Nasty couple of days. It affects us in our every day efforts, no matter if we are working on something that happened 150 years ago.
Daily Whip Out: "Wild Bill Looks Back"
Just when you think the world is going to hell in a handbasket, you read an old newspaper and it gives one a pinch of perspective on our perpetual journey, as we find ourselves as a culture ping-ponging between too little law and too much.
The News From Deadwood
"We have also a large number of VERY BAD, HARD CHARACTERS among us who openly commit murder without provocation. Neither law nor order prevails; we have no organized system to punish criminals and our government has committed a grave error in allowing the settlement of this country without opening it by proclamation, giving the Governor power to organize a county and appoint county officers, and ensuring peaceable citizens protection against the vagabonds who infest this country. A few days ago Wild Bill, the noted Indian scout, fell by the hand of an assassin. A trial and acquittal was the result. Numerous other crimes of a like nature have been committed. All going unpunished, leaving us in a state of chaos."
—The New North-West, Deer Lodge, Montana, August 25, 1876
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened."
—Willa Cather
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