[BlueTrain]

Well, there were cowboys in Californey and they were a breed apart from those in the plains states, though I rather doubt their shooting skills were much different. We have cattle in the East, too, but back here it's just called "working cattle." To say you were a cowboy or wrangler would be putting on airs. Most of the people around here who take care of horses are probably from Argentina anyway.

As you know, many of the early cowboy movie stars had really been cowboys, although some of their early, pre-motion picture adventures just may have been embellished. Others got their start by working as wranglers for the studios when a lot more horses were used in movies. In any case, some of the gear that was used in the early movies was a lot more authentic than that used later, especially all of the fast draw holsters seen on television in the late 1950s. But I always get a kick out of seeing something unusual gun-wise in an old move--or even a new one.