Tag: indians
member name: Ruth MacGill
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October 28, 2007 01:31 AM EDT --
IHOP Did Me Proud
Four score and five years ago today I was making my mother miserable for the first time. I was being born. Mother wasn’t supposed to have any more children because the . . . more
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October 04, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
I woke up at 2 A.M. and started thinking of Elsie’s problems. I decided to get up and send her a message.
Then curiosity struck me about her town of Wappinger Falls, NY, and . . . more
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September 20, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
A Winter Storm in September in Southern California!
I didn’t know whether to believe the local weathermen this morning or not until I went outside to take a look around. Now I believe it! . . . more
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December 29, 2007 12:07 PM EST --
Dog Problems
Ever since my daughter rescued Sheba, an injured pit bull and her three mixed breed puppies a year and a half ago, I knew that sooner or later the tribal elders who run this Indian horse . . . more
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March 22, 2008 08:36 PM EDT --
What a Watcher on the Mountain Might Have Seen
My new icon that you can see at the left of this page inspires me. It is a view of a graceful ocotillo bush in bloom with the Laguna Mountains looming . . . more
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December 20, 2006 12:32 PM EST --
Yesterday I Met a Man Named Charley Silverwater
In this small community of Boulevard, just off Interstate 8 at the highest point before the road dives down to the Anza-Borrego desert, there is . . . more
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July 27, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
Major Samuel Heintzelman’s Journal – Life on a Frontier Army Post There were wild times at the Yuma crossing of the lower Colorado River even before the Gold Rush, and the . . . more
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September 18, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
One Man’s Dream of Living Off the Grid
Yesterday my daughter Jane and I took a ride to a place that made us feel we were going back in time. We went to visit Dexter, a retired electrician, . . . more
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September 22, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
Jamestown Part I
The first successful English settlement in America
This year of 2007 marks the 400th anniversary of when Jamestown was settled by the Virginia Company of London. . . . more
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September 22, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
Colonial Jamestown - Conclusion
In 1609 Captain John Smith was badly injured in a gunpowder accident, and he returned to England. His departure was followed immediately by conflicts with . . . more
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March 22, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
The Ocotillo Bush
The picture on the left is a fine example of the ocotillo or Fouquieria Splendens, a spiny flowering bush that grows in the Anza-Borrego Desert in San Diego County. The picture was . . . more
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December 18, 2007 07:51 AM EST --
Indians on the Horizon
Yesterday evening, just before it got too dark to see, three horses with hunched riders on them came plodding down the mountain trail from the west. Although the riders were . . . more
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February 22, 2008 09:48 PM EST --
Horses Running Free
Daylight is fading fast on this stormy day. Strong winds have been blowing sheets of rain across slick country roads and chaparral since before first light this morning. . . . more
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December 07, 2007 10:11 AM EST --
Good Morning Gatherworld!
It’s still early morning with no sign of dawn. I let Smokey Joe out and he returned soaking wet 15 minutes later. Now he is a large black and wet shaggy dog who has . . . more
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January 21, 2008 01:22 AM EST --
There May be A Cougar Prowling Nearby Tonight
In case everyone in Gather doesn't know by now, I live in a trailer on an Indian horse camp in the mountains about 70 miles east of San Diego. Last . . . more
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July 02, 2008 11:34 AM EDT --
I have to drive 65 miles one way to town for major supplies, so I try to do it only once a month. Today is the day. My daughter Jane and I are heading to El Cajon at 10 this morning. We are . . . more
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December 27, 2006 06:56 PM EST --
Legacy of Mrs. Peckham (reposted)
(I am reposting this particularly for the new group, herstory, and for other of my people who may not have seen it before. You nice people who have already . . . more
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January 08, 2007 02:42 PM EST --
Emma Rode a Horse Across the USA
I knew her briefly for one evening, only two days from her destination. I will write about her in the past tense because I have not seen her since, although . . . more
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January 06, 2007 05:50 AM EST --
Catching Up In Campo on a Windy Day
The wind has awakened me. At sundown it was cold, and getting colder by the minute, and I went to bed not long after 6 PM. I was busy all day and tired. Just . . . more
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April 22, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
Tribute to an Uncommonly Talented Horse Lover
I am writing this partly for my own satisfaction, but more so for Molly Pockets and her Horse Lover group at Gather.com.
Yesterday, April . . . more
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