"Sabres Across the Pampas" Topic
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| Tango01 | 23 Dec 2012 11:35 a.m. PST |
We also had our "Wild West" Era, so… why not to know a little about this "other" Wild West?
See here
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| morrigan | 23 Dec 2012 2:48 p.m. PST |
That looks really interesting! Is this a period you might take up Armand? |
| Doc Ord | 23 Dec 2012 4:44 p.m. PST |
There was "western" movie based on this period made back in the 1950s or 60s but I don't remember the name or who was in it. It looks like an interesting period. |
Shagnasty  | 24 Dec 2012 8:56 a.m. PST |
"Savage Pampas" starring Robert Taylor. |
| Tango01 | 24 Dec 2012 10:55 a.m. PST |
Glad you had enjoy it boys.! (smile). I love this period Morrigan. Is our "Far West" history.
Plenty of engagements, heroes from both parts, looting, attacks on stagecoaches, Indian attacks on towns, attacks on convoys of carts, kidnappings, defections (our soldiers often preferred to live with the Indians because they tried them very well), a huge amount of "melee" with always a "mano a mano" (hand to hand) combat because the Argentine soldiers prefer to used their swords over their carbines and the Indians their long "tacuaras" (spears). They were masters of the horse.
They stood up well to early XXth century when President-General Julio Argentino Roca made his "desert campaign" and exterminated them.
One of the best book of my country is about this theme.
"The Martin Fierro". The best film from that Era is from the 1940s and is called "Pampa Bárbara" (Barvarian Pampa). Sadly, not much films from those dias in my country. Amicalement
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