I'm sure there's a population threshold where somebody wouldn't feel the need to list the county anymore, like for the biggest 10 or 20 cities or so.
Also, is it common to respond with just a county when you're asked where you're from? At least in the US it's pretty common to just say your home state when asked that question.
Just curious!
Bumper to bumper e’erywhere
Ps don’t charge your Tesla at the Madonna inn if you are traveling here lol the line is over 15 cars per station
That's basically all I can remember. I found the song years ago in an askreddit thread about sad songs and that song was linked there.
western book, 70's or 80's, based loosely on ghost town of Helena, TX. Main characters son is killed, "I will kill this town", main character sells land super cheap to railroad, new city is founded and becomes county seat, thus killing the other town. title might be Spanish for some sort of bird of prey/the main character is referred to this way. It was a paperback, don't remember the look of the book. I believe the author had written several western novels. I read this book 2 years ago while i was in the hospital. The main character preaches to his partner that he should invest in land. Takes place before and after the civil war. The narrator is wounded, I believe in the leg during the war. Book was approximately 100-150 pages long, single spaced and very small print though.
Hopefully that title is descriptive enough
"The first bit of bad luck came in 1892 when the courthouse at Beverly was destroyed by fire. A new one was immediately begun and so was an agitation among the people of the Elkins section. They wanted the courthouse at Elkins. The county officials proceeded with construction and the new courthouse was completed in 1897. But the Elkins enthusiasts demanded an election to determine the site of the county seat. They lost in the first election, for a majority of three- fifths was required, and they appealed to the Supreme Court of West Virginia. They lost a second election, and, according to the county court, a third. The third was appealed to the State's supreme tribunal and the decision of the county court was reversed. Elkins won the courthouse in 1900.
But Beverly and Elkins had not been quiet during this series of elections and court decisions. Feeling between the two towns was bitter. Rumors of armed citizenry marching on the county seat to capture the county records flew thick and fast. Friends in the two towns no longer saw each other and business between the residents came to a standstill. Beverly people stayed at home at night for they felt that that was the safest place. Men who had served in "The War" got the Beverly people together and formed a military company, throwing up entrenchments about the clerk's office. Armed guards stood ready to protect the county's - and Beverly's - public property. Pickets were placed at distances of half-mile intervals for two miles down the Beverly Pike toward Elkins. And then, in 1897, the courthouse was mysteriously burned.
The clerk's office and the records were saved. Beverly still had something to fight for. The feud continued. In the spring of 1900 feeling had reached a breaking point. Elkins patriots chartered a special train to the county seat and more than five hundred Elkins men, armed with every kind of a weapon, waited to climb aboard.
Beverly had not refought the Civil War in vain. Squire John DeWitt, an Elkins magistrate who favored the Beverly side of the question, rode madly into Beverly howling at the top of his voice that "The Hessians are coming." Randolph people had not forgotten the Revolution either. And Beverly rallied round. Armed with muskets that had seen duty in other wars, one hundred and fifty brave men advanced to the old trenches at Mount Iser and took their places where Imboden's men had stood to repel an invasion thirty-nine years before.
But the invasion never came. Older a
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