Joe Goodbody

🇺🇸 US Army VN Vet. Author KENTUCKY BARRACUDA: Parker H French (1826-1878) con man, Gold Rush, Mexico, Nicaragua, Civil War spy.

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Happy Birthday to the United States Army, and Happy Flag Day. On this day, we honor the Army’s long record of service and sacrifice, and we salute the flag that represents the nation, its people, and those who have defended it.

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5/5
A fascinating twist of history: The defrauded and the fraudster...James Magoffin and Parker French would later become connected by marriage through the Hardin family.
French would live another 28 years of panache, frauds, intrigue, cheating and spying.
What surprised you most — the scale of the fraud, how fast everything collapsed, or French’s clean escape? Drop your thoughts below. #WildWest #GoldRush #TexasHistory

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Nugget 28: The Truth Chase Concludes – French’s Grand Expedition Collapses in El Paso. What was supposed to be a 60-day sprint to San Francisco had already taken almost 5 months from New York. On September 18, 1850, the Express Passenger Train limped into El Paso with 230 exhausted men — over 60 days after leaving San Antonio. The math was never going to work.

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4/5
The passengers escaped to Mexico with the train, moved beyond the reach of American law and claimants, then auctioned off the assets to salvage what they could.

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Nugget 27: The “Truth Chase Expands” 📷
The truth is now racing 4–5 times faster than Parker Hardin French’s struggling expedition.
Devastating documents of forged credit schemes, and furious creditors, tear west from New Orleans to the Texas coast and then to San Antonio — while French’s men crawl through brutal West Texas terrain in complete ignorance. New Orleans papers arrive with screaming headlines:
“GREAT FRAUD — PARKER HARDIN FRENCH IMPLICATED IN FORGED CREDIT SCHEME.”
The noose is tightening.
In San Antonio, Army officers, including Major James Longstreet, now know the truth. So do angry merchants, ranchers, muleskinners-- many are tough frontier veterans of Texas Independence and the Mexican War.
Meanwhile, the expedition barely moves — just 7 to 10 miles per day. From Comanche Springs through the rugged Wild Rose Pass, into the hellish Canon de Los Lamentos (later Quitman Pass), and on toward El Paso.
Emaciated mules, damaged wagons, exhausted and dejected men. No blissful ignorance here — only growing suspicion and bitterness.
Famed frontier courier and scout Henry Skillman now joins the chase. He covers 50–60 miles a day (trotting and walking — never the Hollywood gallop). In a single day he covers what the wagon train struggles to make in nearly a week. He carries the warrants, liens, complaints, and damning letters and telegraphs.
Everyone along the route now knows French is a fraud…Everyone except the men who still rely on him. The walls are closing in on the KENTUCKY BARRACUDA.
This is one dramatic episode in one of the wildest con-man stories of the entire Antebellum and Civil War eras.
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Which part of French’s 1850 disaster shocks you the most? Drop it below.
#ParkerHFrench #GoldRush #WildWest #TexasHistory

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@Mayflower_21 @1mZerOCool That would be classic. Two black women Republicans representing.

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@Mayflower_21 @1mZerOCool And Natisha Brooks in 6

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@bradfordfini @JeffFletcherOCR Ok ok. I agree FC.
BUT can I tackle said Lallygagger and wack him good for stealing a hit ??

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@bradfordfini @JeffFletcherOCR Hmmm.
If hitter reaches first safely before other lallgagger gets put out and before third base lallygagger scores = hit

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@johnkonrad Prime argument against and a caution for the notion of term limits. The rotational marass / quadrangle of Congressional staff, lobbying, agency leadership and corporate positions will get MORE important as Representative experience wanes.

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Great balanced post Ari. Old Army: “First report is (almost) always wrong.”
What I posted earlier.

Seems to me that the WHCA has been let off the hook.
Did WHCA arrange / organize properly? I believe the following is true. The event organizer is typically responsible for event activities including overall access and security. The Secret Service controls security for any protectee and any zones or procedures required.

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@LoudounGOP Very inconvenient principal for democrats. We are not a “majority wins” democracy but a Constitutional Republic that by its Constitution guarantees a Republican form of government for States

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Seems to me that the WHCA has been let off the hook.
Did WHCA arrange / organize properly? I believe the following is true. The event organizer is typically responsible for event activities including overall access and security. The Secret Service controls security for any protectee and any zones or procedures required.

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just watched your discussion on F&F with Patel
Seems to me that the WHCA has been let off the hook.
Did WHCA arrange / organize properly? I believe the following is true. The event organizer is typically responsible for event activities including overall access and security. The Secret Service controls security for any protectee and any zones or procedures required.

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I just watched your discussion on F&F.
Seems to me that the WHCA has been let off the hook.

Did WHCA arrange / organize properly? I believe the following is true. The event organizer is typically responsible for event activities including overall access and security. The Secret Service controls security for any protectee and any zones or procedures required.

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@RFreedomwaves @BillMelugin_ Every one of the attendees should be asking the WHCA some serious questions.