My ancestors were Cowboys and Indians. Nevada loves the Cowboys and the Cowboys rule in Carson City, and in Battle Mountain, and in Reno, and in Lake Tahoe, and in Virginia City, the Cowboys in Nevada all wear Cowboy hats and they have rifles in the rifle racks in their pick up trucks. The Cowboys are the most free people on Earth. My Father studied Business at Pepperdine and he became a Hay Broker, buying Hay Futures from Hay Growers, and then selling the Hay to the Farmers and Dairies, etc, after the Hay was grown and baled, and my Father used to deliver the Hay to the Buyers right to their Ranch, etc. He died while delivering Hay to a Ranch in Oregon, he was struck by lightening when I was 9 years old, just before Elvis died. My Ancestors were all Cowboys and Indians who were involved with Farming, and with Gold Mining, etc.
I am happy to see the success of the television show Walker; Independence, and hopefully more Westerns will be made.
And someone can produce the Slocum novels as movies.
My people just wanted Freedom in the West, and we raised our own food, and we wore Levis, and we drove the trucks, and we cooked the food, and they got married and had families. For a time when I was a kid my family lived on a 360 acre cattle ranch in Battle Mountain, Nevada, that my parents owned, and for us our whole world was on the 360 acres that we owned and taking care of the animals, etc.
At the time of Abraham Lincoln I had family in Carrollton, Kentucky, and in Madison, Indiana.
And I support making everyone here in America right now LEGAL so that they can come out of the shadows, and so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and so they can join the Teamsters and other Labor Unions. And we need EQUAL PAY for EQUAL WORK.
I support the ACLU and I support equality for all under the law.
Salute,
Tony V.