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Historical Update
Aug. 1st, 2013 06:47 amHere in California, the only native people that had agriculture were those in the extreme Southeast, on the Arizona border. They did floodplain farming along the Yuma river, something like the ancient Egyptians on the Nile.
It's said that elsewhere it was too dry in the summer for crops, and this natural world was so bountiful that they didn't need it. Every fall, there are still loads of acorns on the ground, that could be processed into flour, and salmon in the creek.
I finished 1492, the historical fiction about the voyages of Columbus. Written in the 1920's and historically accurate, and free because it's in the public domain.
I'm watching the 1993 movie Gettysburg, which is also free on YouTube. It's incredibly long (4+ hours), but very well done and historically accurate. I'm stuck at the moment of Pickett's Charge, which was so pointless and tragic.
My paternal great-great Grandfather was a cop in NYC during the Civil War. He probably was fighting the Irish, who were rioting about the military draft. One other great-great Grandfather was a German immigrant with a farm in Northern Michigan. The family story is that he had already been forced once by the Prussians to fight the French, and that's why he left Europe, along with his younger brother. So when the American Civil War came along, he had the money to pay bounty to someone to enlist in his place.
It's said that elsewhere it was too dry in the summer for crops, and this natural world was so bountiful that they didn't need it. Every fall, there are still loads of acorns on the ground, that could be processed into flour, and salmon in the creek.
I finished 1492, the historical fiction about the voyages of Columbus. Written in the 1920's and historically accurate, and free because it's in the public domain.
I'm watching the 1993 movie Gettysburg, which is also free on YouTube. It's incredibly long (4+ hours), but very well done and historically accurate. I'm stuck at the moment of Pickett's Charge, which was so pointless and tragic.
My paternal great-great Grandfather was a cop in NYC during the Civil War. He probably was fighting the Irish, who were rioting about the military draft. One other great-great Grandfather was a German immigrant with a farm in Northern Michigan. The family story is that he had already been forced once by the Prussians to fight the French, and that's why he left Europe, along with his younger brother. So when the American Civil War came along, he had the money to pay bounty to someone to enlist in his place.
