No Geronimo! Plus Texas fails to turn bullshit into gold
Posted by: Chris Hails in Cattle, Indian, Texas, Western Icons Add comments
Two good wild west related stories on the Beeb site this week worth reporting. First off is the matter of the theft of Geronimo’s skull.
This is a case that at first glance would seem to be nothing more than a hoax but due to the involvement of a secret society, the story has grown wings over the last century.
There is some history of deception associated with the famed Indian chief, the most notable being the recovery by the FBI of the leader’s ceremonial headdress when the article decorated with eagle feathers was put up for sale.
Prospecting for brown gold
The second story is concerned with the race to develop alternative fuels, in this case turning manure into ethanol.
“Over the last 20, 30 years, there’ve been lots of people with new ideas - pie in the sky ideas - about how we were going to use manure but, at the end of the day, the best thing we use it for is fertiliser.”
Let’s hope Hereford - ‘Beef Capital of the World’ - does one day get to be the renewable energy capital of Texas.
