Up until that point, John Marston has spent most of his time in a fairly typical wild west environment; dusty towns, mines and ranches.
Blackwater is the closet thing the game has to the modern world, with it's paved streets, electricity and automobiles driving around.
In one mission John Marston finds himself in the back of one of these automobiles in his full cowboy gear.
It was watching this that it struck me that living in the West at this time must have been a strange experience.
On the one hand you still had most people using horses as their primary mode of transport, living in small towns and eking a living out of the land.
At the same time you started seeing national transport in the form of the railroads, which was helping create the beginnings of larger businesses.
John Marston finds himself between the two words, the rough, dusty world of the stereotypical cowboy which he understood. A world where owning a gun wasn't a statement but more a necessity of serving.
The other world, the modern one with its rules, order and safety, was slowly creeping in.
It was thinking about what it must have been like to see the world change like this that made Mr appreciate what survivalists, bikers and ranchers are trying to hold onto in the modern world.
A sense of freedom, of being able to settle differences for yourself, not knowing what the next day would bring rather than the safe, dull predictability of modern life.
While most people would prefer the safety of modern life over the anxiety and anarchy of freedom, when your alarm goes off on Tuesday morning at the same time it did on the Tuesday before and the Tuesday before that, you can definitely see the appeal of frontier life.
