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Banditti of the Plains Or the Cattlemens Invasion of Wyoming in 1892
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A.s. Mercer
David Bean
, August 24, 2012
This is an unknown classic. Written by Asa Mercer, for whom Mecer Island and Mercer Blvd are named in Seattle; he was a guy that got around. He had been a journalist and booster in Seattle, and in Portland, Oregon, and had reported on the cattle business in Texas before writing book in Wyoming. This book, which is a seminal study of corporate criminality uniting with the state, was set here in the west in the 1890s. It details with a professional journalist's eye, the Johnson County Cattle Wars in the region around Buffalo and Cheyenne Wyoming. That is where the black hats (the settlers) and the white hats (the cattle syndicate men) made their cashé. The book was originally banned and labeled as pornography because it showed the governor of Wyoming in poor odor. It is a history of British land barons doing the corporate thing and putting bounties on farmers who settled in "cow country" and hiring the banditti (bandits) to kill those immigrants for fifty bucks a head, back in the 1800's. After all, the Cattle Association men had won that country by killing Indians fair and square. At least three movies have been made about the Johnson County Cattle Wars, and from various angles: Heaven's Gate, an expensively made bomb featuring Kris Kristofferson; the Virginian, and The Cheyenne Social Club, and I think one more. More books are on the subject, but none other that was contemporary, as far as I know. A real barn burner.
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Web of Debt The Shocking Truth about Our Money System & How We Can Break Free Revised & Updated
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Ellen Hodgson Brown
David Bean
, December 31, 2008
A well written and savvy story of Money and its shenanigans in American history. It is told through the allegory of the Wizard of Oz with amazing accuracy. Who would have guessed that the yellow brick road and silver slippers were a tongue in cheek reference to oz. as in ounces? Who would have known, even if they had read reams of history that the British Bankers intended to charge Abe Lincoln 25 to 36% for the pleasure of saving the union, and that he devised the "greenback" to accomplish the fact. This history will allow you to put gold bugs and railroad barons and investment bankers in perspective. This book is entertaining as it is illuminating and I can think of no more pertinent read for 2009 that this. You are living the history now that others will read about. It is much more accessible than The Lost Science of Money, by Zarlenga but not as expansive in time and scope. It is eye opening and accurate. Who would have thought that the creation of money was once actually talked about as a subject of politics?
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