“Act like you're in the West or get the hell out"
The owner of an Arizona entity called Rawhide Western Town has gotten some sympathetic coverage (warning -- the link expires tomorrow) recently of a big problem he has: he sold the 148 acres under his tourist attraction for $46 million. So now (poor guy) he has to find a new place to "re-create the Wild West experience." But it turns out that most places convenient to tourists are fairly well overrun with development.
It’s prompted some tough words, such as the title of this post, from some supporters of the Old West lifestyle.
But what those supporters never fully explain -- and hey, I don’t do either one, so maybe I just don’t know -- is why staged reenactments of Hollywood shootouts are more authentically "Western" than golf.
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It’s prompted some tough words, such as the title of this post, from some supporters of the Old West lifestyle.
But what those supporters never fully explain -- and hey, I don’t do either one, so maybe I just don’t know -- is why staged reenactments of Hollywood shootouts are more authentically "Western" than golf.
Join the discussion at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnclaytonoutreach/
