The sheriff is back in town !

Ready for some action, kiddo !

Cowboy (blown plastic), Galba
Italy, 1970's 

 

The Indian Chief

Indian Chief on horse, Leyla, Germany, 1970's

 

Before supermarkets...

General Store, Oehme & Söhne, DDR, 1970's

Because in the 70ies, we had toys promoting whiskey drinking and tobacco smoking...

Feathers and drumsticks

 

Indian Joe, Alps, Japan, 1960's

More Cowboys and Indians

Cowboy, Hausser-Elastolin, Germany, 1980's

Indian, Gulliver, Brasil, 1980's

Cowboy, Hausser-Elastolin, Germany, 1980's

The feathers of the mighty peacock...

Two indians with tomahawk, lead, John Hill, England, 1930's

When I was a kid, I would grab just any feather I found on the street and put it into my hair to be a Sioux or Apache Indian... Lots of pigeons feathers, basically... nothing really fancy.

These 2 figurines went the full Monty. Not really easy to go to battle dressed like that, but for the tribal dances they get first price.

When I was a kid...

Fort Apache, Oehme & Sohne, Germany, 1970's

 ... I played Cowboys and indians... the stories of Zorro and Davy Crocket and Rintintin... and I did it with this fort. I was lucky to find it back just as I remembered it. All wood. Felt for the door hinges.

Lots of great battles happened here, and I am really happy to have found this toy.

 

Beautiful artwork on red box...

Indians and Cowboys - what happened ?

Musical Horn, ?, Portugal ?, 1960's ?

When I was a kid, I did not grew up only with robots and spacetoys... nope. We had Davy Crocket, Zorro, Rintintin, Bonanza and a lot of other Western-based TV shows. So much so that everytime I found a pigeon's feather on the streets it would end up in my hair somehow.

Nowadays, the genre is dying....

Before Star Trek..

... you had cowboys (= the good guys) and indians (hmmmm excuse me... "native Americans" (= the bad guys)) on TV.

I still had a glimpse of the Wild West series like Rintintin and Davy Crocket and Bonanza. 

So naturally, I did play also with these... 

Cowboy on horse (detail), composite material,
Elastolin, Germany, 1950's

...... then came Mr. Spock and R2D2...