There’s just something about the old west that I’m in love with. All the old ghosts from the frontier days haunt me and follow me on my journeys, both good and evil ones. I’m an end product of the #colonialism of my European lineage. My ancestors thought they were on the correct path but they were on the dark side, deceived by the most sinister evil from the get-go. As a result, the lawless West became #Wild because immorality spawns more of the same, even in the absence of honor because the den was obviously full of thieves. That is the true story of America where the underbelly is concerned and #ManifestDestiny was the rosy pictured myth often seized to rationalize the most heinous of crimes in name of #WesternExpansion & everywhere these outlaws spread their #liquorstores and #saloons sprang up. I love the history of the #OldWest but I prefer the truth of it: not some sugarcoated “patriotic” lie about it! Picture by me last fall… (at Globe, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQWCntkrSCH/?utm_medium=tumblr
