John Colter: The First Mountain Man
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- Leaving the eastern shore of the Mississippi in 1804, John Colter embarked on a six year odyssey in virgin land of the upper Missouri River and North Rocky Mountains. He encounters both peaceful and Indian tribes, spans the rim of modern day Yellowstone National Park, survives impossible odds, and all the while trapping furs for a living. A fascinating, seldom covered character from our past. History is a rich land!
So the music needs to be louder, is what you all are saying?
Yes I think you need to correct it and re-upload.
@@yourbarista4154 Unfortunately, I no longer possess the original copy of my project. I see how the music vies for attention with the narration. I can only apologize for my mistake and shall take your valid criticisms to heart for the following videos.
@@doorusthewalrus6903 dang That’s a bummer. And I certainly don’t mean it harshly, it’s just a shame to not have the best presentation possible for your really good content.
Honestly, I'd like to know the names of these fiddle tunes. They're great
As a headphone listener, I think the balance between the music, and narration are spot on. Great presentation!
Well done. Tough as nails for sure!
Wonderful presentation and this is a perfect example (IMHO) what was missed in my several decades of education. We barely touched on the PEOPLE involved in the events. It was always about the "event" and the people were barely mentioned (ex. The "Lewis and Clark Expedition" while never actually talking about the two men who led the expedition let alone those others with them). ...and that rock found in 1933 with his name: TOO COOL!!!
Thank you for the kind words!
Good point, clearly a more important subject
In storytelling, the Characters are the most important consideration. Only after that, comes story, setting and themes...then visuals If the medium has them. So True!
This guy is one bad ass dude!!! I like his style. I like this bad ass music too.
Wonderful video bro. The background music and sound effects made it that much better. Much respect dude.
Absolutely love the rendition of Over the Hills and Far Away that you used in this. Fantastic!
You do a great job with both the detailed material and the production. Hollywood quality -Thanks
I have drunk from the headwaters of Conant Creek. I have crossed the Conant Pass and seen much of that country. You can feel the deep history of the area. Beautiful.
I envy you, sir. One day...
I have drunk from the deep waters of the Delaware and have conquer'd the mighty Potomac as it tumbles across the piedmont from its loftee heights above Great Falls where many indian fishing lozenges are hidden on its banks where the pesky tourist cannot find them.
@@rd264 Cool. There's nothing like a good ol' indian fishing lozenge when I have a sore throat. 😋😋
Very good story. I'm impressed with the run. He knew they meant business.
Well done!
Really well done- Thanks!!
Great History..
Colter was one of the first of a group of badass, hard as steel men. Mountain men kicked ass and took beaver... ;)
When men were men and women appreciated it... Great telling of a fascinating life and time.
Sounds like your women doesn't appreciate you 😂
Happy Birthday ZH!!! Love series! GREAT work, keep them coming!
Many of the comments I read spoke critically about the music, but although a little louder than necessary I actually enjoyed it. References to the various journals lends to the credibility of this basic biography.
Unless your hearing impaired, then you can't hear the narration at all...
For those who, like me , love this period of American History, ck out Jedediah Strong Smith. He maped the Rockies, the south pass and much more.
Wilford Blevins wrote Give Your Heart to the Hawks. The best mountain man book I have found in 50 years of looking. Very readable.
"The Big Sky"; A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Fiction, but changed my life forever when I first read it at age 13, '63, and is the only explanation I have for all those Hawkens, cannons, and various and sundry other black powder arms all over the dang house.
@@blondbowler8776also Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher
"Crow Killer" by Thorpe and Bunker. Great story about Liver Eating Johnston. Precedent for Mountain Man by Fisher. ALSO "Fair Land Fair Land" a sequel to Big Sky. Also penned by A. B. Guthrie. Guthrie's "The Way West" panel on the Oregon Trail garnered a Pulitzer in 1950. A B grew up in Choteau, Montana.
Smith actually explored more country than Lewis and Clark.
Just found this channel. Im hooked. I especially love the background noise that go with the story
U sir deserves a lot more subscribers.
What a will to live,facing incredible odds !!
Great story
Brave man!
Took guts to deal in the land of people who lived by their own and often violent rules.
And still living among people with there own and more often violent rules lol and by the way the people your refering too were the 1st mountain men the rest were wanderers looking for an opportunity...
@chill well said! I see lots of the descendants of these wandering, hairy vagrants on the streets of west coast cities
Music is loud enough to make the talk a hassle to understand.
A subtle fiddle in the background would have sufficed and added a warm tone to the clip.
What a splendid country it was, America.
A doc like this about lewis wetzel would be amazing!
Great story. Thanks much for your efforts.. d:^)
I thought that fiddle would never stop! I nearly turned it off.
Next time, the fiddle will be louder and longer...much, much longer.
I liked it man don't pay attention to assholes I would recommend lowering the volume of the background music it didint bother me but at times I can see where someone could have trouble making out the narration, gonna sub and look forward to watching more best of wishes from Kentucky, keep on keeping on man
I'll need to create a video on ol' Simon Kenton one of these days in honor of Kentucky.
@@doorusthewalrus6903 Please do.
My son is named for him. He has not disappointed..
The music was so loud, I couldn't hear the story. Stopped play after two minutes.
Wish the music wasn't so load so you could hear the narrator
Way to LOUD-- not load.
Gary Sandburg. Way TOO loud ( not ‘to’ )
😏
@@Afro408 No, way too loud !🙂
@@KeyofDavid5778 Lol!!!! :D
How refreshing it is to find a Podcast about history that is not full of woke preaching and posturing
Thank u
Subscribing
Interesting video subject and loved the music, but the music was so loud I couldn't hear the words very good. Not trying to be a jerk, just offering my opinion. ✌
Your music and all background noise is way too high
A REAL MAN...AMERICAN
More American than Biden and Fauci? 🤣
total badass
He is my 5th great grandfather
Yeah, I can't hear the music, could you turn it up a bit.
Coulter running through miles of wilderness naked and battling the Blackfeet and you princesses are complaining about the music!!! Take the pain, the Coulter way learn to be men of the mountain!!!
Yes I agree with you sir.
Take it he didn't have a shop that sold 3 piece suits and Armani ties
Yeah ........ Turn the music down a bit , otherwise interesting , I think couldn't hear .
I'll re-record this on a rainy day. First endeavors are inevitably the poorest.
Wanted to listen, music too loud, good , but loud, been recreating mountain man for very long time.
Fair account. Suggested reading: John Colter His Years In The Rockies by Burton Harris and Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Good storie, unfutunitly it is hard to follow as the music to loud.
It's pretty awesome to see some of the things
Mr. Colter saw. I can't imagine what he thought of Yellowstone. Perhaps he thought he was dreaming? Could Mr. Colter read & write? Obviously he was intelligent. Plus, he died of jaundice? Does anyone have an opinion on the jaundice death? Please & thank you
Thanks for the story, I'm very skeptical about the numbers "1500 Blackfoot, 800 Crow" but there's no choice but believe ancient history.
Just wondering, what about the estimated numbers makes you skeptical?
@@armyofski I cant speak for Bill but,,rarely were the bands that large due to pressure on the resources such as game and grass..Native people did converge in large groups during times of ceremonies of great importance,but they would not have been waging war at that time..
@@TightwadTodd You must understand that all this transpired before the many white born diseases (small pox, measles, etc.) decimated the upper Missouri Nations, so the numbers quoted are probably closer to accurate than you would think. It was not until the small pox epidemic of 1836-40 that the Blackfeet had their numbers substantially reduced.
Alberta Wildcat they lived by hunting. Traditionally such groups were small.
In the East many people were farming groups. In the west farmers were often not. Had to be mobile. And find the game. Living off of greasy meat dietary needs were six to ten pounds per person per day. A family would need at least a deer every three days a buffalo every two weeks.
@@jeffreyrobinson3555 Greasy meat dietary needs? What's greasy mean?
Lewis and Clark ate 9 and a 1/2 pounds of meat per day average which they had 30 men that was a lot per day! I love this topic.
The backing track was annoying. Otherwise exceptionall and excellent .
Spaniard's were in Pierre, SD area in 1750s, plates were found..
Fascinating. My understanding of pre-Anglo America is spotty at best. I'm brushing up on French history in the New World. Do you have any books to recommend on the Spanish in America?
@@doorusthewalrus6903 no, but the history museum in Pierre and Fort Pierre would be a great help. I find
It astonishing that the explorers were this far north- from Mexico via Spain and survived their exploits, of course many didnt. The Natives were all very territorial and good fighter's.
cant hear the narrator the background music is way too loud
Please tell me why do they have blaring loud background music it's very annoying and spoils the whole story I heard that Hugh glass was the first mountain man so who do you believe eh
Kind of curious, what separates a longhunter from a mountain man? And if there is no difference, he's not the first.
Longhunter is the colloquial for the frontiersman east of the Mississippi River such as Simon Kenton, Davy Crocket, Daniel Boone etc.
Music too loud can't watch
liked video but please turn music down
Just around the river bend swing and school I remember from then
Eskimo nose tickles my sinus
Thanks for this, I'm reading a book about mountain men on the Missouri now.
Name of the book please.
The best book on mountain men is "Across the Wide Missouri" by Benard De Voto. There are abridged versions, but get a use original hard cover copy. It was originally published back in 1947.
@@duffysullivan2794 Aw hell yeah! De Voto writes great history!
Not that it matters but the traps shown were not invented yet. Sewell Newhouse first invented long spring traps in 1820. Well after these events.
The Narration is okay and the history gives one a fairly good outline of Colter's Life but one needs to read a book like UNDAUNTED COURAGE by Stephen E. Ambrose to get a more complete understanding of what Colter Did during his short life.
Also read the book John Colter His Years In The Rockies by Burton Harris.
Actually, Ambrose was a weak author who used incomplete research. “First Across The Continent” surpasses Undaunted Courage by a considerable margin. Ambrose ran into some problems involving plagiarism. Sad.
@@jackvoss175 wrong. You must read all of the volumes of the journal's followed by Patrick gass followed by tailor made trail worn followed by When Fur was Money followed by in search of york followed by the captains of the wilderness followed by
@@jaysonspann8042wrong folk can do what they want when they want (someone in America F yeah)
absolutely my favorite book
Turn the music up please.
Shhh!
Sure wish you would have left that music out.
Apparently, this guy is supposed to be my peeps. So, it is interesting to hear the Hx. I was only told he was a scout for Lewis and Clark and got run out of the mountains by Indians.
What a wonderful heritage you have!
Can I have a list of these fiddle tunes? I recognize Midnight on the Water
no disrespect to ethan allen but the rockies are “real mountains”
HEY! YA THINK YOU COULD TURN UP THE 'BACKGROUND' MUSIC SOME? I COULD STILL HEAR YOU, ALBEIT BARELY...
The photo in the thumbnail is Meriwether Lewis
Amazing story,
it's just too much background music for me!
Just too much distracting other s***, bye
Back ground music WAY to loud
Love the music nice not much of these music anymore because America Chang with new people from other world
Except the Native Music..While talking about the Flathead and the Blackfeet,they were playing Apache Songs..
Quit watching due too the music being too loud. It ruined an otherwise interesting presentation
Fan in ears and wind the same spirals in and circles the frame
Look up 'Tough' in Webster's and you will see a sketch of the 'Man' and his name John Colter.
...now that's a story...
No sir. Hugh Glass.
@@carvinlambert6899 "And That", is sure enough, another incredible story of survival.👍
He was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition and left it when on the return journery they meet some trappers at the YellowStone and went with them they were killed by Crows and he got away after three years in the mountains he returned to St. Louis and told of the geysers and other things it was called lie and it was dubbed Colters hell
Cut the background music
Music is WAY too loud!
Simon Kenton, John May (Maysville, KY.) Simon Girty et al. were mountain men before Coulter
+eieio Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, etc were "Long Hunters". Although similar to the later "Mountain Men / Fur Trappers", the "Long Hunters" existed earlier in the 1760-1800 era, and worked the Woodlands East of the Mississippi River. After the Louisiana Purchase expanded American Territory West of the Mississippi River, the Fur Trade really took off, creating the "Mountain Man" era of roughly 1805-1840.
You are correct that the were frontiersman aplenty before John Colter was even born. The distinction between "frontiersman" or "longhunter" and the "mountain man" is the geography of their work. The eastern frontiersman made his life in the Appalachians and Northwest Territory while the mountain man made a living in the Rocky Mountains.
Simon Kenton, much like Colter, is a character from history too often neglected.
Music too high
Didn't watch a minute of it. Music too loud.
Ive heard Colter had run-ins with the Blackfoot where they used guns. This was in 1808. I would think that Blackfoot Indians being armed mainly with firearms in 1808 would be unlikely.
. The Blackfoot had established dealings with traders connected to the Canadian and English fur trade before meeting the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1806
The so called "voyageurs." Alexander Mackenzie's exploration of the northern Rockies is a forgotten feat of daring and ingenuity!
This is my great great uncle I named after
He reminds me of my uncle. My uncle spends 2-3 days in the forest every summer and has some great stories. He even saw a bear once.
Wow.
How about Beavers, did he ever seen them?
Might have been one of the 1st Western mountain men but he lived next door to a mountain man long before Colter.was one.DAVY Crockett as well was a mountainan before Colter.
I hear the peak fiddler, top notch
Too much music that was WAY too loud.
If you think the music is too loud , why not leave ?
I have a feeling most did as I'm about to after reading the comments about the loud music. 🤣
Picture of the man in the thumbnail is Capt. Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition. No? Of course!
Sorry to pop ya bubble, but Coulter was NOT the first European doing Mountain set life.
There were some French Men before him, way before even Daniel Boone taught his teacher
Daniel Boone, and explorers east of the Mississippi River, are often referred as "frontiersman" or "longhunters." The typical French term for a "mountain man" is "voyageur." Colter is considered the first of his kind: an American explorer of the Rockies, typically referred as a "mountain man."
What ? Can’t hear you. Can you turn the...
what? What? WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR Y...WAAAAHT?!
Stopped watching short of two minutes because of music.
Can't hear the narration because of the background music .
Skip the music
And now we have glam camping so people can hide in their 50' campers when the weather isn't perfect. Lol
Most people today wouldn’t last half a night in a wall night in fair weather!
cut the music
Dismal captioning, fabulous story. Clark is from my county.
Music to loud
The music is louder than the narrators!
It is very distracting.
I like the music but it should be subtle and in the background.
I really wanted to watch but had to stop watching.
Couldn't watch past two minutes, the music was so loud I couldn't hear the narrator...
Prairie meets the eye
When we meet we see them cry this the tribes that hate when heard wolf if equal praire grows what is learking no one knows
remix that MUSIC this is very good but very un watchable
Sounds interesting, what I can hear over the loud music. Too much work, so guess I'll take my leave.
I am a person who often laughs, but I am not a happy person
Weren't Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys already "mountain men" in the mid and late 1700s? There were also mountain men in Kentucky and West Virginia before him. I'm not minimizing his discoveries, but the first mountain man?
True, but the context of "Mountain Men" usually refers to the exploits of trappers, explorers, and hunters in the Rocky Mountains. The mountains men of the colonial period, east of the Mississippi River, are usually referred to as frontiersmen, long-rifles, or another variant to label their exploits in Appalachia and the river valleys of the Ohio, Mississippi, and the Great Lakes. Fascinating to say the least, but not "Mountain Men" as properly understood.
Would you recommend doing a video on the ol' Vermonter?
they are more likely long hunters like Dan'l Boone or Simon Kenton and the like. Doorus is referring to beaver trappers in the era of the Rendevous in the post Lewis and Clark years.
There are no mountains back east.
Walter, those men were referred to as Longhunters and frontiersmen. The fur trappers were called "Mountain men" due to their time spent trapping in and around the Rockies...
Typically Mountain Men tend to refer to the one's out west . But , settlers like Daniel Boone in his time , in places like Kentucky were mountain men before the western bunch .
Does anyone know the name of the fiddle tune, heard at the introduction?
"Git Along Little Doggies", I think.
Yea, it's called TOO DAM LOUD TO NARRATE CLEARLY
It's a fiddle tune called the 'Flowers of Glasgow.'
When men were men and sheep ran scared.
So, in other words......YOU own a few pair of knee high, rubber boots. We ALL understand William, we got your hint.