tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post600635330860554271..comments2023-11-02T23:06:45.962-07:00Comments on of Battlefields and Bibliophiles: One more post on my new Jesse James fixationdwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-82042820735250750352007-09-05T00:25:00.000-07:002007-09-05T00:25:00.000-07:00Hi Dawn,I'm glad you found your way over here. I a...Hi Dawn,<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you found your way over here. I also enjoyed our exchanges over at your blog. I especially appreciate that you're not so strident in your opinions as to make you unreceptive to contrary views, and information. The fact is, even all these years after the war, there's a strong inclination for each of us to choose sides in that very old fight. <BR/><BR/>Just as in the world of Civil War books, there are harsh critics in the world of Civil War blogs, and critiques can be pretty condescending. I'm guilty of that myself from time to time. I might have been dismissive toward you as well, had I not tried to engage you in conversation. I saw that you'd spent some years in Iowa (where I spent my formative years), so figured you spoke the language -g-. <BR/><BR/>Just keep feeding your interest in that part of our shared history by reading as much as you can, and your blog will necessarily reflect that growing understanding. <BR/><BR/>Of course in the real world, one nurse does more good than all the Civil War bloggers and their snide comments put together. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for dropping by.<BR/><BR/>Daviddwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01748726942956990159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-10423371543307910012007-09-04T20:58:00.000-07:002007-09-04T20:58:00.000-07:00Hi Dave, This is Dixie Dawn, Just found your site....Hi Dave, This is Dixie Dawn, Just found your site. I loved this Information on Jessie James, it too is a fixation of mine and I look forward to following up on these links so glad you posted this!! I had wanted to leave you a more personal note but since you can moderate this I thought I would write. I wanted to thank you for engaging in the conversation you had with me on my page. I am truly being sincere. Seeing your background, I am most humbled, as I am only a nurse and dance teacher with an interest. However it has been brought to my attention on anther website that I am much lower than that and you have great patients to have endured such a task as speaking to one such as myself. For what its worth, I don't base my entire views on the Kennedy book,I do read and study real material, I just thought it was interesting and I had a really good time talking to you and I enjoy your reviews and blogs here. I try my best to be upstanding yet keep my convictions, what can I say. And I choose to come and tell this to you as oppose to those that wrote about me, because your the one who gave me the time of day in the first place. It was and has been a most pleasant experience. Thank you. <BR/><BR/>Most Respectfully,<BR/>Dawn Dixie Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09344067896230871337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-48484808712262228832007-08-23T09:38:00.000-07:002007-08-23T09:38:00.000-07:00Here is a link to the trailer for the new Jesse Ja...Here is a link to the trailer for the new Jesse James Movie<BR/><BR/>http://movies.aol.com/movie/the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford/26180/mainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19295676.post-55636505087412611542007-08-23T09:31:00.000-07:002007-08-23T09:31:00.000-07:00The CW Missouri literature (really the guerrilla w...The CW Missouri literature (really the guerrilla war in particular) is perhaps unique in its persistence of side-taking, and dearth of middle ground. And it only increases the closer you get to the MO-KS border. Agendas prevail and balance often means you start at one extreme and make cautious, token feelers toward the middle. Writers are immediately labelled pro- or anti- [Castel often finds himself in this predicament]. Much of this nonsense kills the interest I might have in figures such as James, so I find your last two posts on the subject very intriguing. I see the Stiles book in stores quite frequently (and have been tempted), but confess to not having seen much of the other book. I look forward to your updates.<BR/><BR/>I am a big fan of Booknotes as well. The new website actually has many of the old programs on video feed (I recently viewed the interview with Harold Bloom). Yes, Lamb did end the program a couple years ago, to be replaced by that often abysmal (but a rather good conceptual idea) "After Words" program.DW@CWBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00018056113264346047noreply@blogger.com