Aw applesauce, sheba and 23 skidoo! Hey, Snowflake: I spent part of the day researching the silent film "The Covered Wagon", 1923.

Big hit in 1923! BIG Paramount production, used loads of original Conestogas (if you believe 1923 hype).

I've not seen it in years. Whaddaya researching it for? Anything I can do to help?

Well. Tom and I are writing a book about the time he lived with a Shoshone doctor ("medicine man"/"shaman"), as in he drove the guy around the rez and generally made himself useful. Once, they visited with an Arapaho who was in "The Covered Wagon", via Tim McCoy so we're incorporating Tom's old notes on that. The war raid party in that film is Arapaho from Wind River.

The same Arapaho also accompanied McCoy to London to put on a Wild West show. (Pre-stardom, McCoy worked as a hand on the Em-Bar Ranch in the area of Wyoming we're writing about. He had gotten to know a lot of Arapahos during that time.)

I'll let everyone know when this book comes out.

Please do, I did find much of the Sacajawea book interesting.

Though I must admit almost as much for the Hebard (am I remembering the right name?) tear-down as for the Sacajawea stuff; but then I'm a sucker for pseudoscience and pseudohistory stuff.

Thanks, Alex. It's always good to get feedback. At one point, we even drove slowwwwwly past the house where Hebard had lived, that's how obsessed one of us (not me) became with her. My favorite part of the project was how braindead the D.A.R. can be.

Started the day with new music from one of my favorite bands and news of the birth of a good friend's baby. Hooray for today.

BDBopper, I loved your photos. Let me get in line to say Welcome to the Midwest!

Mmmm, and cheese curds...