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Mountain man. I would have loved to spend my life exploring the wilderness, hunting, etc.
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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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Gynecologist and preacher.
Lawdy, Lawdy, that is one fine vagoo. Amen. |
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Quoted: Recreational pharmaceutical salesman. Consumption got you down? Do some coca about it View Quote Failed To Load Title |
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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....
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Run a gunshop.
Sell grubstake, miner, and mountain man goods on the side. |
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Shop keeper probably. Use profits to quietly buy thousands of acres right outside a developing area like San Francisco.
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Cowboy, Rancher, or Mtn man. Lawman and Outlaw were death sentences
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Grew up on a ranch, from multiple generations of ranchers and farmers….
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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?
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Quoted: 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. View Quote Death by bukkake? |
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I would have been a photographer.
That guy with the darkroom inside a covered wagon, filled with chemicals and glass plates. |
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Blacksmith or construction of some kind. I’m handy with tools.
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Quoted: 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? View Quote Definitely a whore. |
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In imagination, probably a gunsmith, or a lawman.
In reality? Dead at a young age from a now-treatable disease due to genetics. |
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Down Periscope (1996) - Nitro Puts Call on the Overhead |
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I've always been drawn to cobbler shops where ever I go, so I'm thinking I was a cobbler in a former life.
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Trader on the Sante Fe Trail. Attached File
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Quoted: but Hatchet Jack lived on in his rifle and a really neat story that Johnson could tell, so there's that. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 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.” |
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Miner, same as I am now. Hopefully coming in after jacklegs with water needles, silicosis is a bad way to go.
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Merchant, horse trader, railroad engineer, surveyor, gun smith and seller, hunter, mountain man toll road builder
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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. |
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engineer/builder.
no permits/environmental bullshit to deal with. |
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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. |
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