# ![@VeganSundayWed Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1692737505450176512.png) @VeganSundayWed Bandy

Bandy posts on X about mexico, ford, afghanistan, red the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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[countries](/list/countries)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [finance](/list/finance)  [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [musicians](/list/musicians) 

**Social topic influence**
[mexico](/topic/mexico), [ford](/topic/ford), [afghanistan](/topic/afghanistan) #825, [red](/topic/red), [frontier](/topic/frontier), [dawn](/topic/dawn), [san diego](/topic/san-diego), [in the](/topic/in-the), [greenland](/topic/greenland), [russia](/topic/russia) #1837

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Putting missiles in Cuba solved two problems for Kruschev: 1) it would deter an American invasion of an important client state 2) it would give the Russians a way to reach the continental US at a time when the USSR had very few ICBMs. (54) (5/24)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1695454563535601936)  2023-08-26T15:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"For overall command of the Cuban force Krushchev selected an old cavalry officer who had led a raid through the Gobi desert against the Japanese Beijing garrison in [----]. In the early 1960s he had also been charged with crushing a peasant revolt in southern Russia. (6/24)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1695454565557244394)  2023-08-26T15:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Cinecrisis @Cinecrisis have you read the original novel all this was based on I remember buying it in a grocery store in the 90s and being pretty entertained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1695519761806074174)  2023-08-26T19:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@bog_beef @Maarblek I don't know what this has to do with selling cokes but here you go: NC Wyeth 1931"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1695599213651124661)  2023-08-27T00:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If they fight again it may be China channeling arms and weapons through Central Asian proxies as depicted in WI2020. (17/19)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1697435919929012249)  2023-09-01T02:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I end with an homage to the place where I bought this book. A kind of place that tends not to exist anymore. Grimy and usually in a strip mall run by somebody who reads a lot but isn't a snob. Filled with mass-market genre paperbacks mostly for male readers. (18/19)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1697435923322220724)  2023-09-01T02:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The author admits he is a #bugman with no useful skills. They should post a picture of a [--] yr old reading #JonathanFranzen in front of his sandbag house as a warning to prospective liberal arts majors. (3/11)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1697781570927788400)  2023-09-02T01:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Laid off from his job as a newspaper reporter he retreats to a [--] acre parcel of Colorado Desert land bought at county auction for $325. (38) (4/11)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1697781573243003372)  2023-09-02T01:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The Apache struggled to keep his seat and drew his sword and found himself staring into the black lemniscate that was the paired bores of Glanton's doublerifle. (229) #BloodMeridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1698044749511549082)  2023-09-02T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Detail from. Hasty Retreat John Ford Clymer 1973"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1698045855205638372)  2023-09-02T18:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Untitled New Mexico Landscape Georgia O'Keeffe 1934"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1699241093878137190)  2023-09-06T02:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"From higher elevations of the Colorado Plateau such as this one in Needles Utah one could once take in views of landscapes the size of the state of Massachusetts. Page and Wallace Stegner @gran1te_mtn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1699505171204825301)  2023-09-06T19:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Blackfingers63 top left"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1699973604170207743)  2023-09-08T02:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Moonlight Wolf Frederic Remington 1904"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1699986933236256930)  2023-09-08T03:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"When the Rough Riders shipped to Cuba in [----] they left their horses in Tampa. I thought the era of horse cavalry ended around then but Rhodesia fielded a unit through the 1970s ("Grey's Scouts"). (1/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338274366267480)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Horses move faster than men in even the thickest bush and can pick their way around obstacles that would stop a vehicle. They're quiet and they don't need gasoline. (2/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338276828323929)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The Scouts trained to shoot from horseback but the standard practice was to dismount on contact and fight as regular infantry. (3/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338280942961114)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Guns were a problem. The FAL was too long to swing from one side to the other without tagging a horse on the back of the head. They wanted Galils AKs Uzis: anything with less recoil and a shorter barrel. (4/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338283476304012)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Instead clueless supply officers issue the equally unsuitable G3. These are even more unpopular than FALs because their synthetic stocks will snap on a hard fall. (5/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338289969099216)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Horses startle at gunfire. The scouts address the problem by firing weapons during feeding time. The animals begin to associate the noise with food. (6/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338292015902865)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's an imperfect solution. Horses still bolt on contact. They get eaten by lions or trampled by elephants. They defect to herds of wild zebras and are found years later. (7/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338295195218267)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Doctrine is to operate in groups of around [--] men on multi-day patrols. A common mission is tracking small groups of insurgents who have broken off from a larger engagement. In this the fast and quiet horses are most useful. (8/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338297757946210)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"At first transport was a problem. Towing a horse trailer is dangerous enough without someone shooting at you. The Scouts improvise mine-protected v-hulls from [--] ton Bedford trucks. (9/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338300631069069)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Bad pilgrims join the Rhodesian cause. One is a Texan called Mike Williams. Williams briefly commands a squadron of Scouts and is associated with numerous atrocities. This photo won the [----] pulitzer prize. (10/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338303336386809)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The author claims that Williams staged the photo to impress a photographer. The man pictured was never dragged. This dumb prank: arguably more stupid than an extrajudicial killing. (11/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338306628927530)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"No doubt Williams saw himself in a 19th century mold: waving a cavalry saber and firing a [--] in the air before plunging into firefights with an enemy who carried AKs and RPGs. To the rest of the Scouts he was a reckless fool who often lost his horse. (12/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338309195784522)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The final straw comes when he opens fire on several black Rhodesian soldiers killing [--]. Williams unrepentant claims they were breaking curfew (in broad daylight). (13/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338311469187528)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The Rhodesians maintained black loyalty in their multi-racial security forces with a complex system of #patronage. Outsiders like Williams who couldn't read the rules (written and tacit) about relations between the races had to go. (14/14) @bog_beef @ill_Scholar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1700338314337984981)  2023-09-09T02:40Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@gran1te_mtn Teddy. Liked whoever said "he would be on RW twitter". Also: some marked similarities between Sandlot (1993) and this flick (legendarily mean junkyard dog voiceover postscript about friendships lost). Are these just common bits in "coming of age" films"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1701048498790289669)  2023-09-11T01:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"He squatted in the sand and watched the sun on the hammered face of the water. Out there island clouds emplaned upon a salmoncolored othersea. Seafowl in silhouette. Downshore the dull surf boomed. #BloodMeridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1701316654171562281)  2023-09-11T19:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Friday in the #4HL you can really feel the pull of the weekend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1702830627320672621)  2023-09-15T23:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"In the western country of the Alleghenies some years ago when it was yet a wilderness there was a man who kept a harness shop by the side of the federal road. He did so because it was his trade and yet he did little of it because there were few travelers. #BloodMeridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1705638892471525760)  2023-09-23T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Cinecrisis @FilmJournalGuy @Cinecrisis and @FilmJournalGuy started "Hound of The Baskervilles" and am enjoying it. What's up with the night scenes filmed in the daytime I've noticed that in old war movies too. What technology made that unnecessary Please consider discussing in your next Hammer episode"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1706428517720997982)  2023-09-25T22:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Deserted Mormon house made of railroad ties on the old Oregon Trail in Southern Idaho Todd Webb [----] @gran1te_mtn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1709328882946715670)  2023-10-03T22:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"In the shadow of the Castle Dome Mountains a deep tinaja or natural water basin reflects the morning sunlight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1712913961518354535)  2023-10-13T19:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"In the morning as he returned to the city he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the road he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves and said to it "Let no fruit grow on you ever again." Immediately the tree withered away. (Matthew 21:18)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1713551120713535853)  2023-10-15T13:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Jesus Curses the Fig Tree James Tissot 1890"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1713551122924019959)  2023-10-15T13:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Death Valley CA Ansel Adams c.1952"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1714459365405765926)  2023-10-18T01:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"They just released a film version of Butcher's Crossing with Nicolas Cage as the antagonist: Miller. Reposting my thread on the book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1715832786387685584)  2023-10-21T20:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


""I need a psych-eval on S. Craig Zahler" -@DegreeStudies The consistently excellent @gran1te_mtn podcast introduced me to S. Craig Zahler. My review of his novel "A Congregation of Jackals" is below"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1716547639746183660)  2023-10-23T20:10Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Conan1371218 If you enjoy it you might want to check this out. Much of the story is true (though debated). Judge Holden for instance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1717998016362336752)  2023-10-27T20:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"In the long light of the evening he saw from that high rimland the collision of armies remote and silent upon the plain below. 🧵(1/5) #BloodMeridian Valley of Mexico Jose Maria Velasco c.1875"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1722322379240812810)  2023-11-08T18:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Count Gustaf von Rosen's raid on the Nigerian Air Force [----]. A short 🧵on a useful aristocrat. @bog_beef"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1725283161494737284)  2023-11-16T22:42Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Death Hunt (1981) Bronson (in his Death Wish prime) is accused of being a backwoods serial killer. Lee Marvin leads a manhunt to run him down. Much 20th century frontier violence. Men get mowed down by Vickers guns. Lose their arms in bear traps. Die in plane crashes. 👍👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1730704460257874394)  2023-12-01T21:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Large numbers of short-faced bears in what is now Alaska may have deterred early crossings of the Bering Strait. Alan Weisman The World Without Us .prehistoric frontier violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1730740969870623033)  2023-12-02T00:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Mpegz696 any novels where a "Nietzschean vitalist" is portrayed positively Even a crude novel can be a powerful "exhortation" (Atlas Shrugged for Libertarianism). I'm only aware of negative examples where the Nietzschean self-destructs (also London's Sea Wolf)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1730780473507672471)  2023-12-02T02:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@FLBogjig @FLBogjig are you familiar with the "Domination" alternate history series by SM Sterling Basically.large numbers of Confederates emigrate to South Africa after 1865"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1732248817016402245)  2023-12-06T04:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"South Africans on the Angola Border c.1980 20th century frontier violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1732849289125306499)  2023-12-07T19:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"SADF troopers on patrol in SW Africa (now Namibia) c.1982 Kriek dirt bikes instead of horses but this scene would have been recognizable to Frederic Remington [---] years before. 20th Century Frontier Violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1733593470835789850)  2023-12-09T21:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Nested inside are deeper issues of economic and sexual jealousy. Simply put: there are some roles in the modern economy where participants are high status but doomed to perpetual insecurity. Baldwin's character (a rapacious fashion photographer) is one of these miserables"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1734302750756991130)  2023-12-11T20:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Casting is perfect. The actors play roles that mirror how I imagine them in real life: Anthony Hopkins: thoughtful assured generous. Alec Baldwin: reckless grasping quick to blame"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1734302753902805449)  2023-12-11T20:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Chinese patrols along the Soviet border c.1970 20th Century Frontier Violence: Celestial Kingdom Edition @RT58A2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1735039927514226991)  2023-12-13T20:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"They carry bulk grain livestock building materials contraband. Whatever pays. (3/6)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1738920883379474457)  2023-12-24T13:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"To remote places far off the main lines: Norwegian fjords Cook Islands Tasmania. (4/6)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1738920888085401851)  2023-12-24T13:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Alouette John Ford Clymer [----] Though surrounded by dangers the trappers still had their moments of gaiety"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1741898240490934319)  2024-01-01T19:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Monday in the #4HL (or maybe "payoff space") Offshore diamond mining rig Namibia. The Surfer's Journal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1744499915915681962)  2024-01-08T23:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Telescope Peak in Death Valley Randi Hirschmann"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1744500349199901038)  2024-01-08T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Frontier Trapper NC Wyeth [----] He does not know it but he is the start of an American Empire. @Kurt_Steiner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1744854665714700560)  2024-01-09T22:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"In the distance before him a fire burned on the prairie a solitary flame frayed by the wind.He lay on his stomach to skylight the terrain to see what men were there but there was no sky and no light. #BloodMeridian Study for Moses and the Burning Bush H. Tanner He'd been without food for almost two days and he'd had little rest. He cited the terrain before him in the periodic flare of the lightning and trudged on. #BloodMeridian photo: Omar C. Garcia https://t.co/k9iDi9Jaqa He'd been without food for almost two days and he'd had little rest. He cited the terrain before him in the periodic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1745687018389348748)  2024-01-12T05:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The tramp freighter MATAORA in the Cook Islands with improvised sails c.1980"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745963394346480124)  2024-01-13T00:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


""South African mounty in dense bush in central Ovambo. This is the terrain most suited to mounted operations because horses can pick their way round obstacles quicker than vehicles can plough through them." 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1746272158135795989)  2024-01-13T20:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Dunes near Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley CA Randi Hirschmann c.1998"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1747386400117584374)  2024-01-16T22:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"He was famous for his Western art but Charles M Russell had a private interest in the Middle East. He made a number of sketches of elephants Arab horsemen and sultry odalisques like these. Dubious taste you might say. I think they're cool. They remind me of Frank Frazetta"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1747472424734752926)  2024-01-17T04:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Early reviews of #BloodMeridian in [----] drew connections between the Glanton Gang and the CIA's support for right wing factions in the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1748359535662960752)  2024-01-19T14:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Skeleton of a Bristlecone on Telescope Peak in Death Valley Randi Hirschmann c.1998 There are [----] year old trees in this grove. They were bristlecone babies around the time the Egyptians built Hatshepsut's temple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1748420483685707870)  2024-01-19T19:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FLBogjig @Conan1371218 I've been reading a lot about the Bay of Pigs and cuban exiles lately. Many were patriots and anti-communists but many were just criminals and opportunists. I bet it was the same with the contras"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1748494312877576502)  2024-01-19T23:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"A South African soldier on horseback approaches a Buffel APC to refill his water bottles Angola c.1982 South African vehicles of this era were designed to carry large amounts of drinking water in shrapnel-protected parts of the chassis. 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1748801418964984245)  2024-01-20T20:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"South is the direction of escape. Chile: scenes from an overland South America trip. The Surfers Journal Volume [----] @MASSExpedition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1748805782030913559)  2024-01-20T20:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


""We spent a lot of time in Nicaragua and places like that. For a while there she was with this crazy ex-Green Beret.running guns." This is the only other Terminator film they should have made"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1748924370410689022)  2024-01-21T04:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


""The finest presentations of whales and whaling scenes to be anywhere found are [--] large French engravings well executed and taken from paintings by Garneray." Herman Melville #MelvilleMonday Hunting the Sperm Whale + Attacking the Right Whale Ambroise Garneray 1835"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1749522571706437954)  2024-01-22T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Grand Canyon Peter McIntyre c.1970"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1749578537391333422)  2024-01-22T23:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Soldiers from 173rd airborne in the Korengal valley @lynseyaddario [----] I didn't think of Afghanistan as having forests like this. Take out the soldiers and I would have guessed this was Northern Arizona or the foothills of the Sierras"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1749579841391956130)  2024-01-22T23:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Untitled composition sketch Charles M. Russell c.1914 He would do dozens of these before painting dialing in the layout"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1750261876033003557)  2024-01-24T20:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Winter in the high country above Death Valley Randi Hirschmann c.1998"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1750655739863928868)  2024-01-25T23:03Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Zulu (1964). Sweeping on-location shots in the Drakensbergs. Young Michael Caine. I feel the entire movie builds to a scene where [--] redcoats drive [---] Zulus out of the perimeter with alternating volley fire. Everything that was fearsome about the British Empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750656410223051097)  2024-01-25T23:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The CIA uses WW2 surplus B-26 bombers in their quiet wars in Latin America Congo and Laos. This influences the Air Force to build a dedicated counter-insurgency variant: the A-26 "Counter-Invader.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1750947086412186096)  2024-01-26T18:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Before human contact the Great Plains region was an "American Serengeti". Charles M. Russell 1922"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1750950747204952339)  2024-01-26T18:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Prehistoric rock art in Death Valley Randi Hirschmann c.1998"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1750951115775221959)  2024-01-26T18:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Church at Taos New Mexico Peter McIntyre c.1970"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752063335506600424)  2024-01-29T20:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@powderstacks There's a tour of "based Western art" that would go DallasFW OKC Tulsa Omaha Cheyenne MT. Museums in those places have a lot of Remington and NC Wyeth's work too. One day I'll be able to talk Mrs Bandy into it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752091369546592713)  2024-01-29T22:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"As an older man Bissell remains a cruel neurotic: constantly fidgeting with toys on his desk raging at underlings for slight failures. An anonymous peer will later compare him to Humphrey Bogart's "Captain Queeg" from The Caine Mutiny. (4/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752189019193254253)  2024-01-30T04:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Bissell sold Eisenhower's cabinet on a plausibly deniable overthrow of the Castro regime similar to the [----] coup in Guatemala which had been a smashing low cost success. A few thousand Cuban exiles would land and touch off a huge rebellion against Castro. (5/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752189022313869664)  2024-01-30T04:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Bissell builds a small army of [----] and trains them in secret in Nicaragua. The Cuban exiles are dedicated but their equipment is shoddy. They get WW2 small arms a few light tanks. A small fleet of chartered freighters. [--] B-26 bombers but crucially no fighter planes. (6/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752189024444588113)  2024-01-30T04:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Kennedy inherits this thing from Eisenhower. The CIA browbeats him into endorsing it but he's dubious. He wants Castro out but wants to keep things "low key." JFK says "This can't look like Normandy." He limits the exiles to using [--] B26s for the opening strike. (7/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752189027951002086)  2024-01-30T04:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Failing to destroy Castro's air force on the 1st day is the single biggest mistake. A small number of Castro's T-33 and Sea Fury fighters survive. It's enough to gain air superiority over the exiles (who have no fighters). (8/14)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752189030442430602)  2024-01-30T04:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Sunrise on Smith Mountain in Death Valley Randi Hirschmann c.1998"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752359628279824772)  2024-01-30T15:54Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"A quietness seemed to rise from the valley; it was the absolute calm of a land where no human foot had touched. Andrews found that he was holding his breath. "Buffalo" Miller whispered. -Butcher's Crossing John Williams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752785887270928712)  2024-01-31T20:08Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Detail. Landscape with Herd of Buffalo on the Upper Missouri Karl Bodmer c.1833 .an American Serengeti"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752785890714570919)  2024-01-31T20:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"You can see why Thomas Jefferson thought the tribes of the Upper Missouri had ancestral connection to the Anglo-Saxons. Kiasax: a Piegan Blackfeet Man Karl Bodmer c.1833"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1752786297364918599)  2024-01-31T20:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Sometimes he'd lie at night in the dry sand above the wrack-line and like the mariners of old study the stars. Perhaps to see how he might plot his course. Or to see what enterprise might be read as favorable. -Cormac McCarthy The Passenger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1753296227624792417)  2024-02-02T05:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Rhodesian SAS veteran Darrell Watt on his game preserve in Zambia date unknown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1753502197395136749)  2024-02-02T19:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


""Go to a social media company. Find a data scientist. Torture him until he trains a model to flag all users posting photos with centerfire semiautomatic rifles." . "Colonel Bella he says they already do this.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1753654412365766742)  2024-02-03T05:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Everything that makes longboarding appealing- the graceful gesture the lack of contrivance the casual glissade-finds its ideal expression in women. The Surfers Journal Volume 33.1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1753890727510311081)  2024-02-03T21:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"How come do you reckon the coyotes aint been at them Bell shook his head. I don't know he said. Supposedly they won't eat a Mexican. -No Country for Old Men"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1754956810354831397)  2024-02-06T19:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I was looking at street-view pics of western Oklahoma. The Cherokees that lived out there fought for the Confederacy. Some of these are unexpectedly cool. @AmericanGwyn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1754999637734486286)  2024-02-06T22:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Buffalo and Elk on the Upper Missouri Karl Bodmer c.1833 .American Serengeti"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1756047087148699649)  2024-02-09T20:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@farmer_tr Are you familiar with this book I haven't read it yet but love the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1756092313322070029)  2024-02-09T23:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Sumbawa Indonesia The Surfers Journal Volume 33.1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1756412234602106954)  2024-02-10T20:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"King Country Peter McIntyre Date Unknown The artist did a series of paintings on the American West that appeared in Sunset magazine in the 1970s. This is his native New Zealand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1756413159685144649)  2024-02-10T20:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"All to the north the rain had dragged black tendrils down from the thunderclouds like tracings of lampblack fallen in a beaker and in the night they could hear the drum of rain miles away on the prairie. #BloodMeridian Monsoon Rain for Painted Desert Curt Walters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1758222293564874950)  2024-02-15T20:10Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


""I've always wanted to see the frontier.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1758224231702446502)  2024-02-15T20:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Children of the Snake Tribe Alfred Jacob Miller c.1850s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1760395775887188222)  2024-02-21T20:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"In the long red sunset the sheets of water on the plain below them lay like tidepools of primal blood. Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1760440799647690956)  2024-02-21T23:06Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"The entrance hall at Monticello. On the table at center right: some mammoth bones excavated from Big Bone Lick Kentucky. Thomas Jefferson believed that mammoths might still roam somewhere in the American West"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1760762447680737748)  2024-02-22T20:24Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Filming Starship Troopers in Badlands National Park South Dakota. It is one of my favorites. I am "media illiterate" like you. Also it is a Western"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1760796695183728880)  2024-02-22T22:40Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Starship Troopers is a Western. Filming Starship Troopers in Badlands National Park South Dakota. It is one of my favorites. I am "media illiterate" like you. Also it is a Western. https://t.co/0ZGCpd7cPv Filming Starship Troopers in Badlands National Park South Dakota. It is one of my favorites. I am "media illiterate" like you. Also it is a Western. https://t.co/0ZGCpd7cPv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1760797037057175945)  2024-02-22T22:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@SnakeSkin_J Their photography was aggressively bad. They expected their brand to influence you into thinking it was artful. It was gross low effort and boring. It only worked on people who were chagrined to be financial analysts at Goldman Sachs. Good riddance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1760909851641913763)  2024-02-23T06:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"They rode up through cholla and nopal a dwarf forest of spined things through a stone gap in the mountains and down among blooming artemisia and aloe. Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1762208248357367857)  2024-02-26T20:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"They rode through the long twilight and the sun set and no moon rose and to the west the mountains shuddered again and again in clattering frames and burned to final darkness. Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian Smoke Plume Near Cotopaxi Jeff Aeling Contemporary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1762636230385188987)  2024-02-28T00:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@FLBogjig SKS 10/22s PSA ARs. I'm more interested in hearing about normal guns that real people actually own and shoot a lot than the $5000 safe queens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1762641322278826073)  2024-02-28T00:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The Caribbean was another frontier. US Soldier and Charge of the Rough Riders Frederic Remington [----] and 1909"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1763299352641183949)  2024-02-29T20:25Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"South African paratroopers on a raid in Angola in the early 1980s. Cuban tanks rolled onto their LZ minutes after the picture at right was taken. By then the last helicopter had lifted off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1763321230290203016)  2024-02-29T21:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"They moved on and the stars jostled and arced across the firmament and died beyond the ink black mountains. They came to know the night skies well. Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1763408731969343526)  2024-03-01T03:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Bolivian President Rene Barrientos is a man among men and amateur historian of the American West. In the late 60s he orders his police to reopen a 1/2 century old case: The rumored death of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in a shootout in Southern Bolivia. (1/3)🧵 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid settle with Etta Place on a log cabin homestead near Cholila in Argentine Patagonia. The terrain reminds Butch of his native Utah. South is the direction of escape. https://t.co/tobMs4Dl3F Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid settle with Etta Place on a log cabin homestead near Cholila in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1763707121840050259)  2024-03-01T23:25Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Barrientos an Air Force pilot and fervent anti-communist can take pride in his own manhunt. With CIA and Green Beret advisors his rangers hunted down Che Guevara in the forest around La Higuera. Unlike that of the [--] gringos Guevara's fate has never been disputed. (2/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1763707127175295143)  2024-03-01T23:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Re-reading. I recommend to anyone interested in the American West. The story of the US frontier played out similarly in Patagonia. Lots of British and German immigrants went there in 1800s. Secondary theme: this might be the safest place on earth following a nuclear war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1764760931173806156)  2024-03-04T21:12Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements


"The Caribbean is another frontier and Florida belongs as much to the Wild West as it does to the South. One of the last places in the lower [--] to be settled full of dangerous animals with open savannas and its own "cracker cowboys." (1/3) 🧵 @bog_beef"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1764782679487086988)  2024-03-04T22:39Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements


"Once the wars in the West against the Nez Perce and Apaches ended American military adventurism shifted in this direction too. Theodore Roosevelt recruited the Rough Riders from ranches in the badlands but they shipped out of Tampa to invade Cuba. (2/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1764782685564608787)  2024-03-04T22:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Florida is the base for the CIAs frontier violence. Cuban exiles train for the Bay of Pigs near Miami. Commandos like Gray Lynch make boat raids from the Keys. Shell company transports with dubious cargo fly for El Salvador and Nicaragua from airstrips in the swamps. (3/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1764782690153214229)  2024-03-04T22:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Buffalo Throwing the Hunter William de la Montagne Cary Late 1800s Oddly refreshing to see a buffalo kill somebody in one of these historic paintings. They are usually on the receiving end of the frontier violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1765109812646625297)  2024-03-05T20:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Blackthorn (2011) places Butch Cassidy alone on a remote homestead in Bolivia in the late 1920s. A film about escaping into the Southern Hemisphere where frontier violence endured long into the 20th century. Vivid shots of South America: a weird mirror of our American West"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1765519290290274670)  2024-03-06T23:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"South African soldiers patrol on horseback near the Angola border c.1982 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1765829924454322473)  2024-03-07T20:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@primordialunity Go on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1766319897569804472)  2024-03-09T04:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"In the evening flocks of eagles went up through the pass before them and they could see on those grassy benches the great shambling figures of bears like cattle grazing on some upland heath. -Blood Meridian Untitled John Ford Clymer c.1970 A grizzly bear could once have killed you in Sonora San Diego or Seattle. May he regain his ancient empire. https://t.co/QcJHGYr2S0 A grizzly bear could once have killed you in Sonora San Diego or Seattle. May he regain his ancient empire. https://t.co/QcJHGYr2S0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1767266962873487810)  2024-03-11T19:10Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"500 million year old snails revealed in the rock of Bighorn Gorge in Death Valley CA Credit: Fred and Randi Hirschmann c.1998"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1767268187325051025)  2024-03-11T19:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Robert Redford chatting with Butch Cassidys [--] year old sister around [----]. The cabin behind them is the old Cassidy homestead in Circleville Utah"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1767268661973368870)  2024-03-11T19:17Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Wild rams ghosted away up those rocky draws and the wind swirled down cold and gray from the snowy reeks above them a smoking region of wild vapors blowing down through the gap as if the world up there were all afire. -Blood Meridian High-ground John Ford Clymer 1973"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1767633450667053126)  2024-03-12T19:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Petroglyph of bighorn sheep and young in Death Valley CA. Credit: Fred and Randi Hirschmann 1998"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1767634025676771425)  2024-03-12T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Twilight in the Galisteo Basin New Mexico Jeff Aeling Contemporary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1767702117215559763)  2024-03-13T00:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"They trod the shadowline under the mountains keeping just in the sun for the warmth of it and that afternoon they first saw the sea far below them blue and serene under clouds. -Blood Meridian California Coast Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) Date Unknown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1768353289979232292)  2024-03-14T19:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The trail went down through the low hills and picked up the wagontrack and they followed where the locked wheels had skidded and the iron tires scarred the rock. -Blood Meridian (Weird that there are wagon ruts in rock after [---] years. Our tires wont leave the same traces.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1768713299447935014)  2024-03-15T18:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"South African soldier in the Koevoet ("Crowbar") internal security force on patrol in SW Africa (now Namibia) c. [----]. The weapon in front of him is a 20mm cannon salvaged from an obsolete jet fighter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1768744453261689019)  2024-03-15T21:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The Surfer's Journal Volume 2.1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1769088832425578503)  2024-03-16T19:50Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"The sea down there darkened to black and the sun fell and all the land about went blue and cold. - Blood Meridian Moonrise over San Diego Bay Maurice Braun 1915"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1769176319647224233)  2024-03-17T01:37Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"They slept shivering under a wooded boss among owlcries and a scent of juniper while the stars swarmed in the bottomless night. - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1769924384268198129)  2024-03-19T03:10Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"When an old pioneer abandoned a homestead their log cabin or adobe house decayed gracefully into the earth. Today when someone abandons a homestead of a trailer and a few tuff shedsits not so aesthetic. This contributes to the current contempt for poor rural people. (1/2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1770168403052970379)  2024-03-19T19:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""I like the old Winchester model [--]. I like it that it's got a hammer. I don't like havin to hunt the safety on a gun." - Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men (this is a very Ed Tom thing to say)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1770523815006937361)  2024-03-20T18:52Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Sand Dunes Granville Redmond (1871-1935) Date Unknown More so than most things I post these plein air paintings of old California remind me that "the past is a foreign country.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1770586864019501249)  2024-03-20T23:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Rhodesian soldiers unloading horses from mine-resistant trucks prior to a mounted patrol c.1979 Note that each animal has an ID in white paint. 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1770898034517250099)  2024-03-21T19:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"US troops training with Maxim guns before invading Mexico in the Punitive Expedition of [----]. 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1771253499201720760)  2024-03-22T19:11Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Rhodesian PM Ian Smith testing a locally-produced handgun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1771256414750617984)  2024-03-22T19:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"John Ford Clymer 1971"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1772412289783669066)  2024-03-25T23:56Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Walking up on a stranger's camp after dark was a risky move (and still can be). Shotgun Hospitality Frederic Remington 1908"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1772800250958458913)  2024-03-27T01:38Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"An architect restoring a historic Spanish hacienda begins hearing voices on isolated parts of the property. He realizes these are the places where the old don kept his Ute and Kiowa slaves. Ghosts of the frontier. "Not so dead." - Judge Holden (Photo: Christian Collins) That is one insight from the book "Cheap Land Colorado" by @tedconover It is a sobering look at the reality of low-budget off-grid living in the remote San Luis valley. (2/2) https://t.co/tuLcW9cv69 That is one insight from the book "Cheap Land Colorado" by @tedconover It is a sobering look at the reality of low-budget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1773189576514740580)  2024-03-28T03:25Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"The US Army's punitive expedition into Mexico was the epitome of 20th Century Frontier Violence. On the Border Donna Neary [----] An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1773427661945352442)  2024-03-28T19:11Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Punta de Lobos Chile The Surfer's Journal Volume [----] (south is the direction of escape)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1774156118736134174)  2024-03-30T19:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I have a grotesque Easter story for you. Years ago my wife's sister worked at a bank in a wealthy suburb of Dallas. A few days before Easter a well-dressed older woman came in asking for $5000 in 10s and 20s. (1/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1774636092492480549)  2024-04-01T03:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"While my sister-in-law counted the money she noticed this customer had made a similar withdrawal each year for [--] years. "Taking a fun trip somewhere" The matron rolled her eyes.(2/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1774636096552604092)  2024-04-01T03:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


""I have [--] adult children. They never call. They never visit. I don't have any grand-kids. The only way I can get them to come home at Easter is if we have an egg hunt with $20 bills inside. And believe me they fight over them." (3/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1774636100298092563)  2024-04-01T03:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"In the afternoon he sat in the compound breaking ore samples with a hammer the feldspar rich in red oxide of copper and native nuggets in whose organic lobations he purported to read news of the earth's origins. - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1775243075256017330)  2024-04-02T19:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"God don't lie No said the judge. He does not and these are his words He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees the bones of things. - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian (Photo: Alan Levine)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1775601137758159143)  2024-04-03T19:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It grew cold in the night and it blew stormy with wind and rain and soon all the wild menagerie of that country grew mute. A horse put its long wet face in at the door and Glanton looked up and spoke to it and it lifted its head and curled its lip and withdrew into the rain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1776070580422496320)  2024-04-05T02:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Requiem for Maynard Dixon Ray Strong [----] The artist was a student of Dixons and painted this after he died"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1777416350606213273)  2024-04-08T19:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"North Coast - Mendocino Area Ray Strong 1955"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1778186970671554810)  2024-04-10T22:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Bringing Out the Furs John Ford Clymer [----] "It is spring and a group of trappers is bringing out the winter catch of furs.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1779959082138619923)  2024-04-15T19:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"They traveled through the high country deeper into the mountains where the storms had their lairs a fiery clangorous region where white flames ran on the peaks and the ground bore the burnt smell of broken flint. - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian (Photo: David Turning)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1779996924843900993)  2024-04-15T22:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"At night the wolves in the dark forests of the world below called to them as if they were friends to man. -Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian Moonlight Wolf Frederic Remington c.1904"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1780426840500519359)  2024-04-17T02:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In the pantheon of American arts & letters who else goes in the list of "gun-loving degenerates""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1781397445664247930)  2024-04-19T19:00Z [----] followers, 33.3K engagements


"The Compound The Surfer's Journal Volume 29.6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1781434852275089443)  2024-04-19T21:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"They passed through a highland meadow carpeted with wild-flowers.a vast plain of varied small blooms reaching onward like a gingham print to the farthest serried rimlands blue with haze. - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1782537925311463681)  2024-04-22T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Down from the High Country Joe Grandee 1969"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1783349736969511329)  2024-04-25T04:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Curtis "Jennies" deploy to Mexico to hunt Pancho Villa in [----]. This was the first combat use of powered aircraft in US military history. 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads."  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1784318583889436991)  2024-04-27T20:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"They descended by rocky switchbacks and across the beds of streams where small trout stood on their pale fins and studied the noses of the drinking horses. - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1784319675138285600)  2024-04-27T20:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Desert Storm near Prewitt New Mexico Brad Sims 2021"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1785094094483775966)  2024-04-29T23:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""The Hostile" Dan Smith (1865-1934) Date Unknown (About 1/4 of the ranges and gun stores I have been in have had this print.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1785095762290081973)  2024-04-29T23:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Cuba. The Caribbean is another frontier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/bandy1803/status/1785377731632562684)  2024-04-30T18:36Z [----] followers, 41.9K engagements


"Mt. Rainier Yoshida Hiroshi c.1925 (this makes me think of Rainier beer) Is anyone aware of other Japanese artists from the early 20th century who painted the American West Like many I'm a big fan of the Kawase prints from this era. This visual crossover between Japan and West has a good Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars energy. https://t.co/tqDYXIKuS0 Is anyone aware of other Japanese artists from the early 20th century who painted the American West Like many I'm a big fan of the Kawase prints from this era. This visual crossover between Japan and West has a good Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars energy."  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1785765598435393760)  2024-05-01T20:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Wise in the Ways of Buffalo Joe Grandee 1979"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1785766859339633080)  2024-05-01T20:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"An Old Adobe Ed Borein 1899"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1786109366820901154)  2024-05-02T19:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The mines of Santa Rita Del Cobre from Blood Meridian as they appear today in New Mexico"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1786109729493901397)  2024-05-02T19:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Black Jack's Desert Air Force Russell Smith Contemporary "The squadrons simple marking - a red star painted on the airplanes rudder - was the first use of a national insignia on a US aircraft." Punitive Expedition airpower: 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1786111057003700462)  2024-05-02T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Mountain Man at Dusk Frank McCarthy 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1786534581950435480)  2024-05-03T23:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"To the west the cloudbanks stood above the mountains like the dark warp of the very firmament and the starsprent reaches of the galaxies hung in a vast aura above the riders' heads. - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1786578995473211630)  2024-05-04T02:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"As they rode up onto the western rim they lost one of the mules. It went skittering off down the canyon wall with the contents of the panniers exploding soundlessly in the hot dry air. - Blood Meridian The Mules Tumble William Henry Jackson c.1920"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1786854108361871545)  2024-05-04T20:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Warm Skies Brett Allen Johnson Contemporary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1787588092637114474)  2024-05-06T20:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sand Dunes of Death Valley Peter McIntyre 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1787923915484135686)  2024-05-07T19:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Treasures that my cub scouts brought to me after a hike last night. Note the partial skull of a "baby saber tooth tiger." Not depicted: a trapdoor spider lid and a piece of poison oak 🤦♂ https://t.co/trjmVyR4BF https://t.co/trjmVyR4BF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1787968884152352788)  2024-05-07T22:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"US soldiers marching down into Old Mexico [----]. 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from 1911"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1788287098279416167)  2024-05-08T19:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@culturaldrop I was thinking of re-reading Dogs of Winter because it's been [--] years but might read Tapping the Source instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1788421649211003268)  2024-05-09T04:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"John Ford's Point in Monument Valley"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1788646795834491108)  2024-05-09T19:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Crooked cops make a side hustle arranging appointments with unlicensed abortionists. They call them scrape doctors. I physically flinched when I looked that term up. Even the most successful actresses must sometimes submit to this gruesome transaction. (2/7)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1788664852032229848)  2024-05-09T20:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Porcine mobsters wallow in cash siphoned from commercial enterprises that faded long ago. Making off-ledger loans from union pension funds at 50% interest is the juiciest racket. Personal finance tip: service this debt first. There are worse things than a bad credit score (3/7)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1788664855031157076)  2024-05-09T20:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A Selous Scout departing for Mozambique c. [----]. Groups of [--] men (often [--] white + [--] black) operated for weeks in the bush conducting reconnaissance and sabotage living like animals usually without radio contact or air support. Note blackface Maoist green fatigues and AK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789010944791835069)  2024-05-10T19:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The judge had spied the musician and tossed a coin that clinked upon the stones. The fiddler held it briefly to the light as if it might not serve and then struck up an air that was old among the mountebanks of Spain [---] years before. Blood Meridian [--] Musicians Velasquez 1618"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789031958384963789)  2024-05-10T20:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The more I learn about the American West the more interested I get in Spain. The historic links are obvious but also think about the Westerns filmed in Andalusia; Cormac McCarthy lived in Ibiza for a time etc. So I follow some anons. This guy has a good eye. https://t.co/a50TRYu35w https://t.co/a50TRYu35w"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789032350913098032)  2024-05-10T20:38Z [----] followers, 14K engagements


"@TCAZ1776 I've heard something similar about the naja that you see in southwest jewelry. The Navajos saw conquistadors wearing this symbol on their armor. They in turn got it from the Moors in Southern Spain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789047340151828531)  2024-05-10T21:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TCAZ1776 No I've had the movie on my list for a while. Did not realize it was a book. This is exactly what I'm talking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789048103951298722)  2024-05-10T21:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@swampy_foxx There are some Hispanic families in northern New Mexico/Southern Colorado that trace their roots back to the Conquistadors and the old colony at Santa Fe. I'd like to learn more about them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789049504743977190)  2024-05-10T21:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@farmer_tr Thanks for sharing all these. I might start with this one chiefly because the cover is one of my favorite Frederic Remington paintings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789082975369630132)  2024-05-10T23:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Frisco Pier - North Carolina Daniel Pullen c.2010 The Surfer's Journal Volume 33.2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789388167327461414)  2024-05-11T20:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"As you do not know the path of the wind Or how the body is formed in a mother's womb So you cannot understand the work of God the Maker of all things. Ecc. 11:5 The Bible is an advisor who warns: "you do not know as much as you think you do about the world: be humble.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1789641173008818489)  2024-05-12T12:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sometime in the 16th century a Spanish friar working in Mexico recorded the old Aztec blood rites in his medieval-style codex. I imagine him looking like the priest in Frederic Remington's "The Missionary." The more I learn about the American West the more interested I get in Spain. The historic links are obvious but also think about the Westerns filmed in Andalusia; Cormac McCarthy lived in Ibiza for a time etc. So I follow some anons. This guy has a good eye. https://t.co/Fud07GfX9L The more I learn about the American West the more interested I get in Spain. The historic links are obvious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1790096414892240972)  2024-05-13T19:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Smilodon Charles Robert Knight [----] Treasures that my cub scouts brought to me after a hike last night. Note the partial skull of a "baby saber tooth tiger." Not depicted: a trapdoor spider lid and a piece of poison oak 🤦♂ https://t.co/PySBtUqdLS Treasures that my cub scouts brought to me after a hike last night. Note the partial skull of a "baby saber tooth tiger." Not depicted: a trapdoor spider lid and a piece of poison oak 🤦♂ https://t.co/PySBtUqdLS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1791184119059316825)  2024-05-16T19:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The founder of the Long Range Desert Group was a Cambridge-educated geologist with a focus on Aeolian sand dunes. His Sahara explorations before WW2 taught him essential skills: how to outfit trucks for desert travel drive in sand and navigate with a sun compass"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1791216376717209828)  2024-05-16T21:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"US Army motorcyclists in the hunt for Pancho Villa [----]. 20th Century Frontier Violence An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction from [----] (Mexican Revolution) to mid-80s (African bush wars) https://t.co/Z4VXhLmX3a An aesthetic of 20TH CENTURY FRONTIER VIOLENCE Vast and lawless ranges men on horseback attacks on trains and isolated homesteads. But also: automatic weapons 4x4s aircraft radios. You see it in fact and fiction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1791542038514798739)  2024-05-17T18:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Uncle Milo lost off the limeslaked coast of Chile. Foreign stars in the night down there. A whole new astronomy. Mensa Musca the Chameleon. Austral constellations nigh unknown to northern folk. Wrinkling fading through the cold black waters. - Cormac McCarthy Suttree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1793482890875150464)  2024-05-23T03:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Crazy how boutique dining is basically the same experience as going to a Benihana in Rocky Mount North Carolina in [----]. Server doing some cool chopping stuff you don't see at home. Ooh ahh. how many michelin stars would it take to have a server that doesnt have that retarded look on his face https://t.co/ZknYVhdpxp how many michelin stars would it take to have a server that doesnt have that retarded look on his face https://t.co/ZknYVhdpxp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1794933154584867200)  2024-05-27T03:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Q: Are there any tactical benefits to using paratroopers like this Would it have been better to just use helicopters to get people onto the battlefield when responding to an insurgent attack (2/17)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1795189922757849154)  2024-05-27T20:26Z [----] followers, 29.9K engagements


"Q: It looks like they are jumping below [---] feet. Why so low (5/17)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1795189936632533062)  2024-05-27T20:26Z [----] followers, 25.6K engagements


"A: They jumped low to minimize exposure to enemy ground fire. This is usual during combat ops. During Urgent Fury in Grenada [----] Rangers jumped from [---] ft in the assault on Point Salinas airfield. (6/17)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VeganSundayWed/status/1795189941955100789)  2024-05-27T20:26Z [----] followers, 24.2K engagements

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