>you will never be a cowboy https://www.youtube.com/watc

you mean actual cowboy or Clint Eastwood movies cowboy because the real ones had pretty fucking boring lives

there are still cowboys
mexico has a whole bunch too

You can be, they're still around
but instead of singing you work very hard outdoors all day for little money in the middle of nowhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RePtDvh4Yq4

>I will never be a smelly pauper trotting across a dustbowl for spare pesos

Oh damn, what a horrible notion OP. How ever will I get by?

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Related to the thread and related to /int/ in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIWINsaEpnw&ab_channel=LukeWapelhorst

>>53486579
That was a pretty tough way to make a living.

>>53486889
what did they do exactly? just be with the cows?

>>53486889
It's not about making a living. It's about living with nature.

>>53487066
All aspects of ranch life and then there were the cattle drives....

"Cattle drives had to strike a balance between speed and the weight of the cattle. While cattle could be driven as far as 25 miles (40 km) in a single day, they would lose so much weight that they would be hard to sell when they reached the end of the trail. Usually they were taken shorter distances each day, allowed periods to rest and graze both at midday and at night. On average, a herd could maintain a healthy weight moving about 15 miles (24 km) per day. Such a pace meant that it would take as long as two months to travel from a home ranch to a railhead. The Chisholm Trail, for example, was 1,000 miles (1,600 km) long. On average, a single herd of cattle on a long drive (for example, Texas to Kansas railheads) numbered about 3,000 head. To herd the cattle, a crew of at least 10 cowboys was needed, with three horses per cowboy. Cowboys worked in shifts to watch the cattle 24 hours a day, herding them in the proper direction in the daytime and watching them at night to prevent stampedes and deter theft. The crew also included a cook, who drove a chuck wagon, usually pulled by oxen, and a horse wrangler to take charge of the remuda, or spare horses. The wrangler on a cattle drive was often a very young cowboy or one of lower social status, but the cook was a particularly well-respected member of the crew, as not only was he in charge of the food, he also was in charge of medical supplies and had a working knowledge of practical medicine."

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>>53487066
Take care of them all the time, keep the ranch in shape. When it came time to bring them to market, they'd ride with the herd and hold it together while they drive it to town. sometimes like 1,000 miles.

These days drives are much shorter because we have semi trucks and railroads, so herds are only moved around the ranch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HkxTLp5jA

Feels bad man

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Go ahead, skin that smoke wagon

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>>53487573
I love you Germany.

Thank you for these films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcATDD7LCYc

>>53486706
>>53486579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs7n0N8jzgY