>finish red dead redemption
>watch a load of spaghetti westerns
>fall in love with the wild west
>tfw you will never get to shoot mexican bandits
>tfw you will never have a cosy ranch
>tfw you cant ride horses into town and go to the saloon
>tfw you cant ask some cunt to step outside for pistols at dawn
>tfw my ancestors never got on the boat and stayed in england like total fags
is there anything left of the old west, burgers? are places like tombstone worth visiting now?
I was just in Deadwood South Dakota this past summer.
You could legitimately live like a Cowboy on a ranch in Montana or Wyoming or something. You could even carry a six shooter on your hip if you wanted. Although you will probably shoot meth addicts instead of Mexicans.
not much of that world left but you can go on these horse riding ranch vacations in the western states
Pretty sure that part of history has been heavily romanticized.
it makes me sad desu watching the good the bad and the ugly and then looking back to how america looks like now. Fuck man
In some sense. There was a lot less killing compared to what was advertised. The so called Wild West was actually extremely safe. Although from what I read.. during certain periods there were real problems with Indian raids on settlements.
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all eras get that treatment to a degree i guess?
but its a cool era none the less,europe tends to bash on america for having no history or culture but though the old west is pretty modern compared to the era of kings and queens and knights and shit its still a rich one.
same,men where men and women where women and the people knew their place
no trans polysexual attack choppers either
I would imagine being a Bounty Hunter in the old west would be at least on par with most anything from a pure fantastical historical badass kinda way.
I would imagine they probably would legitimately get into many gun fights.
You can buy some cheap land in the middle of no where and start ranching today. Like literally right now. But you won't because you're lazy and prefer to work an easy wage job instead.
>tfw this is me.
Although we have a family farm so I can enjoy country living within a short drive. You have never lived until you have saw your beast of an uncle punch a cow in the fucking face for jumping on one of his cars and denting the piss out of it.
most likely,the old west existed due to colonization outpacing civilization by a large margin
its one of the reasons you still have guns desu,the land mass is so big its tough for 1 entity to keep law and order across the entire continent,so personal defence is a must...i think its called an "honour culture" where the individual takes primary responsibility over their safety rather than a govt,where ours is the other way around.
where its easier to keep control of a tiny island like ours hence cameras everywhere and no guns and a police state.
i know bounty hunters still exist even today in america,there is TV shows over here about a guy called "dog the bounty hunter" etc
would of been cool to see life back in those days.
Someone told me those duels at high noon never happened and its a hollywood invention and I got seriously triggered.
Do you have bounty hunters in the UK? Because in the U.S. you can legitimately become a bounty hunter and carry a firearm and everything.
Not entirely sure on the requirements.
no its outlawed,you must pass all info to the police lol
I don't know about high noon but whomever told you that is full of fucking shit. Duels are older than America and the practice last well into the late 19th century (maybe the early 20th?).
The only ones documented were of course duels involving famous/infamous individuals.
>tfw you will never get to shoot mexican bandits
>tfw you will never have a cosy ranch
>tfw you cant ride horses into town and go to the saloon
Move to rural Southwestern Texas and you can! :D
>tfw chasing illegals off the ranch last weekend
Wasn't actually shooting at them but still. :D
It's me too. Its pretty much all of us who aren't ranchers.
>wasn't actually shooting at them
Wow, what a faggot.
>There was a lot less killing compared to what was advertised. The so called Wild West was actually extremely safe.
well that's quite a claim, can you back it up?
Are you not afraid the Mexicans will come slit your throat in your sleep? I hope you have some good guard dogs.
I have an inheritance coming my way soon. I hope to use the money to buy a few acres and erect a few homes on the property. I will rent the homes to people that compliment what trades of which I am incompetent - automechanic, general contractor, farmer, etc - and allow bartering goods/services in exchange for rent. Each home will be built specifically tailored to the planned resident. For example, I will put the mechanic in a home with a three car garage.
Solid idea?
there is historic proof im sure
dueling was a big thing in europe for 100s of years prior,infact when the most earyest of laws was being laid down in the ancient british isles one was
"if you want to kill someone who wronged you you must wait 3 days and if so then proceed"
talking about over 1000 years ago though.
dueling in the town square over leader disputes and other matters crops up in viking culture and pistols at 10 places shows up in english and french history also,even spain had fencing duels
so to say the yanks didnt copy it is farfetched
Actually yeah, as much as borderlands in TX are great for it, Montana or Wyoming are far better. Montana is absolutely beautiful wide open wilderness as far as the eye can see. And all the small abandoned (or not) gold mines only lend to that old western feel. Also the fact you will get shot for trespassing. :D
One of our presidents had a legit pistol duel
I love the good the bad and the ugly but Outlaw Josie Wales is my favorite ever.
Unforgiven was cool too.
Well I didn't really want to kill anyone lol, just popped off a few rounds to scare 'em.
If they had been poaching it'd have been a different story.
Plenty of articles if you google a bit. independent.org
Modern inner cities are hell on earth compared to classic America not counting the civil war.
Nevada is about as wild as America gets. There are 150 mile stretches of nothing, and most of it is federal land. There was a plane crash south of Reno a few years ago. It took search parties 2 weeks to find the crash site.
>even spain had fencing duels
russia, germany and hungary too, probably most places in yurop
You know in Nazi Germany before the war they still had duels
Definitely. I live in North Dakota and I would love to live in Montana. I just love everything about that state. It truly feels like you are one with nature in that state.
lol nah they're like most wild animals, more afraid of you than you are of them.
>a bunch of Italians pretending to be Mexicans
>a movie about stealing a huge pile of gold in the middle of a fierce civil war battle taking place in the middle of Texas for no reason
It's a great movie, but it's got pretty much no grounding in any kind of reality
This. The gun violence gets overemphasized and the lone cowboy archetype isn't very realistic, but for the most part I feel like most Americans have a fairly decent idea of what life was like during that period.
Except Adam Cuckover recently did an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he claims that independently wealthy prostitutes were the actual community leaders in wild west towns and were the ones who built all the infrastructure, so now liberals will probably have a VAG'D view of the wild west
fake news?
where were the adverts you referenced? what was the total number of killings advertised, and what was the actual number?
This. Gun duels in the old west was just culture taken from Europeans hundreds of years prior.
ive seen pics of montanas countryside,everything is desktop wallpaper worthy.
This is just a reminder that 1/4 of all cowboys were black. Spaghetti westerns and holloywood conveniently leave this out.
It took a jewish comedy of all things to correct the record.
>tfw you will never get to shoot mexican bandits
>tfw you will never have a cozy ranch
You can still do these two things.
>you will never go to westworld
>where he claims that independently wealthy prostitutes were the actual community leaders in wild west towns
What a faggot. He probably found a handful of instances like this and applied it to every western settlement.
yeah but you gotta go to court and other shit,you just cant dig a shallow grave and sell his gun to the gunsmih for a couple of shots of whiskey at the saloon an hour later user lol
The Wild West was a myth, a few crazy events happened and it was over romanticized and dramatic. People were not shooting each other left and right, no matter what Hollyjew and video games tell you. The myth sure is a lot more entertaining.
Plus I don't think you know what it actually takes to run an actual ranch with 25 or more head of cattle.
That nigger always over plays his hand. He stumbles upon pseudo-redpills and overly exaggerates their significance, it's pretty much his signature style
I live there. Drove from Vegas to Reno last week and it literally is nothing but open land with a couple extremely small "towns" of 25-50 houses and a gas station or two in between. Its awesome
they did this with the vikings and the "sheild maiden" narrative
now cucks think that viking raids had blonde pretty women fighting along side the men like it was the norm lmao
Yep. Western Montana specifically is just gorgeous. A lot of rich people and celebrities have private ranches in Montana and I can't blame them. There is some controversy with that though because "legit" ranchers have been blocked trying to get their cattle through certain swabs of land due to fairweather ranchers.
You have to be a real faggot to fuck with their livelihood like that.
Yeah, you'd love the old west gringo
You'll love it so much you'd wish you were back in liverpool laying on all fours with you ass in the air facing mecca
Only in some states. Here in Michigan the bounty hunters can break into your house if they make eye contact with you through a window, rough you up, cuff you, throw you in the back and drive you to the sheriff's office. They all carry .45's here too. Don't fuck with them.
If you say methods addict really fast and slur a bit, it sounds like Mexican
Filmed in Italy along with most of the cast being european. I do know what you meant tho.
Every outlaw and lawman in the west of old died EXACTLY the same way; with a bullet in the back.
The movies romanticized the untamed setting of the west, but it was a shitstorm of railroad monopolies, mining towns, amerindians raping and killing people, chinks getting folks hooked on opiates, and Mexicans raping and killing people. Not to mention the under-educated whites exploiting everyone in return.
Some things are better left to fantasy in movies than real life implementation. Watch Tombstone for what most consider the pinnacle of western movies.
You could probably legit kill an illegal and bury him in the middle of nowhere with no consequence. Never sell his pistol though unless you want to go to jail.
>yeah but you gotta go to court and other shit
Then you're doing it wrong.
>you just cant dig a shallow grave and sell his gun to the gunsmith for a couple of shots of whiskey at the saloon an hour later
While I respectfully disagree with your opinion, I'll fight to the death to defend your right to say it.
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>Americans actually think that anything in spaghetti westerns actually happened
m.youtube.com
dont you run from me boy!
>Ruins his own Anus and now has to ruin everything for everyone by making big leaps in assumptions.
Who is this faggot?
>tfw Texas State Trooper in Presidio Texas
I patrol the Rio Grande looking for modern Mexican bandidos. I also wear a cowboy hat to work. Feels good man
red dead is pleb tier compared to the searchers or my darling clem
stay woke lil nigga
Lel
Big talk: a tell tale sign of a cuck
I am jealous as fuck. What sidearm do you use?
Pretty much. It's difficult to take a bad picture out there.
>duels
WHY DID THIS FUCKING IDIOT DO THAT
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Every outlaw and lawman in the west of old died EXACTLY the same way; with a bullet in the back.
Wyatt Earp, who was probably the most famous of them all, died of old age.
This. If you're on a multi-thousand acre ranch down near the border, who the fuck is even going to know? Biggest population center an hour or two away is gonna be like 500 people lol.
I knew an Australian,who just went ha ha over the wild west as well. I guess it has an appeal of badassery and freedom.
This one's for you, Bribro
Watch this series.
More people died of syphalis than gunfire.
>wyatt earp and doc holiday are real people
>admiring a gay draft dodger
How hard is it to get hired on? I'd love to do that, or be a game warden or similar.
despite your feelings of John Wayne. The Searchers is actually a pretty good movie.
I think about the old west, sometimes wishing I could have lived that life. But no, I'm stuck in current year Los Angeles with its degenerates, illegals and astronomical cost of living.
Pic unrelated
A couple of years ago I rode my motorcycle from Van Horn to Presidio. I did over 100 mph most of the way. I passed maybe 3 cars/pickups. Got thumbs up from 2.
Yeah it is to be fair, I just like shitting on him.
That's mostly true. The main places where you'd get into a fight were mining towns and cattle towns. People would snuff out miners for their claim, and Cowboys would get drunk and makes mess because they'd let loose when there was something to do beside herd cattle.
youtube.com
mad you dont have a english version of john wayne ya limey?
>so were Blackbeard, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo
have you been sleeping?
>tfw you will never get to shoot mexican bandits
Just join the border patrol or become a cop
Can confirm. Worked in the gold mines for a bit. Lotta meth addicts tho and basic human services like hospitals run a spectrum of reliability
>taken
You mean brought with them. Dueling had been a thibg with whute people in the US since it was created.
Yes. Brought with them.
My mother's partner retired recently and all he does now when it's cold outside is watch Western movies in the living room at full volume. It p's me off so f*****g much. He likes the movie "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" the most, it's a musical Western and he sings along to every song every goddamn time he watches it. The house is quite small and has thin walls and sometimes it'll be 1pm and he'll watch it and wake me up with his singing and the sound of gunfire. This autumn and winter so far has been torturous as you may imagine. I mean he's not even retarded or anything he just watches the same garbage movies over and over for hours on end until all I hear is gunfire and horses neighing. Until he and my mother met I was the man of the house, and I can't begin to tell you how frustrating it is to go from being the man of the house to being just a 36-year-old man sleeping a tiny spare bedroom directly above the living room where he blasts his stupid movies all the time. I'm tempted to cut the wires or something to disable the television. I've already hidden the remote more times than I can remember and I even threw his DVD copy of "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" onto the golf course behind our house but my mum just bought him a new one. My nerves are absolutely shredded. He has drained me entirely of the energy I would otherwise be using to find a job.
I don't think people who like the old west realize just how uncomfortable it was
no AC
dusty
sickness everywhere
grasslands are essentially fuckhuge wastelands with nothing but backbreaking work to turn it into farmland
building fences by hand sucks
actually all manual labor sucks
no law
whiskey, whores and gambling are popular because that's basically all there is, unless you want to take the wagon back to st louis to watch the fags act
hope you like reading really old books and the Bible, because there's no such thing as tolkienesque fantasy, anime, space travel, mechs, or even combustion engines
you will die before any modern conveniences appear
you can't go back
maybe
its very surreal i guess
John Wayne wasn't gay, although he did only marry Mexicans for some strange reason.
His films were a lot more use to the American war effort than his dying in a ditch would ever be.
>You could probably legit kill an illegal and bury him in the middle of nowhere with no consequence
chekkked
I suppose there isn't much foot traffic through there?
>Every outlaw and lawman in the west of old died EXACTLY the same way; with a bullet in the back.
that's quite a claim, none of them fell from a horse? or drowned in a river? broke their neck?
what you hueing about?
1st you was like
then you was like
buy ear muffs or move out man
you aren't going to win this fight
Yup it can also be pretty here, especially around this time of year when it's "cold".
Las Vegas sucks ass but hey at least you can live out your cowboy fantasy of carrying a gun 24/7, because you'd be stupid not to.
Only America and the Philippines have bounty hunters.
I am Hispanic and I speak spanish, so it was way easier to get in than most people. They really need people who speak spanish and Hispanics because Texas is pretty much creating it's own border patrol, we patrol with the BP on the Rio Grande and we other guys on the highways stopping people for drugs. Spanish will be needed in this regions since there is people who dont speak English. And they need Hispanics so no one will cry muh racist ass Texas border patrol!
So if you are Hispanic and you speak Spanish you are set, if you dont, it's going to be harder but nothing that an associates degree and some law enforcement experience in local police departments cant fix. That said, there is a lot of DPS being hired right now, again due to the border, the governor wants us down here. So this is the time to apply, you do need college credits, around 60. I suggest you get an associates in Spanish if you dont speak it.
nice try, schlomo, but everything you wrote is objectively not true.
The bridge battle is a fabrication but the confederates did invade New Mexico with a fairly signficant force
>Until he and my mother met I was the man of the house, and I can't begin to tell you how frustrating it is to go from being the man of the house to being just a 36-year-old man sleeping a tiny spare bedroom directly above the living room where he blasts his stupid movies all the time
kekked
you should move out faggot
Rather live like Jeremiah Johnson or Jim Bridger. The Fur trade era is hardly touched in film or video games.