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What is a Yanuck

roger dodger said:
Hey Yanuck, I am sure you have already said, but I am still fairly new on hear and would like to know. What does Yanuck mean? :? Have a good day. :) rd
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I have dual citizenship, born Canadian, naturalized American, so I threw Canuck and Yankee together....I'm a Yanuck!! :wink:
 
Yanuck said:
roger dodger said:
Hey Yanuck, I am sure you have already said, but I am still fairly new on hear and would like to know. What does Yanuck mean? :? Have a good day. :) rd
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I have dual citizenship, born Canadian, naturalized American, so I threw Canuck and Yankee together....I'm a Yanuck!! :wink:
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or a Canakee :P
 
Just had a thought being you live in Idaho now, you could start your own brand name of potatoes , "Yanuck spuds" I bet they would sell. :lol: :lol: :lol:rd
 
Richard Doolittle said:
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
But Idaho was neither Yankee nor Confederate.....
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Well, Canaho and Iduck didn't make very good combinations :lol: :lol:
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I don't know, Iduck has a ring to it!! :lol: Jersey, Americans are known throughout the world as Yankees or Yanks, doesn't seem to matter what side of the Civil War you were on :wink: plus I haven't lived in Idaho for my entire American career :lol: :lol:
 
Iduck......sorry when i first read it all I could hear was Quack Quack :shock:
But really Idaho was involved. I found this out when doing research on different towns. I will find the story when I get home from work but this shows how Idaho was formed based on fear. LOL

The history of Idaho in the American Civil War is atypical, as the territory was far from the battlefields.

At the start of the Civil War, modern-day Idaho was part of the Washington Territory. On March 3, 1863, the Idaho Territory was formed, consisting of the entirety of modern day Idaho, Montana, and all but southwest Wyoming. However, there were concerns about Confederate sympathizers in the eastern half of the territory, in what is present-day Montana. As a result, in 1863 Sidney Edgerton traveled quickly to see President Abraham Lincoln about the situation; this was one reason to split the Montana Territory from the Idaho Territory. The split also resulted in most of Idaho Territory's land consisting of modern-day Wyoming being reassigned to the Dakota Territory.[1]

Soldiers who served in Idaho did not fight against the Confederacy, but instead monitored traffic along the Oregon Trail and protected communications routes between the western and eastern United States. Fort Boise, at the site of the future capital of Idaho, was built during this period because of attacks against travelers on the trail.

The Bear River massacre took place on January 29, 1863, on what was thought to be the boundary of Washington Territory and Utah Territory near the present-day city of Preston in Franklin County, Idaho. On that date, 300 soldiers of the 3rd California Volunteer Infantry Regiment led by Colonel Patrick Connor slaughtered an encampment of at least 250 members of the Shoshone tribe; only about twenty Shoshoni men survived. This was in response to numerous attacks against white settlers in the previous year which were blamed on the Shoshone. The incident saw little coverage outside California and Utah, as most major newspapers were concerned with news of the main war fronts. The Bear River Massacre Site is currently a National Historic Landmark.[2][3][4]

There were some southerners in the territory at the time. Most had originally gone to California, and came to Idaho to pursue gold mining.[5]

After the war, Idaho attracted many veterans of the Union Army to the state, including several governors. An Idaho Soldiers Home was constructed during the 1890s. In the 20th century, the deaths of veterans routinely made the news. The last Civil War veteran to die in Idaho was Israel Broadsword in 1952.
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I know shoer takes pride in NOT being part of the "east problem" but we are finding Idaho was more involved than most people ever knew. Its neat listening to his stories he learned growing up there and finding what the real story and the politics behind them.
Now to make him a southern man .........hahahahahahahaha never happen :wink:
 
Friends of my parents moved from southern Ontario to Florida. He ran a small engine repair and she did the books and ran for parts. At one place picking up parts the fellow wondered where they were from. She told him but said they were getting American citizenship. He ask will that make you a Yankee or a Reb? She told him what ever you are is good enough for me. :-)
 

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