"Crazy Truths About the Wild West" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Oct 2016 12:29 p.m. PST |
"It's said that truth is stranger than fiction. What gets left out is that it's often a whole lot more disappointing. Take the Wild West: we like to think we have a pretty good idea of what the frontier was like—punching cows and shooting cheats in places with names like Drunkman's Creek and Dead Squaw's Buttocks. But it turns out the reality of cowboy life was way less romantic and way more prone to stuff like STDs. It seems our mental picture of the Old West is missing important little details like…"
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| Pan Marek | 20 Oct 2016 2:30 p.m. PST |
But you can't make movies about working your a__ off in godawful conditions 6 days a week. |
| badger22 | 21 Oct 2016 7:49 a.m. PST |
6 hell! More like 7 most weeks. I grew up on a working cattle ranch, left as soon as I graduated from highschool, joined the army after wasting time in college, AND never regretted leaving the glamorous of cow  and cranky horses. A movie about real cowpunchers would be a box office bomb. owen |
| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2016 12:23 p.m. PST |
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| capncarp | 22 Oct 2016 10:18 p.m. PST |
"The Cowboys" with John Wayne and Bruce Dern seemed relatively non-romantic, with some really scummy cowpokes plotting to steal the Duke's herd.
And "Rawhide" as a series did not make cattle driving look like a whole bunch o' fun. |
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