Al Toapla and the Soda Bucks

One of the craziest scenes from the book, which I'll share. This would be Jared Diamond's theory from guns, germs and steel. And there's like llamas, you can't do a ton with, with them. Al Paca, similar sort of deal. So spanners show up on horses and they've got more advanced metal, more advanced weaponry. It's like aliens showed up or something.

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