Zorro, Have Gun Will Travel, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry come to mind. Aaah memories.

Yes Sir!!! And all good ones!

Y'know, a large percentage of the cowboys were really blacks that went west after the Civil War to find work to support themselves. At the same time quite a few blacks joined the Army for the same reason, very little work available for them. My Grandfather worked as a cowboy for a while when he was a young man and told me stories about it. Suffice to say it was hard, tedious work most of the time. The men he worked with were about half whites while the rest were black and mexican. What we got on TV and in movies was about the west that never was.

You have made an excellent point Bubba, I believe about 99.9% of what we get from TV and Hollywood is pure B.S. and then of-course they are going to dicatate to us what to wear and how to look, give me a break!:rolleyes: I heard someone once put it this way "TV the dumbing of America" and I like my old TV shows and some movies, but I was always taught to take it all lightly and with a grain of salt, in other words Dad taught us to think independently, research and come to our own conclusions, not allow TV to do all the thinking for us!