Watching The Old Westerns
By Susan
@HazySue (39265)
Gouverneur, New York
August 16, 2017 8:52am CST
If you watch the old westerns you might have noticed the abandoned ranches, barns, and houses. I have seen them in every older western show I have watched.
I am talking about old shows like Laramie, The Lone Ranger, and Wanted Dead or Alive.
I wonder when people up and leave just why others in need didn't move in. I know it's just a show but in real life back then I wonder if they were just left there to fall apart.
This is just a random thought. I think it would be a shame if these places actually were left to go to rack and ruin.
What do you think?
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Aug 17
it would be a shame for them to be left the way they are.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Aug 17
@HazySue
With all the people who know how to redo places like that I just wonder they don´t take advantage of the houses and revamp them all and give them to people in real need.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
16 Aug 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 I wonder the same thing It seems a shame to let them fall apart.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
16 Aug 17
Yes it is a thought indeed Susan why they did not just move in.
It is a shame really.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
16 Aug 17
@HazySue Maybe they did eventually or bought the land and rebuilt after the movie sometime. They are lonesome looking though for sure.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
16 Aug 17
@TiarasOceanView Maybe, I hope in real life that there was someone who moved in and lived their life.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
16 Aug 17
I am sure that others used the dwellings, but when they fell on hard times, they left them behind. Not easy to make a living when the land isn't compliant. Drought, heavy rainfall, etc., all contributed to their abandon.
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@rebelann (117220)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Aug 17
I think a lot of people in the late 1700s and early 1800s built farms or ranches then as the weather changed and water became scarce were forced to leave. Many wells dried up in the mid 1800s which forced families to find new areas with available water to build a new home. They didn't have it easy that's a fact
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@rebelann (117220)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Aug 17
I would suppose a lot of them simply sat for decades like in those ghost towns we hear about @HazySue back in the late 1700s people had no idea just how harsh living in a desert could be and once they depleted the water supply they were forced to leave. Maybe they should have burned everything before leaving but I maybe they didn't have matches yet, I'm not sure when those were invented.
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@Marilynda1225 (91069)
• United States
16 Aug 17
It would be a shame if those old barns and ranches went to ruin. I imagine many of those were foreclosed due to non payment of mortgage back in those days.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Aug 17
The majority of homesteads in the late 1800s were abandoned because homesteaders failed to make a go of it.
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