tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post8340543468124696516..comments2024-03-25T10:03:00.731-07:00Comments on Bob Boze Bell's Big Bad Book of Bad Diary Entries: Gas Station Legends & The Daltons' Last RaidBob Boze Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884865420067145231noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690176.post-43942838497556968022022-03-19T14:23:34.360-07:002022-03-19T14:23:34.360-07:00The "bite the dust" phrase goes back a m...The "bite the dust" phrase goes back a mite. In her 1885 book "BOOTS AND SADDLES," Elizabeth Custer poignantly describes an old Sioux whose son had died bravely in battle, and who noted "that before he was killed he had made many Rees 'bite the dust,' as he then figuratively expressed it."<br /><br />In one version of the lyrics to "Men of Harlech,"Wayne M. Sarfnoreply@blogger.com