How The West Was Fucked

Oh my, the mental gymnastics to keep Indian slavery legal after the U.S. takes over California is staggering. Now we are going to get into the government subsidising the murder! I don't love it!

Spain/Mexico wasn't great to the native population. numbers dropped from over 300,000 to 150,000. But "Merica not to be out done reduced that number to around 30,000 by 1880. This is all very tragic. We get it if you want to skip this one.

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#slimgoodbody

Somewhere 'tween Johnny 5 and Leonard Part 6 lies Sutter Part 5.

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#fredflinstonebonvivant

Sutter finally strikes it rich. Let's see how fast he pisses it away.

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Too bad you just can't find money laying around a riverbed. Gold, just free to take? Naw, sounds too good to be true.

#california'sgold

Ghost bears? Ghost dogs? Ghosts with no heads? Lost child ghosts? Beau is not afraid to shoot any of 'em.

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Sutter keeps the debts a' comin', keeps the near international incidents a' comin', keeps enslavin' the native population. Keeps on being a dick.

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A real American hero. But he might have just as well have been Swiss, German, French, Russian or Mexican, whatever made 'em the most money. A drunk conman who happened to be in the right place at the right time multiple times. Also, he dressed like a circus clown.

Will De Long and crew ever make it back, the answer is most of 'em, but some in a pine box. Or an eyeball full of syphilis.

Well, the crew finally has to abandon ship. Will they make it to Siberia? Why am I asking you. You don't fucking know. You're a goddamned dummy, that's why you're listening to this.

Sorry, I didn't mean it.

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