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