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