Comments on: "If it wasn't for gravy and coffee, we'd starve to death": Interview with a cowboy http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: jphilby http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1185083 jphilby Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1185083 <i>what life was really like in the Old West</i> You mean ... I can't just watch old reruns of Bonanza? what life was really like in the Old West

You mean … I can’t just watch old reruns of Bonanza?

]]> By: Teller http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1184295 Teller Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1184295 It's sitting on my to-read table. Thanks for incentive. It’s sitting on my to-read table. Thanks for incentive.

]]> By: Ian Wood http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1184172 Ian Wood Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1184172 I subsist entirely on gravied coffee. I don't move much. But I subsist. I subsist entirely on gravied coffee.

I don’t move much. But I subsist.

]]> By: Steve Graham http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1184152 Steve Graham Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1184152 Water from the Pecos is pretty much the consistency of gravy it's so muddy... Water from the Pecos is pretty much the consistency of gravy it’s so muddy…

]]> By: MrJM http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1184065 MrJM Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1184065 Well, if it wasn't for gravy and coffee, I'd <i>welcome</i> death. Well, if it wasn’t for gravy and coffee, I’d welcome death.

]]> By: nosehat http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1183957 nosehat Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1183957 Except that this oral history is pretty much all about how mundane it was. Except that this oral history is pretty much all about how mundane it was.

]]> By: slab99_99 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1183926 slab99_99 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1183926 Interesting, but I take oral histories with a large dash of salt. We tend to remember the highs and lows, but not the everyday mundane things. Interesting, but I take oral histories with a large dash of salt. We tend to remember the highs and lows, but not the everyday mundane things.

]]> By: gwailo_joe http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1183922 gwailo_joe Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1183922 This gets a 'like' from me... I just read Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead; good read about Pershings men vs. Villa and the end of the old west...literary but short, beautiful descriptions of nature and a land long gone... I most likely would have been kicked in the head by a horse or laid low by botulism at an early age; but man oh man the old west would have been something to see... This gets a ‘like’ from me…

I just read Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead; good read about Pershings men vs. Villa and the end of the old west…literary but short, beautiful descriptions of nature and a land long gone…

I most likely would have been kicked in the head by a horse or laid low by botulism at an early age; but man oh man the old west would have been something to see…

]]> By: nzruss http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1183709 nzruss Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1183709 but you tell that to kids today, and they won't believe you.  but you tell that to kids today, and they won’t believe you. 

]]> By: hawkd_sf http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/if-it-wasnt-for-gravy-and-coffee-wed-starve-to-death-interview-with-a-cowboy.html#comment-1183701 hawkd_sf Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=112650#comment-1183701 Um, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration Um, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

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