jerry
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Post by jerry on Feb 8, 2011 10:21:46 GMT -5
The April issue of WILD WEST has as article written by Douglas Brode on the legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas. The article contains side bars concerning the well-known song and the Emily Morgan myth in the movies.
Jerry
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Post by sloanrodgers on Feb 8, 2011 21:30:57 GMT -5
I'm not sure this Wild West issue is sitting in the stands and bookstores yet, but the article has been posted on History.Net. The article seems really general with nothing new on the Yellow Rose legend or Emily D. West. The first page has an advertisement picture for an upcoming Yellow Rose comic book and the last couple pages appear be more propaganda for a long-refuted doppleganger theory. Regardless, thanks for the notice or warning as I might have missed it otherwise. www.historynet.com/the-yellow-rose-of-texas-a-growing-legend.htm |
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Post by stuart on Feb 9, 2011 13:48:51 GMT -5
Oh dear...
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Post by Allen Wiener on Feb 9, 2011 18:11:39 GMT -5
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Post by Tom Nuckols on Feb 10, 2011 0:10:45 GMT -5
On this issue, I invoke my sacred "Liberty Valance" rights. This is the west...
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Post by sloanrodgers on Feb 10, 2011 18:48:41 GMT -5
Well, print the legend, but don't create new fiction, then try to pass it off as absolute fact. History is confusing enough.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Feb 10, 2011 19:28:59 GMT -5
As someone once said (can't recall who just now), "Don't start THAT again!"
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Post by Tom Nuckols on Feb 11, 2011 0:55:30 GMT -5
"You lay life on the table and you cut out all the tumours of injustice. But it's a deep operation. Someone must keep life alive while you're doing it."
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Post by timniesen on Aug 15, 2011 15:11:02 GMT -5
Folks, However, There is myth and there is truth: The only real reference to that woman is in a manuscript in Chicago, discovered by Jim Lutzweiler, which alludes to the real source of the myth: Sam Houston himself. How many of you have read his thesis? Tim
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Post by Kevin Young on Aug 15, 2011 15:40:28 GMT -5
I for one.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Aug 15, 2011 19:47:58 GMT -5
I for two, along with some correspondence with Jim as well. It's good work.
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Post by sloanrodgers on Sept 1, 2011 16:29:22 GMT -5
The Yellow Rose has withered over the years. I'm sure the tale originates as an offhanded joke by Houston or some other San Jacinto
veteran, then others mistook the story for actual history. The San Jacinto victory was earned by soldiers, leadership and cannon, not
by a woman's tricky thorns. Emily West was probably just one of many lady camp followers in the Mexican army, who was singled out
for a windy story because she stood out in a crowd. Enuff said.
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Post by timniesen on Feb 4, 2012 16:32:22 GMT -5
We will see! I do not believe in coincidences. Tim
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Post by teresa1971 on Feb 4, 2012 20:19:18 GMT -5
I read Miss Emily The yellow Rose of Texas by Ben Durr.
It's a good book to read and, I recommenced it to anybody to get.
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Post by sloanrodgers on Feb 6, 2012 21:23:55 GMT -5
We will see! I do not believe in coincidences. Tim This is a dead thread, but I'm not sure what you mean. Coincidences exist even if we don't believe in them. They're simply random events that our senses and minds recognize as having a relationship to previous events. Coincidences are all around us in every hour of every day. Sometimes we notice them, but usually we don't because we're too busy with more important matters. The other day, I found a penny by my mailbox with the year 1991, then drove to work and found a shinier one with that year on my desk. What're the chances of that happening? Was it God playing a joke on me, a weird coincidence or just the law of averages?  |
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