Sixgun Sheridan Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Time for an actual COWBOY topic. If today was January, 1873 what would be your most likely profession? Would you head out west or stay back east of the Mississippi where it's safe? If you head out west, would you most likely be: 1. a farmer/rancher 2. a hunter (buffalo, fur trade, etc) 3. a lawman 4. a gambler 5. a proprietor of a saloon, brothel, and/or hotel 6. a judge/politician 7. run your own dry goods or hardware store 8. a miner 9. a logger 10. a cattle driver/cowboy 11. a teacher 12. a preacher 13. a pimp or ***** 14. a soldier/cavalry 15. indigenous American 16. an outlaw Or something else? Me, I'd probably end up being an outlaw because I really suck at most of the above. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 1 minute ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: Time for an actual COWBOY topic. If today was January, 1873 what would be your most likely profession? Would you head out west or stay back east of the Mississippi where it's safe? If you head out west, would you most likely be: 1. a farmer/rancher 2. a hunter (buffalo, fur trade, etc) 3. a lawman 4. a gambler 5. a proprietor of a saloon, brothel, and/or hotel 6. a judge/politician 7. run your own dry goods or hardware store 8. a miner 9. a logger 10. a cattle driver/cowboy 11. a pimp or ***** 12. an outlaw Or something else? Me, I'd probably end up being an outlaw because I really suck at most of the above. Probably 7, maybe a school teacher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Me? Likely an accountant. How boring. Perhaps a chemist or scientist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Mark Flint #31954 LIFE Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 4, 5, 6, 12 and 13 all appear to be the same. So one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 My character's inspiration is partly based on a real person, a surveyor/miner, during the Alaskan gold rush - right at the very end of the time frame for this game. The real me, maybe a logger in the Pacific northwest or a politician in one of the new territories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Probably 3 and 12. The best of both worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Maybe I would have discovered something like Brownian motion, thirty years before Einstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Investment banker and ranch owner like my two of my Great, great, great grandfathers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 1 hour ago, J. Mark Flint #31954 LIFE said: 4, 5, 6, 12 and 13 all appear to be the same. So one of those. Well, attorney isn't on the list so would you include it in this group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Piano player or musician of some sort. Maybe just an old cowhand with a guitar and play around the campfire?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irish ike, SASS #43615 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 carpenter, wheelright or cabinet/furniture maker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiling Wolf Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Number 7 with a rather large firearms section and gunsmith service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fence Cutter Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Being to lazy to work, to nervous to steal and to jealous to pimp....... I guess that leaves # 5. I'd stand behind the bar all day and polish shot glasses like I see 'em do in all the old western movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I was born in Colorado, and both of my parents were born in the west. Dad’s family were ranchers, mom’s were railroaders. I figure after I got busted up working cattle I probably would have applied to the D&RGW. So you need to add #17, railroader, to your list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 Yes there were a lot of other career choices back then besides my list. Railroad worker, coal miner, bounty hunter, Pinkerton, doctor, veterinarian, banker, etc... I just wanted to see what others saw themselves doing had they actually lived during the Old West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Probably alternate between law man and outlaw, depending on the need at the time. More than likely I would be long dead and buried, given the state of medicine in those days!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 There wouldn't have been any railroad workers if there weren't any investment bankers!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 My investment banking hero is Roy Disney, Walt's brother. Can you imagine asking: "May I have several million dollars to build a kingdom for a mouse?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I think that an Undertaker/Mortician would have been a lucrative job and your clients don't complain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Jack Calder Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Carpenter, like my Grandfather. Or Blacksmith, which is more likely. By the early 1900’s a shade tree mechanic as well. CJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 My grandfather, who lived during this time period, ran a leather and metal crafting business....so I'd like to picture myself as a gun leather and saddle maker. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylan Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Probably 5, then use profits to fund a dry good hardware store, then use some of those profits to fund a ranch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Mark Flint #31954 LIFE Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 2 hours ago, Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 said: Well, attorney isn't on the list so would you include it in this group? No, no need to insult them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Plasters, SASS#60943 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 My alias is based on a real life character I knew so it'd be cowboy then lawman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Which "them" - the attorneys, or the rest of the group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Well, since this is fantasy I would go back and be in my very early 20’s and I think I would try something different. I think I would want to be a Lawman. Perhaps even a US Marshal in the West somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I'd be a bartender. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 As my grandmother, who was born in 1887, was a seamstress, I would be one too. Here she is at age 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 PS Dang that was a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anvil Al #59168 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Probably the same thing I did for most of my adult life anyway. Farrier, blacksmith (which every town had to have). Buy and sell horses. I am sure that I would have worked my way west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 My Uncle Tiner chose Door #5 in Silver City, ID.. so I would probably do the same. A bar and brothel was a money maker in those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 5 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Piano player or musician of some sort. Maybe just an old cowhand with a guitar and play around the campfire?? I forgot, I could have been a piano tuner as I am today! Most piano tuners lived in the east though. Work had to be few and VERY far between for a tuner out west. There were piano players out west who would carry a tuning hammer and a tuning fork and some mutes to "tweak" the pianos they were playing in them dusty old saloons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Probably a bum, handy man, work for drinks at the bar,die young, maybe a soldier Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 My great-great grandfather was an immigrant from Germany settling in Missouri. Among many occupations, he was a blacksmith. I probably would have done the same. That, or I would have been dead from any of the diseases back then before the age of 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Eye Jake Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Since I'm semi retired from farming, and have a small cow herd, I'd probably say number 1 or number 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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