Posted: 4/4/2011 7:13:25 PM EDT
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I say we get a thread going to honor the truly few badass members of society that grace us with their presence. Here is my submission:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Samuel_Whittemore_Monument.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whittemore |
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Gurka vs 40 Train Robbers
A Gurka stopped 40 robbers on a train in a remote part of India, he killed three and wounded eight, the remaning 28 robbers left. Another Link |
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October 03, 1966 The Last Of The Mountain Men For the past 34 years a 20th-century frontiersman named Sylvan Hart has lived an 18th-century life in the wilderness of Idaho By Harold Peterson On the River of No Return, in the country named Light on the Mountains, there lives a gray-bearded man who has turned back time. At Five Mile Bar, beyond which no human soul dwells, Jedediah Smith and Christopher Carson have but recently passed by, and the year is 1844 forever. As a young man, dismayed by fragmentation of the final frontiers, the old one had rejected civilization and marched off into this farthest fastness armed with a few staples, one ax, one rifle and one degree from the University of Oklahoma. There, in the last wilderness, where one winter's snows might fall into another's before a visitor came, he became the last of the mountain men. Soon to be known as Buckskin Bill, he fashioned his own clothes of deerskin. He constructed adobe-covered buildings with hand-hewn timbers. He mined copper, smelted it, refined it and made utensils. He even made his own flintlock rifles, boring them on an ingenious handmade machine, to "save the bother of store-bought ammunition." To pay for infrequent trips to Burgdorf (pop. summer 6, winter 0), where he purchased only powder, books and Darjeeling tea, he panned gold. The full story |