Your Alter Ego?

[The Blackhawk Kid]

I don't know if this is a stupid idea. When fit hits the shan, and we all have to start packin, why not get yer gittup ready now! Take a picture and give us your retro-look. You can add an alias, or two. Ya, I couldn't act like a kid when I was a "Kid". I also like the suggestion in another post about researching old west real good guys and bad guys. Share what ya find out, Pard! Good or Bad idea. BHK :)

 

[woods-walker]

I am gonna have fun watching.

 

[Hooch]

 

[Snake45]

Here's me and The Lovely Mrs. Snake, just another day at the post-apocalyptic office....

 

[Anonymous]

I also like the suggestion in another post about researching old west real good guys and bad guys. Share what ya find out, Pard! Good or Bad idea. BHK :)

I think it's a good idea, researching and talking about old west good guys and bad guys. And here I'm talking about the real people, not made up film characters. When I was younger, I basically "studied" the old west and its cast of characters, good guys and bad guys. A lot of people would be surprised, I think, at what some of the bad guys really looked like as opposed to their portrayals in films. Belle Starr was probably one of the ugliest women to ever walk the earth. Kid Curry, a dangerous gun fighter and robber, looked like someone you could take out with one punch in a bar fight. Big Nose Kate, a sometimes traveling companion of Doc Holliday, was aptly named.

But take Tom Horn...now there was a true to life badass, and he looked the part as well. Tall and broad shouldered with a great mustache and piercing eyes, he looked like he'd just as soon kill you as look at you. And I think he often did, during the cattle wars. He was a crack shot and a hired killer. He was eventually hanged, but he may have been framed. It's said he knew too much about the hired killings arranged by some well-to-do cattle barons. Don't think we'll ever know his whole story.

All my old west books...histories, biographies, so-called autobiographies...all were lost in transit during a move back in the eighties. But I'll never forget reading those books and sort of daydreaming about the reality of the old west, and wishing I could go back for a day or two and see what it was really like.

 

[flatgate]

I started early........ :D

flatgate

 

[JWhitmore44]

I can relate to CMH's alter ego :D

 

[Hooch]

:)

 

[6GUNSONLY]

Something like this...

 

[The Blackhawk Kid]

Well, I haven't figgered how to post a "pitchure" yet. I would be Randolph Scott in "A Lawless Street", as Marshall Kalem Ware. Besides, they didn't have forums and posts and laptops in 1885! BHK

 

[JWhitmore44]

Of course in reality I'd probably be more like . . . . .

:D

 

[BearBio]

Here's mine==I'm on the right!

 

[WendyZXZ]

Feminine version of this person:

http://www.beertripper.com/OffTopic/2011/ot_firefly_Jayne_Cobb.html

My husband claims I am more like Seth Bullock in Deadwood, but Jayne is much more fun and funny!

 

[JWhitmore44]

Feminine version of this person:

http://www.beertripper.com/OffTopic/2011/ot_firefly_Jayne_Cobb.html

My husband claims I am more like Seth Bullock in Deadwood, but Jayne is much more fun and funny!

Good choice :D
Too bad that show only ran one season.

 

[WendyZXZ]

Feminine version of this person:

http://www.beertripper.com/OffTopic/2011/ot_firefly_Jayne_Cobb.html

My husband claims I am more like Seth Bullock in Deadwood, but Jayne is much more fun and funny!

Good choice :D
Too bad that show only ran one season.

One of the fun parts with Jayne is we have one of the hats like he wore. There is a woman in Canada who makes them. They are very warm so you are comfortable if silly looking in Winter, and you have to have a Blue Sun t-shirt to wear at the same time.

 

[cfolsom]

I am going DEEP undercover

 

[Anonymous]

Too bad that show only ran one season.

Are you talking about Deadwood, the HBO series? It ran for three seasons...I have it all on DVD. One of my all time favorites

 

[JWhitmore44]

Too bad that show only ran one season.

Are you talking about Deadwood, the HBO series? It ran for three seasons...I have it all on DVD. One of my all time favorites

TV show called Firelfly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)

I have the Deadwood series, crude but good series :D

 

[flatgate]

I lived in Deadwood for a while, bending nails with a local Contractor and helped build a new bank. Most of the stuff seen on the TV show was B.S........

JMHO,

flatgate

 

[JWhitmore44]

I lived in Deadwood for a while, bending nails with a local Contractor and helped build a new bank. Most of the stuff seen on the TV show was B.S........

JMHO,

flatgate

That's ok, when I watch TV I want to be entertained. If I want reality I'll step out the door into it :lol:
Even the reality shows on TV aren't reality.

I went through Deadwood a few years back on a bike trip. Spent the night there and checked out the town some what. Way too much of the casino scene for me. I have mixed feelings about what the casinos do for towns like that. I lived not to far from Cripple Creek Colorado for some time. I seen Cripple Creek before it became a Casino town. Although the folks that bought the property done a wonderful job of restoring the outside of those old buildings, they lost a lot of the charm by "modernizing" the interiors. I would go as far as saying that, if it wasn't for the casinos those old building would be falling down and in ill repair these days.

and since this is the Gallery :D

 

[Mike Armstrong]

I was raised on a cattle ranch and if the Old West was much like that, what it was REALLY like was a lot of work and dirt and cow crap and never quite knowing if you were going to have two nickels of your own to bang together at the end of the sale.

Did I mention losing half of your kids to disease, half your wives to childbirth, and half your limbs to crazy livestock? And often losing your life to a septic splinter from the corral rails or a bad tooth?

I have studied the Old West seriously and while I'm glad men and women were willing and able to sacrifice to win the land for us, I'm also very glad we didn't have to make those sacrifices ourselves.

Don't mean to be a downer, but I guess I'll leave my time machine up on blocks in the garage.... The West was won by grueling hard labor, not gunfights.

 

[JWhitmore44]

I was raised on a cattle ranch and if the Old West was much like that, what it was REALLY like was a lot of work and dirt and cow crap and never quite knowing if you were going to have two nickels of your own to bang together at the end of the sale.

Did I mention losing half of your kids to disease, half your wives to childbirth, and half your limbs to crazy livestock? And often losing your life to a septic splinter from the corral rails or a bad tooth?

I have studied the Old West seriously and while I'm glad men and women were willing and able to sacrifice to win the land for us, I'm also very glad we didn't have to make those sacrifices ourselves.

Don't mean to be a downer, but I guess I'll leave my time machine up on blocks in the garage.... The West was won by grueling hard labor, not gunfights.

In deed, I often romanticize that I was born in the wrong time and that I would have been well suited drifting form town to town on the back of a horse. Then I look at my family history and realize that I would probably have been a poor dirt farmer on the Nebraska plains or a ranch hand in eastern Colorado as my fore fathers were. Neither too glorious or glamorous to look back on. Although there was some "action" during the early 1900's with the Dewey-Berry fued :lol:

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Sadly, most of our forefathers had Zulu guns or cheap Belgian double shotguns bought from the Monkey Wards "wishbook" if they had a gun at all. Or a Belgian "Flobert" .22 or .32 single shot. If they had a handgun it was very likely a cheap "British Bulldog" (NOT English make!) or a "Saturday Night Special" .32 from the same source.

Gunwise, most of us are much better off than people on the frontier. And many cowboys on the big spreads were forbidden to carry personal arms. If the boss thought there was a need, he'd issue you a rifle. Usually to protect HIS property.

My dad had a saying: "Winchester may have won the West but Monkey Wards made it safe for poultry!" He didn't watch Westerns.....

 

[gunsbam69]

Sadly, most of our forefathers had Zulu guns or cheap Belgian double shotguns bought from the Monkey Wards "wishbook" if they had a gun at all. Or a Belgian "Flobert" .22 or .32 single shot. If they had a handgun it was very likely a cheap "British Bulldog" (NOT English make!) or a "Saturday Night Special" .32 from the same source.

Gunwise, most of us are much better off than people on the frontier. And many cowboys on the big spreads were forbidden to carry personal arms. If the boss thought there was a need, he'd issue you a rifle. Usually to protect HIS property.

My dad had a saying: "Winchester may have won the West but Monkey Wards made it safe for poultry!" He didn't watch Westerns.....

Yip :D

 

[gunsbam69]

I was raised on a cattle ranch and if the Old West was much like that, what it was REALLY like was a lot of work and dirt and cow crap and never quite knowing if you were going to have two nickels of your own to bang together at the end of the sale.

Did I mention losing half of your kids to disease, half your wives to childbirth, and half your limbs to crazy livestock? And often losing your life to a septic splinter from the corral rails or a bad tooth?

I have studied the Old West seriously and while I'm glad men and women were willing and able to sacrifice to win the land for us, I'm also very glad we didn't have to make those sacrifices ourselves.

Don't mean to be a downer, but I guess I'll leave my time machine up on blocks in the garage.... The West was won by grueling hard labor, not gunfights.

I grew up on the plains of north central Kansas and north east Oklahoma. I love to hear some common sense about it all, especially when it's coming out of good ole California :mrgreen:

P.S. I do love good westerns though :D

 

[The Blackhawk Kid]

I grew up on a cattle ranch, and I recall the stories my Granny told about growing up in post civil war Texas. You had to work hard for what you had, only to lose everything to prarie fires, drought, marauding Commanche's. Granny read to us from her mothers diary which dated back to Oct 1872. One entry was chilling: "we seen sum commanch today. they did not see us, we was lucky". The diary was written by pencil in large printing. Kinda like we used in 2nd grade. Granny also told of the Polio epidemic in the 1930's and 40's. People were scared to death they would die from Polio. When we played penney-anti poker with Granny, Grandpa told us how Granny won the herd back, in a card game in Abilene Texas circa 1909. I'm glad there were tough people like those who forged this country. I know I'm thankful. BHK

 

[Boxhead]

Not sure if it's alter ego but as one in fairly senior management in the #2 company (Oil and Gas) in the world helping run multi-billion (tens of) dollar projects abroad I am always able to turn off for this, my family. Most I have worked with don't get it... I and my family do. Alter ego??? Naw, we're all right.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Great pix!

(I wonder if the Golden caught anything? I'm sure he had fun, fish or not! Those old guys do love the water!).

 

[Hugh]

In 1909 my maternal grandmother Lyda married John at Sigourney, Iowa. They traveled by wagon to a little place near Valentine, Montana. Lived in a dugout for two years until grand-dad and a friend built her a great big 14 foot square one room cabin. That is where my mother was born in 1912. After another year they packed up the wagon and moved to Bremerton, Washington, where some years later my parents met and married. I was born in the comfort of a Bremerton hospital late 1941, and taken home to a comfortable home in Bremerton. Just after the war in 1945 we moved to a small 20 acre farm, with house, barn, and other outbuildings. One of my aunts debriefed grandma on tape before she died in the early 1980's.

My father was born near the little town (no longer exists) of Avard, Oklahoma (Territory) in 1904. His family came west to western Washington in 1905 by similar means.

The west was a harsh mistress in those days, and survivors survived.

Nope, no alter ego for me. I am who I am with all of my life experiences growing up and later.