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[Wonky3]

What  is Pokemon? 

This guy was always talking about pokes, but that's probably a different app.

Talking with a friend the other day that came up. I wondered of the term "poke" was REALLY a term used by people in the old west for having sex.
Maybe but I doubt it. Very little of what was portrayed in the old westerns many of us watched growing up was factual.
One thing especially. That all cowboys had revolvers that shot six rounds. That wasn't even available until 1871 and they were expensive. So it was probably much later before these guns were common.
Another is the language. There are still a lot of letters from men in the civil war and very often they wrote using better grammar and writing skills than people do today.
But on TV shows they often came off like ignorant morons.

The comments about the Civl War letters are both true and false. The semiliterate didn't write much better than I. 
And many were illerate and had others write home for them. (Turned out to be lucrative practice for some)  .
But one thing for sure, those who could and did write did it very well. Strange how the langauge has changed over the years, and the written language of the mid 1800's was more formal. Interesting stuff. 

Didn't know that about the "six shooter". Too lazy to look it up...what were they using prior to the six shooter? 

The "poke" thing I first heard in "Lonesome Dove". Still one of my all time favorite TV series! Gus was a piece of work!

Gus may have been the best role Duvall ever played. I think I remember him saying it was his favorite.


 It's mostly they way they spoke I was talking about and not they're level of education. I just don't think too many spoke like an absolute idiot like good ole Festus did.
 
Prior to the six shooter they had something similar to cap and ball.. kind of a pre made paper load that they had to put in each cylinder.And I guess they were very hard to travel with or handle especially with bad weather.

Wow! (Don't know much about guns). The "six shooter" revolver and the repeating rifle must have changed EVERYTHING!

(Yeah...Robert Duvall was born to play Gus. But the man has done other remarkable things! One of the greats)