| A little bit about my store, Horses, Cowboys | | | | |
| and Indians Western Decor. Since I love the | | | | The high time of the American cowboy lasted a |
| western decor theme and being artistically | | | | bare generation, from the end of the Civil |
| inclined, I needed an outlet for my Gourd Art | | | | War until the mid-1880's, when bad weather, |
| and Horseshoe Art, so I opened this store. I | | | | poor range management and disastrous |
| looked around for other products to stock | | | | cattle-market prices forced an end to the old |
| here since it is a bit difficult to find | | | | freewheeling ways. In that brief span the |
| quality western decor. I think I have | | | | number of cowboys who rode the cattle trails |
| succeeded in this as I have a nice selection | | | | across the Great Plains totaled no more than |
| of reasonably priced items to offer for sale. | | | | 40,000. As surviving photographs suggest, |
| You can't just visit my store once and say | | | | most cowhands were surprisingly young (their |
| that you have seen everything because I am | | | | average age was only 24), and despite their |
| constantly adding new items from my | | | | steely gaze and the guns they may have put on |
| suppliers, and occasionaly taking some items | | | | especially for the camera, they seemed to |
| off because they are no longer available, but | | | | have a lot of the bumpkin in them. |
| I am constantly creating new Gourd and | | | | |
| Horseshoe Art too, and no 2 pieces are alike. | | | | Yet neither flash impressions nor bare |
| Most of the horseshoe items we have you can | | | | statistics can take the true measure of the |
| purchase more than one of because we can make | | | | cowboys or dim the elemental stage presence |
| more of most of them. But the site is always | | | | and the riveting appeal they generated in |
| changing so come back often to see what's | | | | their own time and forever afterward. They |
| new. | | | | were men of a particular time and place, |
| | | | living by a code compounded of hardfisted |
| The latest thing we have added is a free | | | | frontier desperation and Victorian-era social |
| certificate with every purchase to join a | | | | values, performing body-punishing and |
| Travel Club that offers discounts on cruises | | | | hazardous jobs, and pitting themselves |
| and hotels, two for one airfares. We think it | | | | against a land of sweeping grandeur that |
| makes a great thank you gift. | | | | offered prodigious drafts of misery. For each |
| | | | man these harsh realities of range life |
| So come by and check out the store often for | | | | manifested themselves in different ways. Yet |
| new items and rest assured that your ordering | | | | they also emphasize the enduring quality and |
| is secure. | | | | the acceptance of his lot that characterized |
| | | | virtually every cowboy. |
| The Real Face Of The American Cowboy | | | | |