What the Crud? Is this the Punitive Expedition Day by Day Blog or something?

 Machine gun troop in Mexico.

Um, no, it isn't.

But, the Punitive Expedition inspired, in a big way, the creation of this blog, or rather it inspired the work that gave rise to this blog. And so now that the Punitive Expedition of 1916 is a century past, it's a good time to explore it, and sometimes on a day by day basis.

Now, we have done a day by day blog before, and we will not be doing that. Rather, we will be putting up some Punitive Expedition events as they happen, and may, or may not, be running the local newspaper until it quits having the expedition on the front page, although having said that, I'm not sure when that really occurs.  It won't cover the daily events in the Punitive Expedition in depth for each day, but it will try to give a bit of a day in the life flavor to some days, or try to.

The first entry on this blog stated:

Lex Anteinternet?

The Consolidated Royalty Building, where I work, back when it was new.

What the heck is this blog about?

The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?

Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book I've been pondering. And part of it is just because I'm curious. Hopefully it'll generate enough minor interest so that anyone who stops by might find something of interest, once it begins to develop a bit.

So, that's the purpose of the blog as originally stated. And as frequently stated on this blog the era it focuses on, or attempts to, is the first several decades of the 20th Century and the last of the 19th, although it strays from that focus a lot.  No doubt it'll continue to stray even as it details the events of 1916.

But the teens are a particular focus.  And the Punitive Expedition is a particular interest.  So we're running that story, century delayed, sort of in real time.  It won't be the only thing from 1916 that shows up as we do that.  But it will be appearing quite a bit, and for awhile, on a daily basis, along with other items.  We hope you enjoy the entries.