| A little bit about my store, Horses, Cowboys and | | | | generation, from the end of the Civil War until the |
| Indians Western Decor. Since I love the western decor | | | | mid-1880's, when bad weather, poor range |
| theme and being artistically inclined, I needed an outlet | | | | management and disastrous cattle-market prices |
| for my Gourd Art and Horseshoe Art, so I opened this | | | | forced an end to the old freewheeling ways. In that |
| store. I looked around for other products to stock here | | | | brief span the number of cowboys who rode the |
| since it is a bit difficult to find quality western decor. I | | | | cattle trails across the Great Plains totaled no more |
| think I have succeeded in this as I have a nice selection | | | | than 40,000. As surviving photographs suggest, most |
| of reasonably priced items to offer for sale. You can't | | | | cowhands were surprisingly young (their average age |
| just visit my store once and say that you have seen | | | | was only 24), and despite their steely gaze and the |
| everything because I am constantly adding new items | | | | guns they may have put on especially for the camera, |
| from my suppliers, and occasionaly taking some items | | | | they seemed to have a lot of the bumpkin in them. |
| off because they are no longer available, but I am | | | | Yet neither flash impressions nor bare statistics can |
| constantly creating new Gourd and Horseshoe Art too, | | | | take the true measure of the cowboys or dim the |
| and no 2 pieces are alike. Most of the horseshoe | | | | elemental stage presence and the riveting appeal they |
| items we have you can purchase more than one of | | | | generated in their own time and forever afterward. |
| because we can make more of most of them. But the | | | | They were men of a particular time and place, living by |
| site is always changing so come back often to see | | | | a code compounded of hardfisted frontier desperation |
| what's new. | | | | and Victorian-era social values, performing |
| The latest thing we have added is a free certificate | | | | body-punishing and hazardous jobs, and pitting |
| with every purchase to join a Travel Club that offers | | | | themselves against a land of sweeping grandeur that |
| discounts on cruises and hotels, two for one airfares. | | | | offered prodigious drafts of misery. For each man |
| We think it makes a great thank you gift. | | | | these harsh realities of range life manifested |
| So come by and check out the store often for new | | | | themselves in different ways. Yet they also |
| items and rest assured that your ordering is secure. | | | | emphasize the enduring quality and the acceptance of |
| The Real Face Of The American Cowboy | | | | his lot that characterized virtually every cowboy. |
| The high time of the American cowboy lasted a bare | | | | |