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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:38:56 AM EDT

[#1]

Mountain man. I would have loved to spend my life exploring the wilderness, hunting, etc.

Posted: 11/5/2021 10:41:16 AM EDT

[#2]

Probably an outlaw who wouldn't clear leather in my first shootout before I got plugged by the sheriff and his men.

Posted: 11/5/2021 10:48:03 AM EDT

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Probably an outlaw who wouldn't clear leather in my first shootout before I got plugged by the sheriff and his men.

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Thats likely 90% of us.

Posted: 11/5/2021 10:48:18 AM EDT

[#4]

Gynecologist and preacher.

Lawdy, Lawdy, that is one fine vagoo. Amen.

Posted: 11/5/2021 10:55:31 AM EDT

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Recreational pharmaceutical salesman.

Consumption got you down?
Do some coca about it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IONOoOZ9ME

Posted: 11/5/2021 10:57:53 AM EDT

[#6]

mountain man/ trapper

Posted: 11/5/2021 10:58:56 AM EDT

[#7]

Undertaker

Posted: 11/5/2021 11:07:08 AM EDT

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The mountain men stories always attracted me. They are the true adventures.

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same here check out Terry C Johnston books

Posted: 11/5/2021 11:21:41 AM EDT

[#9]

Well, all of my ancestors were settlers or joined the army and ended up hunting Indians. Except for Grandma Nancy who was an Indian... Ooops....

Posted: 11/5/2021 1:05:27 PM EDT

[#10]

Run a gunshop.

Sell grubstake, miner, and mountain man goods on the side.

Posted: 11/5/2021 1:31:14 PM EDT

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Run a gunshop. Sell grubstake, miner, and mountain man goods on the side.

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Posted: 11/5/2021 1:52:17 PM EDT

[#12]

Shop keeper probably. Use profits to quietly buy thousands of acres right outside a developing area like San Francisco.

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:02:00 PM EDT

[#13]

Most likely…. Dead but I would go with lawman

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:03:49 PM EDT

[#14]

Mods would still be mods even in those days

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:13:24 PM EDT

[#15]

Saloon keeper with a whorehouse upstairs.

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:14:07 PM EDT

[#16]

Cowboy, Rancher, or Mtn man. Lawman and Outlaw were death sentences

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:16:14 PM EDT

[#17]

Grew up on a ranch, from multiple generations of ranchers and farmers….

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:16:43 PM EDT

[#18]

Same thing I do now, just on a stern wheeler.

And a Colt Peacemaker

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:17:13 PM EDT

[#19]

I have no idea. I doubt I would have ever went farther west than the Mississippi River. Why ride off to the wilds and unknowns of the west when I can enjoy a cozy and more civilized life back east?

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:17:58 PM EDT

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People back then were pure, unlike today, and sex with multiple partners did not exist in those days.

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Drugs are bad, m’kay?

This post is the silliest thing I’ve read in a while.

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:21:58 PM EDT

[#21]

Mountain man and Pioneer.

No contest

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:24:39 PM EDT

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I'd say mountain man, but I'd probably end up like ol' Hatchet Jack here.

https://www.newjerseyhunter.com/attachments/jj12-jpg.657/

I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack.

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Death by bukkake?

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:27:51 PM EDT

[#23]

Brothel

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:35:05 PM EDT

[#24]

Blacksmith/Farrier.

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:47:09 PM EDT

[#25]

I would have been a photographer.

That guy with the darkroom inside a covered wagon, filled with chemicals and glass plates.

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:47:39 PM EDT

[#26]

Blacksmith or construction of some kind. I’m handy with tools.

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:52:17 PM EDT

[#27]

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A time period I really appreciate, dangerous and hard as it was, I wonder what I would have been if I lived out West back then.
Realistically considering who you are, your strengths and weaknesses, and maybe your occupation and where you’re from, what do you think you might have been if you had lived in the days of the wild West?
A cowboy? A lawman, settler, gold miner, gunfighter, outlaw? Owned a big ranch, worked on the railroad, lived in a small town? A mountain man?
Something else?

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Definitely a whore.

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:52:19 PM EDT

[#28]

A Gambler

Posted: 11/5/2021 2:57:20 PM EDT

[#29]

IT support for the telegraph machine

Posted: 11/5/2021 3:02:16 PM EDT

[#30]

I would have been Dr. Swifts main competition.

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Posted: 11/5/2021 3:12:20 PM EDT

[#31]

Back on the East Coast.

Posted: 11/5/2021 3:13:20 PM EDT

[#32]

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Reboot.

Posted: 11/5/2021 3:16:14 PM EDT

[#33]

In imagination, probably a gunsmith, or a lawman.

In reality? Dead at a young age from a now-treatable disease due to genetics.

Posted: 11/5/2021 3:20:22 PM EDT

[#34]

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Reboot.

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IT support for the telegraph machine

Reboot.

Down Periscope (1996) - Nitro Puts Call on the Overhead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmOdG3yXiyk

Posted: 11/5/2021 3:30:55 PM EDT

[#35]

I've always been drawn to cobbler shops where ever I go, so I'm thinking I was a cobbler in a former life.

Posted: 11/5/2021 3:39:34 PM EDT

[#36]

Probably a blacksmith.

Posted: 11/5/2021 3:42:15 PM EDT

[#37]

Most likely, a telegrapher for the railroad.

Posted: 11/5/2021 3:45:06 PM EDT

[#38]

Trader on the Sante Fe Trail.

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Posted: 11/5/2021 7:01:00 PM EDT

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but Hatchet Jack lived on in his rifle and a really neat story that Johnson could tell, so there's that.

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I'd say mountain man, but I'd probably end up like ol' Hatchet Jack here.

https://www.newjerseyhunter.com/attachments/jj12-jpg.657/

I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack.

but Hatchet Jack lived on in his rifle and a really neat story that Johnson could tell, so there's that.

But not really, Jeremiah had the chance to tell Del the story when Del asked him he got Hatchet Jacks’ rifle and he only said “Found him, froze to a tree.”

Posted: 11/5/2021 7:08:42 PM EDT

[#40]

Logger or sawmill worker, surveyor or just a laborer.

Posted: 11/5/2021 7:09:59 PM EDT

[#41]

Miner, same as I am now. Hopefully coming in after jacklegs with water needles, silicosis is a bad way to go.

Posted: 11/5/2021 7:16:07 PM EDT

[#42]

Merchant, horse trader, railroad engineer, surveyor, gun smith and seller, hunter, mountain man toll road builder

Posted: 11/5/2021 8:04:48 PM EDT

[#43]

I actually thought about this for a while. I think I’d be a chuck wagon cook on the cattle drive. He was a little older than the cowboys, he knew how to mend your shirt, and rustle grub out of stuff he picked along the trail. Probably gave advice to the cowboys and such.

Besides, my fat ass has no business on the back of a horse.

Posted: 11/5/2021 8:14:57 PM EDT

[#44]

A lazy good-for-nothing like I am now.

Or Whitey in Godless

Posted: 11/5/2021 8:19:26 PM EDT

[#45]

engineer/builder.

no permits/environmental bullshit to deal with.

Posted: 11/5/2021 8:23:52 PM EDT

[#46]

Dead from appendicitis at 19.

Posted: 11/5/2021 11:57:31 PM EDT

[#47]

When I think of Wild West, I think of Antebellum times, like SF Gold Rush type stuff.

As such, I don't think there was much for gunsmiths. Maybe some rifle builders, but most of those were east coast, not west. And, probably no 'gunstores'. There'd be a hardware store or general merchant that would have guns, but nothing so specialized as a gunstore.

Even if you think of Old West as something as late as the turn of the century, it doesn't change too terribly much.