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Mount Who? How Did This Famous Park Get Its Name?
Some sources credit David Swanzey with naming Mt. Rushmore. Swanzey was married to Carrie Ingalls, sister to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Traveler's Checklist: Yellowstone National Park
We've gone over this a thousand times, but in this particular case, let's look at it again. The hazing of bison in the park, according to the NPS, was to make room for buffalo being hazed from Montana by the Department of Livestock. Those bison were being hazed from a peninsula just outside the park boundaries in Hebgen Lake called Horse Butte. Awhile back, there used to be cattle on this peninsula in the summer months (after brucellosis can be spread) leased to a man named Munns from Idaho. That property has since been sold to a family named Galanis who don't own cattle, don't want cattle, and want wild buffalo on their property. The peninsula itself is mostly in the Gallatin National Forest, though there are about 100 - 200 people who live on the peninsula on private property. Many of those private citizens have formed a buffalo advocacy group called Horse Butte Neighbors of Buffalo (HOBNOB) to protest Department of Livestock intrusions onto their land and to promote wild buffalo on the Butte.
None of this has mattered. This year, Department of Livestock helicopters once again flew as low as 20 feet over private land to haze buffalo back into the park, they continued that hazing well into the park - and as I understand it, well inside the Wyoming state line. That action has prompted the hazing from Madison Junction to Fountain Flats of bison more than a dozen miles inside the park boundary.
Of course, even if there were cattle, we would support wild buffalo populations just as we and others have supported wild elk populations (who also have the disease and have been strongly suspected of spreading it - I believe they have, but there are very knowledgeable hunting advocates who even doubt that). The onus of doing business when you are trying to restore wildlife populations should be on the cattle grower who is currently heavily subsidized for leasing on public lands (public lands have preferenced cattle over wildlife, especially wild buffalo). The locals in areas who want wildlife (and some produce cattle) should be allowed to keep the Department of Livestock from enforcing their draconian provisions. The cost of management of buffalo hasn't stopped Montana from losing its class free status on brucellosis anyhow. The cost of having brucellosis hasn't outweighed the cost the state has spent supposedly trying in vain to prevent it. Stockgrowers in Montana have tried to prevent buffalo that don't have brucellosis from being moved to other areas in the state, trying unsuccessfully this time to pass laws in the legislature designed to stop that movement. And, we can go on and on, all of it adding up to the reality that brucellosis is a red herring here, that the issue is about grass, about who controls it, and what sorts of species should have preference over it. Indeed, when talking about buffalo in other parts of the state, stockgrowers give up their hand and mention competition for grasslands. However, if that's the issue, then the Department of Livestock wouldn't have any authority to stop buffalo from moving over public lands and over private lands where the owners wanted buffalo. They've masqueraded this as a livestock disease issue to assert their barony over Montana (despite the reality that at most, livestock makes up 1.5% of Montana's GDP).
So, all of this has led to NPS hazing of bison that are nowhere near the boundaries and to delays. Kurt has posted NPS spokesman Al Nash's defense of the hazing on this site. They probably should have posted a press release alerting travelers last week to the delays. I think those management operations are over, although Buffalo Field Campaign members told me Sunday at a prayer ceremony for the buffalo lead by Lakota Chief Arvol Looking Horse that the buffalo continue to move back and forth across the boundary and that it was hard to predict if there would be another round of hazing.
Jim Macdonald
The Magic of Yellowstone
Yellowstone Newspaper
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Mount Who? How Did This Famous Park Get Its Name?
Check out the Traveler article at this site, Frank C. Aren't you being a little harsh with us poor little overworked and underpaid Traveler writers?
Mount Who? How Did This Famous Park Get Its Name?
Actually, it was originally known as Six Grandfathers to the Sioux. "Rushmore" is a desecration. NPT and the NPS continue to ignore the Sioux history of this site, and the NPS in particular glorify the Anglo history while sweeping the turbulent history of Federal and Sioux relations under the proverbial rug.
Traveler's Checklist: Yellowstone National Park
One of the complaints about bison outside the park is that they carry a disease that gets into the cattle populaton. So there is a concerted effort to keep bison within the park
Traveler's Checklist: Yellowstone National Park
While I have never personally read anything about studies related to bison damage of thermal features, there is a long history and controversy over bison numbers in Yellowstone. Most of those arguments - and the arguments about elk are more famous - have to do with the amount of carrying capacity in Yellowstone's Northern Range. Since the late 1960s, the NPS has maintained that the carrying capacity of the range is much higher than people have previously imagined, and regardless would follow a policy of natural regulation, essentially arguing that the ecosystem is a better regulator of populations than human management.
Others have disagreed vehemently, though again the focus has been mostly on elk numbers. Bison numbers have never been allowed to reach a high enough of a number for the data to be conclusive. Nevertheless, the scientists who have disagreed with NPS scientists have argued that Yellowstone is not an intact ecosystem (that natural regulation therefore is a myth and should not serve as the basis of policy), that carrying capacity is much lower and that there has been damage to smaller mammals and to vegetation (especially riparian vegetation) as a result.
For me, the argument of carrying capacity ultimately has no bearing on the slaughter and hazing of buffalo because either way, it convicts the NPS/Montana policy on bison. Either carrying capacity has been reached, and then you have no good reason to bottle bison inside the park - i.e., they should be treated as wildlife and managed as wildlife; all other species to some degree or other are allowed outside of Yellowstone (even wolves have it much, much better than bison). Indeed, in this case keeping bison in the park is a detriment to the park. Or, carrying capacity hasn't been reached in which case there should be no artificial population numbers that are set (as currently are set by the Interagency Bison Management Plan, though those numbers are hypothesized based on migration patterns, not on range carrying capacity). While the park's ability to hold more bison would seem to justify hazing bison back into the park, actually it more strongly suggests a policy of leaving things alone - since there's not too many bison and no reason to be moving them around within park boundaries.
As for damage to thermal features by bison - your original observation - I've never read of any features destroyed by bison (not saying it hasn't happened, but I've never read it). I have read plenty of cases of humans destroying thermal features. Perhaps, there are too many people, and their numbers should be culled. That is not exactly a modest proposal (and not a unique one, either, to Yellowstone); it's just not clear to me how it could mean anything (if your observation is correct) except allowing the free migration of buffalo into Montana outside the park so that these potential stressors are relieved. Do we value the small number of paranoid cattle operators (or even fewer - none - in some areas), or do we want to protect Yellowstone and what we take it to be (a place of unique features that values wildlife)? Perhaps, we have not stressed enough how Yellowstone itself is hurt by the IBMP over and above what happens by imposing absurd boundaries on one particular kind of wildlife.
Jim Macdonald
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How Low Is the Bar For National Park System Inclusion When You Add a Gas Station?
We are most assuredly now on a very steep slippery hill, headed to the ravine below.
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
Anonymous, I think about your friend, Bob, every day and pray they find him. I check this time first thing every morniing because I have people I love and if they disappeared, I'd want the world to turn itself upside down to find him. Good luck.
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
We knew Robert Williams personally and appreciated all of the reporting we found online because when you care about someone who is missing under dire circumstances, there's not enough news, if you know what I mean. This is about Bob and not about any reader's opinion. Please keep the news coming as we still hope and pray for his safe return to his family.
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
Sorry for misspelling your name, MRC. Got to cut these nails down and ease up on the painkillers. Hate to misspell--a journalist's worst mistake. So I apologize for that.
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
You can excuse it with saying I lead a sheltered life--pretty difficult for a newspaper reporter--but what you said lacked local empathy for what people go through when their loved ones are missing. Are you actually equating tabloid stories to the details of a missing person's story? Like I said, I'm sure glad we're not related. Here you have a world-wide site that could alert someone about something they may have seen they didn't think was important to the time and may help find missing or injured people. In fact the family of this particular man has written a post asking for people's prayers and concerns so . A lot of people turn to the press, and that's what this is, when nobody else--like MCR?--is interested in helping them. My favorite part of reporting was helping people with problems when others wouldn't. Print reporting has an advantage in that it doesn't live off sound bites and can give the particulars of a story and it seems to me that while the "big picture" is important, it aso has a really neat way of dodging facts people may not want known and sometimes the devil is in the details. P.S. God may not need that info you talked about--but an unwitting witness may. Kurt, you are these peoples' lifeline. Keep it up.
Rangers Narrow Search Area in Grand Canyon National Park For Missing Hiker
Yes, what is the status of the search, has it been cut back, slowed down, any add'l information or leads that can be shared with the public?
How Low Is the Bar For National Park System Inclusion When You Add a Gas Station?
There's a pretty cool historic gas station from 1928 in Kings Canyon National Park. It claims to be the oldest gravity pump in the US. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3V5B (with photos).
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
As a frequent visitor to many National Parks, I appreciate these articles. If I see an article like this for an area I may soon be visiting and I know someone is missing, then I will keep an eye out and pay much closer attention for any signs or clues while out hiking. In addition, articles like this make me double check my plans and make sure I am fully prepared.
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
I am reminded of the preface to the book Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite. The author of the preface said something like, "this isn't a book about death; it's a book about life." His point was that we learn from the mistakes of others. Recounting the tragedies that occur in national parks makes the readers of those accounts more thoughtful, careful visitors. As a former ranger, I am all in favor of that.
Rick Smith
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
Actually MRC there's a lot to learn from accidents. Hiking the canyon is a little more than a walk around a suburban neighborhood, yet every day numerous people don't prepare adequately. Sorry that personalizing the story rubs you the wrong way, but if you don't know the poor soul then I fail to see how knowing his name, age, hometown, etc does YOU any harm. Rather than the multitude of impersonal warnings throughtout GCNP which routinely go unheeded, perhaps one report of such can help prevent those who don't yet fully realize the natural hazards abound.
"I would prefer to have at most one accident related article per month."
Gee MRC, I'd prefer not to have any at all...somehow it just never works out that way. Sorry people can't arrange their fate to fit the convenience of your schedule.
Dead Carp at Lake Mohave Make This Memorial Day Memorable for Wrong Reason
We spent 2 days there this week end which we cut out one day duw to the awful smells. I would recommend looking for a better place to boat, camp, fish, or anything until the issue is resolved.
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
Dear Lynn, if my comment is the "most cold-hearted thing you've ever seen ..." then you must live a very sheltered life. Now I've proven, that I too can play the game of ad hominem criticism. But I prefer not to. And as if I don't know that today's journalism revolves around personalizing every story. But maybe that's what's wrong with it nowadays. By digging into the personal details, journalism neglects to build the big picture. By breaking stories down to sound bites and effect, connections and context don't get their share of reporting.
Back to the Traveler: The concentration on accidents is a pretty recent development here. 20 stories on accidents in May 2009 versus 6 in May 2008 - true, the total number went up too, but the rise is notable. And I believe those stories lack relevancy. Kurt, are you happy with writing about accidents so much? Is this what you intend with this blog?
The families gains nothing from knowing that the name of their beloved one will be forever connected in the global media archives with an unfortunate accident, and those who wish to pray for the safety of a missing person can do so for "the missing hiker in Grand Canyon". God does not need name, profession, hometown and age of the missing.
How Low Is the Bar For National Park System Inclusion When You Add a Gas Station?
If this was a National Park site, I can't imagine stopping to see it unless I was in the area and out of gas. No way anybody should make this happen. Put a Billy Beer and a picture in Carter's Library and call it Good. Thanks for the story though, it is great fodder. Kurt, I always enjoy your articles.
How Low Is the Bar For National Park System Inclusion When You Add a Gas Station?
The very notion of a political body, developing an apolitical group is insane. Everything, everywhere is politics. It is certainly more magnified in the government, but it is everywhere. How long would it be before one of the NPS commissioners were to be appointed by a president because of his political donations? Who's kind ends up running a national park, with no qualifications, simply due to who his daddy or mommy knows?
There certainly are no rules for designations, and as an example of how hard it would be to change the existing parks, I would be upset if you took the National Park designation off of my beloved Cuyahoga Valley N.P. (yea, I agree it is kinda weak, but hey it's mine). Even if there was as system that would be no assurance. I am interested in roads also (a little more exciting than paint drying, but I find it interesting). A congressperson from PA, I don't want to blame the wrong one, decided that his area needed a new interstate. Maybe it did, I don't know, but there is a system for numbering interstates. They start low in the west and end at higher numbers in the east. He however wanted it to be I-99. So he had the number designated into the law. So it goes I-79, I-99, I-81, I-83 and then I-95. May not seem like a big deal, but to a road fan, it is as vulgar as a national designation on a gas station (or a National Park designation on the Cuyahoga Valley).
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
My goodness, MRC, is your nickname Ostrich? The National Parks Traveler is in no way sensationalism reporting; it is factual. And, yes, we do need to know of things that can and do happen in national parks. There has been a rather startling amount of bad news items in a short period of time, but this is life - the real thing. And I should think the majority of us reading the parks' news are compassionate caring people, which is why we are reading this website to begin with.
How Low Is the Bar For National Park System Inclusion When You Add a Gas Station?
Frankly, I'm amazed that some of our more recent presidents are willing to put up with this kind of thing. I'm no fan of President Carter, but surely even he doesn't think his life should be memorialized while he's still alive. I can embrace the idea that it's worth modestly preserving a slice of rural Georgia life, because of its connection to a president--it's meaningless now, but we might be very grateful for it in 100 years. But have the decency to run it with his presidential library, or through a private foundation, until the man is actually dead.
Likewise with the absurd "William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site." Birthplace shrines (and he wasn't even born there--just lived there until he was 4) are suitable only for the greats and, Washington aside, you can't be one of the greats while you're still alive. A birthplace home dedicated to Bill Clinton is like Rubens' Apotheosis of James I on the ceiling of the Banqueting House in Whitehall--nice try, but you're not fooling anyone.
Kurt, you're half right. Politicians are bringing home the bacon, and we all know that NPS sites draw tourist dollars at little or no expense to the local economy. But there's also the element of shaping public history. They are a hagiographical effort, aimed at elevating the historical stature of their honorees. But by elevating so crass a structure as Billy Carter's gas station, we dull that particular instrument of public history. A particular Warhol quote comes to mind...
Bob: There's a decommissioned historic gas station in the historic district of Longmire, at Mount Rainier. However the one belonging to Billy Carter is just... embarrassing.
Frank C: Jefferson may have forbidden his image on coins, but he spread it all over the West on medals carried by Lewis and Clark.
This Just In : Fort Hancock STILL a Mess
Officers row and all the surrounding historical bldgs MUST be saved. I simply cannot understand why this is debatable. Save Sandy Hook should want to save the bldgs - whatever it takes! They should all be brought back to their formal glory, but it is going to take a ton of work and money. There should be local fundraisers going on. Anyone who wants to stand in the way of that is an idiot! What the heck is going on?!?!?!?
No Sign Of Missing Hiker In Grand Canyon National Park, Search Being Scaled Back
Well, MRC, that was about the most cold-hearted post I've ever seen...glad I'm not related to you. I was a feature writer/journalist for many years and those "personal details" you seem to abhor make people human to readers, make people care about them and everybody needs someone to care about them. How do you think that man's family feels after reading your post--oh well, too bad, bye, gramps. Anyone who travels our national parks--and my husband and I love them--is concerned about what could happen to them and what happens to others and it has nothing to do with sensationalism. It has to do with empathy. Kurt is right, there are no gory details given here--this is not tabloid stuff. But it IS news and the more people know about someone who is missing, the better.. Now, if you wish, if you go out on an outing and vanish somehow I'll make sure not to give it a second thought. As for the others--I'm going to hope and pray and think about them.
How Low Is the Bar For National Park System Inclusion When You Add a Gas Station?
I'm not sold that society has lifted these men up onto statues and so Congress feels indebted to honor them with NPS units. Rather, I think it's simply politicians trying to bring home the bacon so they can get re-elected.
I think it's a combination of the two. "Society" wouldn't buy into this garbage if there wasn't a predisposition toward executive worship.
We overthrew the British in part to be free from a distant, single authority figure, but yet we now spend more per year to maintain the office of the president than the British spend on the monarchy. While president, Jefferson forbade his image on coins; now he and others' faces are all over coins and etched larger than life in to sacred Sioux stone in the Black Hills. The populace is more concerned about Michelle Obama's wardrobe (oh my god, is it J. Crew or an expensive designer label?) and the President's dating schedule than auditing the Federal Reserve or preserving national parks. The presidency has been elevated to celebrity status at incalculable expense to our republican form of government.
This reminds me of my time spent in a former Soviet satellite country in Eastern Europe. To keep people employed, the central economic planners ordered literally thousands of monuments built. Now, they lie in ruins, a testament to the folly of state worship.
But at least the Soviets didn't memorialize a gas station. Amerika is entering uncharted waters on its journey to the bottom of the ocean.


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Important George Washington Letter Fetches $362,500
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On November 5, Doyle New York held an auction of Rare Books, Autographs and Photographs. Among the offerings were manuscripts and early printing, color plate, Americana, travel, sporting, literature, illustrations, artist books, fine bindings, private press, maps and atlases.
Despite the impact of Hurricane Sandy, the sale totaled a strong $1,604,594, surpassing the pre-sale estimate of $849,200-1,255,000, with an exceptional 90% sold by lot and 96% sold by value.
The auction began with a substantial section of Americana that most notably included an important 1783 autograph letter from George Washington to wartime aide James McHenry announcing his intention to retire from public service. This letter sold for $362,500, the fourth highest price ever recorded for the sale of a Washington letter at auction and the highest price for a single-page letter by him. (more)
Other strong results in Americana were $22,500 reached for the log of the ship Alfred, an exceptionally rare survival, the log of the purser on board an American naval vessel during the Revolutionary war, from January 1777 to February 1778. Another remarkable offering was an original album of topographical drawings made during Wheeler's 1875 exploration of California by C. W. Whipple. This made $34,375, and detailed topographical drawings in what would become Los Angeles. $28,125 was achieved for an early 18th century sammelband of religious works, including several by Cotton Mather.
In Autographs, a world record price of $68,500 was set for a letter by Emma Hamilton one of the final missives sent to Lord Nelson, who died at Trafalgar before its receipt. Two original manuscript leaves in the hand of Noah Webster reached $17,500, a world record for any of the surviving fragments in public hands of the manuscript for his 1828 dictionary. The archive of musical scores by African-American composer Margaret Bonds achieved $5,938.
A group of Travel & Voyages was highlighted by the first collected edition of the voyages of Sir Francis Drake which brought $7,500, and a first edition of William Bligh's Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty made $5,625.
Among color plate books, a set of the Microcosm of London made $5000, a copy of the rare Hans Burgkmaier's Turnier-Buch, Frankfurt, 1855 achieved $2375, and a set of Michaux and Nuttall, The North American Sylva realized $3,000. An unusual offering was two original engraved copper plates used in printing John Prideaux Selby's Illustrations of English Ornithology, which made $3437.50 and $4,375 respectively.
Among manuscripts, a Humanist work including Bracellius' account of the Ligurian coast made $16,250, an unusual Chinese manuscript of street traders achieved $6,250 and an early Carta Executoria made $4,375.
The sale then proceeded to an extensive run of Elizabethan books and books by Elizabethan authors, many of which were of the greatest rarity. Here, outstanding prices were fetched by John Webster The deuils law-case… 1623, the first quarto edition, which achieved $25,000; a very rare Elizabethan sporting imprint, George Wilson The commendation of cockes, and cock-fighting, 1607, attained the same price; Burghley's The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza which attained $10,625; Holland's Treatise against Witchcraft 1590, $8,750, and many other very strong prices. Elizabethan material has been featured over our past three auctions, and there is clearly still a strong market despite the limited amount of material that comes up for sale.
Among a small group of other English imprints was John Bale A mysterye of inyquyte contayned within the heretycall genealogye of Ponce Pantolabus which sold for $13,750. Drayton's remarkable Poly-Olbion, the third issue, sold for $6,250. Early continental printing featured a 1512 edition of Martial de Paris, printed by Trepperel's widow, a fine copy that realized $5,625. An exceedingly imperfect incunable Boccacio Florio und Bianceffora made $5,625, largely on the strength of the fine wood engravings in early hand coloring.
In the field of nineteenth and century literature, strong prices were attained by a set of the Author's Autograph Edition of Whitman, with an exceptionally attractive leaf in Whitman's hand, which made $22,500. Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage, an attractive copy in the rare dust-jacket, was hammered down at $10,625. A copy of Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables in a remarkable state of preservation made $10,000. A fine Hemingway inscribed to Robert Gros by Hemingway and additionally by Martha Gellhorn made $7,500 and a particularly attractive example of Joyce's Finnegan's Wake $8,125.
Sets and bindings were as usual a popular area, with a charming little royal binding inset with miniatures of members of the House of Savoy realizing $5,625. The Autograph Edition of Mark Twain's works sold at $10,000, and a Roycroft binding by Henry Avery accomplished a remarkable $5,000, demonstrating that interest in that East Aurora establishment remains firm.
An unusual feature of the sale was a fine collection of artist autograph letters, primarily (but not exclusively) the Impressionists.Here, a Gauguin letter to Pissarro made $28,125; a Cezanne letter to Emile Bernard $18,750; a Degas letter to Julie Manet $8,125; and a pair of fine Monet letters $6,875 and $5,625. Moving from artist letters to illustration art, a Peanuts cartoon drawn by Schulz sold for $13,750; a Bemelmans drawing of Paris realized $5,312.50; and an Arthur Szyk miniature of the Lord's Prayer made $4,375.
Finally, in books on the arts, the folio 1792 Holbein in a contemporary binding hammered down at $10,000, a set of the first four issues of the seminal journal XXe Siècle made $3,125, a lot with the Maillol Virgil of the Cranach Press made $5,312.50, the Dali Alice $5,937 and a worn copy of Andy Warhol's 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy $28,125.
All prices include the buyer's premium.
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I would like to know the model and make of the gun in the picture. Also barrel length, since its possible that the same model has different barrel length versions.
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It looks like a Dan Wesson. More pictures would give us more insight.
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is this a screen grab from a movie? Loaded, cocked and finger on the trigger...
Don't question my right to own a gun and I won't question your stupidity not to. You give Peace a chance, we will cover you if it doesn't work out.
Yes, its a movie
The website is imfdb.org
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looks like a S&W 686 with 8 3/8 barrel to me
It is a Turkish movie, so i dont think the guns are available in the websites you mentioned.
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Five things to watch vs. Denmark
There's a feeling that tonight's Mexican national team friendly (10 p.m. ESPN2/WatchESPN) against Denmark in Arizona is of secondary importance for El Tri to next week's Hexagonal opener against Jamaica. In one sense, that is true -- Mexico and Denmark will be fielding only domestic-based players, and if there is an international game you can afford to lose in 2013, it would be this one.
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Young Guns II
Young Guns II | |
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Directed by | Geoff Murphy |
Produced by | James G. Robinson Paul Schiff Irby Smith |
Written by | John Fusco |
Starring | Emilio Estevez Kiefer Sutherland Lou Diamond Phillips Christian Slater William Petersen James Coburn Alan Ruck Balthazar Getty |
Music by | Alan Silvestri Jon Bon Jovi |
Cinematography | Dean Semler |
Edited by | Bruce Green |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates
Running time
104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $44,143,410 |
Young Guns II is a 1990 western film, and the sequel to Young Guns (1988). It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, and features William Petersen as Pat Garrett. It was written and produced by John Fusco and directed by Geoff Murphy.
It follows the life of Billy the Kid (played by Emilio Estevez), in the years following the Lincoln County War in which Billy was part of "The Regulators" – a group of around 6 highly skilled gunmen avenging the death of John Tunstall – and the years before Billy's documented death. The film, however, is told by Brushy Bill Roberts, a man who in the 1940s appeared claiming to be the real Billy the Kid.
While the film takes some creative license, it does show some of the key events leading up to Billy's documented death, including his talks with Governor Lew Wallace, his capture by friend-turned-foe Pat Garrett, his trial and his subsequent escape in which he killed two deputies.
In 1950, attorney Charles Phalen is contacted by an elderly man named "Brushy Bill" Roberts. Brushy Bill tells Phalen that he is dying and wants to receive a pardon that he was promised 70 years before by the Governor of New Mexico. When asked why he wants the pardon, Brushy Bill claims that he is really William H. Bonney aka "Billy The Kid", whom "everyone" knows to have been shot and killed by Pat Garrett in 1881. Phalen then asks if Bill has any proof that he is the famous outlaw.
Brushy Bill's story begins with the remaining Regulators having gone their separate ways. Billy has become part of a new gang with "Arkansas" Dave Rudabaugh (Slater) and Pat Garrett (Petersen). The New Mexico governor has issued warrants for the arrests of those involved in the Lincoln County Wars, including Billy, Doc Scurlock (Sutherland), and Jose Chavez y Chavez (Phillips), who are dragged into town and imprisoned to await hanging.
Meanwhile, Billy meets with the new governor Lew Wallace who agrees to pardon Billy if he testifies against the Dolan-Murphy faction. Billy soon finds out that he was tricked into being arrested with no chance of testifying against his old enemies. After escaping, Billy along with the help of Rudabaugh and Garrett, pose as a lynch mob to spring Doc and Chavez from jail. When the gang successfully escape Lincoln, Billy mentions the Mexican Blackbird (a broken trail only he and few others know that leads down to Mexico). Garrett decides not to go with the gang and, instead, open a boarding house. As they make a run for the border along with farmer Henry William French (Alan Ruck) and 14 year old Tom O'Folliard (Balthazar Getty), cattle baron John Simpson Chisum (James Coburn) and Governor Wallace approach Garrett to offer him the job as Lincoln County Sheriff and $1000 to use whatever resources he needs to hunt Bonney down and kill him. Garrett agrees and, forming a posse, begins his pursuit of the gang.
Billy and the gang soon come to the town of White Oaks where they meet up with former companion, Jane Greathouse (Jenny Wright) who runs a local bordello. Later that night, the town lynch mob comes for the gang and are intent on a hanging. Deputy Carlisle tries to negotiate a deal, "the Indian" (Chavez) for a safe rideout. Billy refuses the offer and pushes the Deputy out the door, who is then accidentally killed by the lynch mob. Garrett soon tracks Billy to the bordello, but is too late. Billy and his gang are continuously tracked by the posse, narrowly evading capture, but Tom (being mistaken for Billy) is soon shot dead by Garrett. As they hideout, Billy admits that the Mexican Blackbird doesn't exist; it was just a pawn to get the gang back together and to keep riding. Doc is angered and tries to leave for home, but he is shot by one of Garrett's men and sacrifices himself to enable his friends to escape.
Billy the Kid is soon brought back into Lincoln by Garrett and is sentenced to death by hanging. He is visited by Jane Greathouse, who arranges to leave a pistol in an outhouse. Billy uses the pistol to kill two guards and escapes to Old Fort Sumner. By the time he arrives, Dave has abandoned the group to make his way to Mexico, and Chavez is dying from a bullet wound. During the night Garrett finds Billy unarmed. Billy asks Garrett to let him run to Mexico and tell the authorities that he killed him. Garrett declines because he believes Billy would not be able to resist coming back to the United States (which would lead to Garrett's death for lying). Billy turns around, forcing Garrett to have to shoot him in the back, which he does not. In the morning, a fake burial is staged for Billy and Garrett's horse is seen being taken by an unknown figure (implied to be Billy). Brushy Bill admits he never stole a horse from someone he didn't like, and further admits he didn't like Garrett; he loved him. Phalen, convinced that Brushy Bill is Billy the Kid, agrees to help him.
The epilogue reveals that Arkansas Dave was beheaded once he reached Mexico to discourage more outlaws from crossing the border; Garrett's book detailing his pursuit of Billy was a dismal failure and he is eventually shot and killed in 1908; Brushy Bill met with the Governor of New Mexico but despite corroboration from several surviving friends of The Kid, he was discredited and died less than a month later; whether or not Brushy Bill was Billy the Kid remains a mystery. The final shot shows Billy pointing his gun at an off screen target, saying to the target "I'll make you famous".
- Emilio Estevez as William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney/Brushy Bill Roberts (uncredited for the latter)
- Kiefer Sutherland as Josiah Gordon "Doc" Scurlock
- Lou Diamond Phillips as Jose Chavez y Chavez
- Christian Slater as "Arkansas" Dave Rudabaugh
- William Petersen as Pat Garrett
- Alan Ruck as Henry William French
- James Coburn as John Chisum
- Balthazar Getty as Tom O'Folliard
- Jenny Wright as Jane Greathouse
- Jack Kehoe as Ashmun Upson
- Robert Knepper as Deputy Carlyle
- Viggo Mortensen as John W. Poe
- Tracey Walter as Beever Smith
- Bradley Whitford as Charles Phalen
- Scott Wilson as Governor Lew Wallace
- Howie Young as Poe Posse
Screenwriter-producer John Fusco culled much of Billy's dialogue from actual newspaper interviews and reports between 1879-1881. Fusco also appears as the "Branded Man" in the prison pit escape scene alongside Jon Bon Jovi. The cattle brand on Fusco's face reads J.C. for cattle rancher John Chisum.
John Chisum (played by James Coburn) convinces Pat Garrett to accept a job as the new Lincoln County Sheriff. Coburn himself played Garrett in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Blaze of Glory[edit]
Emilio Estevez originally approached Jon Bon Jovi to ask him for permission to include the song "Wanted Dead Or Alive" on the soundtrack.[1] Bon Jovi didn't feel the songs lyrics were appropriate; however, he was inspired by the project and resolved to write a new song for the film that would be more in keeping with the period and setting. He quickly wrote the song "Blaze of Glory", and performed it on acoustic guitar in the New Mexico desert for Estevez and John Fusco. "Blaze of Glory" went on to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] Jon Bon Jovi would go on to name his debut solo album Blaze of Glory (released as Young Guns II: Blaze Of Glory in the UK),[3] which included the eponymous single as well as other songs from and inspired by the film.
The album peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200[4] and No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart.[5]
Jon Bon Jovi also made a cameo appearance in the film, as one of the prisoners in the pit with Doc and Chavez (he can be seen 28 minutes and 8 seconds in to the movie).
Score album[edit]
The film's original score was composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri,[3][6] who provided string arrangements for the song "Santa Fe" and has one brief track on Blaze Of Glory. On September 19, 2011 Intrada Records issued Silvestri's score on its own CD.
- Scars (5:10)
- Small Hands (3:04)
- Lynch Mob (4:11)
- Finish the Game (2:50)
- Yoo Hoo (2:43)
- Devil's Deal (1:26)
- More Than Hello (2:34)
- Tom Sees the Light (1:30)
- Coy Dog (2:38)
- Ride to Guano City (1:09) ("Guano City" on Blaze of Glory)
- Battle (2:46)
- Little Tom Dies (6:49)
- Garrett's Place (1:10)
- Chavez's Wound (3:01)
- You Gonna Shoot? (3:33)
- Stolen Horse (Finale) (1:18)
Box office[edit]
Young Guns II opened on August 1, 1990 in the United States in 1,770 theaters, accumulating $8,017,438 over its opening weekend. It finished third for the weekend, behind Ghost (in its fourth week) and Presumed Innocent (in its second week).[7] The film went on to gross $44,143,410 domestically.[8] The film was also successful on video rental.[9]
Critical response[edit]
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Foxwoods Resort Casino | |
Address | 350 Trolley Line Blvd Ledyard, Connecticut 06338 |
Opening date | 1986 |
Theme | Native American |
Number of rooms | 2266 (4 Hotels) |
Total gaming space | Unknown, not opened to public yet (Fox Tower at Foxwoods) |
Signature attractions | Spa & Salon, Casino, Hotel, and Restaurants |
Casino type | Land-Based |
Owner | Mashantucket Pequot Tribe |
Previous names | none |
Renovated in | 1992, 1997, 2007 |
Website | Foxwoods.com |
Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel casino in Ledyard, Connecticut on the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation. A complex of six casinos, the resort covers an area of 4,700,000 sq ft (440,000 m2). The casinos have more than 380 gaming tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker and have more than 6,300 slot machines. There are several restaurants within the casinos, among them a Hard Rock Cafe. Foxwoods has 2,266 hotel rooms and a two-story arcade for children and teens. It is now the second largest casino in the United States at approximately 340,000 sq ft (32,000 m2) of gaming space, behind WinStar World Casino in Oklahoma.[citation needed]
The economic recession that began in 2007 took a heavy toll of receipts, and by 2012 both Foxwoods and its nearby rival the Mohegan Sun were deeply in debt.[3] The New York Times said "Foxwoods is fighting for its life" with debts of $2.3 billion.[4]
Foxwoods was founded in 1986 as a bingo hall.[5] The casino was financed by Lim Goh Tong, a Chinese Malaysian who founded the only legal casino in Malaysia. Lim died in October 2007.[6][7]
In 1992, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, the casino's owner, added table games, followed by additional slot machines in 1993. G. Michael Brown became the chairman of the casino in 1993. The casino agreed to pay 25 percent of their slot revenue to the state of Connecticut, a sum that amounts to almost $200 million per year as of 2007[update].[8] In the fiscal year ending June 2008, Foxwoods' 6,300 slots handled more than $9.1 billion.[9]
A poker room and a high-limit 30-table game area were added in 1995. Foxwoods is not a smoke-free casino, but due to recent complaints from patrons and employees has designated many common areas such as hallways, walkways, hotel lobbies, retail stores and most restaurants as non smoking areas and has assigned designated areas for smokers. The poker room is non smoking and there are also separate table gaming and slot areas designated as non smoking. The casino was completed in 1996. In 1997, the deluxe Grand Pequot Tower was opened for business.
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The full build-out of the resort was an effort by several design and construction entities. The majority of the work from 1992 to 2001 was completed by Construction Managers CR Klewin aka Klewin Building Co. and the Architect of Record was JCJ Architecture (formerly Jeter, Cook & Jepson) of Hartford, CT. Planning & concept designs were by New England Design Inc. and Nick606 Inc. Later phases were completed by Shawmut Design & Construction, Perini Building Co., AZ Corporation, and others.
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Games available at Foxwoods include:
- traditional "big table" Baccarat (Punto Banco style) and "Mini-Baccarat", where a dealer handles the cards. In both variants the casino banks the game.
- bingo with a bingo hall able to accommodate up to 5000 players.
- Blackjack with 6 or 8-deck shoes. A variant of Blackjack called Spanish 21 is also played. The casino offers a rare "Dollar blackjack" table where the minimum bet is $1.
- craps
- Keno drawings
- A Money Wheel in the Rainmaker Casino
- Pai gow is offered in the Asian gaming section of the Rainmaker Casino
- Sic Bo, an Asian game with three dice in a shaker is also played in the Asian gaming section.
- Table variants of poker (played against the house) include Caribbean Stud Poker, Casino war, Crazy 4 Poker, High Five Poker, Let It Ride (card game), Pai Gow Poker, Texas Hold'Em Bonus and Three card poker.
- Roulette, Almost all of the wheels are of the American variety (with two green spots, 0 and 00), though there are a few European style Roulette wheels with only one zero.
- Slot machines
- A sports betting facility with cafe is also located at Foxwoods. Bets may be made on Jai-Alai or on more than a combined total of more than 60 tracks of dog racing and horse racing. Races are projected on 50-foot (15 m) high digital screens.
Poker (WPT World Poker Room)[edit]
The WPT World Poker Room is located one floor below the Rainmaker Casino. This room runs poker games of varying stakes, including limit and no-limit Texas hold 'em, limit and pot-limit Omaha hold 'em (including hi/lo), and seven-card stud (high only and hi/lo).
The poker room underwent an expansion and relocation in March 2006, increasing the number of tables from 76 to 114, making it the largest poker room outside of California, and the third-largest poker room in the world, after the Commerce Casino and the Bicycle Casino.[10][11]
The Fox Tower[edit]
Construction started in November 2005 on a $700 million expansion at Foxwoods. On April 25, 2006, Foxwoods announced that they would lease the MGM Grand brand name for the new building, and that MGM Mirage would be a partner in the expansion project. The expansion, entitled The MGM Grand at Foxwoods, opened on May 17, 2008. It is a separate building from the main Foxwoods resort, but is connected by a moving walkway. In late 2013, MGM split up with Foxwoods. The new name for the building is The Fox Tower. Amenities at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods included:
- 53 table games
- 1,400 slot machines
- 825 hotel rooms/suites
- 4,000 seat performing arts theater
- Four restaurants and four retail outlets
Unionization of employees[edit]
Beginning with an employee-led website to gain support and sharing ideas of how to react to the changes employees had been going through, a small base of employees approached several union organizations to determine if unionizing would be the best fit for the dealers of Foxwoods Resort Casino. After deciding on the UAW in June 2007, the UAW helped start collecting signatures from dealers in support of a union, the United Auto Workers announced in September 2007 that it had collected the requisite number of signatures needed to hold an election to determine whether table games and poker dealers desired union representation or not. The Tribe challenged the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board over on-reservation Native American enterprises. Following hearings, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the union and ordered a union election to be conducted. On November 24, 2007, employees voted to unionize with 60 percent in favor and 40 percent against.[13] The Foxwood dealers cast 1,289 ballots for the union, 852 against representation, with challenges to 36 additional ballots. Approximately 2,700 dealers and dual-rate dealers were eligible to vote in the election.
After the workers won their right to unionize, Foxwoods Casino appealed the election results, reasserting its jurisdictional challenge and claiming that the National Labor Relations Board made mistakes in conducting the vote, that the NLRB only printed the ballot in English and only provided notices explaining the election in only one form of the Chinese language, disenfranchised workers, and that interactions by union officials and some voters were unlawful.[14] An NLRB Administrative Law Judge ruled that the union and the board provided ample explanation of the election in a variety of languages. Foxwoods has appealed the decision.
The Foxwoods dealers union has also asked the state of Connecticut to improve the conditions of their workplace. Workers and union organizers pushed to have legislation that would ban smoking on the casino floors of Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. The Mashantucket tribe has opposed a complete ban on smoking, however in May 2009, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell signed an agreement with Foxwoods Casino to voluntarily limit smoking areas in the casino.[15]
On January 26, 2010 dealers at Foxwoods reached a labor contract with the Indian tribe that owns the casino making them the largest group of union-represented dealers at any U.S. casino.[16] On August 7, 2013 a new contract was announced giving dealers retroactive and future raises, set stricter limits on second-hand smoke, and gave dealers the right to decide how tips are distributed.[17]
See also[edit]
- Indian gaming
- List of casinos
- Mashantucket Pequots
- Mohegan Sun - Connecticut's other casino.
- ^ "Foxwoods Resort - Casino City". Foxwoods.casinocity.com. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Foxwoods Casino". Bostoninfocenter.com. 2007-03-06. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ Associated Press, "Indian casinos struggle to get out from under debt," January 21, 2012 online
- ^ Michael Sokolove, "Foxwoods is fighting for its life." New York Times Magazine (2012)
- ^ See Mashantucket Pequot Tribe v. McGuigan, 626 F. Supp. 245 (D. Conn. 1986).
- ^ "Seneca Niagara Casino Is Cash Cow". The Buffalo News. May 21, 2004. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
- ^ "Native American tribe to honor Goh Tong for his help". The Star. October 29, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-29.
- ^ Division of Special Revenue. "Division of Special Revenue" (PDF). Dosr.state.ct.us. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ Michael Sokolove (March 14, 2012). "Foxwoods Is Fighting for Its Life". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Top Five Poker Rooms in the United States - Best Live Poker Cardrooms in America". Cardschat.com. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Poker Room Review: Foxwoods Casino, Ledyard, Connecticut". PokerNews. 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ Published: May 14, 2008 2:03 PM (2008-05-14). "The MGM Grand at Foxwoods opens". Newsday.com. Retrieved 2011-03-12.[dead link]
- ^ unbossed.com "UAW Wins New Victories at Two Casinos" (December 04, 2007)
- ^ "The Indypendent "Labor Unions Eye Gains in 2008" by Bennett Baumer". Indypendent.org. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Rell signs 2nd casino smoking deal". WTNH. May 7, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
- ^ ((url=http://articles.courant.com/2010-01-27/business/hc-foxwoods-union.art0jan27_1_contract-for-table-game-dealers-mashantucket-pequot-tribe-tribal-law%7Ccite=Foxwoods, UAW Agree On Contract For Table-Game Dealers))
- ^ ((url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/foxwoods-union-reach-tentative-contract-173823219.html%7Ccite=Foxwoods, union reach tentative contract agreement))
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Cassia plants, with their prolific branching, develop a disorganized tangle of branches in the canopy. Prune the lower branches on young plants and the drooping branches in mature ones to keep the canopy well structured. All the dead and diseased wood shall be removed.
Cutting back the branches by a third after flowering season will promote profuse blooms in the following season. But heavy pruning before flowering can disrupt the natural timing or production of flowers.
Cassia plants can be propagated through seeds. But it is not easy because the seeds are very hard and water tight. Seeds being generally dormant, the process of germination takes quite a long. So the seeds have to be pre-treated with acid (scarification) and soaked in water for about a day for speed sprouting.
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