Texas 60 Years Before My Birth

If sixty years before in my place of birth had I been living in that Texas town Fort Worth. With long horn steers moving to and fro what would I have done, where would I go? Herding cattle or breaking broncs or gambling cards in honky-tonks. Getting drunk and in gunfights loving dance hall girls in tights. I could been one of the town's shop resident. A blacksmith's son or the only bank's president. I could have been the town law, killing when called upon. Or an undertaker burying those dead at dawn. A wanted outlaw quick on the draw disappointment to my ma and pa. A shouting preacher Sunday mornings with hell fire damnation warnings. I could have been any these people of Texas history sixty years before my birth, in eighteen hundred eighty three.