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From: robinjh <>
Subject: Re: Descended from Buffalo Bill
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:58:09 +0100
References: <200204011016.g31AGAl59000@mail.freeola.enta.net>, <B8CDF641.1E0F1%antispam@robinjh.com>, <0yolyBAiRNq8Ewsr@hyperpeople.demon.co.uk>


in article , Don Moody at
wrote on 01:04:2002 10:42 PM:

> In article <B8CDF641.1E0F1%>, robinjh
> <> writes
>>
>> Very entertaining post, let's hope Don remembers what the date is before we
>> get another long lecture on DNA testing.
>
> What Don actually thought was 'pathetic'.
>
> But then I have had experience of riding the open range and of working
> as a cowboy on several ranches, including one owned by Ben Harte. The
> HARTEs and the JAMESs were friends. Old Ben's sidekick had been one of
> the younger JAMES but, as Ben drawled, 'he didn't make it to the border
> when we lit out.'
>
> The cowboy life was nowhere near as glamorous as Cody made out, and most
> Western films which followed his style were hopelessly inaccurate. In
> particular they don't convey the dust and the stink.
>
> There are no evidential artefacts of my time on round-up and riding the
> range. Foot-and-mouth struck just before we came home so I had to leave
> my saddle, chaps, bullwhip, lasso, galera, and saco de boie behind. They
> all had animal components.
>
> Now, Robin, is the foregoing a story of the date or is it factual
> anthropological reportage?
>
> Don

Having spent a while on 'ranch' in Venezuela I'm quite prepared to take you
word for the dust and stink

I can't find anything published by you on the subject on the AIO, of course
it could have been before 1957, and nothing on BLPC or LoC so you did no
major write up of it . Unpublished work in the field perhaps or an
interesting 'gap year'.

There were of course several clues as to April 1 nature of the Buffalo Bill
post, in the message header. Compare the following

Subject: Descended from Buffalo Bill
Date: 1 Apr 2002 03:16:26 -0700
Organization: RootsWeb.com, Inc. News
Lines: 43
Sender:
Message-ID: <>
NNTP-Posting-Host: newsfeed.rootsweb.com

and

From: (Roy Stockdill)
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.britain
Subject: Re: Genealogical news from Iceland
Date: 31 Mar 2002 18:34:32 -0700
Organization: RootsWeb.com, Inc. News
Lines: 43
Sender:
Message-ID: <>
References: <>
NNTP-Posting-Host: newsfeed.rootsweb.com

The Message-ID field is a bit of a give-away isn't it and of course as John
Wynn pointed out there is the 'whois' database that shows the domain is
registered to Roy, see http://samspade.org/t/lookat?a=familyhistorians.co.uk
--
Robin

http://robinjh.com



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