+41 People think the Victorian era is earlier than it is, amirite?

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I dunno, that seems like a stretch considering there's 8760 hours per year

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

And that's assuming watching it for 24 hours day right?

by Anonymous 2 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 Mcummings 2 weeks ago

I did not check the math at all, just went with the first thing I saw on Google.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

That's fair.

by Mcummings 2 weeks ago

Does Wild Wild West count? If so, I'm seen exactly one.

by Bitter-Session-5197 2 weeks ago

The Pony Express lasted 18 months. As big as the mythos of the Pony Express is, it lasted 18 months.

by armstrongcooper 2 weeks ago

I did too.

by armstrongcooper 2 weeks ago

Wait, it started in '48? Then why the hell are they called the 49ers?

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Well TIL about 48ers lol Thanks for taking the time!

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

What's the novel called?

by Elegant-Barracuda 2 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 Anonymous 2 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 quitzonlucie 2 weeks ago

Yup… people don't know this?

by Rich-Parfait 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Brb making a samurai cowboy movie

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Sergio Leone has entered the conversation

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Last Samurai was a great movie.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

That is pretty neat. Or a Victorian factory worker with TB. She can also join.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

And they could have sent a fax to each other.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Good times

by Mckenzieambrose 2 weeks ago

There's a cowboy type in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Quincy Morris.

by Organic-Bar-9396 2 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-9044 2 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 OptimalChallenge3380 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Id buy that book. Start writing!

by Anonymous 2 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 OptimalChallenge3380 2 weeks ago

Oh, ha ha!

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

1800s England and 1800s America were wildly different

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Victorian Era ended 1901

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I think they mix it up with Elizabethan era

by Sweaty-Preference868 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Wow! Thats a facsinating film, thanks for sharing! Crazy to see a moving picture of such a historical figure.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

What drives it home for me is that there is film footage of Queen Victoria herself.

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

It went into the 1900s

by ohansen 2 weeks ago

Yeaaah a tiny bit you are right. Not a month in even.

by Fine-Seaweed-364 2 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-Refrigerator15 2 weeks ago

Why dnd though?

by Anonymous 2 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-Refrigerator15 2 weeks ago

Someone in their sixties was born at the midpoint between when the Victorian era ended and today.

by krysteldicki 2 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 BidRevolutionary8862 2 weeks ago

The Wild West and the Victorian era are at the same time. Classical Athens was LONG after the pyramids were built.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

My great grandfather's oldest brother was a member of Queen Victoria's Gaurd in the 1890s.

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

The Victorian Era is a british thing.

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

And they made it an everybody thing lol

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

But Britain was a global thing.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Maybe "people" is just you?

by Daisha96 2 weeks ago

Medieval and Victorian eras get confused for ea other sometime at least for me

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

There's the Renaissance period between them actually

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

That too

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

People are thinking the Victorian era was built around the 1600 Victoria, as opposed to the 1900 Victoria.

by ehowell 2 weeks ago

Who was the "1600 Victoria"?

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Isn't Victorian era only applies to the UK?

by Anonymous 2 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.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Yeah it was like 30-40 years ago I think

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago