b'DID YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD WEST.By Lee Anderson, Old West Living Historian, Award Winning Author, and Old School HorsemanLee Anderson and his horse, Concho, are well known around the state doing presentations in schools, corporate events, and civic events.Learn more about them and his book on his website. historicaloldwest.orgA mmunition has alwaysthat added to the macho image of the cowboy. In been expensive .44 and .45most of the studio photos, if a cowboy is wearing caliber ammunition was 50 tochaps they often appear to be brand new. So does 75 cents per box of 50 in the last half of the 1800s.the hat. Not many of the expensive guns and holsters Cowboys were paid to work, not practice shooting.appear to have had a very hard life either. This isnt Cattle baron, Charles Goodnight, would fire a manalways true but it is not at all uncommon. for swearing, playing cards, or carrying a gun while on the job. He told them, You are here to work notE ven though this isnt necessarily Old West cowboy fight and nothing contributes to fighting quickertrivia, it did take place in the 1800s and is kind of than those 3 things. Seems to me that is still prettyinteresting. Americas first steam engine locomotive much true today. that was designed to carry passengers lost in a race to a horse-drawn train in 1830. Many of the finest M ost of the photos ofscientific minds of the timesCentury and it was printed in 1900. In chapter 21 old-time cowboyswere convinced the human actually on the job inbody could not withstand atitled The Bicycle and the Automobile, it states a cow camp (roundup)sustained speed beyond that ofon page 271, It is not probable that man will ever rarely show one carryinga running horse.Uhhhhhbe able to get along without the horse, but the a sidearm. On the othermaybe somebody should let therelease of the noble animal from the bondage of city hand, in nearly all of theastronauts in on this? traffic, which was begun only a few years ago with studio photos taken ofmechanical streetcar propulsion, promises now, etc., cowboys, they are armedT his isnt about the Old Westetc., etc. Yup., It is not probable we will ever be with state-of-the-artor cowboys either but it doesable to get along without the horse.Here again, this weapons that few of theserelate to the 1800s. Several yearswas stated by the most educated minds of the times. poorly paid men couldago I came across a book in aIt does kinda make a person wonder some about the afford. This is because theyard sale called The Progresspredictions of our future that come out of our super studios provided propsof Invention in the Nineteentheducated think tanks today. Used Tractors: Kubota,John Deere, New Holland, etc.New Tractors: LS from25 hp and up.from UTVS to Car Haulers,Landscape and Dump Trailers, Special We Service & RepairOrders also available on New Trailers.Tractors, Trailers & UTVs.Grapple Buckets, Box Scrapers, Straight Blades,Rock Rakes, Chain Harrows, Arena Groomers, Brush Hogs, Post Hole Diggers, Post Drivers and More.45563 N Grand Avenue 1302 W Apache Trail Morristown, AZ 85342 Apache Junction 85120SWEQUIPMENT.comArizonaRealCountry.com March 2023 9'