RANDOM PICTURE THREAD - Post ANY of your favorite pictures here to share with Tnet...

[H-2 CHARLIE]

Great grand dad . World waker , the first man to walk around the world .

 

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[Terry Soloman]

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[DashHopes]

Took this from work yesterday. In Canada looking at the USA (Vermont)

 

[huntsman53]

Who remembers these characters from the TV Show "Dinosaurs"? We used to watch this with our daughters and busted a gut laughing with every episode.



Earl (Not the Mama) Sneed Sinclair (Gheez Fran, not my whole name)...Fran Sinclair...Robbie Sinclair...Charlene Sinclair and Baby Sinclair (missing Grandma).


Frank

 

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[worldtalker]

***AHEM*** COUGH*** SNORT*** HACK * ** * * * ** **** *** **SNIFF......................

Here....I'll save you a BIG one!

 

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If you do not know what movie this scene is from...
and you like good movies...
Jackie Brown.

 

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And another classic must see...
Ton of new great actors in early roles...
Classic... DO NOT let the name fool ya.

And IMO one of Quentin Terentino's best works... back before his mid life crises. :P heh

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[GA_Boy]

 

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[RGINN]

Day-um AARC, you started a thang here. One of my favorite pics. Taken in 1904 in the Choctaw Nation in what is now the state of Oklahoma. My grandpa on the far right with his brothers to the left. These boys grew up in the Indian Nations when there truly was no God west of Ft. Smith. Grandpa was born in 1887 in the Moshalutubbe District of the Choctaw Nation about 10 miles south of Younger's Bend. He went to school, and on the first day crawled out a window and never went back. He could not read nor write, and I remember when he had to sign his name to any sort of legal document he wrote 'X' and had two witnesses to sign. He was not proud of this. All of his descendants have learned to read and write the English language, to various degrees of proficiency, so I hope he's proud. Since I'm old I knew all these guys in the pic, but unfortunately they had reformed by the time I came along. They would drag you along to church and promise to pray for you, but not one damn word about the old days.

 

[Tejaas]

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Bonefish... the greatest sound in the world is one of these stripping the backing off your fly reel at 40+ mph.

Even an AT PRO can't sing like that.

~Tejaas~

 

[Tejaas]

I think Dana Keller did that one..Not sure

Another Classic

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Haha, Custer's "dandy golden locks" didn't have anything on Ambrose Burnside and his SIDEBURNS!

Great post!

~Tejaas~

 

[Tejaas]

Day-um AARC, you started a thang here. One of my favorite pics. Taken in 1904 in the Choctaw Nation in what is now the state of Oklahoma. My grandpa on the far right with his brothers to the left. These boys grew up in the Indian Nations when there truly was no God west of Ft. Smith. Grandpa was born in 1887 in the Moshalutubbe District of the Choctaw Nation about 10 miles south of Younger's Bend. He went to school, and on the first day crawled out a window and never went back. He could not read nor write, and I remember when he had to sign his name to any sort of legal document he wrote 'X' and had two witnesses to sign. He was not proud of this. All of his descendants have learned to read and write the English language, to various degrees of proficiency, so I hope he's proud. Since I'm old I knew all these guys in the pic, but unfortunately they had reformed by the time I came along. They would drag you along to church and promise to pray for you, but not one damn word about the old days.

RGINN, I have been anxiously waiting for you to check in on this thread.
You did not disappoint, that's an amazing image for sure!

~Tejaas~

 

[G.I.B.]

Colorado western slope, Grand Junction. Taken from Grand Mesa. They will get a foot of snow tonight up on the mesa.

 

[Tejaas]

Here is an image of one of my ancestors.

His name was Johann (surname withheld for my privacy, please excuse that).
He was a straight-off-the-boat German who arrived in the Republic-era of Texas via the 'Mainzer Adelsverein at Biebrich am Rhein' (Society for the Protection of German Immigrants {in Texas}), better known as the 'Adelsverein'.

He played a key role in the establishment/implementation of the Meusebach Treaty with the Comanche in 1847. The treaty was historically significant because it was one of the only pacts with Native Americans that was never broken.

The land grant he was awarded, my family is still ranching on to this day.
He had several children, many of whom would fight for the Confederacy during the war of northern aggression.

I like this image because although his face shows the hardships a man on the frontier endured, his old-country pride still shines through with his wearing of an Angora sweater for the occasion (an absolute luxury in pre-1860's Texas)

And apparently, he loved his pipe.







~Tejaas~

 

[Tejaas]

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[Oregon Viking]

Off of my deck, over the ocean.

 

[Tejaas]

1st Sergeant Ben July - Served as a trooper in the Seminole-Negro Scout Detachment assigned to Fort Clark, TX.

These troopers were not organic to the 9th & 10th US Cavalry ("Buffalo Soldiers") but were attached to them and served in a role that was a forerunner of today's special forces.

He and his men would spend many years fighting indians led by the great holdouts such a Geronimo, Victorio, and Cochise in West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and elsewhere.



A (poor) representation of the detachments guidon:




~Tejaas~

 

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