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Well, we do have lots of cows and horses. Real cowboys are sort of a dying breed in the era of subdivisions and corporate agriculture, but there are still a few around.
This makes me sad . I’m kind of a semi-serious western history buff . On the one hand I sympathize greatly with the Native indigenous people and the deal they got and on the other hand I idealize the frontier spirit of individualism that was here from the fur trapper days until the end of the open range . I think Lewis and Clark would cringe at what became of the wild lands they saw if they were alive today . Montana artist C.M. “Charlie” Russell pined away at the loss of the fence less open range . Watch the movies “Monte Walsh” - both versions , the 1970 Lee Marvin and the 2003 Tom Selleck ones - “Shane” , “Open Range” and “Dances With Wolves” . They all realistically (sort of) depict a vanished age that is lost to history . The photography in “Shane” is excellent and being done over 70 years ago is a glimpse into the tail end of the pre-commercialized days that would soon come . @WhistlingBadger is right that real cowboys are a dying breed . Yes , they still exist but only on hobby ranches and not the big corporate outfits . The day is fast approaching when cowboys will be just like SCA members recreating a bygone age for amusement . The west that you see in the Kevin Costner series “Yellowstone” is not real and nothing like it ever was or is . @GaryE is right too in that this period of history was short lived . The fur trapper era lasted about thirty years , the open range days lasted about thirty and the family farm and ranch days lasted about thirty to forty before the big boys really took over in the 1990’s . In my lifetime I’ve seen the small independent shop keepers and merchants get swallowed up by the chains and franchises and now the bigger corporations are eating the smaller ones . We are rapidly deteriorating toward a dystopian world like Bladerunner . Will things ever favor the independent individuals ever again ? Not if the Jeff Bezos and Elon Musks of the world have anything to say about it . And nobody pipes up and laments this or inspires change . Where is Edward Abbey ? We need him and those like him . Instead we idolize politicians and movie stars .
Well yeah. You and Back in the Fold and Jaylach and Lavender - that's a crew gathering water change buckets by the waterhole and eating beans around the campfire like in Blazing Saddles.
We don't have those...LOL! I think it was meant as a joke... Swedish Fish are a gummy candy. @Back in the fold lives in the U.S..
You are VERY lucky to live where you do in that part of Wyoming . There are still wild places there and you are even more lucky that you can make a living and stay there and raise a family there . Where I live up here in Montana I can still find little pockets of wild places that are really not far out of town . Everybody heads for the mountains and the popular trails but nobody goes out on the prairies and badlands . There’s places I can go , like you , where I don’t see anybody at all for long stretches and I like that . Don’t see any cars and don’t hear anything but birds and the wind .
Sadly , no . I even fear for the National Parks . If I heard right they’re pushing for more helicopter flights over the parks and the tourism industry is always wanting more and more hotels , gas stations , souvenir stands and restaurants . The National Parks will be big outdoor Disneylands in less than fifty years . The capitalist corporate politicians will sell off the wilderness to logging , mining and tourism interests and what little is left will be playgrounds for the beautiful people . Your Grandchildren and mine will be like Edward G. Robinson in “Soylent Green” having only a dim memory of what the earth used to be like .
Depressing, curmudgeonly musings aside...what a cutie.
Just be sure of the sequence on the head bolts...
Yes. Wouldnt want to warp the head.
