The Frontierado Holiday is fast approaching and will be marked Friday August 2nd this year. Frontierado is about the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality. Balladeer’s Blog has covered a lot of Range Wars of the old west, and a few Mormon Wars, but this time I’ll present some politically oriented gunplay.
JAYBIRD VS WOODPECKER WAR (1888-1889) – First off, let’s make sure to distinguish between JayHAWKS and JayBIRDS. Jayhawks were the anti-slavery forces in Bleeding Kansas during the 1850s. Jaybirds were in 1880s Texas and were the racist white Democrat forces trying to expel the mixed black and white Woodpeckers who had gained power from Republicans during Reconstruction after the Civil War.
NOTE: An old song about Woodpeckers and Jaybirds had provided the names of the two factions. Democrats seized upon the name Jaybirds, which left Republicans with the name Woodpeckers.
Fort Bend County in Texas was the site of the Jaybird-Woodpecker War. As election day approached, tensions grew so high that exchanges of gunfire as well as violent beatings had broken out. Continue reading
It’s hilarious that Democrats want everyone to forget that Kamala Harris is so much of a disaster that until a few days ago they preferred to have the face of their party be a crooked, pant-soiling, monumentally unfit creature like Joe “Showered with his daughter when she was twelve per her own diary” Biden. 
While Crooked Joe Biden lied and gasped his way through a barely coherent pack of lies and mistakes last night, Australian news has provided some recent videos breaking down the idiocy of Joe’s Vice President Kackling Kamala Harris. (And remember, both Joe Biden AND Kamala Harris come from a family of slave owners.)
MEMOIRS FROM A JOURNEY WITH THE FLYING FISH “PROMETHEUS” (1870) – Written by Danish author Vilhelm Bergsoe. I shortened the title in the heading for this blog post. Some editions shorten it even more, to just Flying Fish Prometheus. 
William’s American colleagues send the new airship Prometheus to fetch him. The Prometheus is cigar-shaped (like so many UFOs would be described decades later) and sports wings plus propellors. Our man Stone boards the airship in Koege, along with other passengers including his love interest Anna Blue. 
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Yes, unlike recent decades, the candidates were not campaigning entire calendar years before our November election day. Sure, you still had Primary Season on the way to seeing who each party would nominate, but our current nonsense involving “Old Soils Himself” Joe Biden and Kamala “Koo-Koo for Cocoa Puffs” Harris would not be as chaotic IF campaigns still operated that way. 
THE CABALLERO’S WAY (1907) – This was the original short story written by O. Henry in which he introduced the character called the Cisco Kid. The Caballero’s Way was first published in the July issue of Everybody’s Magazine, then was included in the anthology The Heart of the West later that year. 
The communities in the Cisco Kid’s territory between the Frio River and the Rio Grande help hide the kid from his Texas Ranger pursuers out of fear, NOT out of any fondness for the violent killer. Also unlike later portrayals of the Kid as a good guy, Cisco is an American whose surname is Goodall and he loves to shoot Mexican men.
In the past Balladeer’s Blog has examined epic myths from around the world and from many belief systems. Examples include 
COWBOY G-MEN (1952-1953) – A reader recently mentioned the old Robert Conrad series The Wild Wild West, and that reminded me of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. AND the much earlier television western titled Cowboy G-Men. That last series featured fictional exploits of U.S. Secret Service Agents in the old west. 
DOWN TO THE WIRE – The INDIANA FEVER (11-15) took it on the road against the MINNESOTA LYNX (17-8). 
BROOKLYN BATTLE AT BARCLAY’S – In this game the NEW YORK LIBERTY (21-4) welcomed the CONNECTICUT SUN (18-6) to the Barclay’s Center. 
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