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- From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: soc.history
- Subject: Re: Columbus/Slaves
- Message-ID: <14071@optilink.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:37:24 GMT
- References: <1isalfINNqnm@morrow.stanford.edu> <1993Jan20.202548.6905@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan20.202548.6905@Princeton.EDU>, glhewitt@bathe.Princeton.EDU (Gary Livingston Hewitt) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan14.154900.1115@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
- # #I believe examination of the American Great Plains indicate that it was once
- # #the 'Great Inland Forest' (a typical deciduous crown forest). It was burned
- # #off by the Indians several thousand years ago in an old method of hunting
- # #buffalo.
- #
- # Wow -- what are the great plains, a few hundred thousand square miles?
- # Man, now I know why the dinosaurs went extinct! Global cooling because
- # of all the smoke that fire caused! :-)
- #
- # I've heard that it's the meadows of Kentucky that were created by
- # large-scale Indian burnings, but I never heard the great plains. I
- # doubt that large-scale deciduous crown forests could grow on the
- # 10-or-so inches/year of the high great plains.
- #
- # || | Gary| L. Hewitt| | || HELP! I've been imprisoned
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- "Great Plains" is a pretty nebulous term. West of the 100th degree
- of longitude is, indeed, very dry. But east of there is another matter.
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- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- "When freedom destroys order, order will destroy freedom." -- Eric Hoffer
- Not a goal, just a statement of reality.
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