Bill, We knew you had been around for awhile but who knew you were as old as President Andrew Johnson? BTW that would be 207 years.
Josh On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers < [email protected]> wrote: > Marion O. Smith is a notorious caver and speleo-historian (see NSS News, > October 2012). He's the sort of history wonk who can state the exact date > he first met me, some forty years ago. He also knows my date of birth. He > claims that's easy, because my birthday is the same as President Andrew > Johnson's, but how many people would know _that_? > > He has prepared a book on Confederate mining of saltpeter and other > materials west of the Mississippi River. His book "Confederate Nitre Bureau > Operation in Alabama" (2007) is 101 pages long and has 360 footnotes, many > of them to items found in the 1,165 rolls of microfilm records he scanned. > The volume on Arkansas and Texas will not be as extensive, but it still > lists 88 sources. I have offered to prepare the book for printing. > > Marion would like to include nice entrance photos of Davis Blowout Cave, > Blanco Country, Bracken Bat Cave, Comal Country, and Frio Bat Cave, Uvalde > County, all of which were used as sources during the Civil War. A good one > might even appear on front or back cover. Potential photos should be sent > to me. (Marion has no Internet.) -- Bill Mixon > ---------------------------------------- > I didn't do it. You can't prove it. Nobody saw it. The sheep are lying. > ---------------------------------------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: [email protected] > AMCS: [email protected] or [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > [email protected] | Archives: https://groups.google.com/ > forum/#!forum/cavetex > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers >
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