The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Indians

  • The Not So Wild West

    There were only 8 bank robberies in the 15 Western states during the 40 year heyday of the “wild” West.

  • What Thanksgiving Was, Is, and Should Be

    I hope they don’t perpetuate the myth in schools anymore.

  • Floating Man Caves

    On the day of this writing, I’m working on the South Park Bridge, which spans the Duwamish River from Seattle to Tukwila, Washington. It’s a beautiful day. As locals say, “the mountain is out,” which means I can see Mount Rainier on the horizon. (God, but I love my job.) It must also be the…

  • The Mysterious Melungeons

    There is a group of people in Eastern Tennessee whose ancestry is said to date back in this country to the late 1700’s. At the time there was talk of people who lived in the forests as Indians, but who looked European and spoke a broken form of Elizabethan English. Their descendants are called the…

  • Spiders, Spiders, Everywhere

    I dreamt of a village in a desert out west. The people had gathered around a campfire to listen to an old man tell stories. He traveled from town to town to recount the tales of their people. He told cautionary tales to teach the young ones how to behave. He told the stories of…

  • I Love Kokopelli

    Ah, Kokopelli, the trickster, the fertility God of the tribes of the American Southwest. I just love this guy! Not only is he a symbol of abundant crops and the production of game animals, but he is the purveyor of trinkets, and he chases away winter and ushers in spring. He is known to bring…