Something that always bugged me in the Horse Operas…

[Kansas Jake]

Watched old western last night set in 1851. The lead was armed with a cartridge revolver and the rifle’s weren’t 1894 Winchesters but were mostly trap doors and rolling blocks. I didn’t see a single muzzleloader.

 

[LME]

Putting up the Wanted Poster using the butt of an obviously original antique revolver as a hammer!!

Dang boys! Couldn’t you find an old timey original actual hammer? Or, failing that, maybe use what my friend Hipolito used to call a Mexican hammer! (For those who’ve never been to Chihuahua it’s a rock…)

Second on my list is the Colt six shooter that never runs dry. It’s bad but at least they aren’t beating the snot out of an innocent original Colt!

I don't like to see any tool abused either but what really upsets me is mistakes in the movies. I may have said this before. I saw a Clint Eastwood movie that was taking place during a Civil war battle. Clint was going to blow up a bridge. He had a bundle of dynamite . The problem is "Nobel" didn't invent dynamite until after the "Civil War"?

 

[nick_1]

8 bucks was a lot of money back then. My dad worked on a daily farm in the 1930s for a dollar a day plus room and board. Saved enough to buy his own farm .

 

[Bad Karma]

8 bucks was a lot of money back then. My dad worked on a daily farm in the 1930s for a dollar a day plus room and board. Saved enough to buy his own farm .

I remember grandpa remarking that a certain fellow he had hired was being paid 35 dollars a month and a little house for him and his family. This would have been in the late twenties, early thirties. (Reason I remember it was he said the guy was last one to leave the breakfast table and the first one to belly up to the bar. I know a few of his grandkids and he was at least successful in passing on some of those genes.)