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Posted: 11/5/2021 12:01:07 AM EDT
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?
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:02:39 AM EDT
[#1]
Settler!  Get me some land and leave me alone.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:03:01 AM EDT
[#2]
Possibly a prospector.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:04:17 AM EDT
[#3]
Probably dead from dysentery
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:04:24 AM EDT
[#4]
Cowboy/drifter.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:05:30 AM EDT
[#5]
Bartender.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:05:36 AM EDT
[#6]
Cavalry for a career, become disgruntled, retire, and become a borderline outlaw.

Very similar to today
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:05:51 AM EDT
[#7]
I'd drive a herd of cattle to Montana, from Texas, before lawyers and bankers got it, and that's where we'd settle.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:06:00 AM EDT
[#8]
Gunslinger or outlaw per my wife
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:06:33 AM EDT
[#9]
.
dead of complications of tuberculosis and tooth decay by age 25
.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:06:41 AM EDT
[#10]
Probably something to do with transporting goods.  Just like I do now.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:06:46 AM EDT
[#11]
I'd head up to the Rockies and not look back.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:07:19 AM EDT
[#12]
Army officer, then politician.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:08:25 AM EDT
[#13]
Male prostitute. Same as now.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:10:47 AM EDT
[#14]
Recreational pharmaceutical salesman.

Consumption got you down?
Do some coca about it
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:12:59 AM EDT
[#15]
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Bartender.
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Good. You can be my employee. I’ll be the good hearted owner of the popular saloon in town… you can call me Miss Kitty. I’m friends with the Marshall
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:14:10 AM EDT
[#16]
Dad's parents were farmers, Mom's parents were ranchers...I'd probably be a drunk...or Sheriff.

I'll be your Hucklberry
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:14:34 AM EDT
[#17]
venereal disease
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:15:35 AM EDT
[#18]
Cleaning man at a whore house.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:15:48 AM EDT
[#19]
Undertaker or town drunk
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:16:08 AM EDT
[#20]
Prostitute
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:16:17 AM EDT
[#21]
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People back then were pure, unlike today, and sex with multiple partners did not exist in those days.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:16:45 AM EDT
[#22]
I would have been a statistic.
Without skilled surgeons and modern machinery, I'd have died young.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:21:48 AM EDT
[#23]
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:30:45 AM EDT
[#24]
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Good. You can be my employee. I’ll be the good hearted owner of the popular saloon in town… you can call me Miss Kitty. I’m friends with the Marshall


You're the boss, Miss Kitty.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:33:44 AM EDT
[#25]
I live such a soft, soft life. I'm sure I'd be a settler.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:39:54 AM EDT
[#26]
Don't caulk and float the wagon it never works!

Probably a soldier.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:40:14 AM EDT
[#27]
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:40:58 AM EDT
[#28]
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.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:41:29 AM EDT
[#29]
I’d be one of those dudes that drives the choo choo trains… with the lantern and the hat and all that shit
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:42:02 AM EDT
[#30]
Riverboat gambler.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:42:14 AM EDT
[#31]
Buckskinner or store keeper if for the CA Gold Rush.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:43:38 AM EDT
[#32]
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:52:43 AM EDT
[#33]
I always imagined myself collecting their claw.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:54:18 AM EDT
[#34]
Pistol packing preacher like Shay.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 12:57:30 AM EDT
[#35]
Blacksmith, gunsmith, or farmer
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:01:51 AM EDT
[#36]
Realisticly... dead from some disease, accident, robbery or other violence.

Most likely a shop keep or the telegraph dude.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:04:08 AM EDT
[#37]
I would 100% be a settler. I've always wanted to live in the middle of nowhere and do my own thing, only venturing into urbanized areas when I need to/feel like it. I'll eventually get there hopefully, because I fucking hate city life, and cities in America are only going to resemble the third world more and more in the coming years.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:05:04 AM EDT
[#38]
I'd have run a "Billiard Parlor" with some lovely ladies to entertain...

Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:07:20 AM EDT
[#39]
A whore
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:07:29 AM EDT
[#40]
Farrier/Blacksmith.   Land speculator.  Surveyor for government or railroad.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:07:31 AM EDT
[#41]
Probably a miner
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:11:36 AM EDT
[#42]
Some of my ancestors were Native American.
So, I would have been deaded.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:12:35 AM EDT
[#43]
Blacksmith. Always has interested me, but I'm a 20th century lazy so I've not pursued it.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:14:17 AM EDT
[#44]
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Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:16:43 AM EDT
[#45]
Saloon, run some whores, and card games, swindle noobs on played out gold claims.

Pretty much follow Swearengen’s path to success
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:17:35 AM EDT
[#46]
Buffalo sniper.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:19:22 AM EDT
[#47]
Likely involved with oil prospecting, mining, or the rail road, that's about all I can think that made use of engineers in the wild west.

Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:21:16 AM EDT
[#48]
I'd own the saloon with a harem a whores
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:22:07 AM EDT
[#49]
I would open an Italian restaurant and serve 5 different varieties of braciole.
Link Posted: 11/5/2021 1:24:38 AM EDT
[#50]
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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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