The American West

       I am a student of our American west from 1860 to 1890.  I have read extensively on the subject including The Old West series by Time-Life.  I have even read many of the books referenced in the bibliographies of the series.  

      The American Movie Channel (AMC) has been showing a mini series called The American West.  It is produced by Robert Redford and presented as a documentary.  It is actually a rewrite of American history.

     I started to watch The American West for entertainment as I did not expect to learn anything I did not know.  I quickly realized the series was rewriting American history.  Most of the commentators who had a history background were accurate in their statements.  Any student of the American west would recognize that many of the statements by Hollywood celebrities like Robert Redford were incorrect. 

      The storyline and script reminded me of a 1930’s western movie.  The production was very good and most people would believe the facts presented were accurate.    Now Redford has rewritten our history. 

   This sounds like the book 1984.  The government constantly rewrites the facts in history in this fictional book.

     One of the most ludicrous statements was that Jesse James went to New Mexico to recruit Billy the Kid into his gang after the gang was shot up in Northfield, Minnesota.  There is no account of Jessie James traveling as far west as New Mexico. What an interesting fabrication of history! 

      The gang was often referred to as the James/Younger gang.  Three Younger bothers were wounded and imprisoned in Minnesota after attempted Northfield bank robbery.  The Youngers were never mentioned. 

       Another ridiculous fabrication was that General Sherman killed all the buffalo to starve the American Indians into submission.  The series compares Sherman’s Indian campaign to his scorched earth policy during his march to the sea during the Civil war.  This idea is ridiculous because the largest estimate of buffalo killed every year was only a fraction of the annual birth rate.  The best theory of what killed the Buffalo is that it was “Texas Fever” transmitted but ticks on longhorn cattle from Mexico. 

    Why do liberals like Robert Redford want to rewrite history?  They realize that we need to learn from history and if history does not fit their political agenda, they believe it  must be rewritten.  This is frightening because it can be done in subtle ways like this mini-series with the public unaware they have been brain-washed. 

       

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