When I saw what the theme was immediately I thought of this picture below taken May 18th at the
Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery in Spirit Lake,IA. Fishing like many places is huge here as well and this area is known as the
Iowa Great Lakes. The numbers on the board are fairly impressive. It's fun place with history that goes back for the white man to the time of the
Spirit Lake Massacre that took place between March 8–12, 1857. No picture but there were up to 40 killed.
One of the players in that was a fellow named
Inkpaduta. He was also involved down in my neck of the woods in a fight with Winnebago trappers in 1854. The Winnebago's lost. 10 dead 16 wounded.
Did you know it was common for Sioux men to reach 7 feet tall. Is this important? Not really but this is about numbers and there are just 2 more.
Inkpaduta was feared because he had 2 sets of teeth and some of the people he killed was 6 miles away probably less from the hatchery..
See what the others posted today
here.
That will work..:-)
ReplyDeleteThe average height of the Osage was 7 ft also. I was at Ft. Osage, this week, and found that little tid bit interesting too!
ReplyDeleteTMoon - do you remember Larry Holmes the heavy weight boxing champion?
DeleteI know who he is, but that's about it.
ReplyDeleteLarry in the ring before the fight would literally be quivering and not because he was scared. He has very distinct West African features. It is said the Asantehene could field generations ago 250,000 troops and I always envisioned they are all like Larry and have think similarly of the Sioux using Inkpaduta as the example. When you see a 7 footer you know it. These warriors must have been a very scary bunch.
DeleteThinkin that the early settlers were only 5'6"/5'8", somewhere around there. And, remember reading that Jefferson had heard of "giants out west" from early explorers (before Louis & Clark). They had to have been terrified of them.
DeleteWhat a cool post!
ReplyDeleteYou did good!
Linda
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And that from a history buff. Thanks Linda!
DeleteHow cool, not just numbers, but history as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Crystal for the visit. You have quite a place up in Canada.
DeleteWell done that's a lot of numbers in one place.
ReplyDeleteIt is. Thanks Janice.
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