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EP. 131: A Presidential Election, 1841
You think our elections are divisive today? Well, Texas is just continuing a long tradition of candidates running hard and stirring the pot. In the Republic of Texas the presidential term was only two years, so the elections came frequently. They were contentious to say the least. Old enemies became worse enemies, and the name-calling was classic. Here about an early Texas presidential election in this episode of Wise About Texas.
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Ep. 130: The Sisterdale Revolver
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In the early part of the Civil War, a group of German Freethinkers got together to design and manufacture a revolver for use by the Confederate forces. These Germans were intellectuals, engineers, farmers and…unionists! Nevertheless they designed a new revolver, making 6 total. The gun proved impractical, however, so they ceased production. Only one of these guns is known to survive. But this s...
EP. 129: Making Texas History: An Interview with Governor Rick Perry (Part 2)
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Governor Rick Perry is the longest serving Governor in Texas history. From his humble beginnings in Paint Creek, to the cockpit of an Air Force C-130, to the Governor’s Mansion and on to Washington D.C. Governor Perry has an unmatched career in public service. In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss what Texas and Texas history means to a man who made a lot of it.
EP. 127: Clash of the Titans
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The American Buffalo, or Bison, is an iconic image of America. At one point, millions of these huge animals roamed the continent. But settlement and commercial hunting rendered the bison all but extinct. Thanks to the forward thinking of a few cattlemen, the species was saved. But the early twentieth century was a sporting time, and certain questions needed answers. To a few folks from Texas, M...
EP. 126: An Accidental Victory
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As the winter of 1835 approached, the Texian army lay siege to San Antonio de Bexar. When rumors started that a pack train was approaching the town carrying silver for the troops, the Texians saw opportunity. Riding out to meet the enemy, the Texians were successful…sort of. Learn about this skirmish in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
The Texas Rangers: Milton H. West- from Ranger to Congressman
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Milton H. West had a most interesting career. While investigating the assault of his brother on the Mexican border, he decided to sign up with the Texas Rangers. That got him interested in the law, which got him interested in politics. Every step of the way he was watching out for the people of South Texas. When his career was over, he had changed the face (and the economy) of the Rio Grande Va...
EP. 124: Texans You Should Know- Sally Skull
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Sarah Jane Newman grew up tough in a family that came with Austin’s Old 300. She watched her mother fight off Indians and became an expert judge of horses. Known as Sally Skull, she could outride, outshoot and outtrade any man. But she also lived at the intersection of history and legend, in a time when most folks would prefer the legend. Hear about the fascinating life of a very interesting Te...
Ep. 123: The Texas Rangers- Senior Captain Tony Leal (part 2)
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Antonio “Tony” Leal served as a Texas Ranger from 1994-2011, including several years as the Senior Captain. In part 2 of an interesting and wide-ranging interview, you will learn about the Ranger service, life as a Ranger and many other interesting and informative things about the modern Ranger service. Senior Captain Leal’s ranching roots go back to an 18th century Spanish land grant on the Ri...
EP. 123: The Texas Rangers- Senior Captain Tony Leal (part 2)
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Antonio “Tony” Leal served as a Texas Ranger from 1994-2011, including several years as the Senior Captain. In part 2 of an interesting and wide-ranging interview, you will learn about the Ranger service, life as a Ranger and many other interesting and informative things about the modern Ranger service. Senior Captain Leal’s ranching roots go back to an 18th century Spanish land grant on the Ri...
EP 122: The Texas Rangers- Senior Captain Tony Leal (Part 1)
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Antonio “Tony” Leal served as a Texas Ranger from 1994-2011, including several years as the Senior Captain. In this interesting and wide-ranging interview, you will learn about the Ranger service, life as a Ranger and many other interesting and informative things about the modern Ranger service. Senior Captain Leal’s ranching roots go back to an 18th century Spanish land grant on the Rio Grande...
Ep 121: A Dead Man's Horse- The Case of Issac Desha
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Issac Desha had a checkered past. Though he was the son of a Governor, something just wasn’t right. When he was spotted with a dead man’s horse, things got “interesting.” He ended up in San Felipe before the revolution but his prospects didn’t improve much. Hear about a murder in early Texas in this latest episode of Wise About Texas.
Bonus Episode: The Texas Ranger Bicentennial
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2023 marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most famous law enforcement organizations in the world-The Texas Rangers. In this bonus episode, I talk with Russell Molina and Lacy Finley about all the celebrations scheduled for the Texas Ranger bicentennial. You can find a list of the events at @.
Bonus Episode: A Bad Day At the Courthouse
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The September term of the Bexar County District Court was a bad time to be set for trial. Find out why in this bonus episode of Wise About Texas.
Ep 120 Texas Rangers: "Old Paint" Caldwell
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Some people are just natural leaders. That was Matthew “Old Paint” Caldwell. He rallied men for several of the most important battles in Texas history. In between, he protected the young Republic of Texas from hostile Indians and hostile armies. Not even smallpox could bring him down! Hear about one of the early Texas Rangers and great Texas patriot Matthew Caldwell in the latest episode of Wis...
Edwin Moore Sword Presentation 2023 SD 480p
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I had the honor of presenting a sword that belonged to Texas Navy Commodore Edwin Moore to its new owner Ed Jones on the occasion of his 20th wedding anniversary. It was a gift from his lovely wife Brenda Love and it was a successful surprise!
EP. 122: The Texas Rangers- Senior Captain Tony Leal (part 1)
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EP. 122: The Texas Rangers- Senior Captain Tony Leal (part 1)
Bonus Episode: The 72 oz Steak Challenge with James Webb
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Bonus Episode: The 72 oz Steak Challenge with James Webb
Ep. 121: A Dead Man’s Horse: The Case of Issac Desha
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Ep. 121: A Dead Man’s Horse: The Case of Issac Desha
BONUS EPISODE: Celebrating The Texas Ranger Bicentennial
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BONUS EPISODE: Celebrating The Texas Ranger Bicentennial
Bonus Episode: A Bad Day at the Courthouse
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Bonus Episode: A Bad Day at the Courthouse
EP. 120: Texas Rangers: “Old Paint” Caldwell
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EP. 120: Texas Rangers: “Old Paint” Caldwell
Ep 119 The Texas Rangers: Origins
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Ep 119 The Texas Rangers: Origins
EP. 119: The Texas Rangers: Origins
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EP. 119: The Texas Rangers: Origins
Ep 118 Texans You Should Know: Osjetea Briggs
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Ep 118 Texans You Should Know: Osjetea Briggs
EP. 118: Texans You Should Know- Osjetea Briggs
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EP. 118: Texans You Should Know- Osjetea Briggs
Ep 117: A Murder in the Capitol
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Ep 117: A Murder in the Capitol
Ep 116: Heard it on the X Part 2
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Ep 116: Heard it on the X Part 2
EP. 117: A Murder in the Capitol
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EP. 117: A Murder in the Capitol
EP 116: I Heard it on the X, Part 2
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EP 116: I Heard it on the X, Part 2
Episode 115: I Heard it on the X, Part 1
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Episode 115: I Heard it on the X, Part 1

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  • @julianmetzger3197
    @julianmetzger3197 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for this well researched presentation.

  • @hootowl5
    @hootowl5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Where do you get the info for this video. A lot of BS if you ask me. Especially about Bonnie.

    • @WiseAboutTexas
      @WiseAboutTexas วันที่ผ่านมา

      Primary sources ( I doubt you know what those are) but thankfully nobody is, or will ever, ask you.

  • @Tomrific
    @Tomrific 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've been to Greenwood Cemetery and saw Oliver Loving's grave. Bose Ikard is also buried there and Mary Martin (Peter Pan and mother of Larry Hagman of Dallas fame.) is also buried there.

  • @UnionBlue-h8e
    @UnionBlue-h8e 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What is Texas? It is a territory taken from Mexico and occupied by fraud , dishonesty and falsehood. Because the soil is rich and valuable is no defense for those who have taken and held that part of Mexico , and too without its consent and against its expressed desires. Call the Texasses sons of America? So are the sons of Botany Bay sons of England, but who will rank the transported convicts in New Holland with the honest and reputable Englishmen, and who will rank the Texans with the smart and intelligent sons of the New England puritans? They are citizens from the states, but they are those who have immigrated by their conceit, and have fled to Texas to avoid experiencing the gallows or behind the walls of a penitentiary. Horse thieves have emigrated to Texas, so have burglars, murderers, bigamists, embezzlers, indeed all criminals who have had the luck or ingenuity to escape the hands of justice, have thus sought refuge in Texas, that land of the rogue and den of scorpions. There’s your Anglo Saxon race for you, there’s a gang to be cried up the Anglo Saxon breed, Texas is just the place for them! We hope a territory twice the size of Pennsylvania will be equally rebuke in the eyes of the friend of freedom, and Texas, with its ponderous load of guilt and infamy, should be must be , at all hazards, union or no union, kept out! -Anti Texas Legion Protest, Dover Gazette Newspress

  • @jaynesager3049
    @jaynesager3049 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Native Texan, here! Just found your channel. Love your content and credentials. When I first saw Wise about Texas, I thought it was a channel about Wise County. Haha.

  • @jaynesager3049
    @jaynesager3049 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So glad I found this channel.

  • @tinadavy3990
    @tinadavy3990 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    FASCINATING ! Thank you!

  • @tinadavy3990
    @tinadavy3990 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The gift of Bilocation. 2,000 Indians seeking to be Baptized ! INCORRUPT... Finally up for Sainthood❤🎉❤

  • @charlesaston9892
    @charlesaston9892 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    well every one of these actual TRUE accounts i have seen are different, wont go into the differences but i think best is to look up for ones self

  • @patrickmulroney9452
    @patrickmulroney9452 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    santa ana said 99 killed 300 wounded

  • @carynmaher5406
    @carynmaher5406 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Cedar Choppers is a funny sounding moniker.

  • @carolchristiansen635
    @carolchristiansen635 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you this was very good

  • @stephenolson532
    @stephenolson532 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The names were quite different back then.

  • @JShelton-wf1hr
    @JShelton-wf1hr 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Amazing Story. Would make a great movie !

  • @Rusty_Gold85
    @Rusty_Gold85 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thats the trouble with period movies of the 60'sand 70's. They were devoid of facts despite being based on a historical perspective and its taken 60 years of historians trying to provide the real facts to a Countrie's really poor education system.

  • @larry1824
    @larry1824 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Colorful yeah but they deserved what Hamer gave them

  • @larry1824
    @larry1824 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    No tommy guns used at all despite bad movies

  • @MaggieBryan-ji6jn
    @MaggieBryan-ji6jn 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was told one of them are buried in Garland

  • @Austin8thGenTexan
    @Austin8thGenTexan 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Am glad to receive notification of today's program - especially since I plan to attend the TSHA meeting in Houston for the first time.

  • @margaretmary-dj1ps
    @margaretmary-dj1ps 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent ! Thanks ...

  • @ClancyWoodard-yw6tg
    @ClancyWoodard-yw6tg 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Didn't Clyde also write a letter to Henry Ford praising him on the v8's performance

  • @joet371
    @joet371 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank You for telling like it is (was) that these two individuals were evil & criminals. Thank heavens good prevailed.

  • @FoulMouthActual
    @FoulMouthActual หลายเดือนก่อน

    Subbed based off the name of the channel, alone.

  • @karenhill3970
    @karenhill3970 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much ..im a 5 th generation Texan ...this was so thoroughly done ..the stories we heard about B& C Growing Up brought chills .....thanks ..yes Texas Rangers awesome Men

  • @karenhill3970
    @karenhill3970 หลายเดือนก่อน

    West Dallas....trash

  • @saltydog4443
    @saltydog4443 หลายเดือนก่อน

    excellent job Thank you

  • @Shortpeoplerok2
    @Shortpeoplerok2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow what an adventure getting here! All caught up!

  • @Mark-p7c6w
    @Mark-p7c6w หลายเดือนก่อน

    They was staying with my family oklahoma.buck barrows wife blanch was raised here Garvin okla

  • @FrankRuzicka-l5z
    @FrankRuzicka-l5z หลายเดือนก่อน

    You can't visit Clyde's grave

    • @WiseAboutTexas
      @WiseAboutTexas หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes you can. I've been there several times.

    • @FrankRuzicka-l5z
      @FrankRuzicka-l5z หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@WiseAboutTexas you trespassed

    • @WiseAboutTexas
      @WiseAboutTexas หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FrankRuzicka-l5z Nope. Public access cemetery. Here's the address: 1617 Fort Worth Ave, Dallas, TX 75208, hope you get to go. Thanks for listening!

    • @WiseAboutTexas
      @WiseAboutTexas หลายเดือนก่อน

      Western Heights Cemetery btw

    • @Dragoborn1776
      @Dragoborn1776 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FrankRuzicka-l5z you’re tripping

  • @davidknight1612
    @davidknight1612 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I grew up in commerce Oklahoma my home town, kinda sketchy on that story, they took him to fort Scott let him go, my great granddad ran for office as chief of police after that incident he was not elected because he was to gungho , maybe they would of caught them sooner if was elected!!

  • @baberoot1998
    @baberoot1998 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No doubt...a remarkable feat. I just cannot imagine...the cost. The economy at the time...had to have been phenomenal. Lifting St. Patrick's Catholic Church 5 feet, in and of itself...would have had to have been...an exorbitant amount. And...they lifted ALL of their buildings, not just that massive church building. St. Patrick's...is a huge building. It amazes me...they were able to do that...and it remain stable all these years. Truly...a remarkable feat...that puzzles me. I just cannot imagine how they could have afforded to do this. Amazing.

  • @PachecoNeto-is4ew
    @PachecoNeto-is4ew หลายเดือนก่อน

    Um casal Fantastico

  • @thenaturaltexican
    @thenaturaltexican หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice video! I would love to definitively know the fate of the Yellowstone. I am familiar with the area south of Houston that you referenced, and I once heard of a specific point where local children played on a deserted large boat. It isn't visible from the surface there. If anyone has more information on a definitive location, please post!

  • @benmartin3154
    @benmartin3154 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was great! I’m so shocked this isn’t more popular it’s quality stuff.

  • @watchgoose
    @watchgoose หลายเดือนก่อน

    B&C were executed withOUT due process of law.

  • @asphaltyeti5599
    @asphaltyeti5599 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent narrative!

  • @roberttaylor6295
    @roberttaylor6295 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What superb, well researched and calmly delivered in a make educative and thoroughly enjoyable.. . The story has been sanitised by he film but you told the truth and totally changed my mind and now e them as maniacal thugs and evil monsters. Thank you. Rob

  • @SMcCaskill
    @SMcCaskill หลายเดือนก่อน

    Frank Hamer didn't mess around! He said he had no problem killing Bonnie because she had killed 5 cops. When he stepped into the road and stopped them Bonnie and Clyde knew they were toast.

  • @Shortpeoplerok2
    @Shortpeoplerok2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I found your channel by your survivors of the Alamo episode. Im hooked. As a lifelong Texan with an intrest in our great history, I thank you for what you're doing. Ok, now i can start my Texas history marathon. Lol

  • @davidotis5598
    @davidotis5598 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video is shit. Im a B/C historian. Hey bud. If you're going to do a video. DO THE FUCKING RESEARCH.

  • @RLN1972
    @RLN1972 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had the honor to meet this man back in 1995 when i was a rookie deputy in Chambers County. great guy!!

  • @kensmith310
    @kensmith310 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great episode!

  • @johnonstott1400
    @johnonstott1400 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A great man and leader!

  • @Ccyawn123
    @Ccyawn123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why would the put the ocean right n3xt to such a low lying town?

  • @DocShred
    @DocShred 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just found your channel; love it. I've chopped a little cedar in my time. I'm a born and raised Texas boy. I've spent many seasons clearing land in various parts of Texas; very hot and many bugs...not for the faint of heart or the physically weak. Westlake is now yuppyville. I found it comforting listening to your voice and the knowledge you are sharing. I now live on Maui; left Austin 9 years ago because everyone and their...dogs...are moving there. You have a new fan... Mahalos (thank you kindly).

  • @Ryan_David85
    @Ryan_David85 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where is this sign behind you located?

    • @WiseAboutTexas
      @WiseAboutTexas 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Landa park

    • @Ryan_David85
      @Ryan_David85 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have you ever ran across any treasure stories around the New Braunfels area? I am interest in the Spanish history here, even the German. I’ve heard that the Germans used to hide their silver certificates in caves, and of course there used to be an old Spanish mission which was lost to time. Any knowledge would be greatly appreciated, I love history, thanks.

  • @michaelclennan8425
    @michaelclennan8425 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Judge weise.

  • @LauraLeMond
    @LauraLeMond 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for documenting our wonderful Texas history. I am a proud 5th generation Texan - My family is from Paint Rock TX (up by Lubbock) and moved there from Tennessee, shortly before the Civil War. My great grandfather was a doctor and he is thought to have offered the Comanchero tribes medical care if they wouldn't steal his children. He had 8 children and never lost one of them to the indians. I also have roots in Georgetown, and have relatives buried in the Georgetown cemetery. My ancestry includes the Meers family, (Meersbrook rd) in Austin. UT grad and Texas lifelong resident. I have found my youtube channel for the next 49 episodes! Cannot wait to find out more history on the "wise" channel. "God Bless you and God Bless Texas" a quote from the late and great Bob Bullock.

  • @guanacocruz765
    @guanacocruz765 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesante

  • @crazyhorseaz5224
    @crazyhorseaz5224 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    NOT HERO FOR ME. GOT WHAT THEY GAVE.