Dusty Reins

Video Documentarian - Contemporary Heritage Preservation
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Rumble - American Heartlands

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#AmericanHeartlands Do love your rural community? Tell me why I should schedule a visit!
The American Heartlands https://t.co/U6AXS8sPZV

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Burnt Snow #shorts #snow #nature https://t.co/wvZrv3ozv6 via @YouTube

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Throwback to Chuck Schumer in 1996 demanding MORE ID checks to prevent fraud by illegal immigrants and others.

Well well well.

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@zayleeai Thank you for sharing an example of the syntax to form a proper prompt for Grok. L

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@GavinNewsom Why should taxpayers in 50 states pay to fund your failed efforts in your state? Grow up and pay for your own obligations.

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@GavinNewsom And you are literally destroying the quality of life for all people living in or visiting in your state.

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@GavinNewsom So did a dozen other presidents, primarily for personal whims. This change will make the complex a more grand world statement to our people's capital without our tax dollars paying for it.

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@TerezJam0718 @tedcruz The West Wing is an add-on to the White House isn't it?

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@TTUVetMed It looks like I will need to put this on my calendar for next year!

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@BarronTrumpoo Yes!

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@CharlieK_news Is GROK able to generate a summary of bills for the common citizen to consume? A simple copy and paste method will not be feasible for monster bills.

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I agree in my case. I travel about 75% of the year with solar panels on my rig to keep my LIFEPO4 batteries charged up. I need the power for camera batteries to powering up my Starlink connection on the Mini. By the way, sure would like to see some better upload speeds for video files while roaming around west of the Mississippi.

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The Future of Rodeo: Kids in Action! #shorts #AmericanHeartlands #BlackRodeo https://t.co/nSM5iXwgLo via @YouTube

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What images come to your mind when you think of the American Heartlands? #AmericanHeartlands #countrylife #americanagriculture

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Cowboy Capital Of The World https://t.co/r94w6v8rbj via @YouTube #AmericanHeartlands

Bandera. Texas claims bragging rights but so does Stephenville and several other towns in other states. Which one do you think deserves the title and why?

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Looking forward to documenting the oldest and largest black rodeo in the world this weekend! Two rodeos (Fri & Sat) and community activities on Saturday in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. #rodeo #AmericanHeartlands #blacklife #Oklahoma

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Starting the last of four days of roping competitions in the #AmericanHeartlands of the Texas Panhandle. #cattle #Horses #roping #Cowboys #cowgirls

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Happy National Day of the American Cowboy 🤠

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The Texas Quote of the Day:

"Probably all of those early railroad travelers, if they would admit it, were more than a little scared when their train started a run across the old Pecos High Bridge. Should the girders give, or the train jump the tracks, it meant nearly certain death on the sage-covered rocks below. Yet, through many of the years that the bridge bore freight and passenger trains across the gaping canyon walls, thousands of passengers dismounted to look down at the river below.

Height of the bridge may have challenged those with suicidal tendencies, but only one passenger, so far as is known, failed to continue on her journey. She was an attractive young lady, disappointed in love, who jumped one night as horrified fellow-travelers stood at the guard rail.

The same year, however, 1907, a Texas cowgirl, Ada Upshaw, more fortunate in love, and her sweetheart, the late B.J. McDowell, were married on the bridge. They had always thrilled at standing on the bridge and looking down into the placid water below, so young McDowell gained permission from railroad officials to have the train stopped for the ceremony. Mrs. McDowell still lives in Christoval, Texas.

Passengers were not the only ones awed by the bridge's height. O.B. Strahl, a Southern Pacific engineer for 50 years prior to his retirement in 1945, remembers the phobia of Engineer Mike O'Reilly, a tall and robust Irishman whose large stature belied his fear of high bridges. Mike never mad a run across the Pecos Canyon without first making the sign of the cross and without heaving a sigh of relief when he reached the other side alive. Finally, he gave up years of seniority to take another run."

----- from an Associated Press article from April 29, 1947 describes some of the feelings of folks who traveled in trains across the old Pecos High Bridge, which crosses the Pecos River halfway between Langtry and Comstock, Texas.

Shown here: a train crosses the Pecos High Bridge in the 1890s. It must have been quite a ride for folks who were born, say, in the 1830s, before train travel really existed, and who may have have even SEEN a train until a few years before.

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On the 90th anniversary of the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde, I posted a video about how they almost killed themselves and never fully recovered. #bankrobbers #outlaws #depression #history

https://t.co/GV7vhYICwT