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Author Topic: We Lost A Great Writer Yesterday  (Read 784 times)

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Re: We Lost A Great Writer Yesterday
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2022, 06:10:38 PM »
Amen, 92 is a good run, he can be seen in interview in the History channels "The Mountain Men"
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Re: We Lost A Great Writer Yesterday
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2022, 10:51:07 PM »
R.I.P. Robert!  :pray:  :*:
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Re: We Lost A Great Writer Yesterday
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2022, 06:33:12 AM »
Quite the Obit and life!  :pray:
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Re: We Lost A Great Writer Yesterday
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2022, 10:35:25 AM »
One of my all time favorite book's of his, is; "Frontiersmen in Blue" (The United States Army and the Indians, 1848 - 1865). I've referenced this book many a' times over the years.   
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