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Hunting B. & Clyde; Hamer balked at the compensation of $180 a month, less than half his current pay, but Simmons reiterated that Hamer would collect his fair share of the reward money. He further added to the deal by authorizing Hamer to take whatever he wanted from among the Barrow Gang's possessions when he caught them.

Great story. Thanks for sharing.

Those were some gut wrenching accounts well told. It feels especially tragic if you've experienced a big one. Thank science for giving us days to prepare now for these inevitable monsters.

God Bless Texas🎉

I guess you're a Texas historian. So I'll give you a bit more information. Sally had children, but she gave them away on term to provid for those children. I know my great grandfather had three sisters. One of them had married a man with the last name " Skull". W.T. Dorsett Sr. Was born to Theodore Monroe Dorsett and Mary Polly Winfree in 1845 Liberty, Texas. A lot of the familly has been baried in Gudalupe County, Texas. And some in Brownsville, Texas. 24:41

Okay, there's my first comment. 😊

I don t see my first comment. I can't give you a thumbs up if you removed it.

I guess that Sally Scull was about 28 years old when my great grandfather (William Theodor Dorsett) was born in Liberty, Texas in 1845. I read the story of Sally Scull ( A.K.A. Shara Jane Newma). It was mentioned that Sally went to Refugio, Refugio, Texas during the Civil War. At that time my great grandfather was also there. He was a very young man at that time. One thing has made me wonder, was that after the War great grandfather was in Refugio, Tx. In 1872 to about 1876. He had two sons and a daughter, W.T. Dorsett Jr. ( my grandfather born in Refugio in 1872. But what has made me wonder most of all is, why did my great grandfather name his second son Charles Scull Dorsett? 😮 He was also born in Refugio, Tx., in1874. W. T. Dorsett Sr. also had a daughter named " Mary Dorsett".

Watched this and found it bloody marvellous.

I wish I knew more about Mary’s sister-in-law, Abigail Burleson Gage who lived from 1771-1865. By my count, she had seven nationalities, but lived her whole life on the frontier.

Wait a second……. Sea level is not rising… Everybody knows that the flooding is caused by Lazy democrat public service workers that purposely are not cleaning out the storm drains to make the Republicans look bad

Love your channel…I always admired Texan grit! Real men and women to this day! Wish to this day I was born a Texan….even got my own Stetson!

10:30 Cholera could have added more misery when you think of the thousands of those little outhouses on stilts in the mud.. Bolivar Peninsula just across the inlet has the same topography as pre-seawall Galveston. In 2008 Hurricane Ike hit the bay area with a wall of water. The storm surge approached so quickly Bolivar residents that chose to stay were already being evacuated by helicopter in sunshine with a 5 mph breeze! The after photos show the entire area scraped flat with just a few overbuilt structures remaining. To me that was 1900 in a nutshell, minus the helicopter evacuations and lunatics who stayed knowing the storm was bringing a 20 foot wall of water to the area. x

Incredible! We used to be able to move the entire Earth to advance our civilization and country to benefit us all....Now, we cant get a simple telephone pole replaced without a billion miles of red tape and shenanigans involving abstract incompetency.

Hey Ken, "almost" a life long El Paso resident here, the last Coney Island in El Paso Closed in 2015. Super surprised to hear El Paso finally get a headlining roll in the podcast, Buffalo! In the mid 1980s a friend of mine had 6 Buffalo at his mini ranch in Canutillo TX as the city and his heard grew he eventually moved them to a larger ranch outside of Deming NM. Can't wait to hear some more El Paso tales

"Rising Tide" by John M Barry on the 1927 Mississippi River flood in 1927, WORST natural disaster in USA history

Great stuff! Very accurate!

Did Frank hamer shoot Bonnie Parker in the head after she's was dead

Descendant of Stephen Dincans Texas Army volunteer sharpshooter Fannin Massacre survivor 1836 , Texas Ranger Volunteer for Meir Expedition P.O.W. Black Bean episode Survivor 1841-42 Got 2 land grants of 640 Acres Became a Rancher

My mom and dad were the same age as Bonnie and clyde. They made it through the depression without harming anyone. Bad people are Bad.They are just part of humanity.

4th great grandson of Matthew Caldwell here! Love hearing bout his role in Texas Independence as a founding father! Also we're still here in Texas.

And Galveston still has a flooding problem.

Bonnie and Clyde were just pure scum. Straight murderers. How they came to be mythologized and continue to be mythologized is inexplicable and anyone who sees them as anything but worthless animals really needs to evaluate themselves.

What an awesome historical video. I never knew the massive undertaking that went into the building of the seawall.

Thanks for your work on this project. This is a great coverage of this part of Galveston history. I look forward to watching your other episodes.

Yankees tried to conquer Galveston during Lincolns war, they took a wiping and left.

Your information and writing is so good, your speaking voice so easy to follow and understand... I just wish you were able to access more images and use them to illustrate this video instead of the few you have running on a loop.

Thanks for putting this out . I had found a first hand account of Sally Scull but have been having a little trouble finding alot of info on her

Thank you for this history. My granddad was one of the survivors. His name was Milton Irish. He came from Maine and fought for a year in the army. I know every one in that effort was a hero for our independence.

Love to hear history about Texas!!! Especially about my family, who dedicated many years to public service in our great state! James V. Allred, my Grandfather and Dave Allred, 14 year member of The Texas House Of Representatives from Wichita Falls. Thanks for putting out the podcast!!!

Very nice work! This is the first video I've watched on your channel and now I'm a new subscriber. I am also a very proud Texan, going back to 1847 with my dad's family coming from Germany to settle in Morgantown. My 5th Great Aunt, Stacy Ann Morgan, has a historical marker there describing her as a lone survivor after her family was massacred by the natives in the area. Allegedly, after everyone was left for dead, she crawled through a field until she found a cow with a bell. She rang it for hours until someone came to her rescue. This story was written into a book given to me for Christmas one year from my Great Aunt. Having such deep roots in this wonderful state of ours has compelled me to continue the research and retelling of stories like these. So I feel a kinship to you and your passion to share your history. Big hugs from Bacliff, Texas. I'm about 20 miles northwest from Galveston. Born and raised in the same home for 50 years, we never have left for a hurricane. Our home had never flooded until Harvey. I don't know if it's like this everywhere, but the resilience of the people who live here and the way we come together and support one another in times of need is what makes me the most proud.

What happened to the canal used for the dredging?

My great grandmother made dresses in West Dallas. When they were killed Cummie had nothing to wear for Clyde’s funeral. My aunt knew one of the Barrows and they lent her the dress for her to attend. She did eventually get the dress back. Back then people didn’t really wear deodorant so my grandmother said that her mother was so mad because she got it back smelly and dirty, she also mentioned that Cummie had holes in her underwear when she got fitted for the dress. Also Bonnie was initially buried at Fish Trap cemetery but she was moved where she is now

My Dad told some story, of either my Great Great Grandfather, or Great Grandfather going to Galveston after the storm to see the damage. He was conscripted for weeks he told. He just disappeared and nobody heard from him for that time. He told of dumping bodies for weeks. Loading the stacks of bodies by day, dumping bodies in the ocean by night, and in the morning walking the water front and beaches picking up the parts that washed back to the shore that were not eaten by the fishes and sharks. Crabs and birds feeding on parts and bodies on the beaches. Horror upon horror. He never went towards the ocean ever again I was told. it sounded like a hell that never was going to end day after day. I imagine that even the collateral deaths were dealt with the same way as they mounted. It seemed that 10000 is a reasonable number of dead, immediate, and collateral. Even conscripts trying to escape and being shot.

I wonder if there were photos made during that bull/buffalo fight? In the 1950s my dad dragged us across the western US every summer to all kinds of tourist traps, defunct saloons, staged outdoor gunfigts etc. I was very young, I only cared about turquoise jewelry. Too bad I didn't save my money so I had the dough to buy some. Those pieces would be valuable today. Anyway, the reason I asked if photos exist is I believe I saw some tacked on the wall in one of those joints we visited when I was a back seat captive riding across the wild west in a 1959 De Soto Fireflight. I'd alwqys assumed Mr Goodnight started his buffalo herd while he had the Palo Duro Canyon-JA Ranch partnership with Adair and/or his widow. Thanks for insisting we honor our TX vernacular, instead of bending to the latest fad of the current narrative.

I've been through several hurricanes in Florida & all I can say is it's only a matter of when & nothing can be built to withstand a direct hit for hurricanes are far beyond what most can recognize in destructive forces..

I really never gave a flip about Texas history when I attended school…Now I can’t get enough of it! This is probably because we only got the basic story, I was young and didn’t care, but as I’ve gotten older I love learning the inside stories of these brave people! Thank you so much! (I live in SE Texas and have visited the Alamo and San Jacinto monument. Didn’t really understand the turning point for Texas was the battle of San Jacinto until now!) I love you explaining this in detail!

When I was young we were taught that East Texas long leaf pine was the source of the wood used to build the seawall.

I used to live in Santa Fe TX and took my kids into Galveston all the time because they loved the beach and the seawall and riding the ferry. It's so cool learning about these impressive feats of engineering. Great video!

Bonnie never turned to prostitution. THAT IS A LIE. SHE WORKED AT THE CAFE ACROSS FROM THE COURTHOUSE. SHE EVEN MODELED. YOU'RE A LIAR SIR

When you made this Harvey was looming in the near future

Ive watched a youtube channel about restoring a grand Galveston mansion (League-Kempner House) where raising the island comes up from time to time. It was pure beach sand they used and hasn't been without issues. Homeowners didn't plan ahead so walks and yard fences were just buried and rebuilt. Basement windows and entries were rendered problematic places for rainwater to enter, requiring elaborate gutter and underground cisterns to hold runoff. The old grand homes were built high, but weren't as easy to lift as ordinary frame homes. The League-Kempner house has been purchased by the wife of a Houston building contractor as her life's passion project, but after a while she realized she needed to form a foundation to finish the project because she grasped she wouldn't be around to see it finished. She renovated an old Galveston apartment complex before she took on the mansion. She puts out a new video showing the progress weekly. The latest I watched was about hiring a high-end firm to remake a set of several large, curved windows.

My great great grandfather on my mother's side lost two brothers in the Alamo battle. Their names are engraved on the Cenotaph...Asa and Jacob Walker. They travelled from Tennessee with Crockett. I still reside in San Antonio.

The defenders or the invaders

Viva Santana

Raising the island was a very forward thinking goal. With today’s political climate, I think they’d try to lower the oceans…

You’ll never beat Mother Nature. Ask NOLA

I sometimes wonder if the roles of Galveston and Houston would be reversed if it was never hit by such a devastating hurricane. I always think "what could have been" whem I visit. I feel the greatness of what once was and the lost potential whenever I visit. A nostalgic feeling.

Probably going to need to raise it more in the next few decades.

Galvez town.