From: russell-watson@att.net   
      
   On 14 Aug 2003 21:17:08 GMT, drsmith666@aol.com (Bass Guitar God)   
   wrote:   
      
   >>I think that was the case in several regions of the country. Here in   
   >>th rural south, my folks (father from Georgia and mother from Alabama)   
   >>both lived at least part of their childhoods in farm households   
   >>without indoor plumbing or electricity and where everybody rode around   
   >>on wagons and such, plowed with mules instead of tractors, etc., and   
   >>this was well into the 1940s.   
   >   
   >So.... the "OLD WEST", as we think about it was nothing more than a "temporary   
   >situation" where trailblazers settled and waited until the civilization of the   
   >east caught up with them? I wonder if they realized it?   
      
   I'm sure a lot of them did. Many westerners, including Doc Holliday   
   who you mention in an earlier post, came from the east (in Doc's case   
   the southeast) and you have to figure they knew the type of life they   
   left behind would catch up eventually.   
   '97 FLSTF   
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