| # | Author | Message |
771
| Autopia Deb
Fri 6/30/2006 10:04a | Interesting, I don't remember ever hearing about this. You hear about the Donner party, but this seems to have been somewhat swept under the historical rug. |
772
| Labuda
Fri 6/30/2006 10:12a | I've never heard about it either, but did just find it on Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
ountain_Meadows_Massacre |
773
| TALL Disney Guy
Fri 6/30/2006 5:08p | <You hear about the Donner party, but this seems to have been somewhat swept under the historical rug.>
History lessons in school aside, t
hat's also in part thanks to "The Golden Girls".
[ROSE cooks a St. Olaf delicacy that DOROTHY and BLANCHE find smells revolting]
Rose: "Here, try one."
Dorothy: [backing away in disgust] "Rose, if these had been offered these to the Donner party they still would have eaten each other!"
[audience laughter]
;-) |
774
| MissCandice
Sun 7/2/2006 9:50a | I just re-read "The Last Picture Show" by Larry McMurtry. |
775
| alexbook
Sun 7/2/2006 4:27p | M.T. Anderson's "The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen" |
776
| DLfreek86
Sun 7/2/2006 7:02p | The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber |
777
| JohnS1
Sun 7/2/2006 11:17p | "History of Tourism in the Western United States."
Ok, I know - I'm weird. |
778
| alexbook
Mon 7/3/2006 10:05a | Robert Heinlein - "For Us, the Living" |
779
| jasmine7
Tue 7/4/2006 6:30p | Just started rereading The Annotated Dragonlance Chronicles to refresh my memory in anticipation of The Lost Chronicles coming out later this month. |
780
| DAR
Sat 7/8/2006 9:05p | Legacy of the Force-Betrayal. It's another Star Wars novel this time taking place some 40 years after A New Hope. I've got about six chapters left, but it's one of the better Star Wars books I've read in awhile. |
