The Frontier Lives

[spywareonya 37,917]

Ok

Welcome everybody

 

I never told anybody the level of love I have for the Old West because it's so deep and morbid, that I treasured it and keep it in my heart for me alone

I am sharing this now, but have to implore you all to respect this thread

I love offtopics and wrote many threads about the differences between playful and fitting offtopics, and other unfitting

I have to ask you to be cute with me since I have a really astonishing love for this age

 

 

I visited expositions with stuff from personal collections, like true WANTED notifications and even the Concession from the newborn Government for people to harvest land toward the West

I talked to Natives, learnt their traditions, saw true ritualistic stuff and even actual guns belonged to famous gunfighters

I even saw the true manifesto outlawing Doc Holliday self-portraying as dentist to seduce women and rob casino ahahahahahaha

 

I want to invite here mainly  @steve25805 , @speedy3471 and @HammerheadPilot but whoever wanna partecipate is welcome

 

 

 

This thread will be about the following things:

 

True stories about the West, of any kind, from stories of places to stories of people

Pics of guns, people, places, animals

Infos, but only well sorted out and real, about economy, healthcare, Laws, lifestyles of that age

Recipes of that age

Sayings born in that age

Infos about tools of that ages, my favourite are guns and digging tools but anything is fitting

Personal accounts of modern forum users who can relate to the farmer/cowboy lifestyle and help us understand better the reality of people doing thus

To a lesser extent (and being cautious of offtopics because this subject could spawn them non-stop ahahahahah) important western movies, even more if realistic or about important events (like Tombstone with Kurt Russel and a ton of other great Actors, which is about The Gunfight at Ok Corral and the Earp War against the renegades Red Cowboys)

 

My love for the Frontier lifestyle is so deep that sometimes people joke on me saying I would have become a woman cowboy in that age, and indeed I got all that was important in those times, I love loneliness and freedom, I need very little luxuries even if I live in 2019, I am brave, idealistic, indeed quite violent, and pain, of both the body and the heart, doesn't scare me

 

But that time is more to me than a theorical escape from my current, spineless world, is a deep respect for something that seems to me so real, so entwined in all its gears and little realities, it gives me shivers

Welcome to the Westernmost border

The Frontier lives

Edited May 1, 2019 by spywareonya

[HammerheadPilot 1,004]

Tools???   Well, one that is not regularly thought of but WAS used then and is used to some extent still now is the scythe.  I use this tool now.   I did today, in fact.   It was used for mowing hay, primarily, but also for mowing yards around houses.  Also used for harvesting other crops. I use it because I sit behind a screaming engine all night long.   The LAST thing I want to do when I get home is push another one around my yard.   Plus, I like using tools from previous eras.  

[speedy3471 10,628]

4 minutes ago, HammerheadPilot said:

Tools???   Well, one that is not regularly thought of but WAS used then and is used to some extent still now is the scythe.  I use this tool now.   I did today, in fact.   It was used for mowing hay, primarily, but also for mowing yards around houses.  Also used for harvesting other crops. I use it because I sit behind a screaming engine all night long.   The LAST thing I want to do when I get home is push another one around my yard.   Plus, I like using tools from previous eras.  

I wouldn't want to cut hay with that all day either hahaha

[HammerheadPilot 1,004]

As you can see it does a good job...quietly and without the use of gasoline or diesel.   I use it to put up a little hay as somewhat of a relaxing hobby.   I only have one horse now and just a few goats, so I don’t need much.   As a tool to use, it’s relaxing. I can mow my entire yard and some pasture for hay without smelling exhaust fumes or hearing an engine.  I hear birds chirp.  Smell sweet, freshly cut grass.   It’s the perfect wind down in the morning after I get home from work.  

[speedy3471 10,628]

The colt single action revolver. Everyone likey had one of these. General Patton had a couple of these revolvers 

[HammerheadPilot 1,004]

1 minute ago, speedy3471 said:

I wouldn't want to cut hay with that all day either hahaha

You’d be surprised how easy it is and how much you get done.  An entire family using them?   I can see it being a VERY effective tool before power was available 

[speedy3471 10,628]

4 minutes ago, HammerheadPilot said:

You’d be surprised how easy it is and how much you get done.  An entire family using them?   I can see it being a VERY effective tool before power was available 

O for sure, a whole family using them would make short work of a hay field 

[spywareonya 37,917]

@HammerheadPilot

@speedy3471

 

Guys THANK YOU for all these so heartfelt contributions!!!

Holy fuck the Frontier LIVES for real!!!

The scythe is a great tool because it preserves the integrity of some nutrients in the plants it harvest, so to better feed animals and preserve them from illnesses connected with unproper feeding

Never forget horses, goats and cows were all free animals eating very different kind of grasses in very different places, so they should be considered as fragile as any other specie and feed fittingly

 

Indeed the physical labour is higher with scythe rather than modern tools but you must not forget the fact that sound and fumes exhaust the unconscious just as much and modifies our hormonal conditions, making us tired on quickier stance

So the two may really balance!!!

 

 

For the Colt, thank you for posting, it's Amazing, that pic is rare because photographs ot them are only from people taking pics of their private collections and putting them online

 

I will provide some posts myself as soon as possible, but you two completely got the spirit of this thread

Thank you!!!

Edited May 2, 2019 by spywareonya

[speedy3471 10,628]

5 minutes ago, spywareonya said:

@HammerheadPilot

@speedy3471

 

Guys THANK YOU for all these so heartfelt contributions!!!

Holy fuck the Frontier LIVES for real!!!

The scythe is a great tool because it preserves the integrity of some nutrients in the plants it harvest, so to better feed animals and preserve them from illnesses connected with unproper feeding

Never forgive horses, goats and cows were all free animals eating very different kind of grasses in very different places, so they should be considered as fragile as any other specie and feed fittingly

 

Indeed the physical labour is higher with scythe rather than modern tools but you must not forget the fact that sound and fumes exhaust the unconscious just as much and modifies our hormonal conditions, making us tired on quickier stance

So the two may really balance!!!

 

 

For the Colt, thank you for posting, it's Amazing, that pic is rare because photographs ot them are only from people taking pics of their private collections and putting them online

 

I will provide some posts myself as soon as possible, but you two completely got the spirit of this thread

Thank you!!!

Your welcome 

[steve25805 121,484]

I loved the film Dances with Wolves, in large part because unlike so many earlier westerns it portrayed the native Americans in a more realistic and sympathetic light.

One had a real sense of a way of life so very close to nature but under siege and doomed.

[spywareonya 37,917]

5 hours ago, steve25805 said:

I loved the film Dances with Wolves, in large part because unlike so many earlier westerns it portrayed the native Americans in a more realistic and sympathetic light.

One had a real sense of a way of life so very close to nature but under siege and doomed.

@speedy3471

@HammerheadPilot

 

The moment of that movie that never will slip outside from my memory, is when Costner is jailed and inquired and he gives up trying to make his former military superiors understand how wrong they are, and shouts out in Native Language "I am Dance-with-wolves!!! There's no point in talking to you!!!" and they look at him in disgust because he's speaking native

 

AMAZING

It completely made me to understand that some human are so blinded by their convicements that they are not humans anymore (scientifically speaking a human is supposed to change his mind from time to time), they are clockwork puppets

 

A native once explained me (and the rest of the audience, even TV was present at that exposition) that the Hot Dog comes from a tradition of his tribe, which in times of starvation resolved to hunt coyotes, which usually are spared for respect as Coyote is the main God of the Natives, and cooked them and then put them into some kind of bread they crafted from local herbs

Thus came out the idea of meat between two slices of bread, and its name

 

Fascinating story, isn't it?