[Magdalen] Calvary is the New Cavalry.

[Marion Thompson]

All should read _The Inconvenient Indian_ by Thomas King, currently one 
of five contenders on CBC's Canada Reads 'contest'.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/12/2015 11:51 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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> I watched two AHC (HIstory Channel), programs, "Custer's Last Stand"
> and "Billy the Kid" on television earlier this evening.
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> Over and beyond the historical information depicted in these
> documentaries, I came away with two additional observations.
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> (1)  Everyone engaged in producing the Custer program, including  the
>        Native American interviewed, kept referring  to Custer's US Army
>        soldiers as part of a "calvary" group   [??]
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> (2)  There were original letters written by the subjects of both  programs
>         that showed they all, including Custer  and Billy the Kid, had
>         remarkably beautiful handwriting, in  these cases written with ink
>         pens.
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> I guess it shows that when elementary schooling was probably limited
> to reading, writing, and arithmetic, penmanship was the name of the
> game.
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> By contrast, 20th and 21st century handwriting is awful, and since  the
> advent of the computer age, mostly dreadful.  These 19th century
> persons were literate in the basics.  I have to admire them, and I'll  bet,
> also, that they knew the difference between calvary and cavalry..
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> David Strang.
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