Re: [DL] Barbed wire - thinking

[Bryce <SandChigg@rocketmail.com>]

No, I don't think it was an oversight as much as it was something that
everybody would recognize.  If, for instance and I'm just making this
up, the gambling capitol of the late 19th centure had been Lower
Bucksnort, TN and H&H had mentioned a gambling group located there,
then the modern reader would be very puzzled.  It's just, in my best
guess, PEG's best choice of location:  one that's quasi-historic and
recognizable to all.

Bryce

--- Kirk Monsen <munchwolf@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Bryce <SandChigg@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, you're almost right.  The man who created
> > Vegas, nearly from
> > whole cloth, was Bugsy Malone.  The Mafia, which
> > financed him, killed
> > him just a few months before Vegas really took off
> > and started to make
> > money.  If you really want to know more, take the
> > two hours to watch
> > the movie "Bugsy" starring Warren Beattey.
> > 
> > Bryce
> > 
> > --- darklord@dark-sky.net wrote:
> > > I thought... and I could be 100% wrong here, but I
> > thought that Vegas
> > > didn't come about till late 1950's / early 1960's
> > in the days of
> > > Ruby,
> > > the guy who shot oswald, who shot kennedy....
> > > 
> > > Am I correct?
> > > 
> 
> My curiosity is why it was mentioned in H&H.  Is it an
> oversight?
> 
> -Munch Wolf
> 
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