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Originally posted by DaMadman
OK here's a question to pose.
How many people on this board would have loved to have lived in that era. No particulary the town of Deadwood but Lived in that Time period in history, when the Wild was still wild and Men were still men.
I personally have always been infatuated with that era in history. Would have loved to live back then. Live by the gun Die by the gun. Live off the land and what you could create with your own two hands. raise your own food, build your own house. Hunt and fish to feed your family.
I know that they were hard times and I suppose we have it lucky as far as the niceties we have today. But it sure would have been a hell of a way to live and die, to have lived at the end of the 1800's early 1900's.
I was born about 120 year too late I tell ya
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Many aspects of the late 1800's life appeal to me as well. There were some serious downsides though. Imagine what it would have been like to have gotten an abcessed tooth. Worse still, imagaine your infant child coming down with penumonia or your spouse having complications during childbirth on the frontier a hundred miles from nowwhere in 1885. Those that did survive were indeed a hardy breed.
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