We are changing Swizz's name

Unknown

henceforth he is to be known as

Shacknasty Jim

yatahey

Spring's a long time comin this high up pilgrim.

swizz

kapewwwww.... pew, pew, pew!
wild wild west mothertruckers!
I'll be starring in Wyoming next week, yeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww!!!! (yip yip)

Juliet

google the name

swizz

no way...... it's a monkey trap

swizz

ok, I googled it:
"Shacknasty Jim (c1851 - 1881) was a Modoc warrior and the leader of the Hot Creek band."
I can't carry a tune in a bucket let alone be the leader of a band. You're way off.

Juliet

I just thought it was funny that it was the name of an actual person from a 140 years ago

swizz

actually.... sounds like a pretty cool old cowboy.
Thank you for the kind words?

Juliet

you should get some old weather barnwood and make one of those 1950's movie western signs and put it on a stake outside one of the cabins

remember to pound the stake in at an angle

swizz

monkeydoes wrote: »

you should get some old weather barnwood and make one of those 1950's movie western signs and put it on a stake outside one of the cabins

Actually.... the ranch where I occasionally do ranch-hand work has a lot of these old signs from the turn of the century and they are rustic as hell, hand painted and everything. Each of the log cabins (dozen or more) has a name and retains their original name and sign... "Trapper's Cabin", "Overlook", "Parkview", "Cascade", "River View", etc.... I like things that way.

magalloway

swizz wrote: »

ok, I googled it:
"Shacknasty Jim (c1851 - 1881) was a Modoc warrior and the leader of the Hot Creek band."
I can't carry a tune in a bucket let alone be the leader of a band. You're way off.

I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but the Modoc Tribe fought the US cavalry for several years in the last of the Indian Wars. Their lands contain a huge number of lava tubes that they could hide in with near impunity and they nearly drove the Army insane for a while. Their leader was named Captain Jack

Jim

Juliet

the last?

I thought the Modoc Wars ended in something like 1873 ... Custer matched his meat in 1876 and Geronimo put on his show well after that

magalloway

Monkey's right and I was wrong. I was under the impression that they took place considerably later. Mea Maximus Culpa

Jim