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Today before the sun came up, like most mornings I took a walk. Most of the time I walk the same way down this country road. About a mile down the road I can start to smell the horses.
There is a horse rescue place there. I was always a city kid so I am not sure if you call it a ranch, corral or nursing home for horses. ;Bucktooth
I understand these horses are past whatever they did in their prime, but these days I don't know what horses are used for. We do have tractors so I don't see any plowing fields and I have never seen anyone around here riding them. The nearest race track is 80 miles away and I have never seen one walking on the sides of the highway towards there.
I know some of them have "coats" on an and some of them appear to be wearing designer boots . Their day consists of standing in a mixture of mud, dead squirrels and horse poop while they munch on a wet bag of dead grass. ;Yuck
I know when I was a kid, horses were used a lot in movies. There were no Tablets, I Phones, MP3 players etc. so we used to go to the movies to watch "Cowboy and Indian" movies.
I am sorry, but that is what they were called. (google it) I would imagine that today they changed the name to Cowboy and Native American movies or Cowboys and indigenous native movies or just Westerns.
Anyway one of my favorite Western shows was "The Lone Ranger". It started in 1949 (I was born in 1948) and it was one of the few shows on. Filmed in black and white, like all shows were. It was about this Marshall named "The Lone Ranger". (As a kid, I always thought it was "The Long Ranger".
Anyway this guy always wore a mask. No one knew why because at the beginning of the show, when they showed the credits, it read "The Lone Ranger" played by Clayton Moore, so everyone knew who he was. ;Shifty
He had a good buddy named Tonto who played a "Native American" but he wasn't called that in the show. He was played by "Jay Silverheels" which sounds Jewish but he was really born in Canada on a reservation and was part of the Iroquois Nation which was a group of various tribes.
The guy was really a horse trainer and racer so he knew everything about horses. He probably also knew why they sometimes wore coats and designer boots.
I don't know what "The Lone Ranger" did before he was in the show. I think he owned an LFS in New Jersey but I am guessing.
The Lone Ranger rode a white horse named Silver and when he rode away at the end of each show, he would yell "Hi O Silver" which today sounds really lame but I am sure I also used to run around yelling that.
Tonto's horse was named "White Feller". which to me, is a Sissy horse name but I am sure they wanted to make the star's horse sound more "Manly".
When the Lone Ranger solved a crime, he would leave a Silver bullet at the scene so they all knew that it was him.
Silver bullets cost a few bucks so I am sure they used the same bullet in each episode.
That particular show was one of the few Westerns that depicted many, but not all "Native Americans" in a good light. Tonto at least, as there weren't to many other "Native Americans" in the show but the majority of Westerns falsely depicted the Native Americans as ruthless savages.
Many years after the show ended the lead guy, Clayton Moore walked around wearing his mask. The creators of the show didn't like that and they sued the poor guy and he couldn't wear the mask. Instead, he wore these big glasses to "hide his identity" just like in the show but it was silly looking because he was not allowed to wear a mask that looked like he wore in the show. Talk about lawyers that had nothing better to do.
Here where I live on Long Island New York we have a large Native American population. Unfortunately they also were not treated very well but not as bad as the plains tribes out west.
Here now we still have a couple of reservations. One tribe called the Montauketts tried to get a permit for a casino. The judge didn't grant their request because he said they were extinct. They couldn't find any from the tribe who were full blooded Montaukett Native Americans.
The Montauketts were the most powerful tribe on Long Island and they had to be because the tribes up north, from across the Long Island Sound used to raid them so the Montauketts built a fort.
Now there is a pond there called Fort Pond. (There is a great restaurant there)
Montauk New York, which is the most eastern part of New York (and maybe the US) is named for them. I don't live far from there.
Many, or most of the roads here were named for the 13 tribes that lived here.
Where I live was home to the Setaukets. There are still quite a few of those and they were able to get a permit to build a casino but I think it has legal and money problems so it never got started.
There is a horse rescue place there. I was always a city kid so I am not sure if you call it a ranch, corral or nursing home for horses. ;Bucktooth
I understand these horses are past whatever they did in their prime, but these days I don't know what horses are used for. We do have tractors so I don't see any plowing fields and I have never seen anyone around here riding them. The nearest race track is 80 miles away and I have never seen one walking on the sides of the highway towards there.
I know some of them have "coats" on an and some of them appear to be wearing designer boots . Their day consists of standing in a mixture of mud, dead squirrels and horse poop while they munch on a wet bag of dead grass. ;Yuck
I know when I was a kid, horses were used a lot in movies. There were no Tablets, I Phones, MP3 players etc. so we used to go to the movies to watch "Cowboy and Indian" movies.
I am sorry, but that is what they were called. (google it) I would imagine that today they changed the name to Cowboy and Native American movies or Cowboys and indigenous native movies or just Westerns.
Anyway one of my favorite Western shows was "The Lone Ranger". It started in 1949 (I was born in 1948) and it was one of the few shows on. Filmed in black and white, like all shows were. It was about this Marshall named "The Lone Ranger". (As a kid, I always thought it was "The Long Ranger".
Anyway this guy always wore a mask. No one knew why because at the beginning of the show, when they showed the credits, it read "The Lone Ranger" played by Clayton Moore, so everyone knew who he was. ;Shifty
He had a good buddy named Tonto who played a "Native American" but he wasn't called that in the show. He was played by "Jay Silverheels" which sounds Jewish but he was really born in Canada on a reservation and was part of the Iroquois Nation which was a group of various tribes.
The guy was really a horse trainer and racer so he knew everything about horses. He probably also knew why they sometimes wore coats and designer boots.
I don't know what "The Lone Ranger" did before he was in the show. I think he owned an LFS in New Jersey but I am guessing.
The Lone Ranger rode a white horse named Silver and when he rode away at the end of each show, he would yell "Hi O Silver" which today sounds really lame but I am sure I also used to run around yelling that.
Tonto's horse was named "White Feller". which to me, is a Sissy horse name but I am sure they wanted to make the star's horse sound more "Manly".
When the Lone Ranger solved a crime, he would leave a Silver bullet at the scene so they all knew that it was him.
Silver bullets cost a few bucks so I am sure they used the same bullet in each episode.
That particular show was one of the few Westerns that depicted many, but not all "Native Americans" in a good light. Tonto at least, as there weren't to many other "Native Americans" in the show but the majority of Westerns falsely depicted the Native Americans as ruthless savages.
Many years after the show ended the lead guy, Clayton Moore walked around wearing his mask. The creators of the show didn't like that and they sued the poor guy and he couldn't wear the mask. Instead, he wore these big glasses to "hide his identity" just like in the show but it was silly looking because he was not allowed to wear a mask that looked like he wore in the show. Talk about lawyers that had nothing better to do.
Here where I live on Long Island New York we have a large Native American population. Unfortunately they also were not treated very well but not as bad as the plains tribes out west.
Here now we still have a couple of reservations. One tribe called the Montauketts tried to get a permit for a casino. The judge didn't grant their request because he said they were extinct. They couldn't find any from the tribe who were full blooded Montaukett Native Americans.
The Montauketts were the most powerful tribe on Long Island and they had to be because the tribes up north, from across the Long Island Sound used to raid them so the Montauketts built a fort.
Now there is a pond there called Fort Pond. (There is a great restaurant there)
Montauk New York, which is the most eastern part of New York (and maybe the US) is named for them. I don't live far from there.
Many, or most of the roads here were named for the 13 tribes that lived here.
Where I live was home to the Setaukets. There are still quite a few of those and they were able to get a permit to build a casino but I think it has legal and money problems so it never got started.
