The History of Western Mongolia

When I was a little boy, I spent a lot of time at my grandmother's house in the deep countryside. Now it's clearly very modern now, but there are remnants of what I would say is like my grandfather's kind of culture. Like we went to this like ancient town part of Ho Hot and it was like an old part that had been preserved for like the last hundred years. And there were like leather shops and places to buy cowboy parts like saddles and things like that. You could tell that they were actually buying saddles for horses and I bought a couple of belts because there was some leather stores that reminded me of being a little boy in a California where there were still