Chickamauga Charlie, SASS #47963 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 since my appendix burst at 12 i'd be dead as well. but i'd like to think i'd have been a lawyer as anybody with a set of lawbooks could open up an office. cc
Utah Bob #35998 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 since my appendix burst at 12 i'd be dead as well. but i'd like to think i'd have been a lawyer as anybody with a set of lawbooks could open up an office. cc Like this?
Big Jake1001 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I might have been a mailman back in the old West. Maybe riding the rails, sorting in the cars between towns. I also would have liked to been a traveling salesman with a tinkers wagon, going town to town meeting people. Big Jake
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I think I prefer playing a role from the old west like I do now. I'm rather fond of air conditioning in Kansas summers.
Ghost Dancer,SASS #17672 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Probably a galvanized Yankee in the cavalry known as trooper Smith, or a Dakota Santee brave who was in the fight along the Greasy Grass river.
Good Hands SASS #8247 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Cochise County Sheriff, tax collector, captain of the fire brigade and chairman of the non-partisan anti-Chinese league. I'd also sit on the town lot commission. I aspire to be a man of many parts.
Frazee Ridge, SASS #54171 Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 I would have run a hardware store, like Sol Star in the Deadwood series. Probably even hired a soiled dove for a bookkeeper. Frazee
Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Itinerate preacher, bounty hunter, scout, mountain man, soiled dove tester.. cheyenne
DocWard Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Itinerate preacher, bounty hunter, scout, mountain man, soiled dove tester.. cheyenne Not sure that last one is an actual occupation. More of an avocation.
Foul Mouth Frank Shutz Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 since my appendix burst at 12 i'd be dead as well. but i'd like to think i'd have been a lawyer as anybody with a set of lawbooks could open up an office. cc Some things never change.
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Yup, life expectancy out west back then wasn't very long. Most of us would have been buzzard food. Naw Grizz , ...... Lady Hawk says I'm so spoiled rotten dat da bizzards won't eat my car-cuse !!
Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Not sure that last one is an actual occupation. More of an avocation. I wud av made wt a vocation.....
Blackwater 53393 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 I wud av made wt a vocation..... Long as you don't say COOK!!
Mouse River Kid #16901 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Cholera victim Dysentery victim Smallpox victim Tuberculosis victim VD victim Typhus victim Snakebite victim Scalping victim Food poisoning victim Blizzard victim Flood victim Fire victim Horse stomping victim Lead poisoning victim Cirrhosis victim Barring one of the above things didn't get me probably a bounty hunter I've always like to play in the gray areas
Cascade Charlie, SASS # 48668L Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Assuming that we go back 100 years, that would have me born in 1852. That would have made me 13 years old by the end of the war. If I hadn't run off to be a drummer boy and survived into my late teens, I probably would have run afoul of somebody just like Liberty Valance. My eyesight was as bad as the Schofield Kid in "UNFORGIVEN" and I ran into plenty of people like Liberty Valance in the hills around Black Mountain, N.C., albiet without guns at that time but just as mean. As a matter of fact...the first Time I saw T M W S L V was at the Drive in theater on Tunnel Rd in Asheville, NC with my dad. I hated Liberty Valance instantly because he reminded me so much of some of the bullies in the area. I didn't like Lee Marvin for a L-O-N-G time because of that movie. Anyway...I would like to think that I would have worked with horses and eventualy owned a horse ranch and maybe supplied the Army or the stage lines.
Ziggady Zag, SASS #67251 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Woulda been the town newspaper editor and printer... (maybe just the printer..I love the smell of printers ink in the morning.) We actually had a printing class in HS in the early 60s setting up a page to print with moveable type and printing blocks, from wooden type cases... I have a few of these cases and blocks somewhere in the house. http://www.theoldprintingshop.com/typecase/
Guest Tennessee Stud, SASS# 43634 Life Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 I woulda been a half-chinese fella... walkin' round grungy and barefooted... kickin-a$$... and tossin' stars and such. ts
DocWard Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 I woulda been a half-chinese fella... walkin' round grungy and barefooted... kickin-a$$... and tossin' stars and such. ts I already called dibs on the alias Kwai Chang Cain!
Marshal Rusty Bore SASS#22739 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Dead before the age of one! It almost happened in 1950 from an allergy.
Caliope Cupcake #13981 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 According to Wildcat, a buffalo chip...
Caliope Cupcake #13981 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 couldn't be a school marm cuz ya had to be an unmarried woman so as not to have a bad influence on the innocent kids I wanna be married to the richest guy in town ... so mebe could work baked goods, which I do part time, or a malinery shop [ladies' hat maker] would be fun
Bad Hand Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 A Mule breeder, providing the West with the finest form of mobile transport available at the time.
J-BAR #18287 Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Railroader...my grandfather on my mother's side, and most of his brothers worked for either the Rio Grande or Sante Fe. Still enjoy train rides, myself.
Flint McCloud 3103L Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 In that time frame on my Mom's side o' the family, many of ours were Texas Rangers or Lawmen of one stripe or another... I expect that's the way I'd of gone as well... My health and eyesight were good until my 50's... I expect that would be a long life to me... Vaya con Dios
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 19, 2011 Author Posted March 19, 2011 Hmmm....let's see Wyatt Earp lived to 80, Bat Masterson lived to 62 the real Rye Miles lived to 79, to name a few. Just thought I'd brighten up this thread a bit!
Maurice Mo Lassess, SASS #65309L Posted March 19, 2011 Posted March 19, 2011 Likely either a cook or a general laborer. Hey, great alias....General L. Aborer
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 19, 2011 Author Posted March 19, 2011 Itinerate preacher, bounty hunter, scout, mountain man, soiled dove tester.. cheyenne Doesn't the last one interfer with the first one??
Rube Burrows Posted March 19, 2011 Posted March 19, 2011 Well all of my people were farmers so had I live then....and stayed in Alabama I guess I would have been just another farmer. Had I left for Texas or further like some of the people in my town did I may have ended up working as a cowboy somewhere or if the work didnt suite me maybe I would have been more apt to turn to the outlaw side of things. Throughout the years my family has had many lawmen....so I guess I could have ended up being some type of lawman also. Maybe someone who walked the find line of lawman/outlaw. Heck....maybe I would have just ended up riding with the real Rube Burrows and robbing trains.
Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 Posted March 19, 2011 Posted March 19, 2011 Doesn't the last one interfer with the first one?? Wellll, ah er ah well,,,,all depends, which one was furst, or I wasn't saying thit it was in that ordur, ah....sumtimes yu backslide a lil,,,,ah er, lets see, oh yea I din't menshun wut I wuz testun fer..ah......taint u got a peeano to tune sumwhar? Cheyenne, wu taint purfekt, jus forgivun, culpepper
Tom Muley Posted March 19, 2011 Posted March 19, 2011 If I look at my past family history in 1860-1900 Texas............lumber business...........banker...........lawman.
Bama Red Posted March 19, 2011 Posted March 19, 2011 Hey, great alias....General L. Aborer Or his cousin from down Mexico ways.............. Manuel L. Aborer
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 21, 2011 Author Posted March 21, 2011 Wellll, ah er ah well,,,,all depends, which one was furst, or I wasn't saying thit it was in that ordur, ah....sumtimes yu backslide a lil,,,,ah er, lets see, oh yea I din't menshun wut I wuz testun fer..ah......taint u got a peeano to tune sumwhar? Cheyenne, wu taint purfekt, jus forgivun, culpepper
Maurice Mo Lassess, SASS #65309L Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 I hate wearing neckties or anything tight around my neck- I always figured that in a past life I was hung as a horse thief.
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