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Article #185: The Real Face Of The American Cowboy from Horses, Cowboys & Indians Western Decor

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






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