Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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About Me
- Tom Rice
- Champaign, Illinois, United States
- Aficionado of the American buffalo and proud member of the Buffalo Warriors, a herd of beer-swilling trail runners and some of the finest humans and criminals on the planet.
Herds & Words
"If you were looking for the definitive symbol of the conflict between the cultures that had existed in the American West for at least ten thousand years, and maybe longer, and the culture that was just a building East of the Mississippi River, this culture of technology, of commerce, of grasping after tomorrow before it arrives, you couldn't come up with two more powerful symbols than the Railroad, and the Buffalo, because when the Railroad met the Buffalo, the Iron Age met the Stone Age, the machine arrived in the garden, and the West was changed for ever." - T.H. Watkins
Cast of Characters
Me
My kids: Princess (aka Angie) and her little brother Tim
Red Chief (grandson Ethan, son of Princess)
Little Bull (grandson Devin, son of Tim)
Maddie, my constant companion
Ali Baba, occasional visitor