgkc-0-0"> I feel the need to let the holy spirit speak through me today because, First of all, I'm in my early sixties, I've lived in and visited a good portion of the nation and the world, I served in the military for eighteen years and I served within government as a professional in the legal field for over thirty years. I've had an exciting life. But all pride aside. I'm an imperfect person and a follower of Jesus.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="60f8m-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="60f8m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="60f8m-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="fmr92-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="fmr92-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fmr92-0-0">Many of my contemporaries greatest fears when we were younger had nothing to do with their gender issues, getting gender reassignment, or equity, just because someone suggested to them that they might be in the wrong body. Our greatest fear was to be drafted into military service and being deployed to Vietnam. I didn't fear military service, because at the time I was very pro-military and was chomping at the bit to get into the service. And as soon as I turned eighteen, I raised my right hand, gave my oath to up-hold the constitution and swore to protect my nation. After that day I spent the rest of my life working in very altruistic jobs.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="evb5q-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="evb5q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="evb5q-0-0"> Then around 2014 certain social circumstance started to change my mind. That was six years after Barrack Obama was elected to office. That's when I began to see a tide turning, and things started to get pretty weird.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="5qpdb-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5qpdb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5qpdb-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><figure class="_2zSkX FSEVs" contenteditable="false" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="3g726-0-0"><div class="_1BaDs _2OtS3 _1yQyz CevUR _1vY1i ngUhQ f3bms4w _3eCPQ undefined kWFic" data-focus="true" role="none" style="cursor: default; position: relative;" width="20"><div class="_2kEVY" data-hook="imageViewer" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="_3WJnn _2i-Gt f3bms4w" id="new-image34" style="--dim-height: 182; --dim-width: 278;"><wow-image class="S8OAb" data-bg-effect-name="" data-has-ssr-src="" data-image-info="{"containerId":"new-image34","displayMode":"fill","isSEOBot":false,"imageData":{"width":278,"height":182,"uri":"648197_63f46d32dc97449aa72ece9ef4ec0f6d~mv2.jpg","name":"","displayMode":"fill"}}" data-src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/648197_63f46d32dc97449aa72ece9ef4ec0f6d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_389,h_255,al_c,lg_1,q_80,enc_auto/648197_63f46d32dc97449aa72ece9ef4ec0f6d~mv2.jpg" id="648197_63f46d32dc97449aa72ece9ef4ec0f6d~mv2.jpg"><img alt="" src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/648197_63f46d32dc97449aa72ece9ef4ec0f6d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_389,h_255,al_c,lg_1,q_80,enc_auto/648197_63f46d32dc97449aa72ece9ef4ec0f6d~mv2.jpg" style="height: 236px; object-fit: cover; width: 360px;" /></wow-image></div><div></div><div></div></div><div class="aWTlU" data-hook="componentOverlay" draggable="true" role="none"></div></div></figure><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="71nr4-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="71nr4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71nr4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="aa3qv-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="aa3qv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aa3qv-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">PhotoThe days of rage Chicago in the 1960's</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="el0fs-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="el0fs-0-0"><span data-offset-key="el0fs-0-0">
</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="f2ld1-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f2ld1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f2ld1-0-0"> I'm no stranger to cultural revolutions and martial law. I was raised in Chicago during the 60's and 70's during the Vietnam war, the days of rage of the Chicago democratic convention, the assassination of Martin Luther King and riots, riots and more riots. Not to mention the Chicago seven trials that followed the days of rage in which seven co-conspirators were charged and tried in a very public show trial for crimes that took place in Chicago during that time. But nothing new was happening here, because Chicago had been targeted by anarchists going back to the late 1800's. And the socialist / liberal movements were alive and well there.. And apparently Satan was too.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="9vddv-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9vddv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9vddv-0-0">
I wont pretend to have a college degree in history, I did however stand as an eye witness to many events that shaped our nation and lead us to where we are today. And, in my opinion, there are three major historic events that put us on the current road to perdition. The first event was the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 which changed the path of European history. It was a conflict which set the stage for other subsequent (and future) communist revolutions.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="8qcs7-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="8qcs7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8qcs7-0-0">
The second historical event, of which I was a direct and active participant, is connected to the first, and that was the long and protracted cold war. An active conflict in which the united states and other like minded nations fought back against the soviet union and communist Chinese forces, that occupied the dark space behind what Winston Churchill referred to as the “iron curtain”. That term coined by Churchill would stick to the world view narrative for the duration of this conflict. </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="epl9g-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="epl9g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="epl9g-0-0">
The the third event was, and would continue to be, an event which I believe is completely misunderstood by the American people. And that would be the sudden dismantling of the former soviet union and the symbolic destruction of the Berlin wall. </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="d3vvt-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="d3vvt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d3vvt-0-0">It was this particular event that would lead the world to believe that the cold war had finally come to an end. Many of us, including myself were fooled, and we assumed that we were entering a new and brighter age. This unfortunately could not be further from the truth, Because initially it looked like the world was more open for freedom of movement, freedom of expression and freedom of trade. </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="d9517-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="d9517-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d9517-0-0">This seemed to be true until March of 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. I myself watched a Russian troops simply walked into Crimea and occupied the region. But this was not the army of the former Soviet union, because I had faced them in the past in various military operations, and was trained to identify their material of war. I knew their uniforms, equipment and weapons. But the new Russian army showed up in new uniforms, wearing new helmets, driving new vehicles and carrying updated weaponry. </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="84m0t-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="84m0t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="84m0t-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="8r7dt-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="8r7dt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8r7dt-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;">It was in the moment that I knew that the west had indeed turned out the lights and gone to sleep. The Berlin wall had most definitely come down, but the end result was that the new Russian Army and communist ideology now had no boundaries. </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="v2hi-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="v2hi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="v2hi-0-0">
But 2014 wasn't the beginning, it was in fact the middle of the new phase, at least for the rest of the world. The American phase started in 2008, when Barrack Obama was elected. And he was from the most socialist aligned city in the nation, Chicago Illinois. It was in 2008, when our national identity began to slip away. And race and gender had nothing to do with it... But ideology did. Communist doctrine was (and is) the cargo, while the new race and gender cultural war is the vehicle that would deliver the ideology to its desired destination. And that destination is the hearts and minds of Americans, especially young Americans.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="fsele-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="fsele-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fsele-0-0">
</span><span data-offset-key="fsele-0-1" style="font-weight: bold;">As Obama had declared in a speech in Missouri in 2008 in which he states;</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="cikc2-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cikc2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cikc2-0-0">“</span><span data-offset-key="cikc2-0-1" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="f3qft-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f3qft-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f3qft-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="a0g70-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="a0g70-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a0g70-0-0">It was young Americans who became the target audience of a hijacked education system. All level schools from Kindergarten through masters degree programs had been infiltrated by liberal socialists. The indoctrination eventually evolved into CRT (Critical Race Theory), a program which systematically sought to dismantle the melting pot fabric of our Republic, an attempted to erroneously seperate Americans along the lines of race, gender and social class. An obvious attempt to repackage communist ideology to make it more sellable to younger Americans.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="anhto-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="anhto-0-0"><span data-offset-key="anhto-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="9h71j-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9h71j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9h71j-0-0">But the idea of CRT came under attack many by concerned parents who flocked to school board meetings to contest the mounting damage being done to not only school curriculum, but tearing at the very fabric of families throughout the country. When it became obvious, school districts and school boards all over the U.S. realized that CRT had drawn too much attention, liberal acdemics did what they do best... They moved the goal posts and changed the language. CRT then became DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="a3nnr-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="a3nnr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a3nnr-0-0">The DEI program moved onward and direct employees were hired at schools as DEI or Inclusion Officers. A title reminiscent of the Soviet political Commissar, or the Officers who would regulate political thought and political language. </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="53k8c-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="53k8c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="53k8c-0-0">But now, DEI is in the bright light and in the sights of Iowa state Legislators, and they are seeking to use their judicial power to stem the tide of this toxic doctrine. A bill currently in the pipeline is </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="e0hc4-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="e0hc4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0hc4-0-0">HSB 218. A bill which seeks to regulate and to defund efforts to promote divisive programs in Iowa schools.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="5gj8c-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5gj8c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5gj8c-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;">PROPSED LANGUAGE</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="6o7rc-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6o7rc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6o7rc-0-0">Sec.2.NEWSECTION.</span><span data-offset-key="6o7rc-0-1" style="font-weight: bold;">261J.2</span><span data-offset-key="6o7rc-0-2" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span data-text="true"> Restrictions on use of moneys.</span></span><span data-offset-key="6o7rc-0-3" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span data-offset-key="6o7rc-0-4">A public institution of higher education shall not expend any moneys appropriated by the general assembly or any other moneys derived from bequests, charges, deposits, donations, endowments, fees, grants, gifts, income, receipts ,tuition,or any other source to establish, sustain,
support,or staff a diversity, equity, and inclusion office, or to contract, employ,engage,or hire an individual to serve as a diversity,equity,and inclusion officer.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="28gjm-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="28gjm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="28gjm-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;">Its time for our legislators to move on HSB 218. Its time to stop the madness.</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="b4f29-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b4f29-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b4f29-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="es6jh-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="es6jh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="es6jh-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">"Sean Stevens of Heterodox Academy and Professor Mitchell Langbert of Brooklyn College have a </span><a class="_3Bkfb _1lsz7" data-hook="linkViewer" href="https://www.nas.org/blogs/dicta/partisan-registration-and-contributions-of-faculty-in-flagship-colleges" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="es6jh-1-0" style="color: black; font-style: italic;">new article</span></a><span data-offset-key="es6jh-2-0" style="font-style: italic;"> published by the National Association of Scholars. They examined professors' self-identified political views, party affiliation, voter registrations, and FEC (Federal Election Commission) records of political donations. Their research appears to confirm that college professors in fact skew overwhelmingly left-wing in their political views, even more than many of us thought. If they are even mostly correct, the (left) liberal professor stereotype is absolutely grounded in reality rather than caricature."</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="d48aa-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="d48aa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d48aa-0-0" style="color: #494e54; font-style: italic;">-</span><span data-offset-key="d48aa-0-1">https://mises.org/power-market/yes-college-professors-are-almost-all-left-wing</span><span data-offset-key="d48aa-0-2" style="color: #494e54; font-style: italic;"> </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="egsmd-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="egsmd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="egsmd-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="93hm1-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="93hm1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="93hm1-0-0" style="color: #494e54; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">American school campuses are the proclaimed battleground of the left. </span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="382aj-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="382aj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="382aj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="4kb60-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4kb60-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4kb60-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;">Transformation; Is it DEI (formally referred to as CRT) or socialism?</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="3sb68-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3sb68-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3sb68-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span data-text="true">DEI</span></span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="7na1u-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7na1u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7na1u-0-0" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Diversity, equity, and inclusion</span><span data-offset-key="7na1u-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"> (</span><span data-offset-key="7na1u-0-2" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">DEI</span><span data-offset-key="7na1u-0-3" style="font-style: italic;">) is a conceptual framework that claims to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, especially in the workplace, including populations who have historically been under-represented or subject to</span><span data-offset-key="7na1u-0-4"> discrimination b</span><span data-offset-key="7na1u-0-5" style="font-style: italic;">ecause of their background, identity, disability, etc</span></div></div><div class="_25Ehb _3qYRK Oh89J public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr fixed-tab-size rich_content_P" data-block="true" data-editor="editor" data-offset-key="9l759-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9l759-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9l759-0-0">
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PARIS DENNARD<br />
December 2018; The last few weeks of news have proven to be the among the most important news days for common people. Surely there would be many main stream and/or more self-important journalists who would pick other stories to hold up as the biggest stories of the year. However the media (particularly the left occupied mainstream media) have become seriously "Trumpocentric" in their approach to all current events. And nearly every day our phones, tablets and computers blow up with anti-Trump hate speech and politically correct hatred of common American traditions.<br />
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This Christmas has been no exception. Liberals spent the last few weeks spewing hate against important political icons such as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the song Baby Its Cold Outside and Charlies Browns Thanksgiving Special. Liberals must use up a lot of their employers hours raging on about such things. One would think that employers and Co-workers would have enough guts to stand up to such idiocy when they see friends thinking such things. Especially when they are forced to carry the extra work load for those co-workers who are busy being triggered by Twitter. But extreme intolerance by liberals in the workplace, in schools and in the mainstream media are not just common place now, but standard operating procedure. Which brings us to the first and most important story of 2018.<br />
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On December 14th, Breitbart News Alext Marlow interviewed a young African American male by the name Paris Dennard. who was apparently a Conservative contributor to CNN. Surely an act bravery like a soldier walking behind enemy lines in a very very politically hostile environment. An environment in which sectarian violence is being practiced by cultural Marxists and condoned by the mass anti-Trump media outlets.<br />
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Dennard proved to be a patient, well spoken and articulate individual during an on screen interview run on CNN, Dennard faced off with a former CIA/FBI employee Phil Mudd. Shockingly Mr. Mudds facial expressions and and subsequent verbal attack against Dennard were something that no self respecting law enforcement professional should do in the public eye. Mudd had become enraged because Dennard had identified that there were individuals in Washington DC , who because of their illicit behavior (In Dennards opinion) should have their security clearances revoked. Dennard also related that persons who posses security clearances have a financial advantage in the job market. And Dennard said that former government employees sometimes act as consultants to private industry. This statement was simply TRUE. And anyone who is former military or government could testify to that as fact.<br />
Mudd's emotional explosion against Dennard is another hit against the validity and professionalism of the FBI. If this type of behavior would have occurred in the process of being interviewed a conservative news outlet there would have been a fire storm of outrage.<br />
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But rather than outrage, a series of personal attacks were mounted against Dennard, including the leaking of documents of a personal nature including accusations of sexual misconduct from an unknown faceless accuser The story of Dennard and Mudd is the most important story of the year because it demonstrates the tactics that left have adopted in their fight.<br />
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Dennard's story tells just how far the left will go to destroy any individual who thinks differently than they do. It's more important because the mainstream media uses the race against opponents on a regular basis, but in the case of Dennard, they couldn't give a damn about the color of his skin, They simply sought to destroy him. And the lefts use of sexual misconduct from faceless, nameless accusers is an obvious mark of the beast. A beast that has sold their souls to darkness.<br />
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Breitbart article full context<br />
<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/12/14/garrison-medias-smearing-of-paris-dennard-reveals-their-totalitarianism/">https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/12/14/garrison-medias-smearing-of-paris-dennard-reveals-their-totalitarianism/</a><br />
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BOTH SIDES HAVE THEIR RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS<br />
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The next story was reported within the last three days. It is a foregone conclusion that intolerance breeds intolerance. And just like the yellow vested revolutionaries and their ancestors who served with distinction in the French Resistance forces who fought against the national socialists during World war two, who are now disrupting the left in France. The Conservative movement has also become a proud resistance unto themselves and they have many more followers than the minority leftists care to admit.<br />
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One of the greatest allies of the cultural marxist's is the social media platform twitter. Twitter users lean strongly to the liberal side and the platform has made a personal mission to run conservatives into the ground by personal attacks and then eventually ban them from the platform. An act which is by this Writers opinion is a crime.<br />
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The question then comes down to, what happens people are bullied? They do one of two things. They either walk away or they fight back. In the case of the new Conservative resistance movement is that they did both. The great thing about the internet is that there is more than enough room, and new rooms can be created by intelligent people when people are banned from that room. New Internets and intranets will grow as time goes on. And secret rooms can be created when resources become outlawed by totalitarians. Following that idea, a new platform was been created. Its called Parler News the word "parler or parle' means to talk.<br />
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<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/12/conservatives-twitter-alternative-platform-parler-news/">Parler News</a> story<br />
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It is a tragedy and totally un-American in every sense to stifle free speech. No matter what the content of that speech is. As a general rule, I generally do not post here in the first person. But in this case I must speak out. I condemn twitter and any media outlet that suppresses free speech or uses threats and intimidation to scare people into silence.<br />
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THE RULE OF LAW<br />
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The final part of this piece outlines another battle in the obamacare saga. Another case of government intervention into the lives of people, a place where the government did not need to go.<br />
On December 14th a federal Judge stood by the law and declared the affordable care act unconstitutional . We could debate the merits of decent healthcare for people. And it is certainly ethical to provide Americans with affordable healthcare. This is a forgone conclusion. However, the fact remains that healthcare is not an enumerated right under the constitution. It was up to government to help to facilitate and support healthcare, but it was never the job of the government to use the Internal Revenue Service to mandate and enforce healthcare. Surely there will be an appeal to the legal decision as cultural marxists triple down on their tactics of threats, misuse of the justice system and political propaganda.<br />
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Full Story<br />
<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/421511-federal-judge-in-texas-strikes-down-obamacare">https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/421511-federal-judge-in-texas-strikes-down-obamacare</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-2448555445941981982018-11-26T08:57:00.003-08:002018-12-13T09:05:42.405-08:00Karl Marx on Freedom, and the rise of American Communists<i>Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier to a middle-class family, Marx studied law and Hegelian philosophy. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile in London, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, and the three-volume Das Kapital. His political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun and a school of social theory.</i><br />
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One of the pillars of modern socialism has been the prolific and hard handed approach to the censorship of the press. Endless news stories, including film clips, photos and articles told the sad tale of of Socialists regimes, burning books, censoring the press, oppressing freedom of thought and speech, murdering and jailing dissidents, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago) and restricting an interfering with the movement of its citizens inside and outside of the borders of communist states. Communism spread throughout the world in Asia, Russia and throughout Europe during the 20th century. The United States and it's allies fought directly against and conducted multiple proxy wars against communist military actions and insurgencies in many countries, including Viet Nam, Korea, Cambodia, Laos and the U.S. has stood up for the political sovereignty of Taiwan. The U.S. also engaged in a long term cold war with the former Russian Soviet Union (USSR). During the cold war millions of people were killed throughout the world because of societal genocide conducted in the USSR, China, Cambodia and several African nations. The U.S. Government and its allies fought diligently to stem the tide of communism in the world.<br />
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THE BERLIN WALL FELL LIKE A FESTERING SCAB, AND COMMUNISM INFECTED THE WHOLE WORLD FROM THAT WOUND.<br />
-Sergeant Shakes-spear<br />
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<a href="https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/e45bd0b/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs3-origin-images.politico.com%2F2014%2F12%2F17%2F1974_fidel_castro_ap_629.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="800" height="173" src="https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/e45bd0b/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs3-origin-images.politico.com%2F2014%2F12%2F17%2F1974_fidel_castro_ap_629.jpg" width="320" /></a><i><b style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Defender of press freedom???</b><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Marx's defence of press freedom against censorship ranks among the most powerful ever expressed. Censorship, railed Marx, "exercises tutelage over the highest interest of the citizens, their minds... You marvel at the delightful diversity, the inexhaustible riches of nature. You do not ask the rose to smell like a violet; but the richest of all, the mind, is supposed to exist in only a single manner?" Communist Fidel Castro held an iron grip on </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><b>COMMUNISM ARIVES IN THE UNITED STATES;</b></span>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><b>RED CELLS ALIVE AND WELL AND DEMANDING DEATH TO CAPITALISTS (AN OLD AND LONG DEAD ARGUMENT )</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">An antifa group in Los Angeles celebrated May Day by holding a small march, hanging a Trump effigy, and advocating for "revolutionary violence" against the "capitalist state" in order to "create real political power."</span></span><br />
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LINK TO FULL STORY <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/la-antifa-group-hangs-trump-in-effigy-calls-for-revolutionary-violence-against-the-capitalist-state/">https://pjmedia.com/trending/la-antifa-group-hangs-trump-in-effigy-calls-for-revolutionary-violence-against-the-capitalist-state/</a><br />
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The activities of the "so-called Anti-Fascists" has continued in earnest since the 2016 election. Starting with the Ferguson Missouri riots, which in reality was a militant action funded by suspicious sources, filtered through such organizations as " <a href="https://crowdsondemand.com/">Crowds on Demand</a>".</div>
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Antifa has established itself as the military wing of the democratic party. </div>
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Social media sources have provided a means communications between parents around the nation. The stories being spread social media are frightening indicator that social justice (communism cloaked in allegory) is being taught in schools at all levels now. The truth is that the United States and our republic has been co-opted in the educational system by communist ideology. The truth is that the Berlin wall was a festering scab, and when it fell communism infected the whole world. We are now suffering from the effects of that infection.</div>
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In a shocking revelation, The distinguished <u>very senior </u>78 year old Nancy (Mumbles) Pelosi vowed to take over the world by regaining her lost magical democrat super powers. Pelosi who is well known for her spell binding verbal incantations and strange and uncontrolled facial expressions while speaking to the press, swore to retake the gavel of Speaker of the House and eventually move to the position of elite female world leader of the DNC New World Order, following in the foot steps of some of her personal hero's, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.<br />
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<i>The CNN story stated <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">"We will win," the California Democrat said in an interview with</span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/05/01/nancy-pelosi-have-intention-walking-away-from-that-table/mbbDKhlZvvdNKa8iu0IdbP/story.html" style="background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank"> The Boston Globe</a><span style="background-color: #fefefe;"> on the 2018 elections. "I will run for speaker. I feel confident about it. And my members do, too."</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The democratic party old guard (No pun intended) has been gasping the last breath of power sine the election of 2016, when it lost site of the fact that there were millions of people who live in the country besides themselves who may think differently than they do. Despite Madam Pelosi's intentions to regain power, there are millions of people with different intentions who may or may not vote for the old ways. </span><br />
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Over the last week, the disorganized militia of the social justice movement, red factions, anarchists and foul mouthed female propagandists posing as comedians, mounted a full frontal assault on the people of the United States. The attack however faltered as the red factions attempted to place their feet upon the beaches of American common sense and freedom of speech.<br />
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The initial attack began at the first point of embarkation at the annual White House correspondents dinner, as an unknown female communist operative and propagandist, attempted to destroy the reputation of an American Patriot. The patriot was a front line soldier assigned to communications duty at the White House under the current President. The attack was repulsed when the disorganized red factions failed to properly assess their enemies strength, thus handing the victory over to the patriot organization(s) who are so well entrenched, that only minimal resistance was needed to stop the attack. However an assessment of the red factions damage, indicated substantial losses, many dead left on the battlefield and tarnished reputations to last a life time.<br />
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May first marked the beginning of the red factions traditional "May Day" terroristic celebrations. Activities such as smashing windows of local businesses owned by small business owners, burning trash cans, destroying public property and attacking defenseless small animals, women and children are a regular annual occurrence all over the world on this speeee-shallllll day. However, in the United States, the emasculated males and their over zealous female fellow feminist cadre who occupy the ranks of the red factions, do not seem to have enough intestinal fortitude for attacking living things or smashing the windows out of their Mom's favorite donut shop. So now they have taken to the destruction of inanimate objects, (with their weapon of choice... Spray paint), such as old statutes of dead soldiers, pictures of American Patriots, cartoon characters and anything they might be slightly offended by. The red factions militaristic temper tantrums have been on the rise in the U.S as the bad winter weather patterns have persisted, and temperature numbers on the North American Continent were somewhere around the same as the IQs of the members of the red factions, surely a cause of the much feared climate change monster, (No longer referred to as global warming, because that theory faltered after Al Gore was divorced by his ex-wife Tipper Gore, thus ending Mr. Gore's cash flow) which has struck terror deep in the hearts of the red faction who find fear and loathing in just about everything they come in contact with.<br />
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To add insult to injury, the red faction has now set it sights on the Cartoon Character "Apu" who is a long time and very beloved character from the Simpsons TV series. Apu's character represents everything that is American. And I'm sure that even if any members of the red factions, anarchists, maoists or marxist - leninists patronized the fictional characters 7-11 store, he would surely sell them all the booze, cigarettes, rolling papers, pizza and chips that they could handle. So once again the red factions have bitten the hand that feeds them.<br />
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<span style="color: #101010;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><i>ON
APRIL 9, 1865, NEAR THE TOWN OF APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE VIRGINIA,
CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE SURRENDERED HIS ARMY OF NORTHERN
VIRGINIA TO UNION GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT. DAYS EARLIER, LEE HAD
ABANDONED THE CONFEDERATE CAPITAL OF RICHMOND AND THE CITY OF
PETERSBURG; HIS GOAL WAS TO RALLY THE REMNANTS OF HIS BELEAGUERED
TROOPS, MEET CONFEDERATE REINFORCEMENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND RESUME
FIGHTING. BUT THE RESULTING BATTLE OF APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE, WHICH
LASTED ONLY A FEW HOURS, EFFECTIVELY BROUGHT THE FOUR-YEAR CIVIL WAR
TO AN END. LEE AND GRANT, BOTH OF WHOM HELD
THE HIGHEST RANK IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ARMIES, HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER
SLIGHTLY DURING THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR (1846-48) AND BEGAN THEIR
DIALOGUE BY EXCHANGING AWKWARD PERSONAL INQUIRIES.
CHARACTERISTICALLY, GRANT HAD ARRIVED IN HIS MUD-SPLATTERED FIELD
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<i>Appomattox Court-House, Virginia April 9, 1865.</i></div>
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<i>General: In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the government of the United States until properly exchanged; and each company or regimental commander to sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, <span style="background-color: yellow;">not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.</span></i></div>
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<i>U.S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. General R. E. Lee.</i></div>
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<b>On April 09th, 1865, the hostilities of the war between the states had been terminated. The over-all Commanders of the standing armies of the Confederacy and the United States had <u>formally agreed in writing </u>to terminate the war, and the south had agreed to surrender all arms and to cease all military activities. The agreement was officially ratified by all those involved, up to and including the sitting President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. </b></div>
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<b>Lincoln celebrated the surrender ... And even asked the band to play Dixie out of respect. </b></div>
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<b>The war between the states was fought and prosecuted by two standing, officially sanctioned armies. Employed, payed for, and equipped by each sides own respective governments, and authorized by proper governmental authority to enter into the field to conduct military operations. The south began by acting in defense of their territory. Up until July of 1863 when Lee's Army of Northern Virginia mounted a major offensive campaign when they entered Pennsylvania and engaged northern forces at the town of Gettysburg PA. </b></div>
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<b>The southern part of the country would be brutally forced back into the union. The reconstruction period of the civil war was anything but "constructive" as the union army and the U.S. Government would abandon the south and leave the people their on their own without financial support. The financial well being of the south would be shattered and would not begin to recover fully until after world war two. The federal treasury had been broken by Lincoln's administration, who wasted vast amounts of money bowing to special interests while executing the civil war. </b></div>
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<b>The country would in spirit, remain two separate countries as the former General of the entire union army, Ulysses S Grant would take over as President of the United States. It was under his administration that the country would be launched in a deep financial depression, a period from which the last phase of the indian wars would arise, resulting in the brutal forced removal of indians from their ancestral lands, all while a faltering U.S. government sought gold in the Black Hills and all the west. For the next one hundred twenty years, the country would remain steadfastly two separate ideologies up to the civil rights period of the 1960's.</b></div>
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<b>The 2016 Presidential election became the most divisive election in all of U.S. history since Lincoln's took the white house prior to the outbreak of the civil war. However, the late 20th and early 21st century ushered in drastically different political ideas, including the insurgence of socialism and leftist politics into American politics. </b></div>
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<b>The aftermath of the 2016 election was a bloody affair. </b><b>In what appears to a planned and asymmetrical response to the loss of the election. </b><b>Riots, protests and individual acts of violence erupted across the country. Police officers were killed in ambushes throughout the country, school walk outs were staged, the #metoo movement was created (a method to attack individuals who occupied powerful political and business decisions), And the forced and illegal removal of symbols of U.S. history and the republic itself was begun.</b></div>
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<b>Additionally, the conflagration would move to the innocuous and non-threatening. Leftists would target many symbols of American history. Monuments which represented figures and events of U.S. History would be vandalized by hostile people, removed by left leaning city governments and smeared by mainstream media. No monument or grave marker has been safe since the election of 2016. Monuments representing Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, General Joseph Hooker and many Confederate monuments had been damaged, destroyed or removed.</b></div>
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<b>On the south side of Chicago Illinois sits Oakwoods Cemetery. The grave yard contains a large grave marker that sits above a mass burial mound containing the remains of approximately five thousand dead soldiers, who perished at Camp Douglas in Chicago which was not far from this location. Military personnel who served with a sanctioned and legal government entity called the Confederate States of America (CSA) are interred here. </b></div>
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<b>The CSA had legally and constitutionally broke ties with the United States Government over political, legal and ideological differences. Many citizens of the newly formed CSA had proudly enlisted for military service at the beginning of the war. However the CSA later passed the conscription act and implemented a forced draft, in which many other were pressed into service under threat of punishment. </b><b>The union army also drafted soldiers. Therefore the war that occurred between 1861-1865 was in no way different that other later wars including world war two and the war in Viet Nam. </b></div>
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<b>But there were other significant differences. For one, the civil war was an internal war, in which the populace made war upon itself. The other major difference was that no formal agreement or rules of war had existed for conduct between hostile armies. The army had the Articles of War which provided for internal military issues, but no documents existed for the housing, treatment and conduct where Prisoners of war were concerned. </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">According to</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: small;">Theodore Karamanski, Ref; a history professor at Loyola University in Chicago and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Chicago-Eyewitness-History/dp/0821420844" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec0101; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History</em></a>.</b></div>
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<b>The camp was meant for no more than 6,000 prisoners, and as its ranks grew to roughly 12,000 at its peak it became more dangerous than any battlefield. Overcrowding and poor sanitation spread diseases such as dysentery, smallpox, typhoid fever and tuberculosis. Illness became the camp’s leading cause of death, claiming roughly 4,500 Confederate soldiers, or 17 percent of the total number of men imprisoned at the camp during its nearly four years in operation, according to Karamanski’s estimate. In his book, Karamanski cites an 1862 report by the U.S. Sanitary Commission, wherein an agent admonished Camp Douglas for its “foul stinks,” “unventilated and crowded barracks,” and “soil reeking of with miasmic accretions” as “enough to drive a sanitarian to despair.” </b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif;"><b>On Sunday April 22nd, 2018, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans held a ceremony to honor the soldiers who had died at Camp Douglas. The members are made up of historic reenactors and historic preservationists. The Reenactors were met by a group of approximately forty protestors. Even though both sides were peaceful and introspect. It was apparent by subsequent newspaper accounts that there was clearly some media bias, as local newspapers and TV outlets improperly labeled these SCV members as "Neo-Confederates" alluding to the members as being white supremacists. This was a seriously incorrect and divisive term. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>“To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier’s good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />United Confederate Veterans,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.</i></span></h3>
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<b style="background-color: white;">In the final analysis, civil war historians, members of the SCV and citizens of the southern U.S. kept the promise that Grant and Lee had made at Appomattox, <u>to not disturb the other,</u> AND to treat the defeated with respect and honor. The south never raised a hand or weapon in rebellion against the United States again. But now, the city governments where leftists have seized control have clearly violated the terms of surrender. In some countries, this blatant disrespect and disregard for military agreements could be considered an act of war. And in some peoples opinion, this is exactly what the disgruntled citizens of the U.S. are risking. The rekindling of the civil war is not within the scope of authority, or the concern of any local city government. It is the duty and </b><b>responsibility of the federal government to execute war within, and outside of the borders of the United States. The state level governments and its subordinates have over stepped their authority and just as the confederacy was conquered by federal authority, these local government entities must be reined in.</b></div>
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It is only once in a lifetime, or in times of great need, that leaders or great intellects emerge. The leader or intellectual can come from any walk of life. They can be any gender, any race and come from any religion or have no religious background. They tend identify real social problems (not social issues) and they take on great responsibilities to correct what they view as social wrongs and injustices that face society at large.<br />
Since before the turn of the 20th Century. Societies throughout the world stood witness to massive movement that has shifted the foundations of old thought and dated practices. This movement which began as "women's suffrage" was widespread and gained many adherents in Europe, the United States and Australia (just to name a few). The initial doctrine of women's suffrage was to secure women's voting rights. And without question, this was a noble movement with good intent. No one can argue or diminish the need for equality in the matters of citizenship and politics. This was, and still is a crucial human right. The right to go to the voting booth to determine the fate of one's society, is not only a right, but a God given right.<br />
There are indeed many talking points about the overall history of the suffrage movement. However, a history of feminism would occupy many chapters of many books. But like any movement, the feminist movement possess's its own organizational dynamics. And like any other organized movement. It was bound to change. Just like the Ku Klux Klan, which started out as an organization to protect southern homes. Including southern women, southern children and southern property. Who because they had been beaten down by the federal army and slash and burn military rule. Needed protection. The suffrage movement evolved into what became the "feminism" or the feminist movement. And it is unfortunate to point out, that what was once a movement that supported the rights of women to vote, morphed into what the KKK later became. A movement of violent intent and violent movement with intent to control national and international thinking.<br />
This new violent movement found many ready and available allies. Theses other adherents however have other agendas outside of feminism. Many of them are communist organizations, anarchists, leftists, Marxists, various radicalized media outlets and ANTIFA, who are self -proclaimed anti-fascists. However, the ANTIFA movements morphed into what became an armed fascist movement that strives to stifle free speech and commit crimes. These aforementioned persons and organizations have colluded together to bring the United States to a heightened sense of urgency and created a makeshift crisis for political gain. But as in any pre-war or waring state, they had to create a villain. Just like Adolf Hitler needed the Jews to lay blame on. The feminist movement and its allies needed a scapegoat to blame. And that segment of society on which they focused, are white males. In some cases, all males are included in this, but in gender politics, it is the white male population of the world who have assumed the role of the Jews of NAZI Germany.<br />
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Additional reading<br />
<a href="https://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/to-kill-a-mockingbird-all-men-are-tom-robinson-now/">To Kill A Mockingbird: All men are Tom Robinson now</a><br />
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Enter Jordan Peterson.<br />
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Professor Jordan Peterson gained notoriety when he stood against the Ontario Human Rights code at the University of Toronto. Peterson had challenged the Universities policy on gender pronouns.<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37875695">Full BBC article</a><br />
<b>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson had enough of what he saw as a campus culture where "social justice warrior, left-wing radical political activists" ran rampant." </span></span></b><br />
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His audacity in the university situation gained immediate traction in a world searching for the true answers about what was really going on, what the agenda was and who was behind it. Peterson had recognized, identified and exposed the true agenda of the altered language that was being forced upon students, and upon Canadian society itself.Peterson had identified, isolated and articulated the cause of great injustice. An injustice which has been laid upon modern society. A great injustice which has been laid upon the doorstep of white males.<br />
In an UK interview, Peterson broke down in tears as he spoke of what men (and young men) are go through and how men are being disenfranchised in modern society. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ER1LOarlgg">Interview</a>. Jordan Peterson has become the voice of reason for a modern society. His actions speak to men where they live. And he has gained a loyal following (Sergeant Shakes-spear included). In the last couple of weeks Peterson was interviewed by BBC. The female "presenter" (another new word?? For reporter??) had attempted to humiliate Peterson by very typical university student / novice level interview tactics. I think they had hoped to get Peterson to talk out of turn or to trap him into a stereotypical position. But Peterson was instrumental in turning the tables on the "presenter". And even more importantly, he did this using truth based on facts, and not emotion based on politics. For his followers, this was a shining moment in history. It was also a victory for freedom of speech and human rights. The interview not only rocketed Peterson to stardom and to a leadership of a new movement, it gave men all over the world hope.<br />
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<i>Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) who is a Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology,with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance. (-Ref wikipedi) </i><br />
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In a shocking radio rebroadcast of BBC News commentary which was aired on Public Radio in the United States. The state funded international news outlet British Broadcasting (BBC). The one time largest most prolific Colonial government in the world, the United Kingdom. Declared the United States and its citizens a "tribal society".<br />
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On 11/18/2017 in what can only be called a scathing indictment of the American political system. The BBC ran a news commentary decrying the recent spat of dirty (pornographic) politics being played out in the United States news media. As I drove home from work last night at 3:00 Am in the morning, I was reminded of what it must have felt like to be under the rule of the British monarchy in the 17th and 18th Century Colonies. As the Alabama senate race allegations of sexual misconduct blared in my ears as expressed by a female commentator who's demeanor was pointed, angry and vindictive as if she were the victim of the crime being reported.<br />
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As the news progressed, I was suddenly assailed by a strong and loud female voice speaking in an upper class British accent. The commentary suddenly spiraled out of control as the commentator outlined the shortcomings of the American political system and the current spat of sexual allegations being thrown into the dirty arena of American politics. As I continued my commute I was driven back into my seat by the visions of Pedophilia in politics, allegations of <span style="background-color: white;">misogyny and claims that the United States and its citizens are members of different tribes whom refuse to cooperate in any form whatsoever to resolve any political issue. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">After I awoke from a fitful disturbed sleep. I immediately went to the BBC website to search for a (any) podcast that pertained to what I heard, which I was unable to locate. But what I did find was a disappointing litany of stories that repeated the American tribal pseudo-theoretical premise that American society is nothing more than loose conglomerate hostile inarticulate non-intellectual sub-humans who cannot cooperate long enough together to sweep a floor. I found this premise both strange and illegitimate at best. After all did we not descend from our benefactors in the United Kingdom? I already know this to be true, because I am a descendant of ancestors from the UK who came to the to this British colony in the 1790's.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">However powerful the tone of the story may have been. T</span><span style="background-color: white;">he </span>BBC's<span style="background-color: white;"> position is both historically incorrect and hypocritical in every sense. Afterall, for over two hundred years the British crown kept other societies in a state of servitude. The thirteen colonies were just one of many interests that the crown kept under control by iron fist rule and military intervention. The fact remains that in the two hundred forty years that the United States has existed. It's report card on human rights and freedom has very few failing grades.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">There a very distinct and glaring political and social differences between the U.S. and the U.K. The American system is highly adversarial and American politicians are considered "Gladiators" in a tough arena where symbolic blood is drawn in combat to win the prize of service to the American people. Politics in the American sense are not for the faint of heart, the weak minded and those that wish to live in safe places surrounded by the like minded. On the other end of the spectrum the U.K. may possess a certain gentile methodology in parliament that would not fair well in American politics. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Thomas Paine once said; </span><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; display: inline-block; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="title" href="http://www.azquotes.com/quote/530557" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; display: inline-block; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.</a></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">SO.... Lets take a look at the United Kingdom's political history and think about its position on human rights...</span><br />
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THE British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies—colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government. The policy of granting or recognizing significant degrees of self-government by dependencies, which was favoured by the far-flung nature of the empire, led to the development by the 20th century of the notion of a “British Commonwealth,” comprising largely self-governing dependencies that acknowledged an increasingly symbolic British sovereignty. The term was embodied in statute in 1931. Today the Commonwealth includes former elements of the British Empire in a free association of sovereign states.</div>
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Great Britain made its first tentative efforts to establish overseas settlements in the 16th century. Maritime expansion, driven by commercial ambitions and by competition with France, accelerated in the 17th century and resulted in the establishment of settlements in North America and the West Indies. By 1670 there were British American colonies in New England, Virginia, and Maryland and settlements in the Bermudas, Honduras, Antigua, Barbados, and Nova Scotia. Jamaica was obtained by conquest in 1655, and the Hudson’s Bay Company established itself in what became northwestern Canada from the 1670s on. The East India Company began establishing trading posts in India in 1600, and the Straits Settlements (Penang, Singapore, Malacca, and Labuan) became British through an extension of that company’s activities. The first permanent British settlement on the African continent was made at James Island in the Gambia River in 1661. Slave trading had begun earlier in Sierra Leone, but that region did not become a British possession until 1787. Britain acquired the Cape of Good Hope (now in South Africa) in 1806, and the South African interior was opened up by </div>
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Nearly all these early settlements arose from the enterprise of particular companies and magnates rather than from any effort on the part of the English crown. The crown exercised some rights of appointment and supervision, but the colonies were essentially self-managing enterprises. The formation of the empire was thus an unorganized process based on piecemeal acquisition, sometimes with the British government being the least willing partner in the enterprise.</div>
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Imperialism was the key word of the 1890s, just as Home Rule had been in the critical decade of the 1880s, and the cause of empire was associated not merely with the economic interests of businessmen looking for materials and markets and the enthusiasm of crowds excited by the adventure of empire but also with the traditional lustre of the crown. Disraeli had emphasized the last of these...</div>
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In the 17th and 18th centuries, the crown exercised control over its colonies chiefly in the areas of trade and shipping. In accordance with the mercantilist philosophy of the time, the colonies were regarded as a source of necessary raw materials for England and were granted monopolies for their products, such as tobacco and sugar, in the British market. In return, they were expected to conduct all their trade by means of English ships and to serve as markets for British manufactured goods. The Navigation Act of 1651 and subsequent acts set up a closed economy between Britain and its colonies; all colonial exports had to be shipped on English ships to the British market, and all colonial imports had to come by way of England. This arrangement lasted until the combined effects of the Scottish economist Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776), the loss of the American colonies, and the growth of a free-trade movement in Britain slowly brought it to an end in the first half of the19th century.The slave trade acquired a peculiar importance to Britain’s colonial economy in the Americas, and it became an economic necessity for the Caribbean colonies and for the southern parts of the future United States. Movements for the end of slavery came to fruition in British colonial possessions long before the similar movement in the United States; the trade was abolished in 1800s and slavery itself in Britain’s dominions in 1833.Competition With France</div>
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British military and naval power, under the leadership of such men as Robert Clive, James Wolfe, and Eyre Coote, gained for Britain two of the most important parts of its empire—Canada and India. Fighting between the British and French colonies in North America was endemic in the first half of the 18th century, but the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the Seven Years’ War (known as the French and Indian War in North America), left Britain dominant in Canada. In India, the East India Company was confronted by the French Compagnie des Indes, but Robert Clive’s military victories against the French and the rulers of Bengal in the 1750s provided the British with a massive accession of territory and ensured their future supremacy in India.</div>
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The loss of Britain’s 13 American colonies in 1776–83 was compensated by new settlements in Australia from 1788 and by the spectacular growth of Upper Canada (now Ontario) after the emigration of loyalists from what had become the United States. The Napoleonic Wars provided further additions to the empire; the Treaty of Amiens (1802) made Trinidad and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) officially British, and in the Treaty of Paris (1814) France ceded Tobago, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, and Malta. Malacca joined the empire in 1795, and Sir Stamford Raffles acquired Singapore in 1819. Canadian settlements in Alberta, Manitoba, and British Columbia extended British influence to the Pacific, while further British conquests in India brought in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh and the Central Provinces, East Bengal, and Assam.Dominance And Dominions</div>
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The 19th century marked the full flower of the British Empire. Administration and policy changed during the century from the haphazard arrangements of the 17th and 18th centuries to the sophisticated system characteristic of Joseph Chamberlain’s tenure (1895–1900) in the Colonial Office. That office, which began in 1801, was first an appendage of the Home Office and the Board of Trade, but by the 1850s it had become a separate department with a growing staff and a continuing policy; it was the means by which discipline and pressure were exerted on the colonial governments when such action was considered necessary.New Zealand became officially British in 1840, after which systematic colonization there followed rapidly. Partly owing to pressure from missionaries, British control was extended to Fiji, Tonga, Papua, and other islands in the Pacific Ocean, and in 1877 the British High Commission for the Western Pacific Islands was created. In the wake of the Indian Mutiny (1857), the British crown assumed the East India Company’s governmental authority in India. Britain’s acquisition of Burma (Myanmar) was completed in 1886, while its conquest of the Punjab (1849) and of Balochistān (1854–76) provided substantial new territory in the Indian subcontinent itself. The French completion of the Suez Canal (1869) provided Britain with a much shorter sea route to India. Britain responded to this opportunity by expanding its port at Aden, establishing a protectorate in Somaliland (now Somalia), and extending its influence in the sheikhdoms of southern Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Cyprus, which was, like Gibraltar and Malta, a link in the chain of communication with India through the Mediterranean, was occupied in 1878. Elsewhere, British influence in the Far East expanded with the development of the Straits Settlements and the federated Malay states, and in the 1880s protectorates were formed over Brunei and Sarawak. Hong Kong island became British in 1841, and an “informal empire” operated in China by way of British treaty ports and the great trading city of Shanghai.</div>
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The greatest 19th-century extension of British power took place in Africa, however. Britain was the acknowledged ruling force in Egypt from 1882 and in the Sudan from 1899. In the second half of the century, the Royal Niger Company began to extend British influence in Nigeria, and the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and The Gambia also became British possessions. The Imperial British East Africa Company operated in what are now Kenya and Uganda, and the British South Africa Company operated in what are now Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia), Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia), and Malawi. Britain’s victory in the South African War (1899–1902) enabled it to annex the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in 1902 and to create the Union of South Africa in 1910. The resulting chain of British territories stretching from South Africa northward to Egypt realized an enthusiastic British public’s idea of an African empire extending “from the Cape to Cairo.” By the end of the 19th century, the British Empire comprised nearly one-quarter of the world’s land surface and more than one-quarter of its total population.</div>
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The idea of limited self-government for some of Britain’s colonies was first recommended for Canada by Lord Durham in 1839. This report proposed “responsible self-government” for Canada, so that a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Canadians could exercise executive powers instead of officials chosen by the British government. The cabinet would depend primarily on support by the colonial legislative assembly for its tenure of ministerial office. Decisions on foreign affairs and defense, however, would still be made by a governor-general acting on orders from the British government in London. The system whereby some colonies were allowed largely to manage their own affairs under governors appointed by the mother country spread rapidly. In 1847 it was put into effect in the colonies in Canada, and it was later extended to the Australian colonies, New Zealand, and to the Cape Colony and Natal in southern Africa. These colonies obtained such complete control over their internal affairs that in 1907 they were granted the new status of dominions. In 1910 another dominion, the Union of South Africa, was formed from the Cape Colony, Natal, and the former Boer republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.</div>
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This select group of nations within the empire, with substantial European populations and long experience of British forms and practices, was often referred to as the British Commonwealth. The demands and stresses of World War I and its aftermath led to a more formal recognition of the special status of the dominions. When Britain had declared war on Germany in 1914 it was on behalf of the entire empire, the dominions as well as the colonies. But after World War I ended in 1918, the dominions signed the peace treaties for themselves and joined the newly formed League of Nations as independent states equal to Britain. In 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognized them as independent countries “within the British Empire, equal in status” to the United Kingdom. The statute referred specifically to the “British Commonwealth of Nations.” When World War II broke out in 1939, the dominions made their own declarations of war.</div>
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The rest of the British Empire consisted for the most part of colonies and other dependencies whose predominant indigenous populations had no such experience. For them a variety of administrative techniques was tried, ranging from the sophisticated Indian Civil Service, with its largely effective adoption of native practices in civil law and administration, to the very loose and indirect supervision exercised in a number of African territories, where settlers and commercial interests were left much to themselves while native Africans were segregated into “reserves.”</div>
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Nationalist sentiment developed rapidly in many of these areas after World War I and even more so after World War II, with the result that, beginning with India in 1947, independence was granted them, along with the option of retaining an association with Great Britain and other former dependencies in the Commonwealth of Nations (the adjective “British” was not used officially after 1946). Indian and Pakistani independence was followed by that of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Burma (Myanmar) in 1948. The Gold Coast became the first sub-Saharan African colony to reach independence (as Ghana) in 1957. The movement of Britain’s remaining colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean toward self-government gained speed in the years after 1960 as international pressure mounted (especially at the United Nations), as the notion of independence spread in the colonies themselves, and as the British public, which was no longer actively imperial in its sentiments, accepted the idea of independence as a foregone conclusion.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-60042712007002512782015-09-06T11:12:00.001-07:002015-09-06T17:15:06.981-07:00I'm No Longer Your Victim, Healing for Victims.It's easy to either wax philisophical or to lay cliche upon actions like trying to seal bullet wounds with cotton balls. But the truth is that life hurts. And all too often we suffer at the hands of other people with deeply personal agendas or people that operate with very little agenda other than the fact that they care nothing for other human beings.<br />
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<em>“I love you because I love you, and if you don’t like it you can use my circular logic as a noose and hang yourself.” <br />― </em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4157885.Jarod_Kintz"><em>Jarod Kintz</em></a><em>, <span id="quote_book_link_12970133"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/18128379">Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.</a></span></em><br />
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Americans (those folks who occupy the 50 contiguous states located on the North American Continent) have become expert victims. They are told everyday how the system victimizes them, how the government victimizes them, how their spouse victimizes them, how their bosses victimize them and how the victimize themselves. We have become the largest and best trained victim cadre on the planet earth. <br />
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Everyday the media loves to spin stories of people who have been victimized because of the color of their skin, the symbols that surround them, the language they speak, the words they speak and the thoughts that run through their minds. In many ways the mass media of the 21st century has become they biggest social labeling machine ever known. But despite the fact they we are easily swayed by what the media tells us, we still have to keep our feet on the ground and deal with each other in a multitude of social situations.<br />
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The truth of the matter is, that no one person has the answer to the social ills of a massive society. The planet earth is currently home to more human beings than any other time in recorded history. This last fact is both a living testament to the human spirit and a terrible warning. Everyday we flirt with the possibility of world war and the fate of a crashing end to humaity as we know it. But because we allow ourselves to be the walking wounded rather than the divine spark we were meant to be. We allow darkness to enter our minds and souls. Though we must be guarded because the darkness is real. It becomes a living thing when we manifest it in our actions and words. We also manifest it in our reaction to the information thats given to us by sources that have more to gain that we do as individuals.<br />
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I have been many things in life, Father, Son, Brother, Warrior, Sailor, Cop etc. But the bottom line is that taking on some of these roles were my choice. I chose to follow a path, I chose to take the actions that placed me these roles. So being a victim can also be a choice or .... I can choose to not be a victim.<br />
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<em>“You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth.<br />You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.” <br />― </em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8153213.Delano_Johnson"><em>Delano Johnson</em></a><em>, <span id="quote_book_link_22436274"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/41859857">Love Quotes</a></span></em><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-42081548013970576002015-05-01T22:52:00.001-07:002015-05-06T16:47:11.144-07:00The Slavery of Men<i><br /></i>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><i>Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!</i></span><br />
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As the 21st century swept across the planet and the third wave of feminism was well underway. The endeavor of equality was shifting within the sands of time and morphing into the next conflict in the battle of the sexes.<br />
Though this new battle was more widespread and took on the persona of a worldwide war upon the male of the human species. The struggle quickly engulfed and decimated the traditional nuclear family and the foundation of traditional marriage. The war soon infiltrated the arena of international law and local politics. Women became a protected class and men were left to maintain their traditional roles as worker bees, warriors and providers. All without the benefit of equal protection under law.<br />
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The early part of this new century ushered in a period of worldwide change as revolutions broke out around the world and a very real struggle began against oppressive governments who had fallen under the control of large corporations and special interests.<br />
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These new influences generated a new language of political correctness which failed to promote equality but sought to vilify a segment of society to motivate the warriors of their cause. That new villain was of course the male or the "patriarchy" or the perceived notion that men had caused all of the problems which have plagued the world. Though the real evidence of this plague came into social context by way of propaganda and lacked empirical data.<br />
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The propaganda machine is a meat grinder that turns out images of inept men and the women who handle them, Woman who are portrayed as smarter, quicker and of superior intellect. The mainstream media treats men as the Nazi's treated the Jews prior to world war two. And it represents females in a way that reminds one of the way that the national socialists imagined the blonde haired and blued super race.<br />
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The court systems in the United States use men as a bottomless financial money pit, seeing men only in their traditional roles and labeling them as a threat to the safety of people based on not only gender but their military service.<br />
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Earlier in the month of April 2015 a black male by the name of Freddie Gray died while in police custody.<br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Freddie C. Gray was the 25-year-old son of Gloria Darden. He had a twin sister, Fredericka, as well as another sister, Carolina.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">At the time of his death, Gray lived in the home owned by his sisters in the Gilmor Homes neighborhood.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">He stood 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) and weighed 145 pounds (66 kg).</span></i><br />
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<i>Gray had a criminal record, mainly on drug charges and minor crimes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:7_10-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Freddie_Gray#cite_note-:7-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[</a></sup>Gray had been involved in 20 criminal court cases, five of which were still active at the time of his death, and was due in court on a possession charge on April 24.</i></div>
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The small amount of information contained in this wikipedia article speaks volumes about the state of our male population. It is indeed obvious that Freddie Gray was a young black male and was not only member of a segment of society that has been disenfranchised in the United States for hundreds of but years but also a member of a demographic of society which has found itself a victim of modern circumstances. In recent months the media has been on fire with stories of police shootings of blacks, but the one thing that the media perpetually overlooks is the fact that the people killed by police are not only black, but male as well.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-82550655988589452552014-12-02T17:20:00.003-08:002014-12-03T07:51:09.912-08:00Are You Limping .... My Fellow Countrymen?I hope you don't mind my observation, but I am concerned for your well being. Is that a limp that you're walking with? What type of injury has brought you to this sad, low and lonely place? What unseen hazard or secret enemy has found it's way into your soul to cause you such damage? Is our house filled with pit falls and stumbling blocks? Are the floor boards loose and the foundation showing it's flaws? Have you fallen down the back stairs while taking out the trash? Or is that your condition is systemic, a type of cancer perhaps?<br />
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It could be that your condition is hereditary, handed down through years of bondage and perceived fear and loathing of what you covet. Could this unbridled self pity be the cause of your ailment? Have you seen the Doctor? Did you know that those who are currently nursing you back to health are in fact doctors of old? Blood letting faded from memory long ago .. It's time to go to a modern doctor. One who will prescribe what you really need and use modern techniques to fix your limp.<br />
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It's time to realize that the doctors in the white coats were there before the great emancipator stepped into the operating theater. Freedom was the medicine which you refuse to swallow. The Plantation owner was your mother and she has passed onto the next life and left you alone of this plane of existence to fend for your self now.... freedom is all you need. That and gods intellect which he gave you ... or have you been abandoned by god? <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-6653424974871549872014-10-08T16:40:00.001-07:002014-10-08T16:55:09.370-07:00May the Dust Settle Quickly; Johntheother and A Voice For Men<br />
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The modern battle space of relationships are many. We may live with another person,<br />
we go to work daily and deeal with customers, clients and co-workers, we have friendships<br />
at many levels, we deal with the sexual politics of human encounter and in our modern world, we<br />
even have electronic relationships, some of which can turn into actual physical relationships<br />
or die in the same server that it emunated from.<br />
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Since becoming an MRA (Men's Rights Activist)I have found that a majority of my interactions with and my<br />
initial introduction to the Men's rights movement was of the electronic variety.<br />
Much like early television (another venue for electronic relationships and vicarious living)<br />
I formed relationships and found role models online who were part of the movement.<br />
One of these role models was an MRA who calls himself "Johntheother" (JTO)who is an avid video-blogger and speaks out to, and against the feminist movement as well as addressing many other social<br />
problems that face men in todays world. For a time, John seemed to have a working relationship<br />
with the grass roots men's right organization "A voice for Men"(AVFM). I recently blogged<br />
about AVFM, because they were the very first organization to organize and conduct<br />
the first international men's issues conference which was held in the Detroit Michigan area.<br />
I was however unaware that Johntheother, an MRA who I had followed for quite some time, was<br />
not invited (or in his own words, invited and then uninvited) to the international men's<br />
conference. In fact it wasn't until today (10/08/2014) that I found out that there<br />
was somer type of disagreement between JTO and AVFM. The likes of which I won't even attempt to address in this blog post due to the simple fact that the complaint and/or complaints<br />
seemed to somewhat childish in nature. But with that said, the very foundation of<br />
the disagreement seemed to go back the modern battle space of "relationships". Like<br />
so many relationships that end up in the family courts (the very reason that many of us are MRA's)<br />
It seems that JTO and AVFM have reached a point of irreconcilable differences<br />
(music to the ears of any divorce lawyer).<br />
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JTO, being the activist that he is, most certainly wears his heart upon his sleeve. As<br />
do I. And as do males must do to protect themselves in the modern battle space. JTO<br />
is no different. However, I do see JTO as having an ability to utilize simple<br />
intellect to sort through a problem and to find useful information. JTO is indeed<br />
very resourceful. Though, despite this resourcefulness, he seems to have found himself<br />
being "friend zoned" by AVFM. In a recent (two) video(s). JTO attempted to reconcile<br />
and find reasons for why he had found himself on AVFM's shit list. In his video blog<br />
JTO labled himself as "bombastic and abrasive" and admitted that perhaps he had made people<br />
angry at him because he had spoken his mind and perhaps angered other MRA's and/or AVFM allies.I find that claim to be ludicrous.<br />
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It seems to me that if we choose to step upon the battlefield that MRA's have chosen to fight upon, That we must have thick skin and possess the ability to take<br />
a punch in the face, after all, we are talking about equality, civil rights and freedom.<br />
No patriot or MRA ever won a battle by allowing his enemies to divide and conquer, or<br />
by allowing what someone said to hurt their feelings. This is after all "battle".<br />
Much is at stake in this battle, while we suddenly find ourselves weeping in the corner<br />
because one MRA or one Men's rights organization has found themselves squabbling<br />
with each other, one single solitary Father has walked into family court by himself<br />
and lost custody of his children, or single solitary Father has walked into family<br />
court and found himself ejected from his home, and finally, one single solitary<br />
Father has committed suicide because he could no longer tolerate the pressure<br />
that our system has placed upon his shoulders.<br />
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As an observation, it seems that many individual MRA's and Men's right organizations<br />
argue their cases on the street, on social media and / or within the social context. Allow me to<br />
clue you in on something. From 1955 to 1975 there was a war in a place called Viet Nam. During this conflict, one of the goals was to win "the hearts and minds" of the local populace. Unfortunately<br />
the local populace chose to reunify with their own people. A fact that any fool should have seen coming. The lesson to be learned here, is that we, as MRA's may be attempting to undo centuries<br />
of psychological programming. In other words, an un-winnable war. When in fact the real battles<br />
must be fought in the court systems of each state.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-67896849070251632262014-09-24T14:56:00.002-07:002014-09-24T15:38:19.508-07:00CRUCIFIXION BY PROXY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Public Crucifixion of Males in Modern Times</h2>
<strong>The human rights of men and due process of law took a shocking blow </strong><br />
<strong>over the last few weeks, as the mainstream media broke two serious </strong><br />
<strong>stories that came out of the NFL (National Football League). The </strong><br />
<strong>first story concerned Baltimore Ravens Football Player Ray Rice, who </strong><br />
<strong>had run into trouble after getting into a domestic violence </strong><br />
<strong>situation with his wife Janay. The incident was captured on an </strong><br />
<strong>elevator video camera where it appears that both Rice and his wife </strong><br />
<strong>were engaged in a physical altercation, and altercation in which </strong><br />
<strong>both husband and wife were the aggressors. Rice appeared to strike </strong><br />
<strong>his wife in self defense as she charges accross the elevator towards </strong><br />
<strong>him in an attempt to attack him. After several weeks, the NFL, </strong><br />
<strong>caving under political pressure by sponsors and feminists groups </strong><br />
<strong>have now divested Rice. This poor decision not only damaged Rice, </strong><br />
<strong>but also damaged his wife Janay and his family. It was obvious that </strong><br />
<strong>Janay was making a sincere effort to stand by her family and their </strong><br />
<strong>own well being, as well as taking personal accountabilty for their </strong><br />
<strong>actions as a husband and wife.However, the mainstream media, the NFL </strong><br />
<strong>and the wealthy sponsors wanted no part of this and chose public </strong><br />
<strong>crucifixion instead.</strong><br />
<strong>To add insult to injury, the NFL is now in the process of forming a </strong><br />
<strong>panel of inqusiitors to reprogram the male foorball players of the </strong><br />
<strong>NFL (in the words of the mainstream media,not mine). The panel is </strong><br />
<strong>comprised of four poltically powerful women(four white women). The </strong><br />
<strong>recent decision was immediately attacked by black womens groups who </strong><br />
<strong>cited the(and well founded)fact that no black female was allowed to </strong><br />
<strong>sit on this new advisory panel of progressive inquistors. However, </strong><br />
<strong>the advisory panel completely lacks any type of fairness because </strong><br />
<strong>additionally, no male, black, white, hispanic, asian or any other </strong><br />
<strong>race was invited to sit on the panel. A panel which appears to have </strong><br />
<strong>star chamber powers who possess a loaded agenda aimed at one gender </strong><br />
<strong>and one gender only.</strong><br />
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<strong><em>"Star Chamber Court sessions were held in secret, with no indictments, and no witnesses. Evidence was presented in writing. Over time it evolved into a political weapon, a symbol of the misuse and abuse of power by the English monarchy and courts.</em></strong><br />
<strong><em>In modern usage, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings are sometimes called, metaphorically or poetically, star chambers. This is a pejorative term and intended to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the proceedings. The inherent lack of objectivity of politically motivated charges has led to substantial reforms in English law in most jurisdictions since that time."</em></strong><br />
<strong><em>-Wikipedia</em></strong><br />
<strong>There is however more fallen victims of the NFL decision, those </strong><br />
<strong>victms names are "due process" (under the color of law) and </strong><br />
<strong>individual civil rights. In that the NFL has not only folded to the </strong><br />
<strong>forces of political correctness it has turned it's back on the due </strong><br />
<strong>process of law in which people are innocent until proven gulity in a </strong><br />
<strong>court of law. This is not suprising, because follows suit with </strong><br />
<strong>college campuses in the United States and other pusedo legal bodies </strong><br />
<strong>which have formed within corporations and other private entities in </strong><br />
<strong>which serious life shattering decisions are made, decisions which </strong><br />
<strong>have the power to destroy the lives of indviduals and their </strong><br />
<strong>families. However the one and only vicitim in these decisions are </strong><br />
<strong>male.. and completely anti-male. At no time has any female been been </strong><br />
<strong>tried and executed in the mass media in the United States. The </strong><br />
<strong>symbolic castration of killings of males in effigy in the media are </strong><br />
<strong>ongoing.</strong><br />
<strong>THEN COMES THE UNITED NATIONS</strong><br />
<strong>In recent days, the Actress Emma Watson, (known for her roles in the </strong><br />
<strong>Harry Potter series) took center stage as she became a spokesperson </strong><br />
<strong>for the United Nations war against gender inequality. During her </strong><br />
<strong>speech she nervously tried to defend the idea of feminism and </strong><br />
<strong>attempted to quell the fears of those who would consider the </strong><br />
<strong>feminist ideology has a hate movement. But then within the same </strong><br />
<strong>speech she spoke about her Father and noted that his role as a man </strong><br />
<strong>and father had been marginalized by current poltical thinking. </strong><br />
<strong>Whether she truely graps what she was saying remains to be seen.</strong><br />
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<strong>SGT Shakes-Speare .....</strong><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-50738757638151018882014-08-15T20:32:00.004-07:002014-08-15T20:38:27.150-07:00The War on Men and Boys and the Forces Behind it.<div aria-label="This conversation contains no unread messages" class="icon info info-unread" data-action="thread-unread" role="button" tabindex="0" title="Click to mark all messages as unread">
<u>The following information was researched and written by Angela McCauley. Angela is a tireless advocate of the men's rights movement.</u></div>
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N.O.W. Brief Filed November 20, 2013 </div>
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Argued April 2, 2013.</div>
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The brief (filed by N.O.W.) argues that such an extraordinary award may chill protective mothers from raising allegations of domestic violence in custody disputes for "fear of retaliation should their claims ultimately be found unproven."</div>
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Lori Alvino McGill and Kerry J. Dingle, Washington, DC, filed a brief on behalf of the National Organization for Women Foundation, et al., as amici curiae in support of appellant.</div>
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The Khawam case is one of thousands that NOW leaders have become familiar with over the years and is illustrative of the dysfunction of the family court system. Ten organizations joined with NOW Foundation in filing this brief:</div>
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The Battered Women's Justice Project - Domestic Abuse Intervention Program,</div>
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The Center for Judicial Excellence,</div>
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Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project,</div>
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Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence,</div>
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National Coalition Against Domestic Violence,</div>
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Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance </div>
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Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund.</div>
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"The brief supports reversal of an unprecedented award of $350,000 in attorneys' fees against a woman who accused her ex-husband of domestic violence. The brief argues that such an extraordinary award may chill protective mothers from raising allegations of domestic violence in custody disputes for fear of retaliation should their claims ultimately be found unproven.</div>
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"IX - In sum, we affirm the custody order, the initial visitation order, and the judgment of divorce; we vacate and remand the trial court's order denying Ms. Khawam's motion to modify the custody order; and we dismiss the appeal from the award of attorney's fees for lack of a final order. </div>
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N.O.W. has made many false claims about this case in an attempt to, as is typical of this organization, to incite hysteria about family courts giving custody to abusive fathers. However, I just spent a great deal of time reading the 13 pages of this appellate case where I took many notes and made many observations. </div>
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In reading this case, after my own 6 yearlong nightmare, I noticed many familiar patterns of behavior perpetrated by this mother against this father. I will highlight a few:</div>
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First observation I want to make is that this child is only 5-years-old, almost 6, and already has had to endure this all too familiar horrific experience, which is an epidemic. </div>
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After a bitter argument in early March 2009, Ms. Khawam left the marital home and went to Tampa, Florida, taking the child with her "against Mr. Wolfe's express objections."Mr. Wolfe repeatedly demanded that Ms. Khawam disclose her precise location and return with the child, but Ms. Khawam refused. Several weeks after Ms.Khawam left for Florida, Mr. Wolfe filed a complaint here in the District seeking custody of the child. Aware of the pending lawsuit in the District, but not yet served with process, Ms. Khawam filed a petition for divorce and custody of the child in Florida state court.</div>
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In early April 2009, the Superior Court issued an order granting Mr. Wolfe temporary sole custody of the child. That order was served on Ms. Khawam in Tampa, as was notice of the pending custody case in the District. "After receiving the notice", Ms.Khawam sought an ex parte temporary "stay-away" injunction against Mr. Wolfe in Florida, alleging that Mr. Wolfe had committed acts of child abuse and domestic violence. A Florida state court granted the requested temporary injunction and subsequently issued additional temporary injunctions. In June 2010, however, the Florida state court determined that it lacked jurisdiction over Ms. Khawam's divorce petition and domestic-violence petitions and therefore dismissed the petitions and the corresponding temporary injunctions.</div>
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THE FAMILIAR PATTERN OF MATERNAL BEHAVIOR</div>
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Taking the child from the father against his express objections</div>
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She repeatedly refused to disclose her location to him</div>
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After receiving the Court's notice that granted temporary sole custody to the father....now comes the convenient ex-parte hearings seeking temporary "stay-away" injunctions and alleging both domestic violence and child abuse. </div>
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The Courts granted those "temporary injunctions...and "subsequently issued additional temporary injunctions.</div>
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**This is the pattern that allows these mothers to achieve alienation from the fathers, but does not include all of their tactics. </div>
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II - We first address Ms. Khawam's contention that the Superior Court lacked jurisdiction to issue the custody order. We conclude that the trial court correctly exercised jurisdiction.</div>
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A - In finding that the child had a significant connection to the District, the trial 564*564 court relied on the following: (1) the child was born in the District; (2) the child lived in the District for the first two-and-a-half months of his life; (3) the child received medical treatment in the District; (4) both of the child's parents had significant connections with the District; and (5) Mr. Wolfe continued to live and work in the District. Considering that the child was only five months old when Mr. Wolfe filed the custody suit, we conclude that the child had a significant connection to the District.</div>
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B. Ms. Khawam also challenges the trial court's ruling that substantial evidence concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships was available in the District. We uphold the trial court's ruling.</div>
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For the reasons we have explained, the trial court did not err in finding that substantial evidence concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships was available in the District.</div>
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III - Ms. Khawam raises several challenges to the trial court's rulings in connection with Ms. Khawam's allegation that Mr. Wolfe had committed acts of domestic violence. Specifically, Ms. Khawam argues that Judge Saddler unfairly prevented Ms. Khawam from presenting evidence on that issue, that Judge Kravitz erroneously deferred to Judge Saddler's determination of 567*567 that issue and demonstrated judicial bias, and that Judge Kravitz made several clearly erroneous factual findings in concluding that Ms. Khawam had failed to demonstrate that Mr. Wolfe had committed acts of domestic violence. We affirm.</div>
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A - After conducting a lengthy evidentiary hearing, Judge Saddler ruled that the District had jurisdiction over the custody matter and that the District was not an inconvenient forum. During that hearing, Ms. Khawam introduced evidence that Mr. Wolfe had engaged in acts of domestic violence. Mr. Wolfe denied having engaged in such acts and introduced other evidence in support of that denial. In concluding that the District was not an inconvenient forum, Judge Saddler discussed and ultimately discredited Ms. Khawam's allegations of domestic violence.</div>
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On appeal, Ms. Khawam contends that Judge Saddler denied her a fair opportunity to prove her claims of domestic violence, by substantially restricting Ms. Khawam's ability to introduce evidence on the issue and then resolving the issue on an incomplete record. We find no error. </div>
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It is true, as Ms. Khawam emphasizes, that at various points during the hearing Judge Saddler excluded evidence about domestic violence. We do not agree with Ms. Khawam, however, that Judge Saddler either flatly prohibited introduction of evidence of domestic violence or otherwise acted unfairly.</div>
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Finally, as already noted, it is undisputed that Judge Saddler admitted evidence of domestic violence at various points during the hearing. On this record, we conclude that Ms. Khawam has not established that Judge Saddler flatly precluded evidence of domestic violence or otherwise acted unfairly in her handling of such evidence during the hearing.</div>
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In sum, we find no error in Judge Saddler's finding that Ms. Khawam had not shown that Mr. Wolfe had committed acts of domestic violence. We therefore affirm Judge Saddler's conclusion that the District would not be an inconvenient forum.</div>
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B - Ms. Khawam also contends that Judge Kravitz erred in his handling of the issue of domestic violence in connection with the custody and visitation determinations. We conclude to the contrary.</div>
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In arguing that she should be granted custody of the child, Ms. Khawam contended that Mr. Wolfe had threatened and physically abused both her and the child. SeeD.C.Code § 16-914(a)(3)(F) (2012 Repl.) (trial court determining custody issue shall consider, among other things, "evidence of an intrafamily offense" as defined in D.C.Code § 16-1001(8) (2012 Repl.), which includes threats and assault against spouse or biological child). After conducting a lengthy evidentiary hearing, Judge Kravitz concluded that Ms. Khawam's allegations of domestic violence were "false." In support of that conclusion, Judge Kravitz relied upon seven considerations: (1) "Ms. Khawam made no contemporaneous or even near-contemporaneous reports of any of Mr. Wolfe's alleged criminal acts"; (2) Ms. Khawam's allegations expanded over time and were "so numerous, so extraordinary, and ... so distorted that they defy any common sense view of reality"; (3) no physical, scientific, or documentary evidence supported Ms. Khawam's allegations; (4) only one witness testified before Judge Kravitz to having seen Mr. Wolfe assault Ms. Khawam, and Judge Kravitz did not credit the testimony of that witness, Ms. Khawam's twin sister, whom Judge Kravitz found to be "patently biased and unbelievable"; (5) Ms. Khawam's claim that Mr. Wolfe had forced her to engage in non-consensual sexual relations was undermined by "romantic and sexually suggestive emails Ms. Khawam sent to Mr.Wolfe shortly after the incident"; (6) "every judicial officer who has presided over an adversarial proceeding at which Ms. Khawam's allegations of domestic violence have been addressed has found the evidence supporting the allegations deficient"; and (7) "Ms. Khawam's allegations of child abuse by Mr. Wolfe have been found similarly wanting by every child welfare agency that has investigated them."</div>
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IV - Ms. Khawam argues that the custody order should be reversed because the trial court erroneously credited the testimony of Dr. Berman, the court-appointed custody evaluator, who testified that Ms. Khawam exhibited "poor logical thinking" and "a profoundly distorted view of Mr. Wolfe and of much of the world around her." Ms. Khawam contends that her expert, Dr. Prange, gave unrebutted testimony that Dr. Berman's psychological testing of Ms. Khawam was not consistent with standard scientific protocols and that Dr. Berman's methods for conducting the custody evaluation fell short of professional standards. We find no grounds for reversal.</div>
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Ms. Khawam contends that the custody order should be reversed because 571*571 the trial court's visitation order was "harsh" and afforded Ms. Khawam "extremely limited" visitation. More specifically, Ms. Khawam objects to the following restrictions: (1) visitation is limited to thirteen hours per week; (2) visitation must be supervised; (3) visitation must occur on Monday afternoon, Friday afternoon, and Saturday during the day; and (4) Ms. Khawam cannot take the child more than ten miles outside the District.</div>
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In determining parental visitation rights, the trial court must "foster and safeguard [the] child's best interests." Hamel v. Hamel, 489 A.2d 471, 475 (D.C. 1985) (internal quotation marks omitted; brackets in Hamel). Under D.C.Code § 16-914(a)(3), the trial court must consider seventeen factors in determining the best interest of the child, including the interaction of the child with each parent, the mental health of the parents, the capacity of the parents to communicate, and the parents' willingness to share custody. This court will reverse a trial court's ruling on the subject of visitation "only for a clear abuse of discretion." Maybin v. Stewart, 885 A.2d 284, 287 (D.C.2005). We find no clear abuse of discretion in the original visitation ruling.</div>
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In this case, after thoroughly considering each of the statutory factors and several additional factors (including Ms. Khawam's lack of honesty and integrity and her failure to obey court orders), the trial court concluded that it was in the child's best interest for Mr. Wolfe to be the child's sole legal and primary physical custodian. </div>
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We are satisfied that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by initially limiting Ms. Khawam's visitation to thirteen hours per week and requiring that visitation be supervised. </div>
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The trial court properly relied upon counsel's statement in crafting the original visitation order. Cf., e.g., Flax v. Schertler, 935 A.2d 1091, 1103 (D.C.2007) ("it is necessary for the orderly conduct of litigation that the trial court be able to rely on counsel's representations at important junctures of 572*572 litigation") (internal quotation marks omitted). As to the specific dates and times of visitation, the trial court explained in the initial custody order that the schedule was a temporary arrangement to accommodate the possibility that Ms. Khawam. We do not find the specific visitation schedule in the initial custody order, intended to be temporary, to be a clear abuse of discretion.</div>
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Under the circumstances, we conclude that the trial court was required either to conduct an evidentiary hearing or to explain with specificity why such a hearing was not required, despite the serious allegations raised by Ms. Khawam's motion to modify.</div>
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--evidentiary hearings are strongly encouraged where allegations are made of present endangerment to a child's health or emotional well being") (internal quotation marks omitted).</div>
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**Of interest here, it is critical to point out that isn't it interesting though, that "evidentiary hearings are not strongly encouraged when a MAN is accused of domestic violence, child abuse or abuse". As is stated above, based on this mother's allegations alone she was granted temporary injunction and subsequently issued additional injunctions. And, herein lies the problem with these cases, how they begin and how they often end. These temporary orders are granted initially, immediately and repeatedly to these women who make allegations without evidence, with a hearing and without witnesses. </div>
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VII - Khawam seeks reversal of the trial court's order awarding attorney's fees to Mr. Wolfe. We dismiss Ms. Khawam's.</div>
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The trial court awarded Mr.Wolfe $350,000 under the necessaries doctrine, but expressly declined to decide whether Mr. Wolfe was entitled to an award under the remaining two theories.</div>
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But where the trial court resolves only one claimed basis for relief, and leaves open other claims for additional relief, the trial court's order will generally lack finality. See, e.g., Merrell Dow Pharm. v. Oxendine,593 A.2d 1023, 1026 (D.C.1991) ("because the judgment leaves plaintiff th[e] option of seeking additional damages, it cannot be viewed as final") (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted); Jones v. Jones, 869 So.2d 1120, 1123 (Ala.2003) ("An order is not final if it permits a party to return to court and prove more damages or if it leaves open the question of additional recovery.").</div>
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Feel free to correct me if I am wrong here, with my lack of a law degree, but it has now been 7 months since this decision was made, so unless I am mistaken, I am left to wonder "why is Terry O'Neill and the National Organization of Women *missing in action*" on this decision?</div>
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It seems that in Ms. O'Neill's original complaint about the award of $350,000 to the ex-husband as being unprecedented and that it may chill protective mothers from raising allegations of domestic violence in custody disputes for "fear of retaliation should their claims ultimately be found unproven", SHE HAS FAILED. </div>
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In fact, as is stated above ""because the judgment leaves plaintiff th[e] option of seeking additional damages, it cannot be viewed as final" - so not only was he awarded the $350,000 under the necessaries doctrine, but as the order is not final he is still open to seek additional damages. </div>
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So, in ending after reading all of this it appears that the only dysfunction in the family courts is in allowing these cases to get this far where children are subjected to as is explained within the case "This three-year-old boy has experienced extraordinary upheaval in his brief life, and he needs a chance to settle in to his new surroundings and routine with Mr. Wolfe here in the District of Columbia. It is not surprising, given all that has transpired, that the child might act up during transitions or visits with his mother."</div>
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As far as this claim made "The brief (filed by N.O.W.) argues that such an extraordinary award may chill protective mothers from raising allegations of domestic violence in custody disputes for "fear of retaliation should their claims ultimately be found unproven". </div>
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When you read this case in its entirety and develop an understanding of why this award was made, and why he is open to seek additional awards, you will see the "ADDITIONAL" insanity in this statement. It appears that Ms. Khawam made many false allegations of both domestic violence and child abuse and this was proven through evidentiary hearings, hence it is my hope that Mr. Khawan's award will in fact, "chill protective mothers from raising allegations of domestic violence in custody disputes for FEAR of retaliation should their claims ultimately be found unproven"</div>
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So, where are you, Terry O'Neill and N.O.W, on this decision? Why the silence? I want to hear your roar....I am, as it appears the courts got it right in this time, in this case. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-916376069739130432014-08-04T17:24:00.001-07:002018-04-26T17:14:36.993-07:00Misandry Defined by Olfactory SensesSometimes being informed and mentally awake can have great and serious consequences. The biggest consequence of being awake is the fact that it makes a brain think about the outside influences that affect it.<br />
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One has to wonder (think about) what it was like to be born as a slave in an ancient society, only to become enlightened and forced into the realization that you were being oppressed. Or trapped into an oppressive environment that was controlled by cultural norms and laws that were created by a small segment of society. A segment of society that was hell bent on controlling the actions of others.<br />
And one must also contemplate by what standard that he or she would be able to determine if they were actually being oppressed or if the idea (the thought) of oppression was true or only perceived?<br />
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THE SMELL TEST<br />
<span style="color: black;">Both Scientists and Laymen use a variety of methods to determine facts. Some of these methodologies included empirical testing;</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>Empirical evidence</b> (also <b>empirical data</b>, <b>sense experience</b>, <b>empirical knowledge</b>, or the <b>a posteriori</b>) is a source of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge"><span style="color: black;">knowledge</span></a><span style="color: black;"> acquired by means of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation" title="Observation"><span style="color: black;">observation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment" title="Experiment"><span style="color: black;">experimentation</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<sup> </sup>The term comes from the Greek word for experience, </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B5%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="wiktionary:εμπειρία"><span style="color: black;">Εμπειρία</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (empeiría).</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Empirical evidence is information that </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_justification" title="Theory of justification"><span style="color: black;">justifies</span></a><span style="color: black;"> a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief" title="Belief"><span style="color: black;">belief</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in the truth or falsity of a claim. In the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism" title="Empiricism"><span style="color: black;">empiricist</span></a><span style="color: black;"> view, one can claim to have knowledge only when one has a true belief based on empirical evidence. This stands in contrast to the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism"><span style="color: black;">rationalist</span></a><span style="color: black;"> view under which </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason" title="Reason"><span style="color: black;">reason</span></a><span style="color: black;"> or reflection alone is considered to be evidence for the truth or falsity of some </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition" title="Proposition"><span style="color: black;">propositions</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<sup> "</sup><strong>The </strong></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense" title="Sense"><span style="color: black;"><strong>senses</strong></span></a><span style="color: black;"><strong> are the primary source of empirical evidence".</strong> Although other sources of evidence, such as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory" title="Memory"><span style="color: black;">memory</span></a><span style="color: black;">, and the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimony" title="Testimony"><span style="color: black;">testimony</span></a><span style="color: black;"> of others ultimately trace back to some sensory experience, they are considered to be secondary, or indirect</span><br />
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So if it looks like misandry (the hatred of men), tastes likes misandry or smells like misandry .. is it misandry? Based upon the gathering of empirical evidence it is by all probabilities misandry. <br />
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THE BACKSTORY<br />
Over the last few month or so, I ran into three very striking things within my own community which raised a big flag in the back of my head. The first thing I ran into was a flyer that came from the local park district office. The flyer was a list of dates, times and costs of park district activities offered to village residents. As I reviewed the flyer I saw an event called "self defense class for women". A small thing you say? No misandry here? Perhaps, but allow me to continue. Then I was driving to work and I saw signs posted along side of the road which was advertising exercise classes "for women only" No misandry here you say... just move along? Allow me to continue ..... Then upon speaking to my wife, she had informed me that she had received a call from a female case worker at the school that my two sons (who are both ten years old) attend. And apparently a conversation ensued in which my wife was informed that one of my sons was experiencing body odor after playing on the playground in the August heat. It just so happens that our children begin school in late July and have a shorter summer break. Both children shower every morning before going to school as a matter if ridged routine. But apparently the caseworker (to the best of my knowledge) was offended by the smell and felt that a call was necessary. No misandry here you say...? Maybe not .. But at the very least I would have to say that the actions of the caseworker were based upon a societal norm created by a small percentage of individuals bent on controlling the direction of people lives. My last statement here may seem over the top. And you may not want to believe that there is an agenda driven mind set that discriminates against men and boys, or that a societal norm has been created that seeks to undermine the normal behavior of men and boys (and in the aforementioned case, to control our physiology as well) . But if it only takes a short trip around my own neighborhood to identify these types of situations, then we must be lead by empirical evidence to the conclusion that the smell test clearly indicates that misandry is being practiced in our own communities. <br />
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THE CONVERSATION MEN'S SUFFRAGE;<br />
Clearly, I am an MRA (Men's Rights Advocate) and I am no stranger to being the lone, singled out borderline intellectual, who was once told by the blue collar father of an ex-wife that I used too many big words, though you will get no apologies from me in that matter. I accept the plain and simple truth of having to stand alone with my own opinions, and at fifty five years of age now, I am okay with that. I then plowed forward and opened a dialogue with my current wife and I explained my observations and the concerns that I had. I tried to explain my position, though like most modern women, she rebuffed my opinion and told me that "surely you don't think that an exercise group that was for women only would not allow a man to participate .. do you? And besides, perhaps they did that to feel safer" Safer I thought ... from what? I then reminded her that many people who lived in the United States had at one time posted such signs in front of hotels, stores and washrooms to keep black people from coming in and utilizing the same space as a white person .. and they also did this out of fear.. unfounded fear. It was at this point that I decided to do what I do best. And that was to open the law books (or google) and take a look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and here is what I found.<br />
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THE REMEDY; According to Title II of the civil rights act of 1964;<br />
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<strong>TITLE II -- INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN PLACES OF</strong> <strong>PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION</strong> <br />
Sec. 201. (a) <b><u>All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment </u></b>of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin. (b) Each of the following establishments which serves the public is a place of public accommodation within the meaning of this title if its operations affect commerce, or if discrimination or segregation by it is supported by State action: (1) any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence; (2) any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or the facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited to, any such facility located on the premises of any retail establishment; or any gasoline station; (3) any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium or other place of exhibition or entertainment; and (4) any establishment (A)(i) which is physically located within the premises of any establishment otherwise covered by this subsection, or (ii) within the premises of which is physically located any such covered establishment, and (B) which holds itself out as serving patrons of such covered establishment. <br />
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Besides the civil rights act, every state has now moved into the gender discrimination law business. And despite the fact that most of these laws were written to protect women against the discrimination, that also make in unlawful to discriminate against anyone based upon gender.<br />
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If it looks like discrimination, tastes like discrimination and smells like discrimination .... it is discrimination.<br />
- Sergeant ShakespeareUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-19416782565861524332014-07-09T14:01:00.003-07:002014-07-10T10:28:12.171-07:00Israel Takes a StandImagine yourself on a commute to work, You are standing at a bus stop in a group of people when suddenly one of those commuters explodes (an obvious suicide bomber) and kills several people standing around you. Or you're driving to work early in the morning wondering if your going to make it because there has been active snipers in reported the area of your workplace. Or worst yet, having to worry about your children walking to school because you are afraid that they might be killed by rocket fire while walking to school. If you this this sounds far fetched, well you wrong, because it's been going on in Israel for many years now.<br />
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<em>Teaching our children to hate and kill</em><br />
<em> is counter productive.</em><br />
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Over the last few months (and years) Israel has approached the United States in a diplomatic effort to bring the people of the U.S. to an understanding of the situation that they face. According to multiple news outlets, and by the historic record, Israel has been under siege.<br />
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In all conflicts, there are two sides to every story. It could be argued that Israel is subjecting it's neighbors to isolation and military occupation. Many people cite and/or label this activity as "Zionism" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism</a> Or Israel's agenda to create a "Jewish state" in the region. <u>Whereas the Zionist movement is indeed a fact,</u><br />
<i>After almost two millennia of existence of the Jewish diaspora without a national state, the Zionist movement was founded in the late 19th century by secular Jews, largely as a response by Ashkenazi Jews to rising antisemitism in Europe, exemplified by the Dreyfus affair in France and the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire.The political movement was formally established by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in 1897 following the publication of his book Der Judenstaat. At that time, the movement sought to encourage Jewish migration to the Ottoman Palestine.</i><br />
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It is also fact that the Jewish people were routed from Europe during WWII as they were rounded up and sent to death camps throughout Europe in the greatest episode of sectarian hatred and violence that the world has ever witnessed. And now we see the rising Islamic movement of Jihad has postured on the world stage and has become a worldwide threat to the safety of multiple nations throughout the world. And it has also promised that to wipe out the state of Israel in our life time The proof of this threat is in plain view. On September 11th 2003,<i> </i>The United States was attacked by Islamic Terrorists. <i>The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.</i><br />
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<a href="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/399/cache/september-9-11-attacks-anniversary-ground-zero-world-trade-center-pentagon-flight-93-second-airplane-wtc_39997_600x450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/399/cache/september-9-11-attacks-anniversary-ground-zero-world-trade-center-pentagon-flight-93-second-airplane-wtc_39997_600x450.jpg" height="320" width="277" /></a><i>Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within two hours, both towers collapsed with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the WTC complex, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense), leading to a partial collapse in its western side. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was targeted at Washington, D.C.,[3] but crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. In total, almost 3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes. It also was the deadliest incident for firefighters and for law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed respectively.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>"A man can die but once". - (Act III, Scene II). </b></span><b style="background-color: white;">King Henry IV, Part I</b><br />
From a national security and public safety stand point, it is very difficult to dismiss these threats as political folly or mere criminal activity. It is perfectly clear that when firearms, rockets, explosive devices and IED (improvised explosives) are used to forward a political agenda and they enter into the diplomatic discussion as well as threats of further violence emerge, these "tactics" are absolutely weapons of open warfare. And when warfare is hoisted up the common unarmed masses, does not become the duty of the state to protect it citizens? And let us also clarify that a "duty" is a much loftier call that a simple responsibility which rises above the common wants of a hostile intruder. If there is food on the table of the enemy, water in his glass and a way from him or her to provide for the needs of his or her family, what grounds does any aggressor have to wage war against another? Except but for want of power and wealth?<span style="background-color: yellow;"> <u><b>It is Israel's <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2px;">prerogative when it comes to self defense. And it is the duty of each government to protect it's citizens against the hostile aggression of an invading neighbor.</span></b></u></span><br />
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<i> Israel has taken a stand. The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) has launched operations into Gaza to stem the ongoing sectarian violence that has been plaguing the region. </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span>
<img alt="Photo: Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, more than 200 rockets have hit Israel with 53 intercepted by IDF soldiers.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-67511406687919799562014-06-28T10:55:00.000-07:002014-06-30T09:44:27.775-07:00History Made; "The First International Men's Issues" Conference held in the Detroit Area.History was made over this last weekend as the very first international conference on men's issues was held in the Detroit area in Michigan. The conference unfortunately received limited local coverage by local news outlets around the Detroit area. And the media was quick to label the conference as controversial without learning or knowing any facts about the conference or the groups and people that supported it.<br />
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The men's conference was organized by "A Voice For Men" (AVFM), which was founded by Paul Elam. I have followed Mr. Elam and his other Writers and supporters for about a year now and what I have found has been quite positive. Mr. Elam and his followers have done a great service to men in the United States because they (AVFM) has given men a place to share common experiences from a society that has sought to marginalize men in the media, in the workplace, in the family courts and in the home. Many of the men (who are also military veterans) who I have taken the time to correspond via social media and email have been fair minded people who have been through terrible experiences in our family / divorce courts.<br />
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The conference was in my opinion very timely, because it comes on the heels of great social strife in our country. The media is currently filled with stories of high crime rates, the loss of employment and ongoing non-stop worldwide warfare and political hatred. There are also some noteworthy news stories that have been published over the last couple of weeks that making the timing of the AVFM conference very important.<br />
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THE NOTEWORTHY NEWS STORIES;<br />
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THREATS MADE<br />
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The AVFM conference was originally scheduled at the Double Tree Hotel in Detroit but the conference was cancelled because the hotel and it's employee's had received multiple death threats. This is ironic considering that fact that all law enforcement agencies nationwide are acutely tuned into the problems of domestic terrorism and the threats against AVFM and the Double Tree most certainly fall into the category of "terrorist activity"<br />
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The Conference was subsequently moved to a nearby VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Lodge, which in my opinion was extremely appropriate, considering the fact the men have traditionally been the protectors of the homeland for generations, and after the VA (Veterans Administration) scandal, it has become very apparent that the Protectors of the Homeland (90% male) have been divested by the system that it serves.<br />
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JUDGE ORDERS DEPLOYED SAILOR ARRESTED FOR<br />
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Another important story involved a deployed Submarine Sailor Matthew Hindes, who's daughter was with living his current spouse while Matthew was serving his country. During his deployment his ex-wife, (who previously had custody of his daughter and lost custody due to a Child Protective services (CPS) investigation and was removed from her home.) had approached the court and the Judge in the case, Lenawee Circuit Court Judge Margaret Noe ordered the child to be returned to the mother and issued a bench warrant for Matthew because he had the audacity to not turn his Navy sub around and immediately appear in her court room. But after some people with common sense started a petition and multiple groups coalesced (including Men's Rights supporters). The honorable judge postponed the ruling until October. <br />
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BE MOLESTED AT AVFM CONFERENCE;<br />
Another astounding media claim comes from a blogger by the name of Lee DiVeto who labeled himself As" a straight-white-cisgender-heterosexual-male", said he attended the AVFM conference and was "molested by an older male" I only caught wind of this article because I watched Paul Elam's opening statements and he mentioned the incident and noted the online article, but he was very sincere in the fact that he had to ask the men to leave, but by Mr. Elam's tone he had some remorse because he felt that the man was mentally disturbed in was in need of help that few men are finding in today's society. I can affirm Mr. Elam's empathy for this man because the county in which I live in Illinois has suffered severe cut backs in mental health services since the crash of 2008.<br />
<a href="http://blogs.metrotimes.com/news-blawg/molested-mens-rights-conference/">http://blogs.metrotimes.com/news-blawg/molested-mens-rights-conference/</a><br />
I attempted to speak to author of the blog post (Mr. DiVeto) and ask him some questions about his story, but he did not reply to my posts and for that matter, I was unable to find my questions and they appeared to have been removed. But, the questions I asked were quite simple, initially I asked him if he had filed a police report and if he had spoken to or interviewed anyone from the AVFM conference. To the best of my knowledge and due to the lack of reply, I can only assume that he had not done either.<br />
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<em><span class="text Gen-11-5" id="en-NIV-272"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>But the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> came down<sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-272J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)"></sup> to see the city and the tower the people were building.</span> <span class="text Gen-11-6" id="en-NIV-273"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> said, “If as one people speaking the same language<sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-273K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)"></sup> they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.</span> <span class="text Gen-11-7" id="en-NIV-274"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Come, let us<sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-274L" title="See cross-reference L">L</a>)"></sup> go down<sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-274M" title="See cross-reference M">M</a>)"></sup> and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”<sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-274N" title="See cross-reference N">N</a>)"></sup></span></em><br />
<em><span class="text Gen-11-8" id="en-NIV-275"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>So the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> scattered them from there over all the earth,<sup class="crossreference" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-275O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)"></sup> and they stopped building the city.</span> <span class="text Gen-11-9" id="en-NIV-276"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>That is why it was called Babel</span></em><br />
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<span class="text Gen-11-9">On September 11th 2001, our language and our thoughts were scattered. Many people walked away quietly, stunned beyond words. Confused by design. 9-11 as it became known, has become a bit of a mockery in closed circles. Most people don't hold to the official story. </span><br />
<span class="text Gen-11-9">Then came the following years of warfare. Battlegrounds without meaning or purpose. No true patriotism served, an unrelenting cavalcade of wars that made no sense. The battle for the Tower of Babel.</span><br />
<span class="text Gen-11-9">But beyond the warfare conducted by corporations, a strange anomaly occurred. A series of tragic mass murders, the like of which were never witnesses in American history. The most notorious of which is the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In addition to Sandy Hook mass shootings have taken place in Colorado and most recently in Santa Barbara California.</span><br />
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<span class="text Gen-11-9">Ironically, there is a common thread that runs through all of the recent mass shootings, in that the murderers, the shooters or whatever you want to call them, come from the upper class of American society. I refuse to use the names of theses wealthy killers here because I refuse to give them any more notoriety than they have already been given. I will also not mention the names of their parents here because I am sure that the parents involved would be quick to file suit for defamation of character. But as a writer / journalist, I will say this. If one were to conduct some simple research on the backgrounds of these families, they would be shocked to find out that at least two of the shooters families had dealing within the financial industry and one of the shooters fathers was deeply involved in the financial scandals that broke out in 2008. In the most recent shooting, the parent of the shooter was a well known Hollywood insider. Coincidence? Perhaps... </span><br />
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<span class="text Gen-11-9">In the 1990's another journalist by the name of Terry Maury wrote a book called "The Ultimate Evil". Maury fearlessly took on the investigation of the Son of Sam killings, which was a series of murders that took place in New York during the 70's. These killings became known as the .44 killings. Because a .44 caliber handgun had been used to commit the murders. But as Maury began to follow the evidence, he was shocked to find out that the accused Son of Sam killer (David Berkowitz) had probably not acted alone. And that he was in fact, by his own admission a member of a network of Satanists that stretched across the United States. The trail that Maury followed, lead him all the way to Hollywood. More coincidence.. ? Probably not, as Maury is a journalist and he used facts and evidence to establish the connections that were made in this case. In the 1990's Police agencies throughout the U.S. began to have deep concerns about ritualistic crimes that were being uncovered throughout the country. Many cases were dismissed as folly or the satanic dabbling of teenagers. But the truth is that Satan is alive and well on the planet Earth. In an ironic twist, reporters who had attempted to speak to some of the local residents of small Connecticut town where the Sandy Hook massacre took place, found only fear, apprehension and claims that a Satanic cult had roots within the community. Coincidence...? Perhaps. But at least one independent investigator has raised questions about the validity of the Sandy Hook story and he has been both threatened and rebuffed by local authorities. This is a very strange reaction coming from the professionals who are now the caretakers of a closed criminal case. Then in the most recent case of the Santa Barbara California shootings, the same type of theme emerged . a theme of gas lighting and redirected blame. Though this shooter left behind a detailed manifesto in which he revealed a deep and troubled narcissistic personality. When I read his facebook page and reviewed the available information about his manifesto, the words "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law" rang in my ears. These were the words of the famed occultist Aleister Crowely. I also reflected upon the unsolved murder of a young child who's parents were also members of upper class society ... a victim who was frequently painted like a doll and paraded around like a trophy... a lamb.</span><br />
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What is also perplexing about these cases, is the fact that a piece of the puzzle always seems to be missing or people are intentionally kept quiet. And that the blame is continuously laid at the feet of someone other than the perpetrator of the crime. This gas lighting (an attempt to reverse the narrative or make those not responsible, feel responsible) is a common theme. It was used in 9-11 to justify the attack on Iraq and it was used to Sandy Hook to ignite anti-constitutional rhetoric. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">With a deep sigh, I lamented, "Have we had enough yet?" At what crossroads do we leave the set path and take our own? These thoughts came to me as I followed the latest Veteran Administration (VA) scandal For those of us who served in the military and/or had our own Fathers (or other relatives serve), we have been acutely aware of the reputation of the VA for many many years.The VA has long been known by Veterans as a sort of meat grinder, a place to go to die. Just another battlefield. That was bad enough Then over the last few days a huge scandal broke into the news concerning the VA. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">It seems that the VA has placed Veterans on a sort waiting list. A waiting list that no one gets called from.. This waiting list seems to have been a political animal. A political animal that would result in the death of several Veterans as they awaited medical treatment from the VA.. To add insult to injury, an internet based news story reported that a whistle blower from the VA had stated that a Supervisor from the VA had said (paraphrasing) That older Vets should be taken out and shot in the head. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Considering the current political climate, I don't find this statement surprising or shocking at all. And for someone reading this article you might wonder "why I might think this?" The answer is quite simple. The demographics of American Military Veterans in the United States is predominantly male. According to VA projections the number of living veterans by 2040, will be 11,906,60 male veterans, compared to 2,556,166 female veterans. <a href="http://www.va.gov/vetdata/veteran_population.asp">http://www.va.gov/vetdata/veteran_population.asp</a> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">So whats the difference you ask? A veteran is a veteran right? Well ....... not so fast. In the U.S. the difference in the minds of our government, corporations and the mainstream media is deep and profound. Special interest groups, including the democratic party, feminist groups affiliated with the left and labor unions have advanced the political ideology of female gender (feminism). And they have joined forces with other left leaning organizations and politicians to fund and support programs which help to foster ideas and pass laws that disenfranchise male citizens.</span><br />
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The reality in war is that men carry the weight of the battle. The numbers and statistics (see above link) quoted by the Veterans Administration cannot and does not lie. The numbers can't ... they just can't.<br />
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It is also a foregone conclusion, that by law, that women are not required to register for selective service. Their military service has always been classified as a "choice". The United States government has implemented the draft on several occasions including the Civil War, WWI, WWII and Viet Nam. At no time in U.S. History was any female expected to serve against her will. However, in the last few months, Hillary Clinton (former First Lady, Secretary of State and possible Presidential Candidate) stated that "women bare the brunt of war" NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. Men carrier the burden of war. And they have carried this burden for thousands of years. Additionally, one of the main reason they went to war was to protect "Home" and country. In other words ...<u> to protect women and children.. lets be truthful here.</u><br />
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While the current administration and the U.S. Military have become <u>extreme advocates</u> for gay rights, anti-sexual assault and anti-sexual harassment. The suicide rates among male military personnel has soared to unacceptable numbers. Former and current military members have also found themselves being victimized by the greed of family courts and corrupt lawyers. All while losing their rights to participate in their lives of their own children. It is estimated that suicides rates for veterans will not decrease for many years to come and hundreds of Vets will kill themselves every year. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) has become an ongoing headline in many news stories. The reasons for this are very apparent. Soldiers were used as hardware and not recognized for what they are... HUMAN. The tempo of deployments after 9-11 were extremely high and military personnel were forced to participate in multiple deployments while under the tactics of extreme threat and duress. These tactics were not only used on active duty (regular) military personnel but on reserve and state level guard units as well.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> "Now is the winter of our discontent". </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">( Shakespeare; King Richard III Act I, Scene I). </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959225608262916734.post-69596703805716740112014-04-29T14:09:00.002-07:002014-05-09T17:02:53.662-07:00Cold War News; Why we could lose the next war.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2014; The world stood and watched in shock as the Russian military moved into the Ukraine region, massed troops into the Crimea and cut off diplomatic communications with the west.This aggressive action came just after Russia had hosted the 2014 winter Olympic's.<br />
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Over the last few weeks, it has become very apparent that hostilities have been ramped up in the Ukraine and the reports flowing in seem to indicate that forces are moving into the theater.<br />
NATO has increased air patrols, the U.S. is sending troops to Poland and as of today's date Canada has deployed fighter jets to eastern Europe. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/canada-deploys-fighter-jets-eastern-europe-patrols-153116631.html">http://news.yahoo.com/canada-deploys-fighter-jets-eastern-europe-patrols-153116631.html</a><u> </u>These series of actions clearly signal a deep concern by the western world for Russia's sudden and bizarre behavior. As of today's date (05/01/2014), The second command in charge of NATO has declared Russia an "enemy." This powerful statement comes as no surprise after several weeks of heavy military activity that has extended into other European areas.<br />
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INITIAL OBSERVATIONS;<br />
When the invasion began, Russia's movements in the region began as a covert operation. Early reports were very unclear as to true identity of of the troops on the ground and took on the appearance of an insurgency. Soldiers filtered into the region very slowly and began to show up in various towns in small groups. These soldiers were easily identified as cadre, because they were in possession of typical military weapons, were well equipped and well uniformed. However, all soldiers photographed entering the region wore no unit insignia and had their faces covered to conceal their identity. An action which gave the impression that insurgency was was underway. After weeks of denial by the Russians, it became necessary for them to admit that they had entered the Crimea under the guise of protecting Russian citizens. After time passed it had become apparent, (and was confirmed) that the Russian military under President Valdimir Putin was actively engaged in a military campaign.<br />
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Like so many other conflicts, the first hours of activity were heavily televised and transmitted via the internet. Initial observations made noted that Russian soldiers on the ground appeared to be well equipped, wearing newer multi-cam uniforms and carrying up-dated weapons. News sources later reported that the Russian army was also in possession of other newer hardware and vehicles. Reports have also been received that indicate that Russian bombers have conducted probes into other European areas, buzzed American warships and in recent days they have been observed running missions off the coast of the United States. In the past, these patrols were considered pretty standard "run of the mill" cold war missions. But now they hold deeper military significance.<br />
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During the 1970's the pentagon assumed that when the Russians (Soviets) entered the game and the "balloon went up" (cold war terminology for all out war). That the Russians (Soviets) would crash into Europe via East Germany in an all out armor attack. Though as time progressed. It became apparent that the former Soviets lacked the essential support, in the way of funding (material) to wage a long term conflict on a large scale. This comes as no surprise, as hard line communism by it's own doctrine rejects capitalism. And with out "capital" (cash flow), men and material are of little use on the battlefield.<br />
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The 1980's and 90's proved to be a real game changer for the former both the Soviets and the Chinese. The communist model they tried to maintain became an untenable position to hold. This was due to new technologies that once on the world stage financially connected (via the internet and other factors.) the world. First the Berlin wall fell. Then in 1997, the mega-port of Hong Kong was turned over to the China. This last fact made China a super power over night.<br />
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<b>A Losing Battle; Business, Strategic Losses and Political Correctness;</b><br />
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Since the Berlin wall fell and China assumed sovereignty over Hong Kong, both communist nations ceased to be financial socialists. Though still under socialist / communist ideology, both nations have entered the financial world stage and both have become economic powerhouses. Along side the huge gain in financial wealth is the fact that both nations have begun to flex military muscle in the respective regions by instigating political turmoil with neighboring countries. What this has resulted in is a military backed expansion into areas that border their regions which have created strategic losses for NATO countries and U.S. Allies.<br />
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The United States as been a long time partner in NATO and has provided vast support for other countries since the close of world war two. However, since the withdraw from the middle east. The current administration has begun the process of gutting the U.S. military. They have changed long standing traditions and/or rules on how the military is managed, reduced the size of the military, cut funding and implemented policies of political correctness that makes it very difficult for unit Commanders to manage Soldiers, Sailors, Air Force personnel and Marines. Recent policy changes made to the military by the government may, on the surface look like the correct thing to do. (And that debate may rage on for many years to come). However, our enemies abroad DO NOT hold to the same types of convictions that the current administration has forced upon the armed forces of the United States. In fact a completely opposite model of our political correctness has taken hold in both Russia and North Korea. During the Olympic games in Sochi (2014), the Russian expressly forbid open displays of homosexuality during the games and promised that any type of display would be met with arrest, and they cited the "protection of children" as a reason. This may sound very much like propaganda to many in the U.S., but to others it may have sounded like the Russians were taking the moral high ground. Additionally, in recent days the North Koreans unleashed a racial tirade against President Obama, a fact that obviously cared nothing about, nor will they ever. These facts create a a serious problem in warfare. The problem is that deep political factions have arose in the United States, many of which are divided along racial lines. These deep political rifts seem to be fueled by ongoing propaganda within our own news media.<br />
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Over the last few days the web has gone viral with the story of a middle aged divorced man by the name of Chris Mackney. Up until a few days ago, Chris was virtually unknown to the world. But thanks to the internet and resources like "A Voice for Men" (AFVM). Chris's story can be told. According to several online resources, including AVFM. Chris Mackney was a 45 year man with two children, and like so many other men, service members and veterans included.He was going through what amounted to a very bad divorce. The end result of what Chris was going through culminated with him taking his own life. <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=christopher-mackney&pid=169166767">http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=christopher-mackney&pid=169166767</a></div>
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Whats unusual about this case is that Chris left behind a very detailed suicide note, and that note found it's way onto the internet. But that's not the clincher. What happened next is both disturbing and astounding. And it is something that the veterans groups and service member groups, such as the USO and Veterans Administration needs to come to terms with. Chris' ex-wife (who's name will be withheld in this article) retained a lawyer and began the process of having her lawyers threaten and intimidate any website owner or operator that reposted his suicide note. Her actions have now resulted in a cascade of news stories, web based attacks and video's. The blow back against Chris Mackney's ex-wife has been tremendous.</div>
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What happened to Chris is the same thing that has happened to millions of men world wide in families courts all over the western world. He lost his marriage, he lost his home, he lost what he worked for, but most of all he lost contact with his children. And this all played out in family court, with the court empowering his ex-wife to deprive him of the love of his children. When everything else is said and done, in the final analysis, and by his own words in the suicide note that he left behind. The loss of his children was the main reason that he committed suicide. So what crime did Chris Mackney commit? None that anyone is aware of. The only mistake that he seemed to had made was walking into the family court system.</div>
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As Service Members and returning Veterans, we now faced a challenging landscape. It seems that factions within the current administration have already built a wall of mistrust between the rank and file and the current administration. Many Veterans are returning home after serving in a military with a very high tempo of deployments. This rapid pace has left many Veterans and Service Members struggling with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), serious financial problems, an out of control suicide rate and an high rate of divorce. This is a huge disadvantage in a family court system which caters to the whim of females automatically. If you can imagine, Chris Mackney walked into family court with absolutely no excess mental baggage and/or three tours in an Afghanistan killing zone under his belt. And the family court proceeded to destroy him without cause or justification This type of case sets a terrible legal precedence for Service Members and Veterans, in that; If one sane successful business man (which Chris was) can walk into family court and his life torn to shreds and his children taken away and for doing absolutely nothing. How will a Service member or Veteran suffering from PTSD be treated in an American family court when his ex-wife makes allegations against *him?</div>
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Washington Lee University in Lexington Virginia has become yet another flashpoint for the proponents of liberal militancy. Several news outlets have reported that a movement began on the W.L. campus as several students demanded that the Confederate battle flags be removed from the Lee Chapel. The Lee Chapel sits in the same area where the famed and revered Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his family are buried, along with his beloved horse Traveler. The small contingent of students made demands and threatened civil unrest in the community if their demands were not met by September 1st. </div>
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The poorly timed protest and subsequent threats also come on the heels of other serious national problems. Including but not limited to a failed economy, a failed presidential administration, the implementation of the universally unwanted affordable health care act and in recent weeks, the threat of open insurrection in the Nevada desert at the Bundy ranch. The small group of liberal law students have concluded that they have been offended by the flags, and that the flags must be removed to satisfy their own misguided agenda. A student by the name of Dominik Taylor, a third-year law student at Washington Lee, said the students decided to speak out after tolerating for years symbols and events they find offensive. He stated; “When things such as Lee-Jackson Day happen, you’re just sort of feeling left alone and isolated and alienated.” Though no one has made any claims of having been singled out, excluded and / or threatened by any type of racist groups or individuals. And absolutely no charges of institutional racism have been brought forward. The other issue at hand is that the small group of students have formed a group called "the Committee". Though the names of these members have not been disclosed or published in the media (except for the one aforementioned student who chose to speak to the news media and he was not identified as a member of "The Committee") and no leadership has come forward to the media to clearly explain their position or to add any details as to just exactly why the battle flags should be removed (besides having been offended by their presence). Another claim made by mainstream media outlets claimed that "Neo-Confederates" were allowed march on campus during "Lee-Jackson" Day. </div>
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On 04/24/2014, I contacted the Communications Department at Washington Lee University to answer some questions that I had. The person who I spoke to chose not to be quoted because there was still a lack of clear information about the intentions of "The Committee". Though they were sure that the university would not release the names of the students for obvious reasons. But despite the lack of available information, our conversation was fruitful.</div>
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What I did learn, was that the flags ( that the students are demanding the removal of) are in fact authentic battle flags of the civil war. They were carried by units who served in the Confederate army. They are not a product of post war animosity. They are historic artifacts of the time period. And they are on display in the same manner that you would see an artifact displayed in a museum. And the Lee Chapel is in fact a museum in it's own right. I know this because I had the honor of visiting there some years ago.</div>
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Another question had to do with the allegations of Neo-Confederates marching on the Washington -Lee campus. This statement begs to be clearly answered because there are in fact several types of groups that could be improperly labeled as such. Including Civil War Reenactors and Son's of Confederate Veterans. These type of groups can in no way be classified or labeled "Neo- Confederate" and/or racist groups. The connotation here is, that the alleged groups who marched at Washington-Lee have a racist political agenda. Even though this allegation has not been clearly explained or the groups clearly identified.</div>
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I also inquired about local people's reaction to the "Committee's" demands. The contact at Washington- Lee said that the Alumni were upset. In reference to that reaction, She simply stated; " Can you imagine"? And rightfully so, Washington -Lee, like so many other colleges are heavily dependent upon the generous donations and support of Alumni. So it seems that the concerns of Alumni may have been dismissed by the "Committee" as they moved forward with their threat.</div>
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There is also a public safety aspect involved with the threats made by the "Committee", in that campus crime and violence has been at the forefront of the news for several years now. And campus authorities are now paying much closer attention to any threats that may be made against persons and property under college / university campus ownership. To add to the anxiety, Washington -Lee is close neighbors with VMI (Virginia Military Institute). Though according to W.L. University there does not appear to be any concern from VMI being expressed. However, threats of civil unrest does have the inherent possibility of raising security concerns at VMI.</div>
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Coincidentally April is the same month in which Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army Of Northern Virginia to General Grant at Appomattox Court House. It was due to the good manners and outstanding negotiating skills of both Lee and Grant that many years of guerilla warfare was avoided. The terms of surrender were based upon simple respect. I am including a copy of Lee's farewell to his troops.</div>
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<em>Headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia, 10th April 1865.</em><br />
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<em>General Order<br /> No. 9</em></div>
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<em> After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.</em></div>
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<em>I need not tell the survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no distrust of them.</em></div>
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<em>But feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that must have attended the continuance of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen.</em></div>
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<em>By the terms of the agreement, officers and men can return to their homes and remain until exchanged. You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection.</em></div>
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<em>With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your Country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration for myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell.</em></div>
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