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Quanah Parker’s Star House — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. Quanah Parker’s Star House. I have a thing about old buildings, especially ones where history took place. Whether it’s standing inside Buffalo Bill’s hunting cabin outside Yellowstone Park in Wyoming or listening to Randy Newman at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, for that matter, old buildings have a way of making history come to life. This is especially true when those buildings are in out-of-the-way places that you have to seek out. The book drops you into...
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On the Day Pot Becomes Legal, It’s Reefer Madness Again in Boulder — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. On the Day Pot Becomes Legal, It’s Reefer Madness Again in Boulder. Bike rack, Table Mesa and 40th Bus Stop, Boulder, Colorado. (Leland Rucker). Bruce Springsteen put it aptly at his Denver concert last month. I understand that Colorado just underlined its Rocky Mountain High. The word’s getting around about our state, the budding Amsterdam of the American West. On Nov. 6. about 55 percent of Colorado voters approved Amendment 64. A great book by Greg Campbell...
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The Star House and the Empire of the Summer Moon: An American Story — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. The Star House and the Empire of the Summer Moon: An American Story. Our first view of Quanah Parkers Star House, in Eagle Park, Cache, Oklahoma. (Click to enlarge.). October 27, 2014. The whole point of this trip was to see Quanah Parker’s Star House in Cache, Oklahoma. In 2011, Billie and I both read S.C. Gwynne’s breathtaking. Empire of the Summer Moon. This view of the front porch shows severe roof deterioration. (Click to enlarge.). Once we get inside the...
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Waging Heavy Neil — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. I was at Oskar Blues in Lyons the other night, and an acoustic quartet performed an exquisite version of Harvest, introduced by the singer asking, more than once, what does this song mean? I felt a little like that after finishing. And Magness Arena in 2009. Given the meandering style and day-to-day detail in the book, I’m guessing there was no editing involved. If you’re expecting a chronological dissertation or explantion of his songs, you might be disap...
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Neil Being Neil: When Young Comes to Denver — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. Neil Being Neil: When Young Comes to Denver. Neil Young w/ Rick Rosas, Ben Keith, Ralph Molina, Anthony Crawford and Pegi Young. Denver, CO 80305. Nov 5, 2007. Acoustic Set: From Hank To Hendrix / Ambulance Blues / Sad Movies / A Man Needs A Maid / No One Seems To Know / Harvest / After The Gold Rush / Mellow My Mind / Love Art Blues / Love Is A Rose / Heart Of Gold. Mark Brown said it right in his review in The Rocky Mountain News. The only real clunker was A...
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Animals/Nature — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. Category — Animals/Nature. Walking the Wild Trees Pt. 7: Fern Canyon, Prairie Creek Redwoods Pk. Here’s a photo album of our walk in Fern Canyon. By this time, we were euphoric as we descended into Fern Canyon. These lush ferns covered the wall for much of Fern Canyons length. This became quite intoxicating. I felt like a little kid again, moving through a world that was equal parts Jurassic Park and Tarzan of the Apes. Any minute I expected a velocira...It wa...
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Fear of a Stoned Planet — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. Category — Fear of a Stoned Planet. Toking in the New Year in Colorado. Governor John Hickenlooper signed Colorado Amendment 64 less than a month ago, and as 2013 begins, two marijuana social clubs, one in Denver and another in Del Norte, have opened, member’s-only places where adults can consumer marijuana with other like-minded individuals. January 1, 2013. About Pot, the Feds Have a Scheduling Problem. But it was the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. 1) Th...
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Weblog of Leland Rucker — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. On the Day Pot Becomes Legal, It’s Reefer Madness Again in Boulder. Bike rack, Table Mesa and 40th Bus Stop, Boulder, Colorado. (Leland Rucker). Bruce Springsteen put it aptly at his Denver concert last month. I understand that Colorado just underlined its Rocky Mountain High. The word’s getting around about our state, the budding Amsterdam of the American West. On Nov. 6. about 55 percent of Colorado voters approved Amendment 64. A great book by Greg Campbell...
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The Star House and the Empire of the Summer Moon: An American Story — Jukebox in My Head
http://lelandrucker.com/2014/12/the-star-house-and-the-empire-of-the-summer-moon-oct-26-31-2014/comment-page-1
Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. The Star House and the Empire of the Summer Moon: An American Story. Our first view of Quanah Parkers Star House, in Eagle Park, Cache, Oklahoma. (Click to enlarge.). October 27, 2014. The whole point of this trip was to see Quanah Parker’s Star House in Cache, Oklahoma. In 2011, Billie and I both read S.C. Gwynne’s breathtaking. Empire of the Summer Moon. This view of the front porch shows severe roof deterioration. (Click to enlarge.). Once we get inside the...
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Palo Duro Canyon: The Heart of Comancheria — Jukebox in My Head
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Jukebox in My Head. Weblog of Leland Rucker. Palo Duro Canyon: The Heart of Comancheria. October 28, 2014. Quanah Parkers gravestone in Ft. Sill Military Cemetery. (Click to enlarge.). Her journey wasn’t over yet. In 1910 Quanah had her body moved to Post Oak Mission Cemetery several miles west of Cache. When he died in February 1911, he was buried next to her, but it wouldn’t be their final resting places. Their bodies were moved in 1957 to the Fort Sill Post Cemetery. The next morning after breakfast w...
