(mid)western blog

deserts, cowfolks, and americana |21|

[beyondtheadobe]

navajo woman, shiprock, circa 1913

[speedyz3]

Coyote and the stars. One of the coolest pictograph panels along 9 mile canyon here in Utah. It is called the world’s longest art gallery. There are so many pictograph panels along this drive, this is one of my personal favorites. They are the work of the Fremont and Ute tribes that inhabited the area thousands of years ago.

[jadiaashley]

wow

[wehavemoremojave]

spilled jelly on the ground last night and realized someone else would enjoy cleaning it up

[wehavemoremojave]

ZIPPOS are here ok I post photos after work 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 YAY

[wehavemoremojave]

people in an instagram comments section are calling tumblr antiblack that's how bad it is here 😭😭😭

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

once you notice half of all memes are just a picture of a black person with unrelated text over them you really cannot unsee it

[wehavemoremojave]

soooo excited for my Zippos I love auctions

[thelostcanyon]

El Capitan, an exposed limestone Permian reef and the southern terminus of the Guadalupe Mountains, Culberson County, Texas.

[la-muse-noire]

Out west in bloom, Devynn Barnes, 2024

[wehavemoremojave]

gotta say after attending quite a few left wing rallies/protests in my area and listening to speeches our local anarchists are kinda limp-wristed for a diverse leftist college town

[wehavemoremojave]

I'm so excited I'm about to win a zippo lot in an auction 😁😁😁😁😁

I've been biding my time for years waiting for the right time to buy and I'm getting THREE Zippos for $24!!!!!

[budyak]

Semi wild horses of the New Forest National Park

[bogmancomic]

day 4 Tie a Yellow Ribbon

[thelostcanyon]

Looking north from the Vista Trail in the red rock country near Sedona, Arizona.

[pacogabby]

American bison with his scratching rock.

Antelope Island State Park, Utah.

[creatingblackcharacters]

It's always hard reading about the violence committed to steal America, but the buffalo is always like... That's some inhuman shit. Everyone is burning in hell for that one. Wdym there were thirty to sixty MILLION buffalo in 1800, and by 1900 there were only 300 left. THREE HUNDRED. Do you know, can you fathom the amount of purposeful cruelty required to kill NINETY NINE PERCENT of a population of an animal, just to spite and murder the living Native people who existed and thrived with them? All this, for White Power and Entitlement?? Sickening.

[thaumbody]

Don't forget some of the other native animals that were rendered extinct in the U.S. for economic reasons, such as

The following mammals:

Atlantic Gray Whale Eschrichtius robustus, 1760;

Sea Mink Neogale macrodon, 1860;

Gull Island Vole, 1900;

Goff's Pocket Gopher, 1955; Tacoma Pocket Gopher, 1962;

Eastern Cougar Puma concolor couguar, 1938;

Kenai Peninsula Wolf Canis lupus alces 1915;

Southern California Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis macrotis, 1903;

Two Canis rufus subspecies - Florida Black Wolf Canis rufus floridanus, 1920s; Gregory's Wolf Canis rufus gregoryi, 1930;

These Canis lupus subspecies - Mogollon Mountain Wolf Canis lupus mogollonensis, 1935; Southern Rocky Mountain Wolf Canis lupus youngi, 1935; Cascade Mountain Wolf Canis lupus fuscus 1940; Texas Gray Wolf Canis lupus monstrabilis, 1942;

California Grizzly Bear Ursus arctos horribilis, 1924

Caribbean Monk Seal Neomonachus tropicalis, 1922;

Black Footed Ferret Mustela nigripes, 1987 (in wild) reintroduced 1991;

Wapiti aka Eastern Elk Cervus canadensis canadensis, 1867, reintroduced 1912; Also rendered extinct in 1902 in Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas;

And these birds:

Great Auk Pinguinus impennis, 1852;

Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius, in wild 1900, in captivity, 1914;

Carolina Conure Conuropsis carolinensis, in wild 1904, in captivity 1918;

American Ivory Billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis principalis, 1944 with unconfirmed audio from 2007;

Imperial Woodpecker Campephilus imperialis, 1956;

San Clemente Wren Thryomanes bewickii leucophrys, 1968;

Socorro Dove Zenaida graysoni, 1972;

Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis, 1987 in Nebraska, 1996 in Manitoba;

Dusky Seaside Sparrow, 1987 at Walt Disney World;

Bachman's Warbler Vermivora bachmanii, 1988;

I could go on, and on, and on about the all of the other species of animals, plants, and fungi, but you get the picture.

I hope.