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People think the Victorian era is earlier than it is, amirite?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
You play through the tail end of the Victorian era in RDR2 Most of what we think of as the "Wild West" era was in the Victorian era, to be honest.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
I dunno, that seems like a stretch considering there's 8760 hours per year
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Heh, yeah maybe, but apparently just from 1930-1954 there were almost 3,000 western movies made already. I have no idea how many were made after 1954 til today, but I bet it's a lot. Add TV shows into the mix and I'd bet you've got at least a decade or two of western material to watch.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
I just Googled it out of curiosity and if you wanted to watch every episode of Gunsmoke it would take 26 days and 11 hours.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
And that's assuming watching it for 24 hours day right?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
203 episodes at 30 minutes each, and 402 episodes at an hour. That's 101.5 + 402 = 503.5 hours. I get 20.97 days. Still impressive If they did the math at 605 episode at 1 hour, you get 25.2 days.
by Mcummings2 weeks ago
I did not check the math at all, just went with the first thing I saw on Google.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
That's fair.
by Mcummings2 weeks ago
Does Wild Wild West count? If so, I'm seen exactly one.
by Bitter-Session-51972 weeks ago
The Pony Express lasted 18 months. As big as the mythos of the Pony Express is, it lasted 18 months.
by armstrongcooper2 weeks ago
I did too.
by armstrongcooper2 weeks ago
Wait, it started in '48? Then why the hell are they called the 49ers?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Well TIL about 48ers lol Thanks for taking the time!
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
For sure! I'm lucky that I love in a "wild West" / Victorian town that has pretty much stayed that way ever since the old western times, they've gone through great effort to preserve the buildings and atmosphere. But you're right, the vast majority became urbanized pretty quickly, or just died off. One other very cool town that's worth checking out if you're ever in the area, is Bodie CA. Because of where it's located in the high desert above 7k feet, it's been very well preserved and feels like you're walking through a real wild West town, because you are. They didn't even restore the buildings, they just "arrested the decay" as they say, keeping it from falling apart but otherwise leaving it exactly as it was. It's a very cool experience.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
What's the novel called?
by Elegant-Barracuda2 weeks ago
Clever. For me Europe and the USA are like two different history classes, two different timelines. It's crazy that the late 1860's in the USA were the end of the civil war and legalized slavery, but in France that was the dawn of Impressionism. I mean, if they got tired of painting flowers and ballerinas, Degas, Monet, or Renoir could have come to the USA and painted pictures of the lynchings that led into the Jim Crow era.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
it's weird to think. most people in America look at Jim crow as a by gone era . but everyone 60+ lived then. that's a good chunk of America. people think the civil rights movement was the great grandparents, but it's most people parents and grandparents.
by quitzonlucie2 weeks ago
Yup… people don't know this?
by Rich-Parfait2 weeks ago
A victorian noblewoman, a Cowboy and a Samurai could've been in the same room at the same time. The Wild West, Victorian Europe and Shogun era had overlap.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Brb making a samurai cowboy movie
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Sergio Leone has entered the conversation
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Last Samurai was a great movie.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
That is pretty neat. Or a Victorian factory worker with TB. She can also join.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
And they could have sent a fax to each other.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Good times
by Mckenzieambrose2 weeks ago
There's a cowboy type in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Quincy Morris.
by Organic-Bar-93962 weeks ago
And a pirate. Privateering wasn't banned until the Paris declaration of maritime Law. 18 years into Victoria's reign. A Pirate, a Rake, two Cowboys, and Ronin walk into a bar… For those wondering - Meiji Restoration - 1868 Wild West ends- 1895 Victoria reigns - 1838-1901 State backed Piracy ends - 1856
by Stock-Yam-90442 weeks ago
When I was a kid I created an original character (not really that original) who was an ex-slave that became a cowboy in the Wild West before traveling to Japan and becoming a samurai. He was also an alien vampire.
by OptimalChallenge33802 weeks ago
That's awesome. When I was young I created a comic about a guy who was a normal workaday schlub, except when he got a boner it would be 20 feet long, pierce building, puncture airplanes he was flying in, cause massive car crashes. It was called the guy with the 20 ft schlong
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Id buy that book. Start writing!
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Eh it was a bit of a rip off. I got the idea from the series Cowboy Ninja Viking, with a little bit of Django Unchained thrown in there.
by OptimalChallenge33802 weeks ago
Oh, ha ha!
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
1800s England and 1800s America were wildly different
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Yeah, England was way more developed. People keep saying x or y would kill a Victorian child as if soda laced with cocaine wasn't already a thing though. Victorian era leads into WW1.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Victorian Era ended 1901
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
HMS Dreadnought is 1905. The Entente Cordiale Britain-France treaty is 1904. Then there is a string of foreign relations crises from 1904 onwards: Morocco, Bosnia, Agadir, and so on. In short, if you are looking at the causes of WWI, they are in full swing shortly after the death of Queen Victoria. So "Victorian era leads into WWI" is a defendable statement.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Yeah but realistically not much changed, its very much a continuation of the same theme: Pax Brittanica, with a growing Germany, a growing USA, and similar social/economic conditions
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
I think they mix it up with Elizabethan era
by Sweaty-Preference8682 weeks ago
I have a couple pictures of my great great grandparents that were taken around 1870. Its crazy I can see what my ancestors looked like from that long ago.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Wow! Thats a facsinating film, thanks for sharing! Crazy to see a moving picture of such a historical figure.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
What drives it home for me is that there is film footage of Queen Victoria herself.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
There's quite a lot of eras that people don't really think about as being close together because they're regional.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
It went into the 1900s
by ohansen2 weeks ago
Yeaaah a tiny bit you are right. Not a month in even.
by Fine-Seaweed-3642 weeks ago
You can have a set time period Dnd game where a Victorian Gentleman thief, a Cowboy gunslinger, a Samurai, and French Privateer fight vampires with Lincoln's son and Tesla grade tech all being chronicled by the bard, Mark Twain.
by Witty-Refrigerator152 weeks ago
Why dnd though?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Vampires and the pregenerated archetypes that are in the Dnd game, but it would be fun to play these in a Call of Cthulhu game too.
by Witty-Refrigerator152 weeks ago
Someone in their sixties was born at the midpoint between when the Victorian era ended and today.
by krysteldicki2 weeks ago
My grandmother was a toddler in the Victorian era (born 1899). When I was a kid, there would have still been a few people around who actually remembered the Victorian era.
by BidRevolutionary88622 weeks ago
The Wild West and the Victorian era are at the same time. Classical Athens was LONG after the pyramids were built.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
My great grandfather's oldest brother was a member of Queen Victoria's Gaurd in the 1890s.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Some of you are tweaking, the Victorian era is literally most famous for the industrial revolution. Which was basically just the 19th century (yes ik a bit either side as well, but the bulk of the revolutionary technology emerged in the c19)
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
The Victorian Era is a british thing.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
They produced a lot of export versions though. You may know it as "the Raj", "the Great Game", "the scramble for Africa", etc. Think of it like a flash mob, with mandatory audience participation.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
And they made it an everybody thing lol
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
But Britain was a global thing.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Maybe "people" is just you?
by Daisha962 weeks ago
Medieval and Victorian eras get confused for ea other sometime at least for me
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
There's the Renaissance period between them actually
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
There's a lot of eras between Medieval and Victorian. It's about the span of 400 years lol. Renaissance, Schism, Reformation, Enlightenment in mainland Europe and Tudors and Stuarts periods in England proper.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
That too
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
People are thinking the Victorian era was built around the 1600 Victoria, as opposed to the 1900 Victoria.
by ehowell2 weeks ago
Who was the "1600 Victoria"?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
the era of cowboys and gunfights and all that stuff hollywood would make you think lasted 200 years, was actually only like 30 years at the most.
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Isn't Victorian era only applies to the UK?
by Anonymous2 weeks ago
Kinda, it applies to the entire British Empire (India was greatly affected) as a whole and also greatly affected how the American North East operated on a day to day. American Victorianism was a pretty big thing as you can tell by all of the Victorian era housing that was built up on the US east coast. When talking as a whole US though people tend to not focus on the North East Victorian stuff because it wasn't really history as it coincided heavily with Antebellum, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and then the 'Wild West' periods.
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