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| written about time travel and the number of | | | | different, but they too haven't changed much |
| movies that include or reference the ability to | | | | over the years. And, while modern day cowboys |
| move forwards and backwards in time, we can | | | | live an entirely modern life (yes, they have cell |
| certainly assume that many people are interested | | | | phones and laptops out there, you know!) there |
| in this idea. The reasons for going backwards in | | | | are certain elements that have not changed and |
| time are many. Some people want to change the | | | | will not change (because riding a horse can really |
| present and others want to see what really | | | | only be done while sitting on its back and fence |
| happened back then. Others feel a calling to days | | | | repair is fence repair, regardless what the fence is |
| gone by- a desire to experience life in the past. | | | | made of). |
| Certainly some of this (a desire to live in the past) | | | | It used to be very popular to summer on ranches |
| is based on a romantic notion of what times were | | | | where the guests would have a fair amount of |
| like then. Living in times that were | | | | free time and access to leisure activities, but they |
| simpler-whether because cities were more | | | | would also have chores that they did around the |
| human-scale, or because technology wasn't so | | | | ranch. By heading out for a rustic vacation and |
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| freedoms, or there were still vast expanses left | | | | relax away from the hustle and bustle of their |
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| happened in the "good old days." | | | | might guess, quite a few guests came back to |
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| time travel, per se, there is the reality that | | | | found the freedom of being out in the open and |
| western apparel is straight out of those good old | | | | working with animals a very enjoyable way of life. |
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