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Reblog and tag this with your very first video game , your favorite video game and the video game you’re playing now

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Hi! I'm currently working on a comic project centered on the Wild West, but I want an almost entirely PoC cast for it since I remember reading before that very few cowboys and other people out there back then were white. The thing is, I'm having a really hard time finding information about back then that focuses on PoC at all, so I was wondering if any of you wonderful people know of any sources/books/blogs that I might be able to look at? (This blog is marvelous, btw, you do fantastic work!!!)

Cowboys of Color in the West

It is inaccurate to say that very few cowboys and people out in the west were white. However, it is also inaccurate to say that very few cowboys and people out in the west were POC! So regardless, that you want to write about POC in the West is fantastic! 

To understand what life was like back then, if you could only read ONE book at all to understand what life was like for a cowboy, it would be The Log Of A Cowboy by Andy Adams, period, end of story. 

Another interesting work to give you insight is Life Of Billy Dixon by Olive K. Dixon (his wife) which will help you understand the role of the government and the significance of buffalo hunting and the railroads expanding westward and changing lives as they stretched.

Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington (the artist) is also a valuable resource because he cataloged expeditions with the military and, because you’re doing a comic project, his illustrations in general are priceless because they are supremely accurate when it comes to landscape, fauna, flora, outfit, tack, and equipment.  

Also priceless is the work of George Catlin, an artist who was one of the few White men of the 1800s to see the Native Americans or American Indians as not just people, but people needing representation. He set out to document them and has made powerful portraiture and illustrations. Yes, there is controversy around his work and how he chose to promote it, especially later on, and I am not here to tell you my opinion on that. The fact remains that, without his work, some cultures’ practices (in terms of culture and way of life like what they ate and wore) would be utterly lost because few if any of Catlin’s contemporaries saw these people as worthy of representation. 

The works above are where you should start for your story, and they will point you towards places to go when you read them.

- MissElaney

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In The Great Bear Rainforest Is The Kermode Bear

My Blog @amazingearth

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I wanna be a cowboy baaaaby

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Im slowly becoming a Trelawny Stan and I need to be stopped

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Im slowly becoming a Trelawny Stan and I need to be stopped

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i showed my friend the sun bears from that post and he was like “what about moon bears” and there IS in fact a type of bear nicknamed the moon bear and fuckingh nothing could’ve prepared me for the images

large. wide. sit.

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Some doodles of @doc-dastardly 's modded au of what could have happened if Trelawny had been with the gang for the blackwater robbery.

I just loved it so much I had to make fanart, I imagine that he would have lost his eye to splinters from a wagon that exploded too close to him.

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Non-art blog: @dragonwycks

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After seeing the dad how do I channel, I really wanted this one. I searched for it and, tada! Mom how do I? Seems rather new, but I love it anyway.

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Born to gently go camping with his horse, forced to gain MUNEH 💰

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he lacks critical information

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fursonas confirmed

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jesus christ, be polite to children and show them manners. fucking say excuse me when you walk past them, apologize to them when you cut them off, thank them when they’re courteous to you. they’re not little objects that don’t matter. you should be a fucking example and teach them how to treat people, instead of acting like they’re these invisible THINGS that don’t have feelings or don’t notice when they aren’t acknowledged. be polite to children the same way you’d be polite to someone of your own age group or older. you can respect a child.

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They added these belt buckles to red dead online. Here they are (second photo was datamined)

someone showed me the first pic but this is my first time seeing the second set and I am SHRIEKING

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In case you writers ever wondered. Made by Carrie Patrick on Facebook.