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“COME ON, YOU DANITES” – THE MISSOURI MORMON WAR
The Latter-Day Saints aka Mormons, faced very real oppression and bigotry because of their faith. In Missouri in the 1830s the Church’s opposition to slavery added to the usual mistrust and suspicion that Mormons faced. The series of Mormon “Wars” were not truly large-scale wars (with the exception of one).
The Mormon Wars bore more of a resemblance to Range Wars of the American West, which is one of the reasons I’m covering them during Frontierado Season. I’m not claiming either side was entirely innocent. Only political propagandists and immature fools pretend conflicts are clear-cut “good guys vs bad guys” situations.
FOR MORE ABOUT WHY I FEEL MORMONS AND DANITES FIT IN WITH FRONTIERADO CLICK HERE
MISSOURI MORMON WAR (August 6th – November 1st, 1838)
AUGUST 6th, 1838 – This was Election Day in newly-formed Daviess (sic) County in Missouri. One of the candidates, William Peniston, called Mormons “horse-thieves and robbers” and warned them not to vote. A band of 30-some Mormons DID show up to vote on August 6th and were blocked by roughly 200 Anti-Mormons.
Legend has it that a cry of “Oh yes, you Danites, here is a job for us” (sometimes claimed to have been “Come on, you Danites!”) rallied those Mormons who belonged to the armed sect of Mormon “Knights” called Danites, from the Book of Daniel.
In the resulting clash the outnumbered Mormons drove off the Missourians who were illegally trying to stop them from voting. Continue reading
Filed under FRONTIERADO, Neglected History
MOCK HEADLINES: JULY 12th
JOE BIDEN PROCLAIMS ” I RESPECT NO BORDERS” AND THREATENS TO “KICK TIME ZONES IN THE ASS!”
BERNIE SANDERS DECLARES EVERYTHING SHOULD BE FREE EXCEPT HIS SPEECHES! VOWS TO KEEP GREEDILY HOARDING HIS OBSCENE SPEAKING FEES!
DEMOCRAT CHUCK SCHUMER DEFENDS THE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS JEFFREY EPSTEIN “DONATED” TO HIS CAMPAIGN; DENIES LOLITA IS HIS FAVORITE NOVEL
THE MORE THAT DEMOCRAT FASCISTS GET PUSHBACK FOR THEIR VILE TREATMENT OF OTHERS THE MORE THEY ACCUSE THEIR VICTIMS OF BEING “UNCIVIL”
JOE BIDEN VOWS TO WRITE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ELIMINATING LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE IF ELECTED
FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP STILL SPEAKS MORE LANGUAGES THAN BOTH OBAMAS COMBINED
DEMOCRATS BLAME TRUMP FOR THE FACT THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE NOW STAND UP TO DEMOCRATS’ FASCIST INTIMIDATION TACTICS
DEMOCRATS CALL FOR A RETURN TO THE PRE-TRUMP CUSTOM OF PEOPLE LETTING DEMOCRATS TREAT EVERYONE LIKE GARBAGE WITHOUT FIGHTING BACK
“IT’S DIVISIVE FOR OUR INTENDED VICTIMS TO FIGHT BACK,” DEMOCRATS INSIST
BIDEN AND BERNIE EXPRESS DISGUST OVER THE CORRUPT POLITICAL SYSTEM THEY’VE HELPED RUN ALL OF THEIR ADULT LIVES
PEOPLE WHO HATED TRUMP YESTERDAY STILL HATE HIM TODAY (THIS IS NEVER NEWS, BUT THE DEMOCRATS IN THE MEDIA SEEM TO THINK IT IS)
DEMOCRATS CALL FOR MASS DEPORTATIONS OF EVERYONE WHO IS NOT A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT Continue reading
Filed under humor, LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
GUNMEN OF MYSTERY FROM THE OLD WEST
Forget Mysterious Dave Mather, most of whose real-life escapades are well-chronicled. THESE gunslingers are little more than names which popped up in occasional newspaper accounts or journal entries. So tantalizingly little is known about them that they’d make great RPG material for those so inclined.
ARKANSAS BILL – A gunfighter who made Dodge City, KS his home base in the late 1870s. Arkansas Bill was sometimes referred to in indignant articles about Western violence written in Washington DC’s Evening Star and other Eastern newspapers. The gunman claimed to be a Bounty Hunter who had slain twenty-two men thus far in his career.
Bill, who said he was nicknamed after the Arkansas RIVER, not the state, avoided having his picture taken, claiming that success at Bounty Hunting was reliant upon a certain degree of anonymity. Like many other gunslingers, Arkansas Bill was said to have served in the U.S. Civil War but on which side is not known. By the early 1880s this mysterious hombre disappeared from written accounts.
Potential Happy Ending: One could assume he eventually collected enough bounties to retire or to set up a legitimate business for himself under his real name, whatever that may have been.
Potential Unhappy Ending: Blown away by one or more of the desperadoes he was trying to bring in.
LONG-HAIRED SAM – Easily the most well-known of the neglected figures on this list, Long-Haired Sam Brown had a beard and long red hair, and was an outlaw active during the California and Nevada Gold Rushes. Long-Haired Sam and his boys robbed gold and payrolls in both locations.
In 1855, at a cabin in Calaveras County, California, Brown and one of his gang members were gambling at cards with some gold prospectors from Chile. The Chileans supposedly tried claiming a pot that wasn’t theirs and Long-Haired Sam shot three of them to death in the following gunfight. Continue reading
Filed under FRONTIERADO, Mythology
FIJIAN DEMIGOD TUILAKEMBA
Balladeer’s Blog’s look at The Gods of Fiji has been a hit! For another deity from Fiji here is Tuilakemba, whom I also went ahead and added to the main article. For more than 20 other gods from Fiji see my blog post HERE
TUILAKEMBA – This figure was the son of Tuilangi, the god who ruled over the Skyland, and a mortal woman. When Tuilakemba was a little boy he was often ridiculed by the other children for not having a father on hand like they did. One day the young demigod had had enough and threatened to kill his mother unless she told him who his father was.
She did so and Tuilakemba was spitefully satisfied. He took to carrying around an ironwood war-club wherever he went. He would use it to strike the heads off flowers, gleefully anticipating one day knocking off the heads of his enemies in wartime just as easily, given his massive strength.
On one occasion he took a nap, planting the ironwood war-club upright in the ground next to him while he slept. When he awoke he saw that the war-club had grown into an enormous tree which reached all the way up to the Skyland realm of his father. Tuilakemba took advantage of the situation and climbed up the newly-formed tree to the land above.
The little boy walked through the jungle of Skyland until he reached the village ruled by his father Tuilangi. That lord of the land above was in the middle of a council of war regarding his armies’ recent losses in their ages-old conflict with the evil gods of the sky. Continue reading
Filed under Mythology
DANITES: GUNSLINGING KNIGHTS OF THE OLD WEST
FRONTIERADO IS COMING UP ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 2nd!
The Frontierado Holiday is about the myth of the Old West, not the grinding reality. The Danites – the gunslinging Knights of the Mormon faith – are an underutilized and underappreciated element of Old West fiction.
The opportunities for action presented to a Danite could start as early as the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. After that there’s the Illinois Mormon War in the 1840s which ended in the Siege of Nauvoo.
Following that conflict the Mormon Exodus to the West began, with “Deseret” (later called Utah) as the ultimate destination. Danites – like Christian Knights of long ago protecting Pilgrims headed for their “Holy Land” – safeguarded Mormon travelers from attacks by hooded anti-Mormon gangs, from armed outlaws and from various Native American tribes along the way.
In Deseret itself there were conflicts with Mexican raiders after the end of America’s war with Mexico (1846-1848). Danites would also be called upon to battle various Native American tribes in Deseret, in the role of oppressors rather than oppressed much of the time.
They would also fight Navajo armies to stop them from seizing Paiute Indians as slaves. (The anti-slavery aspect of Mormonism is often overlooked.) Plus the Danites faced the task of driving off armed bands of prospectors wanting the gold and other precious metals of the area.
There was also the Utah War with the Mormons fighting the United States Army from 1857-1858. Continue reading
Filed under FRONTIERADO
DEMOCRAT ATROCITY ROUNDUP: JULY 9th
*** JEFFREY EPSTEIN IS BACK IN THE NEWS, WITH HIS “LOLITA EXPRESS” OF UNDERAGED SEX TRAFFICKING IN DANGER OF TAKING DOWN MULTIPLE DEMOCRATS WITH IT, PER – NANCY PELOSI’S OWN DAUGHTER – who tweeted a warning about this scandal potentially taking down many people admired by Democrats.
*** SENTENCING COMING FOR CRIMINAL AIDE OF DEMOCRAT SENATOR MAGGIE HASSAN AND DEMOCRAT REPRESENTATIVE SHEILA JACKSON LEE. That former aide – Jackson Cosko – pleaded guilty to crimes related to the ranksacking of a Senate office, extorting a Senator, doxing Republicans and blackmailing a witness.
Cosko’s father is even tied to top California Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi. For the full story on this, just one of many ugly Democrat Party scandals, Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
KILLRAVEN SEVEN: FOR HE’S A JOLLY DEAD REBEL
FOR PART ONE OF BALLADEER’S BLOG’S EXAMINATION OF THIS OLD, OLD MARVEL STORYLINE CLICK HERE The revisions I would make are scattered throughout the synopsis below.
AMAZING ADVENTURES Vol 2 #24 (May 1974)
Title: FOR HE’S A JOLLY DEAD REBEL
Revised Title: The Legend Assassins. Since I would have saved the attempted execution of Killraven for this final part of this 3-part Washington DC story I would have used that title here instead of last issue.
Synopsis: Writer Don McGregor had not yet found his stride for Killraven’s post-apocalyptic adventures. This issue was more of the same with an escape, recapture, and escape AGAIN because the High Overlord of the Martian invaders fails to slay Killraven immediately but plans to make an example of him.
And yes, the helmet of the armored High Overlord looks like Darth Vader’s helmet but remember, the Killraven stories came YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS.
REVISION: Picking up on the cliffhanger from my revised storyline last time around, Killraven, Mint Julep, M’Shulla, Hawk, Old Skull, Deathlok and Carmilla Frost are using the breathing gear that scientist Carmilla built for them to explore the submerged ruins of the Library of Congress.
Killraven plans to salvage as much of the library as possible and preserve it for future generations, since Earth’s alien conquerors (ZETANS in my revision, not ridiculous Martians) keep conquered humanity ignorant and are trying to obliterate mankind’s cultural heritage from before the alien invasion.
In the winding hallways of the submerged ruins, the rebels were attacked by the mate of the huge extraterrestrial monster that killed the female rebel Arrow two issues back. As the battle goes on, Killraven winds up riding the injured creature’s back and his breathing apparatus gets torn off while trying to work his way to the monster’s mouth. Continue reading
Filed under Superheroes
BREAKHEART PASS (1975)
BREAKHEART PASS (1975) – (Frontierado is coming up August 2nd and, as always, it’s about the myth of the Old West, not the grinding reality.) Alistair MacLean may be more closely associated with espionage and crime thrillers like When Eight Bells Toll, The Eagle Has Landed and Puppet on a Chain but his lone Western, Breakheart Pass, is a very solid story which transfers MacLean’s usual themes to the American West.
Charles Bronson stars as Deakin, a former man of medicine turned gambler, con-man and gunslinger. Needless to say his wife Jill Ireland is along for the ride, this time playing a woman being wooed by oily Governor Fairchild (Richard Crenna). Ben Johnson portrays Marshal Pearce, Ed Lauter IS Major Claremont and Bill McKinney takes on the role of Reverend Peabody.
Some critics bash this above-average film because they apparently thought Alistair MacLean’s name on the script meant it would be an over-the-top Western Spy actioner along the lines of Robert Conrad’s old Wild Wild West television series crossed with Where Eagles Dare. Instead, Breakheart Pass comes closer to grittiness than slickness and is all the more enjoyable for that. Continue reading
Filed under FRONTIERADO
ANTIFA (KLAN-TIFA) IN ONE IMAGE
Antifa is really KLAN-tifa and it’s no secret that they are garbage. Masked, weapon-wielding vermin like this often band together to try to make up for what useless, impotent little people they are individually. In fact a good definition for these black-clad Nazis would be: “Large numbers of simple-minded fascists acting in concert.”
ALSO:
ANTIFA TERRORISTS HAVE ASSAULTED JOURNALISTS 15 TIMES RECENTLY – Click HERE
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
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