What if...

What if I could go back in time? Where would I go? I would go to the 1800's. I love everything about that time in American history and it would have been so amazing to be a part of it. I would want to be one of the pioneers (none of the city slicker stuff for me) and go west on the Oregon Trail. Have a ranch in Montana or something like that with wide open sky and mountains touching the sky. Or a ranch in Texas with cowboys running around and the quest for independence from Mexico and union with the United States. To tame the frontier with all its wild animals and unused land. To carve out a home in the vast wilderness of the west, to see horses running wild and rivers flowing freely. That is where I would want to be because that is where my heart is. It would be so cool to meet Indians and see their culture (the friendly ones anyway) and watch the buffalo grazing en mass on the prairies. I know life was extremely hard back then but whenever I think of that life I only think of the fun of a challenge. Oh to be a pioneer!