Wister’s contemptuous remarks about Wall Street and Newport suggest what he and many others of his generation believed—that the comforts and seductions of civilized life were especially insidious for men, who all too easily became emasculated by the feminizing tendencies of civilization. More often than not, men who felt this way came, like Wister... See more

clash between urban and rural culture.” With its studded leather jackets, flannels, and bolo ties, this capsule collection provides the wardrobe for the modern cowboy.

I started to see that cities didn’t really represent “real life” more than ranches do - they just hid the consequences of life better. In the city, food still comes from death but someone else does the dirty work for you. Labor still exists, its just more abstract and probably behind a computer. Systems and processes fail, they just fail quieter -

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