And now....Poll Time!

[Cav Guy]

Figured I'd tinker with a poll just for grins, and possibly to help us gain some more information about each others' writing and reading habits.

From the 8 choices, pick the sort of MC you prefer to read OR to write about. I tried to grab the main types, but I'm sure I missed one somewhere, so if you pick 'Other' please post your preference.

You can vote for more than one character type, too. Have fun!

[Lyra Jean]

Pioneers and Indians are my favorite. But I had to add gunslingers and gamblers too. Doc Holliday is one of my favorite characters.

Yes I know he was a real person.

[Bmwhtly]

I can't vote. I found myself ticking every box.

[Cav Guy]

Pioneers and Indians are my favorite. But I had to add gunslingers and gamblers too. Doc Holliday is one of my favorite characters.

Yes I know he was a real person.
Yeah, and a very interesting one to boot. Have you read Matt Braun's novel about him yet?

Doc was kind enough to allow me to use an image of him as my avatar.:)

[Cav Guy]

I can't vote. I found myself ticking every box.
Nothing wrong with that! If you like 'em all, don't be afraid to say so.:)

[san_remo_ave]

I voted for my favorite MCs although I love all of these occupations for characters in Westerns!

[Jaycinth]

Being more into sci-fi and fantasy, I prefer gunslingers. They are close enough to mercenaries.

[brokenfingers]

I don't see any buffalo on there...

[Cav Guy]

I don't see any buffalo on there...
Hence "Other.":D

I didn't have trappers on there, either. Or prospectors and miners. Lots of other possibilities, too. "Soiled doves." Newspapermen. Sodbusters. But to get 'em all makes for too long of a poll.

[Vanatru]

Soldiers of course. Blue or Gray, I like 'em both since both are in my tree. Old, old profession for my family.

Miners. My great, great, great grandpappy was a West Virginia coal minor. My brother used to prospect for gold and ran a slue in Alaska.

I'm not much into trappers. We used to run a trap line up north.........hated it.

How about rogue clergy, cleansing the west of sinners with bible and sixgun. :)

Wasn't there a Robert Mitchum movie like that?

Roust-a-bouts I guess would be.........gunslingers? or Others?

[dpaterso]

I looked at some of my WIPs and listed Gamblers, Gunslingers, Lawmen, and Other (civilian). Then I realized I should'a selected Outlaws too (slaps head!) given my bank robber protag in Down Mexico Way.

-Derek

[Ol' Fashioned Girl]

How about rogue clergy, cleansing the west of sinners with bible and sixgun. :)

Wasn't there a Robert Mitchum movie like that?

'Five Card Stud', with Dean Martin. Robert Mitchum was killing the guys who played cards with his brother the night he was hanged for cheating. :)

[Festus]

Hell, I voted for them all. Storekeeps, bartenders anyone there that breathed could be made into a MC.

[JeanneTGC]

Dangit! I didn't realize we could vote for more than one!

[Bmwhtly]

Storekeeps, bartenders anyone there that breathed could be made into a MC.Yeah, the life of a small western town as seen through the eyes of a Barkeep through it's establishment by miners, the gold rush, pioneers, gamblers, lawmen...
Maybe generations of Bartenders.

I'm gonna go noodle with this.

[WerenCole]

It is like the whole "you end up writing about yourself" type of thing. . . I chose gambler.

[JeanneTGC]

It is like the whole "you end up writing about yourself" type of thing. . . I chose gambler.
What does that say about me? I chose outlaws.

Then again, I think Weren's right. (My other choices, had I known I could do more than one, were gambler and gunslinger. The checkered past shows through no matter what you do!)