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I don't know who Sam Elliott is but Mexicans wear cowboy hats and boots even in big metros. I imagine San Antonio would qualify.
As far as I know the White Cowboy isn’t a myth but the Cowboy culture was t just a white American thing and there were many Black and even more Hispanic cowboys in Mexico. For some reason people tend to not realize how strongly Mexico influence and created portions of Cowboy culture.
I would definitely vote El Paso for large cities. I was surprised how Western it felt in the week that I spent there in the mid 2000's. It helps that the terrain surrounding the city is very typically western. And agreed with the Mexican cowboy vibe - it is definitely a thing and definitely a big thing in El Paso.
Whatever that means to you. To me it’s you see a lot of cowboy hats/boots and folks that sound like Sam Elliot. Maybe even an old school Wild West saloon here and there. Are the big metros to cosmopolitan now to fit that? Phoenix, Tucson, SLC, DFW, Houston, OKC, Tulsa, El Paso, ABQ, San Antonio, etc.
Some of those cities never fit that. Albuquerque and El Paso had a lot of caballeros and vaqueros, Tulsa is not west. To me a city that feels western is more diverse than cities in the east, all those you listed are that. But also the western cities still have a spanish influence that is obvious, likeparts of L.A., all of El Paso & Albuquerque. What you describe would be cities in Montana and North & South Dakota. (what city is SLC?) The only western influence DFW has nowadays is that is is close to Ft Worth. There are few Texans in DFW, mostly people who have moved from elswhere to get a decent job. (I worked for a large Texas tech company there and 1/3 of the people in that company were from Texas somewhere, the rest of us were from all over the U.S)
As far as I know the White Cowboy isn’t a myth but the Cowboy culture was t just a white American thing and there were many Black and even more Hispanic cowboys in Mexico. For some reason people tend to not realize how strongly Mexico influence and created portions of Cowboy culture.
Not Mexico, Spain. The influence goes further back when the Spaniards invaded and colonized what is now called the SW U.S. and Mexico long before Mexico was a country.
When I think of the Old Wild West, I think outlaws, drinking, gambling, guns, and girls. LV has plenty of all four and used to have lots of outlaws.
LV has that sort of anything goes, what happens hear stays here marketing strategy. That is what the Wild West was as portrayed in TV shows like Deadwood
As far as I know the White Cowboy isn’t a myth but the Cowboy culture was t just a white American thing and there were many Black and even more Hispanic cowboys in Mexico. For some reason people tend to not realize how strongly Mexico influence and created portions of Cowboy culture.
Well cowboys are from Mexico originally. And yeah there are black cowboys in Louisiana and Mississippi too. I grew up wearing boots and cowboy hats as well.
When I think of the Old Wild West, I think outlaws, drinking, gambling, guns, and girls. LV has plenty of all four and used to have lots of outlaws.
LV has that sort of anything goes, what happens hear stays here marketing strategy. That is what the Wild West was as portrayed in TV shows like Deadwood
Las Vegas became a thing when the Italian Mafia saw a bunch of lonely male Hoover Dam construction workers in the area and wanted to make a profit off their loneliness. Not Wild West to me.
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