Prince and Pauper

[David Casseres]

On 1/8/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> ... Yes, there's the occasional Teutoberger Wald or Isandlwana or Little
> Big Horn -- but we remember them precisely as exceptions to the rule.
> Oh, dem fierce implacable Pashtun fighters in dem mountain fastnesses! But
> hey, there's a *reason* they're in the mountain fastnesses: namely, that
> they got pushed out of the kinder, more productive lowlands by other, less
> thrillingly tribal -- but victorious -- cultures.
>

Oh yes.  I visited the Little Bighorn battlefield, and the utter hauntedness
of the place washed away any sentimentalization of either side.  And left me
very much reminded that the great Lakota victory was the beginning of the
end for all the tribes of the Plains.
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