The Abode of McThag

This is an interesting article that compiles a lot of what I'd been reading about 400 years of North American history and inter-civiliz...

Ever see a scene so clearly it's like you were there and be utterly unable to phrase it even crayon sketch level in text? I am there wit...

The Real History of the American Indian, with Matt Walsh. I have not checked anything he says, but I've seen excerpts that agree with st...

Since I've made him a character in my scribbles, I've been reading about George Crook. In particular the battle of the Rosebud. This...

Thanksgiving post at ¡No Pasarán! My research has led to some awkward conversations with my Blackfoot wife, Harvey . Nobody wants their ance...

I've long loved the Old West (though oddly didn't normally like westerns) and the existence of a Old West role playing game always a...

A wrinkle that's getting hard to deal with is Homo Neanderthalensis never developing ranged weapons past the occasional thrown spear.  ...

According to this page , purple is fair game for the magic branch in 1899. I had planned to have the magic branch be purple with silver pipi...

Making a Sergeant of Mages for Sabers and Sorcerers... Christopher Harrington. He's a movement college only mage. I have to decide if I ...

Were doggies the killer app of cro-magnon man? It's strange to think of dogs as a technological development, but domestication is a tech...

The truth be told, Fowler thought, not all of the Indians had disappeared twenty years ago. The Commanche were still where they'd, final...

I might have posted a link to this vid before, but it's worth repeating.

There were, maybe eight of the oddly ugly... people?  surrounding Allen. Not short, but looking like they should be, with blonde hair and bl...

"They know we're here, Major," magery sergeant Harrington reported when he came back from his aerial scout. "What did you...

After the Civil War, lots of officers were demoted if they remained in service. George A Custer is a famous example going from Major General...

With Zoom meetings being a thing, I wonder if I can reconnect with the gaming group in Ames without the attendant trip to Iowa. Sabers and S...

Something of an update. Sabers and... is still progressing. I'm just so dang buried in world building that I'm not to the point of o...

There's increasing evidence that the population of The Americas was heading for a massive reduction even if Columbus had lost all three ...

  The more history I read about the Indians, the less believable the "noble savage" narrative becomes.

The Severed Heads Campaign. General Crook was taken from us too soon.  I keep reading about his methods and I am reminded of a quote: "...