when do you think the last person who personally experienced the real "old west" died?
i think that since the frontier (new mexico/arizona) closed in 1912, maybe the youngest real cowboy/saloon fighter type there was about 20 yrs old. assuming that not many men lived past 90 in the 20th century, i would say this hypothetical wild wester died in about 1970.
what do you think?
2007-03-15 04:02:26 · 4 answers · asked by Scotty R 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I'd put the end of the Old West Earlier, about 1900. What is more, few of those guys would have lived to 80. So I'd say about the time of the Second World War.
But I remember when I first started reading about those guys as a kid in the 1960's, it amazed me to realise many of them had died only the other day, so to speak.
2007-03-15 05:33:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Tilghman was one of the last who was killed in 1924
2007-03-15 13:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you know that the word COWBOY was a derogatory word? boy. and that most of the cowboys where blacks Mexican, chinese and really down an out whites.
2007-03-15 11:16:56 · answer #3 · answered by chin 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
im still well alive :)
2007-03-15 12:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋