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Since Grit Tv started airing westerns, There have been around 10 movies about people selling guns to the "Indians". My question is where the hell are all these Indian's getting all the cash to pay for these guns? One movie had a whole wagon load of levers ( 96 total) allegedly $5,000.00 worth . another movie had only 40 levers. no mention of money So,I give up, in 1855- 1870 , where are they getting money to pay for rifles and ! ammo ? Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | ||
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| I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not |
I am going to guess fur's or maybe gold | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Trade for wampum.  "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Maybe the more militant indians wound up with white man cargo from raiding travelers. Hell maybe even money, like from a payroll transport. | |||
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Casinos? Ignem Feram | |||
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Turquoise jewelry and feather headbands? No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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And cigarettes. | |||
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Turquoise jewelry and blankets. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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Now and Zen |
In ‘She wore a yellow ribbon’, when the chief balks at the price the indian agent replies that he knows about the army pay wagon being robbed and he knows that the indians did it, so they can afford his price. Not that it ends up doing him any good.  ___________________________________________________________________________ "....imitate the action of the Tiger." | |||
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| Live long and prosper  |
Serving Tandoori chicken and lamb curry?  0-0 "OP is a troll" - Flashlightboy, 12/18/20 | |||
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the U.S. government was constantly sending supplies to the Indians to compensate for taking their hunting and farming grounds.... My Native American Name: "Runs with Scissors" | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
First off, I wouldn't take old westerns as documentaries as to what actually happened. I mean really, The Comancheros was supposedly set in 1843, yet John Wayne uses a Colt Peacemaker and a Winchester 92. How did the Indians get their guns? By any means possible. They had a big patchwork of firearms that were stolen, traded for or taken after a battle. Comancheros probably sold them some when they were active in Texas and New Mexico. There was a time when the Indians sold/traded horses to the Army and settlers. There were also trading posts all over the southwest where they could trade and sell goods. The Mexicans supplied the Apaches with guns hoping to placate them and turn them against the Americans. I'm sure the Sioux had a shit ton of Trapdoor Springfields after Little Big Horn. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
A lot of good Trapdoor Springfields did for their original owners (prone to jamming) _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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