i'd like to thank professor paul quigley for inviting me and i'd also like to thank professor melinda miller for a really stimulating fun chat this afternoon as a prelude to my talk tonight. so i'll share some slides with you and in a moment, but first i want to just share the the introduction of my paper. then just as we started to leave here comes something across that little prairie short enough. we know they as indians the way they is writing and the way they is all strung out. they had a flag and it was all read and had a big criss-cross on it. that looked like a sawhorse. the man carrying it and rear back on it when the wind whip it but it flap all around the horse's head and the horse pitch and rear like he knows something going to happen short. about that time it turned kind of dark and began to rain a little and we get out to the big road and the rain come down hard it rained so hard for a little while that we just have to stop the wagon and set there. and then come along more soldiers than i ever see before. they all white men, i think and they have on that brown clothes dyed with