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Sep 16, 2023Liked by William Hogeland

Couldn't comment on the earlier page, but I loved your disassociation of cowboy hats from conservatism. (And not only because I wore one in youth.)

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Thought of you while I was writing it--the lone cowboy hat, freshman year.

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Sep 21, 2023Liked by William Hogeland

I wondered if you did. Part of my embarrassing youth I keep trying to forget. But you partly redeemed it for me.

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Thanks for this helpful corrective. The Amnesty Act should be 1872, no?

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Fixed--I spend too much time in the 18th.

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