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@bocadelperro.bsky.social
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Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden. Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish. All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
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bocadelperro.bsky.social
Oh yeah, that's another one. Plus Ygnacio valley.
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mpgphd.bsky.social
I don't remember if it actually made the book, but at one point I was talking about "the long 1980s" and @profirmf.bsky.social had Had It, Officially 😂
lwalker.bsky.social
Does anyone remember who it was that received the most hilarious proofreading feedback ever: "You keep writing 'The Long 18th Century,' but all centuries are the same length"?
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Los Gatos

(Special AZ Bonus: Canyon de Chelly)
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What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I think that's a different horror subgenre.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Pretty appropriate, considering how important firearms are I. Western history/myth/Self-understanding
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I just last year sold my 2001 Camry with a cassette player.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
There are so many stories like this all over the West. I can't go to Prescott, AZ (by almost all accounts a charming little town) without feeling sick.
When in early 1863, the Walker Party discovered gold in Lynx Creek (near present-day Prescott, Arizona), it set off a chain of events that would have White settlements along the Hassayampa and Agua Fria Rivers, the nearby valleys, as well as in Prescott, and Fort Whipple would be built, all by the end of the year, and all in traditional Yavapai territory.

The Americans, led by General George Crook, fought against the Yavapai and Tonto Apache in 1872–73.[23] Aided by Pai scouts, the Americans killed many of the Yavapai and forced them onto a reservation at Camp Verde, where a third of the surviving Yavapai died from disease.[23] In 1875, they were forcibly relocated to the San Carlos Reservation in the March of Tears. After only 25 years, their population of 1,500 plummeted to only 200 survivors.[23]
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Okay I'm going to write a treatment of sorts for this. (Of course I am. I have a conference paper I need to get ready for two weeks from now, and a pile of papers to grade, plus a lecture to prep for tonight.)
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Moscow on the Ohio. 💀.
My office building has, I swear, the same elevator I had when I briefly lived in a Plattenbau in Berlin.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
::Puts on historian's hat:: "oh shit this thing is full of ghosts!"
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Yes. U of A as well. Did you know Old Main was a segregated dining hall until the federal deseg. order came down? The only reason I know that is because I read it in an alumni magazine. I have a PhD in history from the UofA!!
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I mostly believe in ghosts as metaphors for collective memory.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Oh this is great, thanks. I wind up talking q little but about St Louis's Topography of memory in my freshman class (they read the excellent introduction from "Facing East Front Indian Country,") so it's actually somewhat professional, too. 😍
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I should clarify that I believe in ghosts, mostly as a metaphor for repressed historical memory and trauma, which is why I insist that the US West is extremely fuckin haunted.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Have you ever been to Mesa? That town gives me the heebie- jeebies like no other.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
St Louis is also extremely haunted and the excellent colleges in that town would also make a good setting for an academy based horror novel, just saying.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I'm working on a book of ghost stories set in and around San Francisco, but I may very well have to write this thing, now. ASU with the serial numbers filed off.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
The West is so haunted, friend. Paving over the past doesn't stop the ghosts, it just makes it easier to stumble upon them unknowingly.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
ASU, being within spitting distance of a former prisoner of war camp and not terribly far from the gila river internment camp (located on gila river land despite tribal objections), would probably be a great setting for this sort of thing.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Inspired to write a dark academia style book set in one of the relentlessly sunny and often hideous and poorly-maintained brutalist college campuses that populate the western USA. (Like the one I work on)
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Yep. I'm definitely getting back into physical media and I'm don't have the space/lifestyle for a record player at the moment. But I do have a fairly high fidelity Soundbar and a Blu Ray Player that plays CDs.