Doc Scurlock: The Thinking Man's Outlaw

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  • Josiah "Doc" Scurlock was a poet, philosopher, intellectual, and hardened killer long before he ever met Billy the Kid. A mysterious past in Mexico, rumors of dead men from New Orleans to Texas, a penchant for vigilantism, and several close calls with the hostile Natives all made Doc a man to be both feared and respected. However, it was the trials he would face after the Lincoln County War that made Scurlock the man his family would remember. #wildwest #history #youngguns #oldwest
    Also discussed: J.J. Dolan, John Riley, Billy Campbell, John Kinney & Jesse Evans.
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  • @jakemcintosh3782
    @jakemcintosh3782 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I live in granbury and have most of my life. This is the first time I'm ever hearing about doc scurlock living out here.

    • @johnchitwood8799
      @johnchitwood8799 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jakemcintosh3782 I always knew he lived in Eastland, the Young Guns movie was absolutely Hollywood crap lol

  • @davidadams1374
    @davidadams1374 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This was very well done all the way through and then you knocked it right out of the park at the end with his letter to his daughter. Thank you.

  • @jeffronimo7122
    @jeffronimo7122 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Does anyone else go "Ya!" at the right time with the intro music?
    Don't worry Josh, Im gonna sponsor you as soon as I start up a business and make some good money. Or maybe I wont. But I always enjoy your show.

    • @stewartdalton3298
      @stewartdalton3298 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Definitely.
      I always look forward to hearing from Josh.
      Great story teller.

  • @beorbeorian150
    @beorbeorian150 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Blown away at his words at the end there.

  • @thegreenman7
    @thegreenman7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I've always been interested in the real history of Josiah Doc Scurlock. Excellent episode! Thanks for sharing!!!

  • @deelady53
    @deelady53 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    One take away from this. We should all keep journals because in 150 years someone, or more, will wonder what "the old days" were like.

  • @tsar389
    @tsar389 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I feel like doc scurlock reminds us that even in the face of suffering, death, pain, anguish, and hate. He chose love above all else, the love for his family and his kids. The love for the men he rode with, the love for knowledge and joy. It reminds us to choose happiness and joy over suffering and depression, it's certainly hard at times but doc lost a lot of people he loved. Yet he still continued on spreading joy

    • @tsar389
      @tsar389 ปีที่แล้ว

      And to Josh: the creator and host of Wild West extravaganza. I feel like you're someone who understands how doc felt in life, from what little you've said about growing up, it sounded hard. But now you got a family and kids to care about, you realize all that struggle and hardship made you the man you are today, a loving husband and father who has a loyal fanbase. I know times get hard but you gotta remember how scurlock was.😊

  • @knyfefyte1107
    @knyfefyte1107 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Billy Campbell/Campbell Soup.🤣ya got me on that one, lolz. I was already looking it up too…. 😂

  • @Zionist_Eternal
    @Zionist_Eternal ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well done and deserving of at least a couple coffees. And the pix in the newsletter... What a treasure! Thank you, Sir.

  • @stevehudson7429
    @stevehudson7429 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "It's like an ass whisperer only louder"😂

  • @rialobran
    @rialobran ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Brilliant, the mix of humour and well researched history is a niche all your own. Keep it up young (ish) man

  • @roosternm6830
    @roosternm6830 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This channel is great. I grew up in Tularosa and now live 13 miles south in Alamogordo. These stories are so interesting. Down here in the south end of the basin we also have Oliver Lee and Eugene Rhodes. Been all over their old ranches. I was lucky enough to be employed on Whitesands Missile Range and was able to walk around Rhodes Canyon and stand in Rhodes old house. New Mexico has an amazing history even if it's mostly gunfighter, criminals and such. Lol

  • @dennisellis3322
    @dennisellis3322 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I absolutely love hearing the tales of the surrounding cast of the Regulators. Thanks for this episode and looking forward to more about them!

  • @chipmusick682
    @chipmusick682 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Well, you knocked another one out of the park!!! Much thanks...so entertaining!!!

  • @CmdrMoosicvsLounge
    @CmdrMoosicvsLounge ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for another "Gem". You always save me hrs of research on the somewhat obscure figures in western history while making it entertaining. 👍✌😎

  • @jimconnole6328
    @jimconnole6328 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great work. Your presentations get better with every episode.

  • @nojustno1216
    @nojustno1216 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just started listening to this one. I know it’ll be good, so here’s a preemptive 👍

  • @jackgoodner6789
    @jackgoodner6789 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very enjoyable. Of all the Kid associates I think Doc is the most interesting and most likable.

  • @nodescriptionavailable3842
    @nodescriptionavailable3842 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    An assayer analyzes your ore and tells how much gold/silver per ton of rock you can likely expect, basically.
    However, the definition of receiver has been updated lol
    Another great video!

  • @michaelleblanc7283
    @michaelleblanc7283 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As always . . . great stuff. Time and circumstance make a man & his character what is is at any moment in time. You do good work bringing this out in the personalities you introduce us to as as we all take a trip in your excellent time machine

  • @brucesherfield4272
    @brucesherfield4272 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great job as always. Thank you Josh

  • @davidstanworth5543
    @davidstanworth5543 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Found you a few weeks ago and really appreciate all your hard work.

  • @terrioestreich4007
    @terrioestreich4007 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ass whisperer, so funny!! You have a great sense of humor, thanks for sharing your gifts!!

  • @donscottvansandt4139
    @donscottvansandt4139 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome story!

  • @dennistate5953
    @dennistate5953 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks Josh. Praying for your consulting/podcast instruction enterprise!

  • @bsweitzer3
    @bsweitzer3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Every episode is just great. Love Josh's story telling. It is fucking great. I laughed so hard during the Bass Reeves wrap up.

  • @Lunaaiscrazy
    @Lunaaiscrazy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I swear I have watched so many videos from you and I have learned so far is you hide some good written jokes in your story’s and you explain everything in detail but you bring it back to light

  • @earlclue
    @earlclue ปีที่แล้ว +2

    as usual, excellent dude..your the bestest , keep'em coming

  • @solomonsimpson5217
    @solomonsimpson5217 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    😅"Thomas Edison you piece of shit" that was great

  • @brendanmcdonnell7483
    @brendanmcdonnell7483 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We are all dirty little Billy bastards wanting to know what happened to his brothers in arms, and you give it to us in spades in great storytelling that listen to when I'm driving, thank you.

  • @stevefaulkner6689
    @stevefaulkner6689 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love your show ,no ashes dust to dust from the earth and back to it

  • @castoresnegros
    @castoresnegros ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lol! Every time I you brings a new personality to your vids you have a almost a new chapter for a different personality. Love that.

  • @TEXAS.N8V
    @TEXAS.N8V 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Glad I found your channel. 🎉🎉🎉

  • @thejakefromstatefarm6768
    @thejakefromstatefarm6768 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There are good people in Alabama. I know both of them well.

  • @timsain5959
    @timsain5959 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good stuff! Just now ran across this you tube channel. I've got lazy and old and can't see as well anymore so I don't read much I listen to this kind of stuff. Keep up the good work!

  • @brettkastner7198
    @brettkastner7198 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You need to read, "Anything for Billy" by McMurtry.

  • @guerrillapress7343
    @guerrillapress7343 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tradgedy can make or break us ❤ Great channel im addicted to it🏁

  • @JayBerry-rc1hw
    @JayBerry-rc1hw 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love you're shows and your humor

  • @onemoreturn
    @onemoreturn ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Poor Dock. That letter to his daughter was really moving.

  • @whatsthedealwithdanny3913
    @whatsthedealwithdanny3913 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome stuff as always. Can you imagine how much more we would know about Billy The Kid if Doc had taken an interview , or wrote on his time during the Lincoln County War. I think we would know a great deal more, if an intellectual like Doc would have told his story in a non bragging kind of way. But maybe that would tarnish the legend some . Maybe things are as they should be. Any other way would never capture our attention the way it does. who knows. I have visited Doc's grave in Eastland Texas. I did a shot of Crown , and left the shot glass there with him. He is also from Tallapoosa County Alabama, as you said. I currently live in Tallapoosa County . Please don't hold it against me either. I spent 5 years at Fort Hood Texas . So I get why Texans love being Texans. Anyway , great stuff.

  • @rustleshackleford1553
    @rustleshackleford1553 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A life not usually covered.

  • @troutbumgypsy9169
    @troutbumgypsy9169 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic content!!!! More plz

  • @NrmnLV605
    @NrmnLV605 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You got me buddy!! I had the person picked out alrdy with whom i was going to drop that Cambells soup knowledge on. smh. I thght i had you all figured out. Guess not. thnx! Great show. im glad he lived so long.

  • @jackcahill2383
    @jackcahill2383 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thank you

  • @albertboggs5262
    @albertboggs5262 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fantastic! Love your storytelling!

    • @WildWestExtravaganza
      @WildWestExtravaganza  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you enjoy it!

    • @albertboggs5262
      @albertboggs5262 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I heard many of your tales and even got my significant other hooked. Great job my pal! Looking forward to binging on all the episodes I have heard yet. So appreciated, so thankful, so blessed! How is that little darling of yours?

  • @j.t.lennon177
    @j.t.lennon177 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you- I am learning about something I didn't know about.

  • @PopePhil-IIql7pj
    @PopePhil-IIql7pj ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Josh I did barely 20 sec of an internet search and found John Reilly makes movies with Will Ferrell. Not sure why you didn’t include that nugget. 😅

  • @snappers_antique_firearms
    @snappers_antique_firearms ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for helping me stay entertained while reloading some 38 Colt

  • @hernandotorres1234
    @hernandotorres1234 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    LOL, brilliant, if any of my history teachers had had even a glimmer of your delivery maybe I wouldn't have failed history 'o' level on Parliamentary reform 1832 and Penal Reform - Elizabeth Fry, although ....

  • @travishendrix7026
    @travishendrix7026 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting man.
    Never knew anything of him. Now I do. Many thanks.

  • @donc9751
    @donc9751 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OMG LMFAO😅😅😅 at an "essayer is like an eswhisperer (ass-whisper however you want to say it) only louder"!!! You come up with some classic stuff omg!!!! Thanks for the laugh!!!

  • @Ty-py7hi
    @Ty-py7hi ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don’t know a lot about him, but I’ve always been fascinated by him I think you would be fascinated by Logan of Montana

  • @tomcat8849
    @tomcat8849 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Doc is Buried in Eastland tx, behind the veterans memorial stone at the Eastland Cemetery. Found it some years back looking for some old graves of some relative's.

  • @Fifthsunrising
    @Fifthsunrising หลายเดือนก่อน

    Idk why but I wanted the Campbell soup thing to be true. Awesome video!

  • @paddydunne774
    @paddydunne774 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Josh. I only found your podcast after one the algo-rhythms chased me down and forced me into a gulch and gave me choice of going back to the beginning and episode I of the pods. Or a whipping with a lasso. Obviously i chose épisode 1. Season 1. But it just couldn’t help myself and listen to the most recent offering. Love your work. Admire your progression as a storyteller. But the way you humanise with humour makes it. Rookie question. Where is the intro/ outro music from? And is it you giving it the big Yee-Haw? Best wishes from West Cork in Ireland 🇮🇪

    • @WildWestExtravaganza
      @WildWestExtravaganza  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello Paddy! No need to start from the beginning, just pick and choose sir! The intro music is something I licensed from a website called Audiojungle and yes, that's me yelling

  • @JWheeler331
    @JWheeler331 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another wonderful episode. I usually listen on spotify but thought I would comment here and say excellent job as always.

  • @jayledermann7701
    @jayledermann7701 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Like you , I look into western events to try and find out truth even if my hero looks more....human. I would love for you to do one on Custer. I know he wasn't a cowboy per say , but I would love to hear your take on him. I have found him to be more hero than villain and more brave than reckless. Just a thought.

    • @WildWestExtravaganza
      @WildWestExtravaganza  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Definitely doing a series on Custer in the future

  • @austinknowlton1783
    @austinknowlton1783 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lol fucker you got me with the Campbell's soup bit. I'm well versed enough in old west history that I usually know when you are joking.

  • @elijahn.grisham4017
    @elijahn.grisham4017 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This episode should be called everbody else but doc

  • @TheWartHawg
    @TheWartHawg ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "An ass whisperer, only louder." Got an audible chuckle out of that.

  • @jamesnobilio6247
    @jamesnobilio6247 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great shit

  • @mistyjames810
    @mistyjames810 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good 1 as usual Josh! 👍👍👍👍🤠

  • @rodneybender6865
    @rodneybender6865 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Interesting content very well done. So Doc was a real doctor.,.. well almost 👍

  • @williamemerson1799
    @williamemerson1799 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good show....aside from the child loss. You and Bob Boze Bell. 👍🍻

  • @plymouthduster225
    @plymouthduster225 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting video as always Josh. Just curious have you read George Coe's autobiography Frontier Fighter? I was curious about it. Doc Scurlock lived a long and interesting life sadly marked by quite a bit of tragedy also. Wonder if Charlie Bowdre's wife went with them to Texas seeing how she was Doc's sister in law.

  • @xazylsclubhouse
    @xazylsclubhouse ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm new but I have started binge watching a lot of your videos. Now I've hit that Subscribe and like button like it was hackin on me 🤠

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting and informative.

  • @broderickwallis25
    @broderickwallis25 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And yes, i was just joshin' about the Cambells tomato soup.😅😂🤣

  • @Jameslfgsmith
    @Jameslfgsmith 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Doc had hell a case of cauliflower ear… You know he ain’t gonna just stand there and 🩸 . He definitely skinned them smoke wagons

  • @scottwise4800
    @scottwise4800 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think Doc was the most interesting of all the Regulators.

    • @WildWestExtravaganza
      @WildWestExtravaganza  ปีที่แล้ว

      He was very interesting! Got some more interesting characters next week.

  • @StevenMMan
    @StevenMMan ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well it's for sure and certain ol Doc Scurlock bares little resemblance to Kiefer Southerland
    Mountain man

  • @troutbumgypsy9169
    @troutbumgypsy9169 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey.. I’m from Alabama! It’s ok.. by all means.. hold that against me! 😂

  • @BenSHammonds
    @BenSHammonds ปีที่แล้ว +2

    blather on brother, blather on :) that about Jess Evans being from over here near the Texarkana area is also in Noble Burns book, as said he was an Evans but raised by a Davis family, and coincidentally enough in the small community here I grew up in, which is about 30 miles west of Texarkana, or T-town as we call it :P, there are both Evans and Davis families in the area, even know some from one that married into the other family lol so could be true about Jess , also BTW, there are Scurlocks on area too lol It is kinda funny that Doc once lived at Maybank TX, that is just down the road from Canton TX where Brushy Bill lived and where his parents are buried lol

  • @silverwave2238
    @silverwave2238 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Doc had all the info on Billy and the LCW he would have been a wild wests historians dream !, Pity he never did an interview or write down his biography

    • @WildWestExtravaganza
      @WildWestExtravaganza  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't think people cared. Billy's own brother lived till 1930. One reporter literally said "who cares". It's crazy how much info we lost.

  • @bubblytoes70
    @bubblytoes70 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Educational and hilarious.. thanks

  • @pyrobob208
    @pyrobob208 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You bloody tosser Josh! You sucked me right in with the Campbell soup story. Apart from that, g'day from Australia. Love your stories and the way you tell them - history with an occasional laugh.

  • @ritamarie4453
    @ritamarie4453 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Assayer = A person that can identify precious metal and it's value.

    • @WildWestExtravaganza
      @WildWestExtravaganza  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you sure?

    • @ritamarie4453
      @ritamarie4453 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@WildWestExtravaganza
      Googled that. That's what I always understood growing up long long ago in a Galaxy far far away. Haha 😄 . I googled to make sure. Always willing to learn . I try to b 'deliberate', just like Wyatt

  • @dannysimmons3167
    @dannysimmons3167 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought you were going to say Jessie changed his name to Bob and started a restaurant chain

  • @ericsedillo7216
    @ericsedillo7216 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    💯 Josh!

  • @blanchesplace
    @blanchesplace 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I work at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. What was Riley date of death?

    • @WildWestExtravaganza
      @WildWestExtravaganza  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      10 Feb 1916 according to findagrave. Says he was buried at Mt Olivet cemetery in Wheat Ridge

    • @blanchesplace
      @blanchesplace 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@WildWestExtravaganza thank you.....we also have an r.w. McCarty who is supposed to be a cousin to Billy

  • @mikestewart1915
    @mikestewart1915 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What was the one last job Doc did with BTK to get a grub stake??

    • @WildWestExtravaganza
      @WildWestExtravaganza  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If I'm not mistaken it was to help drive a passel of Chisum's horses to the Texas panhandle

  • @jacobballinger7208
    @jacobballinger7208 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The clap... Lmfao 😆.. love your shit man

  • @abrahammorrison6374
    @abrahammorrison6374 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    John Grisham went to University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) on a law degree. He went to courts to listen about cases.

  • @charlesbrowngodhelpmeimiss4907
    @charlesbrowngodhelpmeimiss4907 ปีที่แล้ว

    My friend. In another life

  • @robertalpy
    @robertalpy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im impressed rhat the theosophical society accepted Scurlock.
    He must have submitted an original idea or written work that impressed them enough to overlook his lawmess youth.
    No wonder he refused interviews about his time with the kid. He had alot to lose by digging up those old stories.

  • @garrethrathjens9991
    @garrethrathjens9991 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You have anything on Joaquin Murrieta?...

  • @elijahn.grisham4017
    @elijahn.grisham4017 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So you’re halfway thru and not a word about doc yet

    • @thecrankyyankee5114
      @thecrankyyankee5114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He did state near the beginning to skip to the 21 minute mark for that.

    • @justinmas299
      @justinmas299 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You don't listen 4 shit big mouth, might work on that

  • @abrahammorrison6374
    @abrahammorrison6374 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do a video on Tom Horn.

  • @DouglasRose-nf5ve
    @DouglasRose-nf5ve 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Informative and much appreciated

  • @user-qh9cz5xo7jkeithkucera
    @user-qh9cz5xo7jkeithkucera 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Found it in an encyclopedia Jesse Evans changed his name from Jesse James cause of the notoriety of the name

  • @mudcatz3564
    @mudcatz3564 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great entry! I gotta say tho, with ears like that, if he'd have turned the wrong way the wind would have blown him off his horse...

  • @williamhurt8512
    @williamhurt8512 ปีที่แล้ว

    just a question before i start, have you seen and heard the video from "chronicles of time" about wyatt earps saloon in tombestone???....... if so then pardon me for reminding, if not then check it out for some good laughs and keep some alka-seltzer handy, you might need it...............................................

  • @bluebeard6189
    @bluebeard6189 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    God damn this is the most entertaining channel on TH-cam well except for girls trying on lingerie but you know

  • @allenlanphear47
    @allenlanphear47 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An Assayer tests minerals for identification purposes.

  • @keepinganopenmind8216
    @keepinganopenmind8216 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Many ole cowboys had colorful reputations ...due to newspapers needed good reading material to sell papers.

  • @iananderson1901
    @iananderson1901 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great one. There's two kinds of people in this world you are either billy the kid and people are pulling jobs with you or you're pulling jobs with billy the damn kid

  • @godwarrior3403
    @godwarrior3403 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All wild west names are the same. I'm gonna start a country career call myself wild doc Hickok the calamity kid

  • @BabysanBabysan
    @BabysanBabysan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dang this is good stuff

  • @dennistate5953
    @dennistate5953 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Young feller ewe iz A credit to yo razin. Raze on chillern i wit cha!

  • @abrahammorrison6374
    @abrahammorrison6374 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do a video on Butch and the Sundance Kid. The Sundance Film Festival is named after the Sundance Kid.