2016-03-19 18:53
I spent some time at Whiteclay when I was stationed at Cheyenne Bottoms, but found myself visiting the village, itself, regularly after I had been transferred to Fort Omaha. This was before… Read More
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The Cheyenne Bottoms Neighborhood Compound is a government sponsored gated and domed city in the Heartland located near Great Bend, Kansas in the year 2030. This blog features the erratic entries in the journal of a guardsman stationed there.
2016-03-19 18:53
I just wanted to take a break from Cheyenne Bottoms and Fort Omaha to acknowledge the passing of Kurt Vonnegut. I loved most of what he wrote and I'll miss his presence on the planet Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
You need to know that I wrote these journals as a younger man, often in the dead of night while on guard duty, and mostly for myself. The decision to post them on a blog for others to r… Read More
2006-08-21 14:32
Welcome to the Cheyenne Bottoms Neighborhood Compound Blog. Stay awhile and read some of the latest materials I've posted. This blog will normally have about two dozen of the latest entries… Read More
2006-08-04 19:03
The Farmer and Cleo moved on shortly after that weekend, but we'd see them again ever couple months or so, mostly for just a visit. Getting to know them was actually a great experience and t… Read More
2006-08-04 19:02
White Buffalo didn't need that money, or the animosity -- and of course he could only really spend it with us in some manner any way (or trade it), because it came as a certain amount presen… Read More
2006-08-04 19:01
Now money changed hands on The Farmer's matches. On both sides. I personally don't gamble, but Johnny Ray bet against Brown on one match and lost a 1000 government credits. But White Buffalo… Read More
2006-08-01 15:02
Which, of course, is what it was all about. Cleo circled around the mat for a minute or two, hands held high proclaiming victory, and then suddenly as the Haggard sound track went silent, an… Read More
2006-08-01 15:00
And then, when all three of the challengers had come and gone in various states of shock and embarrassment -- The Farmer raised his hands in the air and asked the crowd if they wanted to see… Read More
2006-08-01 14:54
Farmer Brown let out a giant cry of anguish and attempted to shake Cleo loose from his body -- and we were laughing at this point, so exaggerated were their movements -- we were watching a d… Read More
2006-08-01 14:54
But now the tiny Cleopatra jumped up from the mat, grabbed ahold of his suspenders from behind -- this small female effectively turning the giant around quickly and abruptly, and continued t… Read More
2006-08-01 14:53
And at this offer Cleo turned all worried and concerned and quickly got down on her knees and pleaded with the Farmer to go back home (wherever that was?), give up rassling altogether as he… Read More
2006-08-01 14:50
The music changed to Haggard’s "Momma Tried", and The Farmer made a quick entrance onto the mat, doing a couple of mid-air somersaults, which for a man of his size was quite remarkable… Read More
2006-08-01 14:49
We were all sweating buckets that evening. And swatting mosquitoes, because even if that darn moat was poisoned, it didn’t seem to bother the insect population at all. We had set up th… Read More
2006-08-01 14:48
The loud speakers mounted atop the motor home blared "The Fightin’ Side of Me", courtesy of Merle Haggard, as Cleo came prancing out about sundown that Saturday night. She was an act a… Read More
2006-08-01 14:47
Farmer brown traveled throughout the great plains in those days, rassling where he could -- usually up against a big, local boy. And money changed hands for sure on these bouts. … Read More
2006-07-24 20:33
It was on one of these traffic cop assignments that I first met the guy who called himself Farmer Brown. And the petite Blonde who traveled with him - Cleo. They were driving an ancient, smo… Read More
2006-06-12 13:35
I think maybe I haven’t mentioned it, but all of us guards had to do a couple of days a month traffic cop duty. Yeah, I know — the Rangers pretty much patrolled the area of… Read More
2006-05-12 20:57
Since The Bottoms was in Barton County, and in the general Great Bend, Kansas, area, I've spent some time researching the history of the region. It's kind of interesting to me.It turns out t… Read More
2006-05-12 14:23
This old guy Turner, as I have said, was kind of hard to figure out, but Johnny Ray and I enjoyed spending some time with him and his vegetable garden. It turns out that he never left… Read More
2006-05-11 14:13
I think I mentioned way early on in these journals the fact that I wouldn’t have put it past Uncle Sam to check our shit to see if we had been eating anything that we shouldn’t&n&hell…Read More
2006-04-12 14:53
The Cheyenne Bottoms area was surrounded by lots of old oil wells, all silent. And plenty of storage tanks, too -- with a rumored system of underground pipe lines connecting many of the oil… Read More
2006-04-12 14:49
Kansas had a federal penitentiary called Fort Leavenworth in years past. It was maximum security, forty feet tall and forty feet underground if you can believe that (according to the informa… Read More
2006-04-12 14:47
Note: this journal probably would have never been made public if the government had not showed reluctance to help members of Troop C of the 167th Calvary plan a reunion for those who served… Read More
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