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Post by bc on Apr 28, 2010 18:51:58 GMT -5
Got my April newsletter today. It has an interesting article about Custer the taxidermist, how he learned how to do it, and apparently mounted the heads of many animals including antelope, deer, and elk. He learned during the jellystone expedition in 73. He writes to Libbie that he prepared a most beautiful buck antelope head and neck for Tom. Tom intends it for his sweetheart and will send it express from Bismarck. It doesn't say who or where Tom's sweetheart is and was. It lists all the animals he killed during the expedition.
As an aside and warning to others, I saw on another board where a regular user of photobucket pictures in his posts had all the resolution reduced on his 300 plus pictures on the photobucket website and was notified by photobucket that he would have to begin paying them for his use of his pictures in his account. Apparently the board hits referred back to photobucket everytime his pictures came up on someone's viewing which photobucket took as excessive and commercial. He said the resolution was reduced so much he could hardly see the detail. He apparently was a member of photopoint a few years back and when they put in a cash call and he didn't pay, his pics were deleted.
The same implications are here for posters who use photobucket and use them in posts. Make sure you have them saved on your computer somewhere. Google Picassa has been mentioned as a possible free alternative out there but I know nothing about it.
bc
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Post by strange on Apr 29, 2010 1:03:21 GMT -5
Got my April newsletter today. It has an interesting article about Custer the taxidermist, how he learned how to do it, and apparently mounted the heads of many animals including antelope, deer, and elk. He learned during the jellystone expedition in 73. He writes to Libbie that he prepared a most beautiful buck antelope head and neck for Tom. Tom intends it for his sweetheart and will send it express from Bismarck. It doesn't say who or where Tom's sweetheart is and was. It lists all the animals he killed during the expedition. As an aside and warning to others, I saw on another board where a regular user of photobucket pictures in his posts had all the resolution reduced on his 300 plus pictures on the photobucket website and was notified by photobucket that he would have to begin paying them for his use of his pictures in his account. Apparently the board hits referred back to photobucket everytime his pictures came up on someone's viewing which photobucket took as excessive and commercial. He said the resolution was reduced so much he could hardly see the detail. He apparently was a member of photopoint a few years back and when they put in a cash call and he didn't pay, his pics were deleted. The same implications are here for posters who use photobucket and use them in posts. Make sure you have them saved on your computer somewhere. Google Picassa has been mentioned as a possible free alternative out there but I know nothing about it. bc The people at photobucket should have their entrails stabbed out and their testicles removed. One of my emails did this to me a while back and then finally went back to normal. Thank you for the tip, I use photobucket for posting. But I also keep everything on the computer and at the desk. Strange
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Post by bc on Apr 30, 2010 15:18:56 GMT -5
As an aside and warning to others, I saw on another board where a regular user of photobucket pictures in his posts had all the resolution reduced on his 300 plus pictures on the photobucket website and was notified by photobucket that he would have to begin paying them for his use of his pictures in his account. Apparently the board hits referred back to photobucket everytime his pictures came up on someone's viewing which photobucket took as excessive and commercial. He said the resolution was reduced so much he could hardly see the detail. He apparently was a member of photopoint a few years back and when they put in a cash call and he didn't pay, his pics were deleted. The same implications are here for posters who use photobucket and use them in posts. Make sure you have them saved on your computer somewhere. Google Picassa has been mentioned as a possible free alternative out there but I know nothing about it. bc As a followup on this photobucket deal, apparently the cash call and other complaints weren't quite as draconian as this guy initially thought. He copied the email. I will copy it below for those that use photobucket. They do mess with the resolution size and look at bandwidth issues. This information may help some of you. "Dear sir: To clarify, compression on our site is a general feature that we use for web display images on our site in order to balance the cost of bandwidth and storage ("optimization") while providing various features and overall site performance for our users. By "web display" is meant the album display or linkable images on Photobucket.com. File-size and Resolution limits are determined by your upload settings parameters. For details on Upload Options, please refer to our Online Help Topic here: pic.pbsrc.com/help/Content/Upload/SetUploadOptions.htmAfter our site runs compression for web-display (linkable) images, you may notice loss of quality in some images, especially smaller files with text superimposed over the original image. Some contributing factors to quality loss however, may also be due to how the original image was created or captured, any editing software or applications used to enhance, edit, or update the image, and any superimposed or composite elements added to the image during any editing of the original (e.g. text). Please note also, that with a Pro membership, the original of every image you upload, ie. the 'high res' version - should always be available for retrieval via download button. To help mitigate the effects of compression on the web display/linkable version of your images, especially if they are small, edited via 3rd party software, and/or have text super-imposed over them is to use your upload settings as 'ceiling/floor' parameters for the compression engine. This means for example, if you have an original image that is 140 x 120 resolution, then the best upload setting that will keep compression at a minimum for that image or any images falling within that range would be this one: Small ( 160 x 120 ). A slightly smaller resolution setting may also help in scenarios like these also. With this setting, the compression process will only have so much 'room' within which to optimize for storage space/bandwidth. Any setting (whether resolution of file-size) in effect, gives the compression engine "room" within which to work with in it's algorithm-based attempts to optimize. Thank you" bc
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Post by mcculloh on May 4, 2010 10:39:31 GMT -5
From our Newsletter Editor, Rod Thomas: ------------------------------------------ Please pass on to the Bunkies that the August Reasearch Review is in the same envelope with the November NewsLetter and this will create some delay in the NewsLetter getting to them. Expect within the next two weeks… Regards, Rod… Rodney G. Thomas | Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired rod.thomas@susney.com View/Sign Guest Book -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rockne Lane "Rocky" Boyd RAPID CITY - Rockne "Rocky" Lane Boyd, 58, Rapid City, died Saturday, May 1, 2010, at home. He was born Oct. 20, 1951, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Deadwood. Rocky was most recently a counselor at Sky Ranch. He devoted most of his adult life to research of the Battle at the Little Bighorn. Author, Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand, said, "� the researchers, people like Rocky Boyd, who have proven just as single-minded and indefatigable in their pursuit of the past. Together, these people make the practice of history possible." Rocky was also a very talented amateur photographer who produced hundreds of exceptional photographs of the Black Hills. He is survived by two daughters, Kelly and Grace, and one son, Sam, all of Rapid City; three grandchildren, Andrew Boyd, Katelyn Beshara, and Vanessa Beshara; and two brothers, Ronald Boyd, Denver and Randy Boyd, Tucson. He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Boyd, Spearfish and Ruth (Andre) Peterson, Rapid City. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 5, at Behrens-Wilson Funeral Home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 6, at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Hope Cemetery in Newell. Condolences may be conveyed to the family at www.behrenswilson.com
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Post by treasuredude on May 4, 2010 17:59:03 GMT -5
This is very sad news. Rocky knew more about Peter Thompson than anyone. He had been working on a Thompson book. I hope it gets published. He also had tons of research. He told me once that he had something like 8 feet of files on Thompson. I hope all that research is protected and saved. Here's Rocky at the 2005 LBHA Conference in Rapid City. Rocky's the guy who looks a bit like Willie Nelson.
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Post by strange on May 5, 2010 4:30:04 GMT -5
I see the fellow had magnificent hair. Its terrible to suffer the loss, certainly from a fashion perspective. And 58 is a rather young time to die at this day and age.
Stranger sends his sorrows.
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Post by bc on May 21, 2010 1:39:52 GMT -5
Got my May newsletter Thursday, 5-20. Definitely have to get a $12.95 check to Don Horn for his book. Tokeca Wanji, my friend, I'd even buy one for you.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2010 7:17:20 GMT -5
Got my May newsletter Thursday, 5-20. Definitely have to get a $12.95 check to Don Horn for his book. You won't regret it, BC. The personal stuff is the best; his friendships, what has been found on the various properties, Gerard's Knoll, the morass, etc. If that stuff doesn't prove some points, then nothing will. It is too bad so much as already been written that gives us false ideas of where some of these things are located. Let me know what you think when you get it. Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by bc on Aug 14, 2010 20:28:48 GMT -5
Got my July newsletter today. Not bad for the middle of August. Haven't had a chance to look at it yet.
bc
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Post by bc on Sept 15, 2010 19:09:19 GMT -5
Got my September newsletter today. Looks like the Washita is the subject of the month.
bc
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Post by zekesgirl on Sept 17, 2010 12:00:36 GMT -5
I'm really looking forward to the conference this summer!
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Post by bc on Oct 12, 2010 17:42:32 GMT -5
Got my October newsletter today. Has articles on the Washita & Adobe Walls battle comparisons by Leland Chambers and on Black Kettle by David Cornut.
bc
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Post by bc on Nov 10, 2010 21:42:10 GMT -5
Got my November newsletter today. Cover has pictures of the Custer Birthplace. Has an article "The Best of New Rumley, Inside the Custer Memorial Association Museum" by Sherry Chapman. Second article is "The Three Faces of Custer" by William R. Walker.
The book sales ad on the back page mentions a reprinted book by Richard Roberts who was a personal secretary to GAC. I didn't know he had a personal secretary.
bc
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Post by benteen on Nov 12, 2010 17:15:45 GMT -5
bc,
Britt, got mine too. First I have to read about where this guy lived, Then how great he was during the CW (well that is true) but then that during reconstruction how it was his mens fault that he treated them like garbage, and worst of all how he was a scapegoat for the LBH. A SCAPEGOAT? He was responsible for it. If any one is a scapegoat it is Reno
Ugh,,phooey, drats, ##***&*
MARIA get me my blood pressure pills quick <G>
Be Well Dan
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Post by bc on Dec 23, 2010 16:31:18 GMT -5
Got my December newsletter today. Has an article on "Grant Marsh and the Far West" by Joan Croy and a story about Katherine Gibson and "A Frontier Army Christmas" at FAL in 1875. Cover pic is a distant pic of FAL covered in snow along with some closeups.
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