Back in the early 1870s, Gen. George Armstrong Custer was among those excited by the rumor of gold and glory in the Black Hills of South Dakota, my home state. A lot has changed since then, but the same law that presided over gold mining in Custer’s day — the Mining Law of 1872 — […]
Tony Dean
Posted inFebruary 20, 2006: High Noon for Habitat
The NRA has it wrong
The NRA has emptied its big guns on Pat Wray, and I find that hard to understand (HCN, 1/23/06: What’s the NRA’s beef with roadless areas?). Why would a huge, powerful national organization fear a man who thinks they should return to their roots, spending their time fighting on behalf of the Second Amendment? It […]