The ancestors of today's Americans began their westward trek many, many years ago. But today's historian has almost no interest in most of that westward movement, the part that took place before they crossed the Atlantic into America. Few of today's Americans are aware that most of the real and historical "Wagons West!" saga ever took place.

For thousands of years, the ancestors of today's white Americans traveled from the ancient Indo-European homeland somewhere far to the east of Poland. They migrated steadily west and south from there. Our Indo-European ancestors moved steadily westward into Europe.

Only after they had been in Western Europe for many, many centuries did a part of this Indo-European people go on to settle America.

Americans who arrived on these shores over a century and a half ago would not have recognized ancient Roman or Egyptian or Grecian housing and clothing. But the homes of the Germanic and Celtic "barbarians" would have looked very familiar indeed.

The "barbarians'" clothing was not the togas or robes of Greece or Rome, much less that of Egypt. They wore shirts and pants. An old Celtic outfit looks like a suit of primitive but very recognizable Western clothing.

But our children are taught that THEIR ancestors had no history. History comes from Egypt, up through Greece and Rome, and on to our brutish, scarcely human ancestors in Northern Europe.

Back in the real world, real Western history goes back to a westward trek our American ancestors would have readily recognized.

We have no idea when the first wagon set out.

We do know that the first wagon journey that led to to today's America was at least four thousand years ago. Some of our ancestors were probably called "Scythians" in the ancient Middle East. They brought the wheel to Egypt. Before them, the Egyptians had no wheel. Egypt had no iron until another group of people rolled south, an Indo-European group called the Hittites, and brought it with them. In fact, there is no real evidence that the Egyptians' rigid, priest-ridden, pyramidal society ever INVENTED anything.

Egyptian history is filled with these northern invasions. Greek history is also a series of northern invasions. Then Roman history becomes a series of northern invasions. In fact, the Italic tribes, some of whom became Romans themselves, were almost certainly northern invaders into the Italian peninsula before history takes note of them.

But the people who rolled into Egypt and into Greece and into Rome were not only from the north, but from the northeast as well. They rolled into Iran about two thousand years Before Christ and the name "Iran" -- as you probably know -- means "Aryan." Aryan is also the word those who invaded India from the north and set up the caste system called themselves.

"Caste" is a Portuguese word. The old Indian word for caste is "varna," which means "color."

All of these groups were part of the great movement of the same people, the people the ancients called "Scythians" and "barbarians." Other branches of this same westward drive ended up in America and bred you and me.

Ireland was named "Erin" by the Celts for exactly the same reason that "Iran" and the Indian "Aryans" got their names. Erin, Iran, Aryan -- they are all the same name. One of the great linguistic discoveries of the nineteenth century was that many words from ancient Persian and ancient Indian, or Sanskrit, are almost exactly the same as the same words in English, Old Irish (Gaelic), German, Greek, Latin, Russian and all the languages related to them.

And what is the excuse for this total perversion of history? It is the same one that pops up everywhere else in our perverted society: Hitler talked about Aryans, so anybody who traces their history this way is anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

Before World War II, the settlement of America was looked upon by most historians as one more phase of this long, long westward movement of the "Aryans" or Indo-Europeans which began thousands of years ago.

In fact, descriptions of the Celtic and Germanic "barbarians" moving down toward Rome sound very familiar today. Those gigantic wagon trains looked a lot like older versions of the Conestoga wagons that reached California. They were.

Nothing that the Romans ever wore is as familiar to us as the pants and shirts the Celtic invaders wore. And the houses they built two millennia ago look very much like European housing a century ago. They were the same types of houses we have today.

Before World War II, the millennia of Indo-European wagon trains was routinely referred to by historians as "the great racial movement." The settlement of America was routinely referred to as simply an extension of the thousands of years of "racial movement." It moved from some unknown starting place of the Indo-European people somewhere east and north of today's Iran, and it conquered India and Western Europe. In fact, it conquered Western Europe many times, in wave after wave.

"Barbarians" rolling in from the east brought the original Romans - the speakers of "Italic languages." Then came the Celts.

Then came the Germans. Then the Slavs. As far as we know, they all came from same place because their languages are so closely related at the base. And the base of their languages is the also base of today's Hindi and Persian languages.

This real history of the push west, across half the globe, was a titanic adventure. It involved thousands of years of adventure.

The REAL HISTORY of OUR CHILDREN'S ancestors is absolutely fascinating, and the wagon trains of the Old West were simply an extension of it. That would FASCINATE our children. If today's history students could hear it, they wouldn't be bored sick in class. So why is it taboo?

The usual reason: mention of it now makes you anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

Hitler talked about Aryans and Aryan supremacy. So any discussion of the real history behind Western Civilization, exciting as it would be, is now condemned as Nazism.

Why do I bring all this up? First and foremost, I bring this up because a Nice Person is absolutely forbidden to discuss it. As you well know, I love offending the rigid taboos of our day, just for the fun of it if nothing else.

But, as always, I offend these taboos with a purpose in mind. It is to show why the history we have has so little to do with reality.

Instead of this great adventure, history talks about Aztec pottery and Incan pictures as if they were a part of real history. Any real history leading to modern society would be based on the thousands of years of our forgotten westward trek. But anything that is not Nazism has to show that all history comes more or less equally from All Mankind.

To keep from being naziswhowanttokillsixmillionjews, much of our history seldom touches on reality and is tortuous boredom for our children.