GLOSSARY - STIFF - (Spoiler Thread)

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. by Mary Roach

[Martin]

Earlier in the discussion of Stiff, there was a short contemplation of whether embalming, donating the corpse to med school, or cremation might be the best way to go.

Mortal Lessons' chapter on the corpse is well worth a read, even if it's the only chapter one reads in Richard Selzer's wildly poetic description of human anatomy.

I'm sure many readers who do contemplate Selzer's observations of those three alternatives will give more serious consideration to either a Tibetan sky burial, or just putting the body out with the recyclables.

Richard Selzer(no photo available)

[Martin]

Thanks Kathy. I am anxiously awaiting arrival of The Stiff (ha, ha). Hope they ship it on ice.

[Greg]

Kathy wrote: "Powder River Expedition



The Powder River Expedition, or the Powder River War or Powder River Invasion, of 1865, was a large and far-flung military operation of the United States Army against the..."


I really wish Bozeman never would have made that road. They came under attack almost immediately and Bozeman himself had to sneak through with a much-reduced party one night.

Jim Bridger had a better trail that wasn't through the Blackfeet territory, territory given to them under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, although it wasn't until Washington Territory Governor Isaac Stevens came back through in 1855 that they really got the deal to have their lands through where Bozeman would create his trail.

Overall the trail played a large part in the hostilities that rose up with Red Cloud's war in 1868. The government decided to abandon the road after that, although a new rail line coming in from Wyoming further to the west really did it in.

The whole Fetterman Massacre came about because of that Bozeman Trail, in my opinion.