[pct-l] Early Mountain Men

[Reinhold Metzger]

  Is that so?....did you say Big Hummel made off with all the gold in 
the Sierra and now lives in a big house in an upscale suburb of Los  
Angeles?
Say Switchback,  I'm wondering....hhhmmmm....instead of trading Big 
Hummel to the Indians for horses and blankets or rocks....hhhmmm....I'm 
wondering if his wife would pay a big randsome if Big Hummel, let's say, 
got kidnapped at the Kick Off.
After all, they got tons of gold and Big Hummel is worth his weight in gold.
Lets see now.....at almost 7 feet he must weigh about 250 pounds.
Hhhmmm.....lets see now 250 x 16 = 4,000 ounces....gold is trading at 
$1,371 per ounce....hhhmmm....yes Switchback, I'm trying to figure this out.
Let's see now....4,000 x 1,371 = 5,484,000.
Holly Toledo....Big Hummel is worth  $5,484,000....boy, that will buy a 
lot of blankets

Say Switchback....psst,psst,psst.... you and I, we need to get together 
and figure this out...you know, how you and your gang of Trail Pirates 
are going to pull this of....but don't tell anybody about this, we need 
to keep this
a complete secret.

JMT Reinhold
Your partner in crime
----------------------------------------------------------------------
On 10/18/2010 4:53 PM, hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> Hula-Snow Bunny Reinhold writes: NO, NO, NO,....Switchback,  You have 
> it all wrong!!!
> That was not me, that was "BIG HUMMEL" (Strider). Big Hummel is almost 
> seven feet tall and the Indians would pay a premium for him.  I'm just 
> a little guy who would not fetch much....maybe one blanket.Now Big 
> Hummel, he would fetch a dozen blankets and a couple horses.
> ---------------------------------
> Switchback the Trail Pirate relies: You have a good point.  The Wagon 
> Master is hard to ignore and many have tried.  Actually, Strider would 
> rather be traded for a good load of rocks.  May be a ton of granite 
> and a ton of basalt.  Before he got civilized right after the last 
> Sierra Ice Age, he was known as Nitty Gritty Rocky.  Indians used to 
> sing songs to his prowlness and often referred to him as King Midas.  
> He had a trading post near today's Little Pete Meadows.  The remains 
> can be found if you know where to look.  How much gold he traded from 
> the Indians will never be known, but today there is hardly any gold 
> left in the Sierras.  And Strider lives in a big house in an upscale 
> suburb of the Los Angeles basin.  Go figure.
>
>