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Wild West and Pricing Guns, Or Lack Thereof
Wild western pricing gun labels probably didn’t exist. If you wanted to buy something at Quinn’s general store, you just asked Quinn how much it cost. And that was that. Coffee was like fifteen cents. Granted this was a hundred an fifty years ago. So you know. But still, baking powder, coffee, hominy, bacon rind. That’s a breakfast right there. Ain’t no putting Garvey labels on that.
The Wild West was quite a place. With so much land new towns sprung up out of nowhere. There were probably about a hundred people before a town got itself a general store. But it was about a hundred years before they bought themselves pricing guns.
When you were out roaming prairie, or ridin’ across desert from one town to the next, there’d sometimes be fifty, a hundred miles before you reach a town with a general store. That’s a day’s ride, six hours on horseback. You don’t know what kind of strangers you’re going to meet on your journey to the next town over. Might have a bit of good luck, might have some bad. Ain’t no telling.
Today, it’s pretty much the same. Except we don’t ride horses. And we don’t usually move from one town to the next as easily. And pricing guns save us the time we so desperately need in the store.
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