9 May
2003
9 May
'03
3:56 p.m.
At 10:26 AM 5/9/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:04 AM, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 6:44 PM -0700 5/7/03, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Bill Frantz wrote: Even when the population was a fraction of what it is today, this was a problem building railroads. Of course, though the books on free enterprise are light on mentioning this, the private railroads got the land rights by coercion, threats, burning out settlers, bribing state officials, etc. "Blazing Saddles" was not far off the mark.
A more serious treatment of this is found in a very good, but overlooked, film "The Claim," http://us.imdb.com/Details?0218378, which has lately been on premium cable. steve