I shoulda lived in the late 1800's!!!!!!!!!!!!

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In the 1800s Cowboy is something folks did when they couldn't find easier work. Cowboys were mostly teenagers who were killed by the weather. Not so romantic, however I still feed three horses every day.
 
LEO918 said:
In the 1800s Cowboy is something folks did when they couldn't find easier work. Cowboys were mostly teenagers who were killed by the weather. Not so romantic, however I still feed three horses every day.
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My horses wish they were fed three times a day. The price of hay has gotten so bad, they may go down to three times a week.
 
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Those born in the last quarter of the 1800s had a slim chance of making it past their 5th birthdays.
No pre-natal care, born at home with little trained help, no antibiotics, and Mom stood a good chance of not surviving too.
Where are you wanting to live? In the towns maybe better chances of getting by. Out in the wild, watch out for the other predators, with two or four legs.
Now my personal fantasy. I remember seeing on TV a tale of a Guard tank crew coming to the rescue at the Little Big Horn.
 
I think some people have romanticised ideas of the past simply because that's when their favourite guns came out, or the way that the guns were made; there was plenty of junk around
 
We all like to fantasize of going back in time with modern weapons. But the indians would probley like that idea too!
We dream of the freedom of "Roaming". Remember this. Even the indians didnt roam without bounds. The tribes had their own areas that respected each others bounderys. If not, they wared. The mountain men and trappers etc went in strong groups well armed for the times.
Would it be much different today if a group of say 7 or 9 guys formed themselves together and traveled together not respecting property rights? They soon would be fighting swat teams and the national guard plus being sniped at by the property owners!
When I was a boy in the 40s my folks had a pretty old couple that were close friends to them that would come over to visit. I think the old man was a BIL to a aunt of my dad`s or something. Anyway this old boy had been in the army under blackjack pershing and had chased poncho villa around. I belive it was before that, that he told of being with a group of friends and they roamed the colorado rockys just hunting and he claimed they didnt see a road in a year!
 
Amazon.com: The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible! (9780394709413): Otto Bettmann: Books

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I bought this book for my dad about when it first came out, around 1975 - he was born in 1907 (the year Oklahoma became a state) and died in '78. I don't know if he ever read it or not, but I went through it cover-to-cover a number of times. I always think of when people talk about how great it would have been to live in the old days, or how terrible things are now.

FYI, the cover is a little hard to make out in this picture. The main pic is of fine folks visiting the beach at Coney Island where animal corpses and other offal float in the water, as a garbage barge steams by. The little oval picture on the left is of a smoke-belching, fire-causing steam engine (which were prone to exploding when commonly overpressured) the picture on the right is a dangerous, gigantic tramp, stalking neighborhoods and inciting terror. "Tramp tramp tramp - here comes the tramp!"
 
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NE450No2 said:
As the other posters have stated, while there are some attractive things about the late 1800's, I do not think I would want to go back to those times.

Like others several times I have spent a month to a little over 2 months in the wilderness , sometimes in 3rd World countries.

With some modern stuff, and modern preperation.

Untill you have spent a lot of time with out electricity, air conditioning, central heat, referigeration for food [ice for the Scotch...] etc...

Also, I now live in the country, and durring the winter 85% to 90% of my heat, for my house comes from my wood stove.

Plus in the late 1800's there were No 1911's or No S&W Mod 29's...

WHO would want to live without THEM????
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Doughnuts...coffee stands....grocery stores...Shari's pie...the list is endless. I've done rondy's, ren faires, reenactment, and it's fun to play but I don't want to live in those times!
 
I recall a sign I saw in a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour years ago. It said:
"THESE are the Good Old Days."
 
I don't think I'd want to live in those times, especially where I live now. I live in an area that was a hotbed of Comanche raids, murders, and horse thefts. A frontier settler was very likely to be killed and dismembered by the Indians. The children were often stolen and reared as slaves. No, not a good place to be - but it would have been nice to stock up on all these $17.00 Colt Peacemakers!
 
cass said:
I don't think I'd want to live in those times, especially where I live now. I live in an area that was a hotbed of Comanche raids, murders, and horse thefts. A frontier settler was very likely to be killed and dismembered by the Indians. The children were often stolen and reared as slaves. No, not a good place to be - but it would have been nice to stock up on all these $17.00 Colt Peacemakers![/QUOTE

I remember my great uncle telling about making 20 cents a day driving a 4 horse team hauling lumber in the late 1890s. That would take a long time to get $17. Larry
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OK, reading all of this I get an conclusion.

If we have had all the mentality of the good old days in the present days we have had all a good day now.
 
I think the final test would be to know if the people were happier in that era or in this. Unfortunatly how would we know? We do know that there has been huge strides in medicine, I think we can agree with AC.
I think the body adapted to heat more than we tend to recall if you lived in those days. I well remember liveing without AC or indoor plumbing. I think that years ago people simply visited far more with each other than now. Maybe these chat sites somehow replace some of that. I recall that we knew our neighbors far better, reconised many more people when you went to town and more friends and relatives were always pulling up in the driveway. It seemed friends and relatives helped each other out of friendship more and there wasnt a price tag on it.
I started out in a very rual area but ended up doing my career in crowded southern california. Retired here to utah and it was like stepping back in time 50 years as far as waiting in lines etc go`s.
Go to DMV or whatever and it`s like, where ya been? We been wainting for you! Instead of make a appointment, take a number and wait a couple hours!
Maybe a lot or all of this depends on where you live even today, and probley it did a 150 years ago too. You could have stayed in boston as a ganymede or enlist with lewis and clark.
 
Wells Boys,

I've lived out-of-doors, slept on the ground, forked a horse everyday and cooked on an open fire for months
at a stretch...I wouldn't take a million dollars for those experiences.
But, wouldn't I give ya a nickle for some more of it neither!

I ain't quite turned into a town dog jest yet, wife likes town livin'...I don't like bein' crowded up, jest to say the least.

Do like being able to walk out on the veranda and pop a few caps off'n the porch with the grandsons.


Can't do that in town, cause someone keeps calling the law on me, everytime...;):D


Su Amigo,
Dave
 
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100+ years from now someone will say they should have been born in the early 21st century... to return to the ruggged individualism and freedom to chose what book to read and what to learn, instead of the Knowledge Chip implanted at birth. Others will point out how horrible it was to live with cancer, diabetes and all the other diseases of those past times.

Meanwhile... the great great great grandchildren of the Gorilla will be issuing Reminders to Wyatt's descendants that politics is a banned topic... (some things never change ;))
 
Dave sed,
I've lived out-of-doors, slept on the ground, forked a horse everyday and cooked on an open fire for months
at a stretch...I wouldn't take a million dollars for those experiences.
But, wouldn't I give ya a nickle for some more of it neither!

I have done the same thing as he did and I couldn't express my sentiments any better than he did.
 
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Some of us are older to different degrees. I was born in 41. From my view I liked the 40s, 50s and early 60s. It seems to me things really started to go to hell in the mid 60s and it`s been getting worse ever since. If thats so, what started it? Seems to me it was durring viet nam, all the long haired protesters and the catering to them. I didnt get in on it, but the "free sex", pot use, reverse discrimnation laws, disrespect of LEO and military and all other authority, freak show dress, forced tollerance towards gays, womans pro choice, disrespect of all old heros as in the founding fathers, john wayne, old westerns replaced with jerry springer and ellen degenerate, everything our men fought against and died for meaning socialism or downright communism tolerated and accepted, unbrideled spending and welfare, loose morals incouraged old good morals laughed at, immigration laws unenforced, parents stopped by new laws from discipling their kids, green peace getting their way over all reason, I better quit now.
What started all this?
 
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