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Posted: 11/5/2021 6:21:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: People back then were pure, unlike today, and sex with multiple partners did not exist in those days. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: venereal disease People back then were pure, unlike today, and sex with multiple partners did not exist in those days. 
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Posted: 11/5/2021 6:21:50 AM EDT
[#2]
The way shits been going I'da been a hitching post, or a spitoon.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 6:24:05 AM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd drive a herd of cattle to Montana, from Texas, before lawyers and bankers got it, and that's where we'd settle. Would you raise up a crop of dental floss? |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 6:27:39 AM EDT
[#4]
I would be your Huckleberry…
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Posted: 11/5/2021 6:30:10 AM EDT
[#5]
A clerk in a store in NY
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Posted: 11/5/2021 7:53:46 AM EDT
[#6]
My career has degenerated into basically being a salesman. So probably a carpetbagger.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 7:56:51 AM EDT
[#7]
Rapist.
I always say "rape" twice in my Old West job interviews, because I like rape. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 7:59:36 AM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Settler! Get me some land and leave me alone. That's called a hermit |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:01:26 AM EDT
[#9]
Probably dead from some common disease that is easily treated today.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:03:11 AM EDT
[#10]
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:03:55 AM EDT
[#11]
Maybe a settler but more likely a mountain man.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:06:34 AM EDT
[#12]
I'd say mountain man, but I'd probably end up like ol' Hatchet Jack here.
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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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:10:30 AM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: When I started doing a little family research I found that most of my folks were farmers. So probably that. Most everyone was a farmer back in the day. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:13:31 AM EDT
[#14]
Blacksmith/machine maker
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:14:38 AM EDT
[#15]
Lawman. Of the Wyatt Earp or Bass Reeves variety. Successful, never got a scratch and we remember their names.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:15:56 AM EDT
[#16]
Cult leader
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:18:12 AM EDT
[#17]
I would have shoveled shit in the livery stable
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:29:49 AM EDT
[#18]
Even though I was born sixty five years ago, I benefited from the latest medical technology and survived being premature with cerebral palsy. I would have been planted in the ground way before having a trade or profession to pursue in life. However being a mountain man does fit my Wild West fantasy.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:33:54 AM EDT
[#19]
It was often a blurry line between lawman and outlaw.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:34:16 AM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Cavalry for a career, become disgruntled, retire, and become a borderline outlaw. Very similar to today |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:37:54 AM EDT
[#21]
I would be the engineer on the Wanderer, driving Artemis Gordon and James West around.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:42:12 AM EDT
[#22]
in the army
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:43:27 AM EDT
[#23]
Blacksmith or gunsmith or both
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:45:28 AM EDT
[#24]
Seeing as how like 100% of my ancestors from that era . . . stayed in the East and were farmers, I’m guessing I would have done the same.
Some people are risk taking entrepreneurs, others stuck with what they know. Anyone going west in the 1800s was looking to start a new life or was a dreamer. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:50:25 AM EDT
[#25]
In fantasy I would of been a badass horseman, just like today. In reality, I would be a hardware store owner, just like today!
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Posted: 11/5/2021 8:59:07 AM EDT
[#26]
Wealthy cattle baron married to Linda Evans. If you are going to dream, dream big.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:03:15 AM EDT
[#27]
Mountain Man, blacksmith
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:04:38 AM EDT
[#28]
Pimp
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:05:37 AM EDT
[#29]
Colorful Frontier character, spouting authentic Frontier gibberish.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:06:15 AM EDT
[#30]
Bartender.
Decent money, surrounded by whores and drunks so you’d probably be front a center at the biggest freak show in American history until Jerry Springer . I bet it would be fun.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:07:01 AM EDT
[#31]
the people who made the west were those who supplied the ranchers, the cowboys, built the towns, the railroads, and supplied those who worked on them.
Laramie City, Spring 1912 John’s saddle creaked as he slowly circled the dusty Model T parked in front of the Laramie Feed Grain Hardware and Ford Dealership. A stocky man in a straw skimmer pressed stained but clean apron watched from the establishment’s doorway. “Morning John. She’s a good buy. Asking five hundred.” said the store owner. “Will it make it to Chicago?” “Why not? Only a hundred miles on her. Owner died in a flood last spring.” “Sign says you’ll take anything in trade. What’ll you give me for my horse and tack?” “Seventy on the horse and twenty on the saddle.” “Hell, I paid you fifty for the saddle last summer.” Feigning chagrin he retorted, “OK. I’ll give you a hundred and ten for both. I’ll toss in the gasoline.” “Hard to start?” “Just a matter of getting the fuel mix right. I can show you. Far as handling it, if you can plow a straight row you’ll do OK.” “I’ll take it. Gotta get back.” “You in a hurry?” “Old man’s finally died, so I figured I’d go check on my mother. Besides, my brother says he’s got a job ready for me building those skyscraper things.” |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:15:52 AM EDT
[#32]
I’d like to think I’d be a mountain man but then after my first encounter with Indians I’d end up being....
some alcoholic shlub laboring in a mill loading 75lb bags of grain on buckboards in the blazing heat in some God forsaken, prairie town.  |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:17:01 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Since I’m a chinaman, they’d probably force me to work on the railroad or do everyone’s laundry. Never mind that I’m a chemical engineer and a damned good marksman. Nah man, it could be like Shanghai Noon. I'll be the Owen Wilson retard sidekick. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:21:43 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:22:45 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably dead from dysentery Honest answer. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:27:36 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Farrier/Blacksmith. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:28:40 AM EDT
[#37]
Since I am deaf, probably a slave laborer... Not an actual slave but slaving as a laborer if that makes sense.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:31:21 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’d like to think I’d be a mountain man but then after my first encounter with Indians I’d end up being.... some alcoholic shlub laboring in a mill loading 75lb bags of grain on buckboards in the blazing heat in some God forsaken, prairie town. Two entirely different decades, so it's possible |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:33:33 AM EDT
[#39]
Charles Postelwaithe
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:35:26 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bartender. Decent money, surrounded by whores and drunks so you’d probably be front a center at the biggest freak show in American history until Jerry Springer . I bet it would be fun. A job experience that really hasn't changed all that much since then. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:45:52 AM EDT
[#41]
Outlaw/mountain man/town sheriff
I have quite a few outlaw tendencies, but then there's this troublesome sense of right and wrong and a burning desire to pound troublemakers Maybe mountain man fits better- I'm part Cherokee so I could have been a half-breed trapper/bounty hunter. |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 9:54:09 AM EDT
[#42]
My grandfather was born in Leipzig, emigrated with his parents at the age of 5, his old man beat the shit out of him as a kid so he ran away at 14 to dig ditches out west, worked as a ranch hand in Wyoming, eventually traded in his horse and tack for a used Model T and moved to Chicago, joined Ironworker #1 local, raised a family of Ironworkers......the best thing about the West was that whatever you were back east, whatever you started out as you could remake yourself in the West. If you worked hard enough that is.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:05:49 AM EDT
[#43]
Rancher.
That’s what I am now. Only downside is I dislike horses with a passion.........lol |
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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:08:56 AM EDT
[#44]
The Lone Ranger.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:10:44 AM EDT
[#45]
Doctor, probably. I probably know more actual facts and abilities than they did at the time.
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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:15:52 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People back then were pure, unlike today, and sex with multiple partners did not exist in those days. Yeah, ok 
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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:19:06 AM EDT
[#47]
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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:25:01 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 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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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:26:30 AM EDT
[#49]
Black smith
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Posted: 11/5/2021 10:29:52 AM EDT
[#50]
Judging by my past I'd say soldier and lawman. But I'd add outlaw as a possibility.
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