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Originally posted by tacfoley
You mean to tell me that cowboys don't wear clothes like that in America these days?
Next thing you'll be telling me that you have electricity in every home!!
tac
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tac, the joke's on you!
I have moved to far west Texas where the cowboys do in fact still wear similar clothes and where there are some homes that if not without electricity in fact, certainly look it in spirit!
I am in a town of 6000 (Alpine) in the middle of the west Texas desert where the next biggest town within 100 mile radius is only 8000 people and you have to go another 100 miles beyond that town to hit one of 100,000. 300- miles to an actual city (El Paso).
Almost all land is ranch land (except for two spectacular parks, one national and one state) and the vast majority of roads are dirt roads. There are bears, mountain lions, wild pigs, wild burros, skunks by the trainload and rattlesnakes by the bushel (I ran over two in one day a couple of weeks ago, both by accident.). There are Mexican drug and immigrant smugglers by the score (and US soldiers in camouflage sneaking around pretending they aren't there, looking for the aforementioned) and whole sections of ranches that are simply inaccessible except by horse during the rainy season (now). Not counting Alaska of course, there is in fact a reasonably good-sized little corner of America they forgot to ruin by civilizing it and I am happily sitting in the middle of it.
To quote from the movie The Wild Bunch; "It ain't like it used to be, but it'll do."
Now that I've told you, please keep it to yourself.