My ninety year old MIL back in her day probably didn't grow up much different.
No electricity, and father was a share cropper which meant many hardships especially during the great depression of the 1930's here in America.
It was, "horse and buggy," as she fondly puts it.
They worked the fields and picked cotton and ate what they grew.
My father was the same way growing up before ww2 in the piney woods of deep east texas.
I have known many people who have had these similar experiences, not so much anymore, but have picked up a thing or two as the years have gone by and are mighty grateful now.
I am about the best you will find in rural America still who can hunt, fish, trap, plant, raise and tend animals, carpenter, perform medical and stay alive relatively comfortably and secure as secure can get concerning potentially promoting deadly force if the occasion arises and needs to be addressed in that way too.
There are still many of us around, as even some of us like my MIL's grandfather who first-hand told her that he had a couple run in's with the Comanche back in those times, as we are still capable of surviving in just about any situation, that being, if the situation arises in our favor even for a short period of opportunity..
There was a massacre here back in the 1880's and not being prepared was one of the main reasons why men, women, and even some small children died around here.
Most of us country folk believe that everything is for a reason and that we should learn from everything as nothing should be wasted at all.
It is still part of our heritage from the old timers and such.
My MIL who will probably see one hundred if not killed, still lives on the next property over from me that was the stage master's house and for awhile the stage depot here in Veal Station Tx.
There are cap rock cliffs about a mile from my house where you can still see the traces from the wagon wheels of the stages which passed through that area on a regular basis and then as the trace drops back down into a branch bottom containing several smaller creeks making up the watershed around here.
The last of the renegade Comanche held up in my MIL's house in 1902 for several days before a detachment of cavalry came down from Ft. Jacksboro in what is today Wise County Tx. and after threatening to fire on them with field artillery grape-shot they finally gave in.
The original deed from 1859 makes mention of a fair sized oak tree as its north-east boundry on the property that I and my wife Janice will inherit some day adjacent to what we own now.
The stately old oak still stands there today.
So do we with God's help everyday now.
The state wanted to put up an historical marker on the front of her property some time back but she refused.
Said she didn't want folks coming around uninvited.
I had to agree.

Thanks.
SAE

In all fairness,  it's not like Hollywood has given us much else worth talking about in the past 20 years.

I guess we can add the transgender side bar conversation as well

The Royal Americans (60th Regiment) get slaughtered in that flick.

They were still loyal to the King right?

All the way into the Twentieth  Century at the King's Royal Rifle Corps and later the Green Jackets.

What originally gave you interest with the history about these troops?
Jim

Why am I not surprised?

fine looking woman........

I don't own land near where it was filmed, nor was I an extra. But, I do know Daniel Winkler.

Well do you (not that theres anything wrong with that)?

Like Ali McGraw in "Love Story".  The sicker she got, the better she looked.  She was gorgeous on her death bed.

Best part:


The Hot Violinist





or this one

i for one don't blame him.  can you imagine what a "straight" bar anywhere near aintry must be like?

Folks are just jealous that "all your white women prefer to be with his kind."

Alcohol's a hell of a drug.

combat vet too

That movie was a sure bet to get me laid in high school.  Bring a chick over, put it in the VHS and I'm getting my knob polished 2/3's of the way through.  I have no idea why it worked.

Only chick that didn't like it is my current wife.

He's talented as hell.

I prefer The Last of the Meheecans.

I would suspect that quite a few here would find them quite nice.

That's damn near any and all bars in Asheville, seriuosly. It's a target rich environment for the ghey........

my favorite film for that was Red Sky in the Morning.........of course  it had to be at a  drive in, I'm not even sure the VHS system was around then.

He's got a point though. I wouldn't jump off a mountain to get away from Magua.

Peter Shores' With British Snipers to the Reich.  The Royal Americans/KRRC were mentioned in that book.

  This.    My favorite scene in a movie ever.

Good girl.

actually, based on a lot of the threads i've seen lately, i'm inclined to agree.

I thought the same.  I was awestruck as she stood at the cliff's edge.

Maybe he could jump off the mountain head-first and......................naw.....

Obviously operating off of the old IDPA rule-book.

LOL, fuckin South Park!!

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That is more unbelievable than shooting on the run or their being a white Mohican.

This is true. When I was a kid I had the theatrical version on VHS. Used to watch it all the time. Then I got the DVD years later. I liked some of the scenes that the DVD had that VHS didn't, but there were some they added that I think actually took away from it. And the music was way better on VHS. I never saw the BluRay version.

 

Bad ass movie.

I'd like to see an Indian warrior with his ax versus a viking with an ar on that warrior show

I hate that scene! The girl's a fool. Stay with Magua and replace his lost babies! So frustrating. And the way he beckons her back too. He's really a softy. They could have been very happy. I mean what? Did she have her heart set on marrying some fruit in knee britches and a powdered wig? Magua would have bred robust sons.

The Princess Bride was my movie of choice after bringing a date home

Awesome

Awesome

"You do what you want with your own scalp, don't be tellin' us what we ought to be doin' with ours."

You're damn right.

Hell, I think the tranny threads are hilarious but goddamn some people can drag cock sucking into any thread.

Yes! Always thought she was gorgeous.