Creeds of the TV Cowboys
When TV and baby boomers both were young, any cowboy role model worth his salt had his set of rules for kids to live by.
Here's a roundup of those creeds and commandments, accompanied by a lovely piece of writing that paints a great picture of the Saturday-morning TV scene recalled so fondly by so many.
posted by Juli Thorson @ 2:09 PM
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5 Comments:
Great link, thanks for sharing. I like this from the Lone Ranger's creed: "I believe that God put the firewood there, but every man must gather and light it himself." And that men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number (makes me think of our current political climate). I also like how "Listen to your parents" is in each creed! :-)
Too cool. Roy Rogers was my guy. I still have a photo of him in my studio.
Good rules to live by. Too bad that so many of them have been forgotten.
Happy Trails. Loved that song.
Excellent post! I still have a Christmas album (not CD, not tape, not even 8-track) in it's original cardboard jacket, Gene Autry's Christmas Collection! I would pretend that I actually owned Trigger and loaned him out!! LOL! Not cowboys per se, but cowdogs.... Rin-Tin-Tin & Lassie. I had a Rin-Tin-Tin metal lunchbox. Wish I still had it! Again, great post! Love the topic! Lots of memories here....
One of the comments mentioned imitating the sagas of the celluloid cowboys on horseback with the neighborhood kids. Ohhh, YES! In my case it was a rowdy bunch of cousins and ranch horses that would make up the 'cast.' We'd catch them all and tie them along the lane beyond the shop and we'd have our western town's main street set up, complete with jail, saloon, etc.
Imitation was the thing and we'd also imitate a rodeo if we could get any of the adults to take us to one, and then the ranch horses had to play the part of bareback bronc (we had a natural for that), calf roping horse (the rooster was the target), and so on. We also needed a parade horse as one cousin ONLY wanted to be the rodeo queen and inevitably entered at a breakneck trot with a broom held upside down and high as the flag. All the bull riders wanted to be Jim Shoulders but we didn't have a bull ... only the milk cow and she wasn't very cooperative. And the point is?
Never let it be said that children do not imitate what they see on television, or at the movies, or at any event! Cowboy codes seem obsolete as does the line between right and wrong. If we demonstrate violence and mayhem, kids will imitate that just as earnestly as we tried to imitate the westerns. Nuf said.
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