I can see you don’t come from a very smart family then.

At some point you’ll realize that not every little thing you say needs a citation because some kid on the internet gets his panties in a twist.

Calm down, buddy, you’re gonna pop a blood vessel.

I’m both easily entertained and easily amused.

And you guys are apparently so thin-skinned you can’t help being reactive little bunnies.

No.

Probably, but I don’t care enough to look them up.

Factoids aren’t my special interest any more since I became disabled.

Useful idiot or not, the fact is, according to The Technician at least, he was a successful businessman, so somebody is wrong here.

I’m too old and cynical to believe that it wasn’t a scam, ND or not, and that doesn’t absolve him from complicity.

Dude, who knows where I saw it but Honest Opinion says he’s a useful idiot and you’re saying he’s a successful businessman who bought land, completely ignoring the whole homestead laws of the day.

I’m too old and cynical to buy “he was a good person” in the US during that time frame. Sorry, not gonna happen.

Correct, it was a land grab scam based on the laws of the time.

IIRC, if he planted trees it was then his land because he was using it, so he could then sell it for actual money. This was after the military had killed or chased out the natives who lived on it, of course.