The Chrystal Bass Boat

Before you slip into your rubber boots
I'd like to kiss ya darlin, shoot
It really is a hoot
Really is a hoot, did you just toot?

It's sunny out I think it rained
The cattle need a little grain
Don't run you'll trip and that's insane
It really is a pain to walk out in the rain

Oh call me when the flapjacks fry
Your bacon makes a grown man cry
The liver on the other...

Before 1867 the Tlingit and many other prominent NW tribes of Canada and the US, such as the Yurok and Klamath, were avid practitioners of slavery. Another tribe, the Haida, were known as the 'Vikings of the Northwest coast',

"Those were stirring times, about a century ago, when the big Haida war canoes, each hollowed out of a single cedar tree and manned by fifty or sixty warriors, traded and raided up and down the coast from Sitka in the north to the delta of the Fraser River...

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Frank McErlane was first arrested in 1911 and sent to Pontiac Prison in June 1913 for involvement in a car theft ring. Released on parole in March 1916, he was arrested eight months later as an accessory in the murder of Oak Park police officer Herman Malow, and sent to Joliet Prison for one year. Several newspaper articles refer to McErlane taking part in an escape from the county jail in 1918. Other than calling it “sensational,” no details are given except that McErlane...

Lillian Frances Smith was born in 1871 in Coleville, California, six years after Annie Oakley. At the age of seven, she became bored with dolls and asked her father for a little rifle instead. She was performing in San Francisco by age 10, and her father offered a $5000 wager that no one could beat her. She challenged Doc Carver, one of the era's best-known marksmen, to a competition in St. Louis, and he never showed up. Buffalo Bill Cody discovered her while touring in California, and she joined...

'Battle' Annie Walsh aka Vickers, was the toughest girl in the Hell's Kitchen rackets. Queen of the Lady Gophers, who were a female contingent of the Gophers, a tough gang that ruled the West Side Railyards from 1890 to the late teens. They were so named for their penchant for hideouts in the cellars of the region.

"She was able to assemble a force from fifty [4] up to several hundred women who, armed with clubs, were used as reserve members in gang fights against rival gangs...