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I have never been to or seen a prairie in my entire life. Is it everything every Western movie has ever claimed it was? It sounds so peaceful and American.
Are the any real Cowboys left? Not talking about the Blake Shelton kind, ktxbai.
Explain it to us non-Americans who remain clueless.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...w_Prairie2.jpg
It's majestic for ten minutes.
Then it gets boring.
Never been to one but I think 10 minutes sounds a bit much. Maybe 30 seconds.
Hmm... the last two posts... sounds like treason to me!
I don't think you'll find any real cowboys within these forums, Chris.
There are no more real cowboys, cactus is the worst plant to ever exist and the west desert is generally terrible.
Please explain to us Americans why you find that sort of setting peaceful.
Then you need to run from the country kids before they notice you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Araciel
Cause Red Dead Redemption was amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
No.
Speaking of which, I would love to take a ride with a cowboy. So many bad puns, it's not even funny. :chuckle:
Cactus fruit is delicious and cactuars are adorable though. :cactuar:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
I will concede that cactus fruit is good. I had pickly pear ice cream one time and it was smurfing amazing.
Seriously, it's actually really good. It could be that you're too high on incense to realise what was going on in the game. Also, your beloved peyote is found in cowboy country!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
That's offensive. It's called Native American country, thank you.
If cowboys don't exist how come I saw one when I was in Bozeman?
Check and mate, Moonflower.
cowboys fight cows so i can eat steak
god bless you cowfighters :')
Those aren't real cowboys, Huxley.
I wear a stetson now. Stetsons are cool.
MY TURN TO STEP IN.
I grew up on a ranch but we had a horse ranch not cattle. We did have several friends who had 50,000 acres of land each. They had cattle. We had horses, they had the cows. DO THE MATH. The terrain was so rough that when they needed to brand/castrate the youngins, they couldn't just hop in a truck and go get them. No we had to go on horseback. It would be rolling prairies and then rugged hills and cliffs.
When most people think of cowboys and rolling plains, that place is Wyoming. I lived about 2 hours form Deadwood.
http://images.tvrage.com/shows/4/3267.jpg
If you know anythign about Deadwood it's from that HBO show.
Speaking of Buffalo, I had to drive 40 miles to get to school and the road I had to take to get the highway, right between a buffalo ranch. Think of thousands of buffalo! I saw them everyday!
Of course what most people think of cowboys is dated. They use technology and what not. Heck I was 14 and EoFFing on dial up. My internet sucked but I was still doing so! If you want cowboys that's where you'll have to go to find them. Or Montana Montana has them too. But Wyoming isn't dubbed as the "cowboy state" for nothing!
So EoFF, i'm the closest thing you'll get to a cowboy. I grew up on a ranch. I know how to ride both in a saddle and bareback, I know how to rope (badly but I can do it) and I used to dabble in barrel racing! I do need some new boots though.... Then I thought I was too cool for it and start playing video games and welp, look where that's gotten me heh. My parents still have a ranch just it's now in oklahoma. It's no Wyoming though.
Actually, I googled it and found the buffalo ranch! I know exactly where this photo was taken too!
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townn...review-620.jpg
Yehaww EoFF, Yeeehaw....
There's a snake in my boot!
Deadwood is one of the best shows shows ever to be created. :D
Freya, sounds like you've lived my dream.
If your dream includes negative 30 degrees F (-34C) winters where you had to go out and break ice in the water troughs for the livestock because the water heaters couldn't keep the water warm enough to not freeze over, then YEAH TOTALLY!
Hey, hey! We're allowed to romanticize about reality! Since I'm from Denmark, everybody keeps asking me if there are still Vikings roaming about. :colbert:
Are there still Vikings roaming about?
The Official Site of the Minnesota Vikings :bigsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Futan
Then where dose beef come from? :eyebrow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
Cowboys aren't even cowboys. You just have to watch the Kevin Costner flick Wyatt Earp to know that. Cowboys was specifically a gang name used by cattle raiders. The romanticized versions of cowboys are typically heroes like Wyatt Earp, rebels like Jesse James, and anti-heroes like Billy the Kid. As far as I know, no one looks fondly upon people who raided cattle.
Us Montanans are great at duping unsuspecting travelers into thinking that we're real bona fide cowboys. I remember being in school and all us kids would be sitting around swapping tales of that one time we went to Disneyland, met some California native or whatever, and proceeded to troll the hell out of them.
Things we would tell them included:
- We all ranch buffalo instead of cows
- We still ride horses and in fact last week was the first time we had ever been in a real car
- We ride a horse into town and to the library in order to use the Internet
- Natives still attack on a monthly basis or so
- There are no real police, just vigilantes
And they would eat all of this up and believe every bit of it. It was great.
I only see plains like those when I'm driving by them on highways and such.
To tell you everything there is to know about cowboys would be committing treason. We can't have that so we can't share our secrets.
It's alright to drive through. Until you have to pee.