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The last actual cave man, not an indian but an actual cave
man... ISHI .... was found scrounging for meat at the Oroville
Calif slaughter house in 1911 or so... captured and taken to
to SF calif for study.
He lived 2 years before dying of white mans diseases.
Across from the slaughter house was a gold dredging pond, with
high clay banks from which we dove in...with cat fish it it
that we used to fish for...it was a very small but deep pond.
40' across or so. That was in the 1950's.
Down the hill by the feather river were burial mounds too old
to have been created by the indians endemic to the west for
the previous thousand years or so.
ISHI told the researchers all about the fights between the
cave men and the indians, and finally decimation of his family
by the white man.
In the 1950's we used to scout the caves ISHI lived in but did
not know at the time those were cave men, we assumed they were
indian caves...the story of ISHI was not well known then, it
had faded with history in just 40 years.
Back then the Indian motorcycle company built a v twin 500cc
bike, with external push rods and rocker arms... three remain,
I have one of them.. and a 1911 motorcycle mag featuring the
bike and the factory on the front cover etc. its good for 7
hp stock... the paths of mankind criss cross like that. Some
of the saloons from that era still operate in the region.
So now, its just 96 years later.... the only cave men left are
in the white house.
One of my first jobs was with Tom A Devol Company in Stockton
Calif. (heating and air outfit) Tom was an old board track
rider, from that era or 10 years later, the early
1900's...they did over 100 mph on the board tracks then
(steeply banked)... leather helmets. slivers were a nasty
hazard.
....Tom got on my new 500 triumph one day in 1965 or so, asked
where the shift lever was after feeling for it all over the
sides of the tank...
I showed him the foot shift...and told him first gear was
down.
He fired the bike, no helmet stabbed it into gear and took off
own the street into a blind left with curb... he hung the
wheels into the curb and railed the turn... drove off down
the street going through the gears.
he came back in about 10 minutes, asked how do you shut this
thing off... I showed him the key... he said 'nice bike'
That was Tom A DeVol ex board track racer, he died in the
70's.
He was not a cave man even though .... ISHI and his group
were still running loose back then but no one knew it and
there was no inter breeding. the cave men were hiding out
big time.
Now here we are today... a few thousand days later..... at the
absolute pinnacle of human evolution...
...... firing rockets at people in mud huts because they might
attack us with [censored] cab drivers. We would be much
better off if we spent the money shipping them free banana's
and ham on rye sandwiches that Wolfgang loved so much...
.......did Wolfie find the field sought by so many, the field
through which thought travels? No. But he and the boyz were
looking hard. In all the wrong places.
Maxwell, Faraday and Tesla though had the tools to deduce
that from their early work and subsequent successful
experiments on the speed of light and gravity.... in 1868.
...thats while the west was still being won by pilgrims, gun
slingers and drunks driving wagons.
today? We have no officially announced clue..
..... .but we have some nonofficially anounced clues...many of
which have been probed deeply from the 1940[s forward...
its nasty.
Would ISHI have been proud? No...he might have said
something like this 'my people died with the arrival and
inter breeding with the asians who migrated after the last ice
age across from Siberia.... combined our races died off with
the coming of the white man... none lasts forever'
So thats what ISHI would have said if he had the linguistics
functions required... from the same swimming hole ... and for
sure from the tops of some of the same burial mounds we
climbed as children. (packing heat by the way, we put bullet
holes in every mile marker up the feather river canyon rail
road right of way)
ISHI had none of that function though... he named himself
ISHI after a lot of research on him in San Francisco and
tutoring in language ... so that he could describe his history
to the researchers.
ISHI meant 'man' to him.
Pics of ISHI and his story on Google... many have died.
This old flat tracker though is still cooking it in the
turns...is there any money left? nah... but then the age of
closed circuit turboexpander applications will change all
that.
Us old flat trackers never die... some of us are even getting
better looking. take a look at Bob Nixon for example.
Pure perfection in humanity. thats because he doesn't take
any [censored] at all and he doesn't lie... brain function remains
flawless.
Those are some of the secrets of life.
Phil Scott