We should all be thankful to our ancestors for the hardships they endured which led to us living such easy lives in this beautiful country. Too many people today don't realize how much strength, grit and bravery it took just to survive, whether here or in other countries. There are some 3rd world countries where people still face similar daily hardships.
My father was born into the start of the Great Depression. It started in Aug 1929. He was born in September 1929. He was about 5 when his father decided to move to NM to claim and improve a section of land. His family joined a wagon train/cattle drive with about a dozen families from their area of Deep East Texas. He told us about how difficult it was, not just getting there, but trying to survive once they arrived. They were fortunate because they could travel on roads. But it was a long slow trip Once they arrived, they put together a one room dug out shelter. It was half above ground, half below. This helped tremendously in heating in winter and kept it cooler in summer. Having just arrived, they didn't have a well yet as the very first job was getting crops in the ground. The next section was a mile away, so hauling water was a never ending job. When Grandma needed to wash, she had to carry the wash tub, rub board, soap and my father and his two younger siblings across the mile to the neighbor's house. In the heat or cold it was miserable, but it was much worse when it had rained. The mud would build up on the shoes/ feet with each step. Every few feet she would have to set her load and the baby down, take the stick that she brought for just this purpose, and scrape the huge clods of mud from their feet. Then, pick up the load and the baby and proceed a few more steps and repeat. My father and his siblings developed scurvy. They were always right on the verge of starvation. Daddy said that one of the reasons they lasted as long as they did was because they had a dog that was half greyhound. Daddy said that Jack, that was his name, would be able to catch jackrabbits fairly easily in the summer. But, in winter, the dog would gain ground on snow free ground. But, if the hare could get on snow, it would start pulling away making the prospect of dinner more of a challenge. Most dogs were working dogs and valued only for what they could do. But, with Jack, it was a matter of survival to keep him healthy and close by. All of this was in 1934. Imagine if that were 75/100 years before. Only the hardest/most fortunate survived. My father's family only made it about 1 1/2 years before admitting defeat and heading back to East Texas.
Jack sounds like a hero of a dog. I know that kind of mud it doubles the size of your boots. Tough people. I was collecting water 15 yrs ago. Gives you muscles.
After serving in the Civil War my great-grandfather homesteader in western Kansas. He proved up his land and got the title He was a successful wheat farmer and bought more land and tripled his original acreage. It was very rough going in the desolate landscape of KS. The Kansas Historical Society sent someone to interview all the early homesteaders in the 1920's and that's how I read about him, he's on the internet. He had hazel eyes as I do, which is the 2nd rarest eye color. So I am proud of him and his accomplishments.
@@peppercat8718 No video, but, his story is on the net. His name was James Richard Bruner, just google his name. Very interesting. He voted for Lincoln. He was from Lane County, Kansas. He was in the Civil War, but, wasn't in a battle. I sent for his war record and found out about his eyes, and a copy of his handwriting. His brother died in a battle in Missouri. At the time they lived in IL. Thx for the interest.
@@jodimontoute Is there an article that a State put about about any of your grand or great-grandparents? I have a right to be proud and I still am. My ancestors have been here since the 1700's, most Americans cannot claim that. Nothing was handed to any of them., they worked hard and made a success out of their lives. No a thing to be ashamed of.
I lived on a Hazel Farm in SC It was really a Hog Farm Everybody that started Hazel Farm had Hazel eyes even the Haitian Farm Hands who would get made and say they put the root on ya { VoDoo] High Sherriff on the Low Country
My Gma born 7-31-1906 said there were 8 girls 2 boys and parents. In south oklahoma very dry land they would have sat night baths on a rotating schedule. First tub six took turns then emptied tub and then next six got the next tub. Each girl had two dresses and they all shared. She had many stories and was a wonderful strong woman. I miss her very much
My wife and I live right now with a small RV trailer with a 14'x20' room we built for a whopping cost of $286. It is made much as these people made theirs. Logs from the forest make the walls, the floor is made of flag stone we gathered not to far from our home. We have the advantage of windows we salaged from transportainers. Temps in the winter go as low as -20°f. It is warm and comfortable. Yes it is much easier to live in the times we live in compared to the homesteaders, but you can build a comfortable home from the natural materials at hand.
@@krags.allander2465 So what about plumbing? Do you have access to water? Did you buy the land you’re living on? And food? The settlers shot game, rabbits, deer, etc. Most places have laws about hunting.
@@StevrenConstantine Conditions in Europe were so horrible they really had little choice but to leave. So many of the Irish left Ireland during the potato famine that Ireland has never increased their population back to prefamine numbers. From a documentary here on youtube talking about the potato famine.
To be honest, depends on the area. Where I live in the CA Bay Area it really is unaffordable, the average house on my street is $2 million. In Utah, the same house would be $0.4 million. I think I’ll be moving to Utah.
@@missanthrope2 your ignorance is stunning, an obviously racist comment. They needed the Buffalo for everything! The meat and the hides were life saving. Your comment is stupidity itself.
@@missanthrope2 your ignorance is stunning, an obviously racist comment. They needed the Buffalo for everything! The meat and the hides were life saving. Your comment is stupidity itself.
For those referring to Appalachian cabins and such, they had timber, the prairie didn't. Open space and some probably didn't know what they were getting into, they just wanted something of their own.
Many of those people had to dig into the ground , make cave like room underground to live in, these were known as "dugout":homes also people made "soddy" houses , cave like rooms dug into small undulating slopes that were located in some different areas of the great prairie
People on the prairies built with what they could obtain. One was the sod house...built out of sod; grass and dirt. Many built in sides of hills, or coves for protection, and cooling or heating. Showing teepee when talking about sod houses didn't make sense.
They didn’t have insulation, insecticides, quality heating, vaccinations, or any sort of septic systems. Food was scarce and the presence of Native Americans defending their land. The glorification from Hollywood about how great and wholesome the 19th century was out on the “homestead” is nothing but fiction.
My 2xgreat grandpa built a small, sturdy shack on his land. My great grandpa built a log cabin nearby. The log cabin was added to over the years, gaining wings and a second floor. The house is unrecognizable now, unless you go down to the root cellar and see the rough hewn timbers and stone. My uncle still lives there. The original shack is mostly gone, swallowed in the woods, but we used to play in it as children. The house and land are now worth many millions of dollars.
My parents talked of how every meal of almost every day in their growing up during the depression days , was only some sort of potato , their parents would try to add something a little different within the potato dish when they could afford such
i remember being totally enthralled by that book when I was i Jr. High. This lead me to read Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair and other muckraker literature describing the era. I think a lot of my thinking about urbanism and city planning, along with my utter frustration with declinism and nostalgia was shaped by this book
@@99999myk yes, Upton Sinclair wrote the Jungle. He wanted to highlight the horrible mistreatment of workers in the meat industry but the people were more horrified by the gross stuff that happened to the food that everyone eventually was eating that it lead congress to start regulating food production. (The Meat Inspection Act of 1906). He famously said « I aimed at the public.s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. »
I think that picture at 11.47 is of the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East.. There seems to be a 303 rifle lying against a stack of gear, behind the middle soldier..
My great grandparents dug a hole in the ground on the Saskatchewan prairies, and covered it with wood. That is where they lived for the first year before they could get a house built. My great gran never came out of the hole the entire winter. My mom said the only living room furniture they had in the 1930's was an army cot. We have it lucky.
Holodomor not holdomor and actually dont know are they ikrwine or russians cause shitt time was everywhere , maybe theyre russia ww2 war time homeless kids
Stalin did two lines, one was ukraine juwish progroms ,whats same like nazis did germany and second was holodomor, cause he scared partisans revolution and did 1922 untill 33 or 34 holodomors, whats starving, and 2% died This was cruel time. And russian peoples died . Started if lenin rise up, thanx to bolchevicks and white and red revolutions 1917-1953 was evil time in russia and ukraine
That photograph is emaciated children during the holodomor in the Ukraine,when 15 million people died from starvation under Stalins brutal oppression of the Kulaks!
I saw a film clip in a documentary of a young Ukrainian boy running alongside a train. He was begging for food. It was heartbreaking. Hard to get it out of my mind.
I agree. Some of these photographs were of people from other countries in desperate situations. I don't know what the intention of the creator of this narrative is, but it appears as if he has nothing good to say concerning early settlers. Instead of recommending them for their will to survive and create the beautiful country we now reside in, he does nothing but criticize the white settlers.
@@FlowersfromNan Ever wonder if "white" settlers deserve all the criticism they get, much like "Israeli" settlers? There is a reason that the Calvinist Puritans were the rejects of Europe... and not for their "virtues".
@ No, I don't wonder. Do we hold all Germans responsible for the atrocities against the Jewish people? Do we hold all white people responsible? This is what you are essentially doing by condemning white settlers. You assume that all indigenous peoples were friendly. They were savagely slaughtering each other but this is never addressed by people who are so intent and condemning white Europeans. I want to ask you a question. Did you ever consider the contributions, inventions and discoveries brought to this world by the Europeans? 90% of all invention and discovery brought to you by white men. This is overlooked as well. By no means do I want to portray white European as any better than any other race, but I am so damn sick of the erroneous notions being purported today given the delusion that all people would be living in peace and health if it weren't for the evil white man.
I always think about having an injury. A broken bone could easily be fatal and an agonizing death. Even a simple headache would be miserable as it just had to pass.
I thought the little house books were pretty accurate. They were written for children, and they have some nice stories, but they talk about how hard it was too like trying to stay warm in "The Long Winter" and having to continually twist and burn straw, how they had to live underground in the dugout at Plum Creek, but they would move into town with other homesteaders for the winter so they could be near each other, and waiting for supplies that were held up since the trains had to be dug out of the snow and lots of other difficulties are explained too. Other than their bathroom habits, and the fact that their written in a way that children could read them without being exposed to adult themes, they basically cover most everything the video covers so much so that they could have been used as a reference if necessary. The television show was very different from the books though.
Well, most of the pictures really are American Frontier treasures. The pictures of starving people in India, results of famine in Ireland, an encampment of soldiers in WW l, scenes of poverty in New York City in the early 19th century, a group of newly freed slaves in 1865 and a few other misplaced pictures, while interesting, do seem a bit off topic.
My Grandpa grew up in a log cabin :) My grandparents and my Dad & siblings lived through the depression and never went hungry as my Grandmother canned and Grandpa raised a big garden and worked in the coal mines. I’ve vacationed in a log cabin before and it was warm with a chimney fireplace. Mud & straw bricks would have worked better than sod for the pioneers. The old days were good if you had common sense and were resourceful. The homeless today don’t have it any better than some of the pioneers but still many don’t stay homeless if they have the will to change their conditions.
My dad was born in 1920 on a farm North of Kennebec South Dakota. My grandfather was a "Homestead" farmer with 640 acres and lived in a 2 room sod shanty. No electricity, No phone, No running water. But through the years my grandfather became a railway postal clerck.
thank you for your comment to the Native Americans. THEY knew how to live well and comfortable and made better use of ressources than those miserable settlers. But they were pushed away and their way of life and culture were destroyed and replaced by something that did not work out very well for the settlers, if you compare the survivors to those who did not make it.
@@cplmpcocptcl6306 no, thats not "hilarious". Many many did not make it in their miserable earth huts. Survival was tough on all out there. Yet, they looked down upon the "savages". Wasn't it in the 1920, huge draughts and spoiled harvests and many of them farmes moving away? There is more than I can round up here in a short comment. Use your brain and history inside, please.
@@MollyGrue1 Well Einstein, you totally missed the point. Even a second grader could comprehend my comment, which eluded you.🤦♀️ (I know this bc I checked with a 2nd grader.😂)
@@MollyGrue1 Your knowledge of history is so generalised as to be pathetic. There was a reason they were referred to as savages and its not about living in tents.
Omg u make it sound like a horror story. I live off grid, no electricity or municipal water, dug my own well,, always make sure the outhouses are downhill from the well,a duh.
And how much have you learned about it thru books and videos.? .they didn't have that luxury and were probably poor city folks who wanted to escape that life without even thinking about how hard it would actually be . Much different times
Excellent video. Thank you Part 2 might describe the way in which failed homesteads were deeded together by the founders of the corporations which we know as Kellogs and General Mills. Homesteaders finding themselves on the edge of disaster, were tricked into mortgages for their 80 and 320 acre properties. These mortgages turned into defaults and then into foreclosures and eviction from the land. Banks then sold all as cheap land for the owners of mills and mines. This is Part 2 of the Homestead story, in my opinion. These people may actually have been place holders for mine and mill owners. Total disaster for Homesteaders, was probably the expected outcome. Thank you for a rare honest dicumentary
@@roberthenry9319 I actually like Trump, even though I can't vote for him for obvious reasons, but I hope he gets elected again so that relations between Europe and Russia normalise. He's not perfect because after all, he did allow all the riots to continue, he believed all the misinformation about Covid, and did NOT build the wall or have Hillary arrested.
Try looking through the history of different groups who came to he United States at different periods in history. The Irish for instance, were starving in Ireland, it was sure death or traveling across the ocean. Jews were being murdered throughout various European countries. Italians had only total poverty to look forward to in Italy.
A lot of settlers would have perished without help from Native Americans. The Donner party was rescued by a tribe that invited them to stay the winter, knowing they couldn't make it. So many instances like that. Over and over they came to our aid...and were repaid with genocide. 😒
This is for the most part completely false. Log cabins built in the 17 - early 1900s are still all over the Appalachian Mountains. They were constructed very well. The western settlers took these skills with them.
I guess it’s a lot easier to build a snug cabin in the APPALACHIANS than say, oh, on a prairie? Or somewhere that isn’t a bloody forest? They can have all the skills they want if there’s not a zillion trees? And a good majority of them had never build a cabin in their lives. They were trying to get out of cities and get a bit of land of their own. . Do people even think before they start with know it all comments?
It struck me that descriptions of the hard times that people had to endure, giving birth to kids and taking care of them was never mentioned. The photos of Asia were comical. I have peers who started out life with outhouses. They were still around on the east coast in the 1950s. All that said, the content was interesting. From what I can see, the closest we come to spending so much of your time merely maintaining your home is the life of people who are living in their cars, vans, box trucks, RVs, etc.
My grandparents were homesteaders in Alberta before the province even was a province. Life was tough. As a result my mum was tough too and I think that got handed down to the next two generations. You have to be tough to survive in a log cabin during Canadian winters.
If they would have listened to the native Americans and not treat them so bad and killed them they could have survived way better than. The teepee was not only removable easily but it kept you really warm.
The homesteaders did not live in jungles or make houses out of bamboo. Where did this clown get his materials?? There are plenty of real homesteads photos. No need to go to New Guinea to find primitive home photos.
I appreciate this video providing the facts. The people who did this were tough. It is disappointing that often the rich would come inbehind the settlers after all the hardwork was don and towns were established to provide a workforce for the rich.Nothing was ever done for the sske of the people it was always for the advantage of the rich. Give tracts of land let the common man establish it then come in buy up land and hire workers to do all the work
My ancestors must have been a lot smarter than the people you're talking about. They knew how to build and supply themselves with food and heating. They built outhouses and knew where to place them. This whole video is WAAAAAYYYYY over done.
Good for them, that’s great. I’d be interested in knowing when your people were getting a start in the west and where they did it. I guess the record of their lives was passed down to you. Imagine a wagon with a man, a wife, and a 10 year old child,along with their meager possessions, living in a tent, well, you know what, I’m tired of trying to show my wristwatch to a hog. You have no idea what you’re talking about, I’m sure your ancestors did what you said but there must have a home depot near by and some people to help with the project.
They probably learned what to do from those who went before them. I learned not to drink from the streams in my area after several people went through a bout with giardia.
My grandaddy was from Africa. He bought a house in a small town with a big yard. He grew all kinds of vegetables, fruit, nuts. Had chickens, a cow, sheep and goats. Fed a family of 7 kids, survived and fed family thru the depression and the war. They had it difficult, but survived well on what he grew and raised.
I love history. I lived in Montana we use to go to the old cemeteries where only children were buried there. I can imagine life was so hard with not only poor housing but diseases were all too familiar..
Ha as i watch it sounds like your talking about my living situation.. a wild fire burned us out few years back. Total loss.. thank god for home depot and amazon lol
This is what built this country. I cannot imagine living so harshly and making so many sacrifices. Those who claim that their ethnic or cultural group built this country and are owed something for it don't know the history of this country. I admire and am grateful for all of the pioneer's work. Diversity isn't our strength. Our strengths are all the newcomers who come here and mutually agree to respect American law and order so we can all live in peace and safety.
I come from a long line of Pioneers, back when Tennessee & Kentucky were “the west” Believe my great grandparents when they told me the good old days were HARD! Especially for women! Thank our lucky stars we were born in an age where we didn’t have to HAUL WATER from a well or make EVERYTHING from scratch!! Children also died on a regular basis. 😢
I am reminded that abraham lincoln was raised in his younger years in a lean-to, a three-sided dwelling, with the fourth side open to the fire ,--- no fourth wall and no chimney.
My father grew up in log cabins with hard dirt floors and sod roofs in the Black Hills of South Dakota. My grandfather grew up in a dug out with low turf walls.
It was almost unimaginably hard compared to the comfort we enjoy today. My older sister (who is actually well read) still pretends that pioneering and cow herding was just like the Saturday morning cowboy TV serials where good guys wore white Stetsons and sequined shirts. I guess pretending made her difficult life with our even more difficult father a little easier.
I used to explain to my US history students (I retired in 1997.) about the "old west" seen in the movies and on television. I told them there was a lot of poverty and hardship. But I also included these two things about the real old west: Never in the entire history of the movement of wagon trains west did even one time Indians (Native Americans or First People) ever attack a circled wagon train. Not once. Why? Because Indians of the plains knew the travelers were just going through their lands and not planning to stay, build homes and raise a family. Another thing: Not once, never, did two men walk down the middle of the street in any town in America towards each other stop some thirty or so feet apart, draw their guns, either got shot or did the shooting because one faster than the other. Not once. It just plain didn't happened - except in Hollywood. (Sorry Gregory Peck in The Gun Fighter.) My g.g. grandfather, his wife and 12 children left southeast Iowa in 1853 in horse drawn wagons (most were pulled by oxen) and settle in the Willamette Valley. They made it to Oregon. No one died and two of his children, his daughter 11 and daughter 9 walked bare foot all the way to Oregon herding two mares. He was born in 1803 years before railroad tracks were laid from east to west, when Lewis and Clarke were busy exploring the west by orders of Thomas Jefferson and died in 1900 three years before the man flew in an airplane for the first time. He was 97 years old. Do you think that in one hundred years cancer will be a thing of the 21st century; when people actually drove automobiles; watched flat screen colored television and only dreamed of 3D screens and only lived to about 80 or 90 years old?!!
Instead of glass they would put paper in the windows and add grease to it thereby making it somewhat clearer. Why are your photos of poverty showing India and not the US. Also I have seen John Wayne. Will Rogers and Lee Marvin in a couple of them. I mean really? There are any number of old photos available for reference. Much of my family helped to settle the southern part of Kansas and I have any number of old photos of them and their houses. Very tough people and very kind.
Played Oregon Trail in 5th grade 1977. I was a pregnant blacksmith who got bite by a snake. I also made everyone in my group angry when we lost a day on trail because I didn't pack enough wood. Also cheated later by changing my supply list and added more water. Think teacher knew I cheated but she cut me a break and let me get away with it. I think if I had to tell the others in my group that we had to stop for water I would have ended up like the Donner party.
The photos in this AI product are from all over the world, India, England, and Eastern United States cities; not reflective of the American West. Poorly done.
I also spent about 10 years in a home built in the 1860s. It was a big house and it had two fireplaces. That’s when I realized the little house on the Prairie was bullshit. You wouldn’t be able to see that little house because it would be surrounded by wood in the winter lol
15:30 That's not the Old West, that's India! My guess is that was taken during the famine in Bengal during 1943. Regardless, that is not the United States.
A lot of the pictures have nothing to do with what he's talking about. There are pictures of the Irish famine and victims of the 1920-1921 Russian famine.
@@missanthrope2 Well, that one came through. Try again. If it still doesn't work, try rewording it. I don't think they have people policing the comments, but a computer algorithm.
Little House on the Prairie adapted for TV may have been "glossed over" but the books told of the winter they almost starved and Lauras loss of a newborn and other real stuff.
They could have taken some tips from the native tribes. Buckskin clothing lasts longer, buffalo chips for fuel ( mentioned) Tepees or Tipis were warmer and let smoke out the top opening. Fur caps and mittens. So much more. Only the strong and resourceful survive.
We should all be thankful to our ancestors for the hardships they endured which led to us living such easy lives in this beautiful country. Too many people today don't realize how much strength, grit and bravery it took just to survive, whether here or in other countries. There are some 3rd world countries where people still face similar daily hardships.
My father was born into the start of the Great Depression. It started in Aug 1929. He was born in September 1929.
He was about 5 when his father decided to move to NM to claim and improve a section of land. His family joined a wagon train/cattle drive with about a dozen families from their area of Deep East Texas.
He told us about how difficult it was, not just getting there, but trying to survive once they arrived.
They were fortunate because they could travel on roads. But it was a long slow trip
Once they arrived, they put together a one room dug out shelter. It was half above ground, half below. This helped tremendously in heating in winter and kept it cooler in summer.
Having just arrived, they didn't have a well yet as the very first job was getting crops in the ground.
The next section was a mile away, so hauling water was a never ending job.
When Grandma needed to wash, she had to carry the wash tub, rub board, soap and my father and his two younger siblings across the mile to the neighbor's house.
In the heat or cold it was miserable, but it was much worse when it had rained.
The mud would build up on the shoes/ feet with each step. Every few feet she would have to set her load and the baby down, take the stick that she brought for just this purpose, and scrape the huge clods of mud from their feet. Then, pick up the load and the baby and proceed a few more steps and repeat.
My father and his siblings developed scurvy. They were always right on the verge of starvation.
Daddy said that one of the reasons they lasted as long as they did was because they had a dog that was half greyhound.
Daddy said that Jack, that was his name, would be able to catch jackrabbits fairly easily in the summer. But, in winter, the dog would gain ground on snow free ground. But, if the hare could get on snow, it would start pulling away making the prospect of dinner more of a challenge. Most dogs were working dogs and valued only for what they could do. But, with Jack, it was a matter of survival to keep him healthy and close by.
All of this was in 1934. Imagine if that were 75/100 years before. Only the hardest/most fortunate survived.
My father's family only made it about 1 1/2 years before admitting defeat and heading back to East Texas.
Jack sounds like a hero of a dog. I know that kind of mud it doubles the size of your boots. Tough people. I was collecting water 15 yrs ago. Gives you muscles.
I enjoyed your story.
@@seriousros7280 And a salty vocabulary
@@christinemerlino5080 TY. I enjoyed retelling it. I love thinking about my parents and their lives
@@cwavt8849 Yes, our parents lives were interesting for sure...that's history. Thank you for sharing your dads story ❤.
After serving in the Civil War my great-grandfather homesteader in western Kansas. He proved up his land and got the title He was a successful wheat farmer and bought more land and tripled his original acreage. It was very rough going in the desolate landscape of KS. The Kansas Historical Society sent someone to interview all the early homesteaders in the 1920's and that's how I read about him, he's on the internet. He had hazel eyes as I do, which is the 2nd rarest eye color. So I am proud of him and his accomplishments.
Is there a video on TH-cam? What is it called? I would love to read and or watch it. So interesting, thank you.
@@peppercat8718 No video, but, his story is on the net. His name was James Richard Bruner, just google his name. Very interesting. He voted for Lincoln. He was from Lane County, Kansas. He was in the Civil War, but, wasn't in a battle. I sent for his war record and found out about his eyes, and a copy of his handwriting. His brother died in a battle in Missouri. At the time they lived in IL. Thx for the interest.
I would be ashamed.
@@jodimontoute Is there an article that a State put about about any of your grand or great-grandparents? I have a right to be proud and I still am. My ancestors have been here since the 1700's, most Americans cannot claim that. Nothing was handed to any of them., they worked hard and made a success out of their lives. No a thing to be ashamed of.
I lived on a Hazel Farm in SC It was really a Hog Farm Everybody that started Hazel Farm had Hazel eyes even the Haitian Farm Hands who would get made and say they put the root on ya { VoDoo] High Sherriff on the Low Country
My Gma born 7-31-1906 said there were 8 girls 2 boys and parents. In south oklahoma very dry land they would have sat night baths on a rotating schedule. First tub six took turns then emptied tub and then next six got the next tub. Each girl had two dresses and they all shared. She had many stories and was a wonderful strong woman. I miss her very much
My wife and I live right now with a small RV trailer with a 14'x20' room we built for a whopping cost of $286. It is made much as these people made theirs. Logs from the forest make the walls, the floor is made of flag stone we gathered not to far from our home. We have the advantage of windows we salaged from transportainers. Temps in the winter go as low as -20°f. It is warm and comfortable. Yes it is much easier to live in the times we live in compared to the homesteaders, but you can build a comfortable home from the natural materials at hand.
I lived in a school bus with a wood stove that got warm in the winter but didn't hold the heat like a house.
You can if you own land, to cut trees, and build on, and you're able bodied.
Do you not have a regular job??? How do you afford food and or vacations???😮
Why do you live like this? Why is your wife supporting this kind of life .Too lazy to work or are you an out law hiding from the law ?
@@krags.allander2465 So what about plumbing? Do you have access to water? Did you buy the land you’re living on? And food? The settlers shot game, rabbits, deer, etc. Most places have laws about hunting.
It is actually a miracle that people made it across the continent.
They where the traveling homeless
@@StevrenConstantine Conditions in Europe were so horrible they really had little choice but to leave. So many of the Irish left Ireland during the potato famine that Ireland has never increased their population back to prefamine numbers. From a documentary here on youtube talking about the potato famine.
@@MelvinMartin-w1e Not everybody left
@@RitaMoore-um6dm I can barely make it in a plane, forget about driving, and double forget horseback😂
Im amazed that people walked across America.
This video was depressing if nothing else. Those poor people, we are truly fortunate to have these luxuries today.
Watch some videos of poor city dwellers around this time. At least as depressing as this.
These days in 2024, housing still unaffordable.
To be honest, depends on the area. Where I live in the CA Bay Area it really is unaffordable, the average house on my street is $2 million. In Utah, the same house would be $0.4 million. I think I’ll be moving to Utah.
Maybe homeless camps are just the new frontier
@@QualityPen Then please leave your Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Gruesome politics behind.
@@QualityPen Please don't.
@@Phil-y8c You are a bit off topic for this video. did you even watch it?
Wiping out the buffalo was a great evil. The entire scope of destruction was horrific.
Yes, it was!! It's horrible what the white man did!
True, but can you imagine hitting a buffalo in your car at 75mph?
@@missanthrope2 your ignorance is stunning, an obviously racist comment. They needed the Buffalo for everything! The meat and the hides were life saving. Your comment is stupidity itself.
@@missanthrope2 your ignorance is stunning, an obviously racist comment. They needed the Buffalo for everything! The meat and the hides were life saving. Your comment is stupidity itself.
Wiping out the buffalo was the way to tame the Native American. It was their food source
For those referring to Appalachian cabins and such, they had timber, the prairie didn't. Open space and some probably didn't know what they were getting into, they just wanted something of their own.
Many of those people had to dig into the ground , make cave like room underground to live in, these were known as "dugout":homes also people made "soddy" houses , cave like rooms dug into small undulating slopes that were located in some different areas of the great prairie
People on the prairies built with what they could obtain. One was the sod house...built out of sod; grass and dirt. Many built in sides of hills, or coves for protection, and cooling or heating. Showing teepee when talking about sod houses didn't make sense.
They didn’t have insulation, insecticides, quality heating, vaccinations, or any sort of septic systems. Food was scarce and the presence of Native Americans defending their land.
The glorification from Hollywood about how great and wholesome the 19th century was out on the “homestead” is nothing but fiction.
My 2xgreat grandpa built a small, sturdy shack on his land. My great grandpa built a log cabin nearby. The log cabin was added to over the years, gaining wings and a second floor. The house is unrecognizable now, unless you go down to the root cellar and see the rough hewn timbers and stone. My uncle still lives there. The original shack is mostly gone, swallowed in the woods, but we used to play in it as children. The house and land are now worth many millions of dollars.
My parents talked of how every meal of almost every day in their growing up during the depression days , was only some sort of potato , their parents would try to add something a little different within the potato dish when they could afford such
Laura Ingles Wilder's books do describe how harsh life was.
We have it made in the shade today and yet we complain. I thank Almighty God I did not live in those days.
I agree with you. I now I would not of made it then.
There's a good book called "The Good Ole Days were Terrible". City life was just as bad esp in summer. The rich left NYC in summer due to the smell.
i remember being totally enthralled by that book when I was i Jr. High. This lead me to read Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair and other muckraker literature describing the era. I think a lot of my thinking about urbanism and city planning, along with my utter frustration with declinism and nostalgia was shaped by this book
@@cpkarkow663 He wrote "the Jungle' didn't he? The book that described the horrors of the slaughter house.
@@99999myk yes, Upton Sinclair wrote the Jungle. He wanted to highlight the horrible mistreatment of workers in the meat industry but the people were more horrified by the gross stuff that happened to the food that everyone eventually was eating that it lead congress to start regulating food production. (The Meat Inspection Act of 1906). He famously said « I aimed at the public.s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. »
I don’t believe it…civilized city people stinking? Lies and deceit!😤😂
Some pictures aren't even in united states.
Piss poor research.
I appreciate the old pictures.. agree with you.
And using clips from Bonanza😂😂
I think that picture at 11.47 is of the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East.. There seems to be a 303 rifle lying against a stack of gear, behind the middle soldier..
More like flat out lazy.
Totally random historical photos from around the world, could easily confuse someone new to this subject/era.
My great grandparents dug a hole in the ground on the Saskatchewan prairies, and covered it with wood. That is where they lived for the first year before they could get a house built. My great gran never came out of the hole the entire winter. My mom said the only living room furniture they had in the 1930's was an army cot. We have it lucky.
Yes, often we forget how good we have it.
Depends on what you value. If it's freedom you crave we are not lucky at all. Subject to countless laws and regulations.
That would be an OUTHOUSE 😢
@spellbindah Nope, its a dugout. Staying warm is much easier underground.
Groundhog day.
The kids on the first picture are Russian . They were starving during Stalin's Holdomor.
Holodomor not holdomor and actually dont know are they ikrwine or russians cause shitt time was everywhere , maybe theyre russia ww2 war time homeless kids
Stalin did two lines, one was ukraine juwish progroms ,whats same like nazis did germany and second was holodomor, cause he scared partisans revolution and did 1922 untill 33 or 34 holodomors, whats starving, and 2% died
This was cruel time. And russian peoples died . Started if lenin rise up, thanx to bolchevicks and white and red revolutions
1917-1953 was evil time in russia and ukraine
I think they are ukrainiens
@angela2726 1922-50 was total Stalin punisment, 40 % country life gone
@@angela2726 Yes, I think so,too…
That photograph is emaciated children during the holodomor in the Ukraine,when 15 million people died from starvation under Stalins brutal oppression of the Kulaks!
I saw a film clip in a documentary of a young Ukrainian boy running alongside a train. He was begging for food. It was heartbreaking. Hard to get it out of my mind.
I agree. Some of these photographs were of people from other countries in desperate situations. I don't know what the intention of the creator of this narrative is, but it appears as if he has nothing good to say concerning early settlers. Instead of recommending them for their will to survive and create the beautiful country we now reside in, he does nothing but criticize the white settlers.
@@FlowersfromNan Ever wonder if "white" settlers deserve all the criticism they get, much like "Israeli" settlers?
There is a reason that the Calvinist Puritans were the rejects of Europe... and not for their "virtues".
@ Pure speculation and biased opinion.
@ No, I don't wonder. Do we hold all Germans responsible for the atrocities against the Jewish people? Do we hold all white people responsible? This is what you are essentially doing by condemning white settlers. You assume that all indigenous peoples were friendly. They were savagely slaughtering each other but this is never addressed by people who are so intent and condemning white Europeans. I want to ask you a question. Did you ever consider the contributions, inventions and discoveries brought to this world by the Europeans? 90% of all invention and discovery brought to you by white men. This is overlooked as well. By no means do I want to portray white European as any better than any other race, but I am so damn sick of the erroneous notions being purported today given the delusion that all people would be living in peace and health if it weren't for the evil white man.
The Oregon Trail game was pretty harsh. “ you have died of dysentery “
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What are photos of starving people from India doing in this mix. Those kids are suffering from quashiokore.
Half of this video looks and sounds like bs
@@truesosense7722because it is.
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I liked all the action from the spaghetti westerns though.
I always think about having an injury. A broken bone could easily be fatal and an agonizing death. Even a simple headache would be miserable as it just had to pass.
I thought the little house books were pretty accurate. They were written for children, and they have some nice stories, but they talk about how hard it was too like trying to stay warm in "The Long Winter" and having to continually twist and burn straw, how they had to live underground in the dugout at Plum Creek, but they would move into town with other homesteaders for the winter so they could be near each other, and waiting for supplies that were held up since the trains had to be dug out of the snow and lots of other difficulties are explained too. Other than their bathroom habits, and the fact that their written in a way that children could read them without being exposed to adult themes, they basically cover most everything the video covers so much so that they could have been used as a reference if necessary. The television show was very different from the books though.
In the books the kids had no shoes. Michael Landon changed that saying MY kids aren't going to be barefoot!
These pictures have absolutely nothing in common with the narration .
Lmao.....ok I thought it was just me.!!
Same here@@sevenspecie592
The pictures show the truth. Yes, it was difficult, but tens,even hundreds of thousands, succeeded. This narration is poppycock!
AI .....intelligence? I fear for upcoming generations swallowing this wholesale. Very sad.
Well, most of the pictures really are American Frontier treasures. The pictures of starving people in India, results of famine in Ireland, an encampment of soldiers in WW l, scenes of poverty in New York City in the early 19th century, a group of newly freed slaves in 1865 and a few other misplaced pictures, while interesting, do seem a bit off topic.
Thank you for sharing HISTORY keep it alive.
My Grandpa grew up in a log cabin :) My grandparents and my Dad & siblings lived through the depression and never went hungry as my Grandmother canned and Grandpa raised a big garden and worked in the coal mines. I’ve vacationed in a log cabin before and it was warm with a chimney fireplace. Mud & straw bricks would have worked better than sod for the pioneers. The old days were good if you had common sense and were resourceful. The homeless today don’t have it any better than some of the pioneers but still many don’t stay homeless if they have the will to change their conditions.
My dad was born in 1920 on a farm North of Kennebec South Dakota. My grandfather was a "Homestead" farmer with 640 acres and lived in a 2 room sod shanty. No electricity, No phone, No running water. But through the years my grandfather became a railway postal clerck.
my dad was born 1916 in Sorum SD never said a word about his life
Visuals are extremely random and many have no connection to the story.
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The introductory thumbnail is starving children of the Ukrainian famine 1932-33.
Yeah, many of the pictures were not of the American frontier at all. Would have been MUCH better to have a lot fewer, on topic pictures.
AI doesn't care about our feels
A lot of people today don’t know how to change a car tire
thank you for your comment to the Native Americans. THEY knew how to live well and comfortable and made better use of ressources than those miserable settlers. But they were pushed away and their way of life and culture were destroyed and replaced by something that did not work out very well for the settlers, if you compare the survivors to those who did not make it.
My family were settlers/indians and survived in the Cyprus swamps for generations…still do
Hilarious. The earlier immigrants have plenty of land yet I don’t see them moving into those comfortable Teepees.😊
@@cplmpcocptcl6306 no, thats not "hilarious". Many many did not make it in their miserable earth huts. Survival was tough on all out there. Yet, they looked down upon the "savages". Wasn't it in the 1920, huge draughts and spoiled harvests and many of them farmes moving away? There is more than I can round up here in a short comment. Use your brain and history inside, please.
@@MollyGrue1 Well Einstein, you totally missed the point. Even a second grader could comprehend my comment, which eluded you.🤦♀️ (I know this bc I checked with a 2nd grader.😂)
@@MollyGrue1 Your knowledge of history is so generalised as to be pathetic. There was a reason they were referred to as savages and its not about living in tents.
One the better narratives I have listened to. Thank you.
But people somehow made it didn't they? My sympathies always to the natives. God help us
They would have scalped you too.
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ulNah, I'm bald as a cueball --- maybe give me a spit shine...
Not always...
Amen
@@MegaJackpinesavage No hair? Well that makes it easier to split your skull.
Omg u make it sound like a horror story. I live off grid, no electricity or municipal water, dug my own well,, always make sure the outhouses are downhill from the well,a duh.
And how much have you learned about it thru books and videos.? .they didn't have that luxury and were probably poor city folks who wanted to escape that life without even thinking about how hard it would actually be . Much different times
So smug. Wait til your legs dont work.
Are there any wild Indians nearby?
They learned from their ancestors as we did. I come from a long line of people who were farmers who pretty much lived off the land.@@TennesseeTater
Excellent video. Thank you
Part 2 might describe the way in which failed homesteads were deeded together by the founders of the corporations which we know as Kellogs and General Mills.
Homesteaders finding themselves on the edge of disaster, were tricked into mortgages for their 80 and 320 acre properties. These mortgages turned into defaults and then into
foreclosures and eviction from the land. Banks then sold all as cheap land for the owners of mills and mines.
This is Part 2 of the Homestead story, in my opinion. These people may actually have been place holders for mine and mill owners. Total disaster for Homesteaders, was probably the expected outcome.
Thank you for a rare honest dicumentary
Why did he show pictures of people in Europe, India and large cities back east? Pics were very misleading.
A+ video!
Incredible video, very helpful for understanding the culture of The American Old West!
Coming to America was a BAD IDEA back then, and it's still a bad idea today. Just stay wherever you are!!
This sounds like it came from one of Trump's recent campaign speeches.
@@roberthenry9319 I actually like Trump, even though I can't vote for him for obvious reasons, but I hope he gets elected again so that relations between Europe and Russia normalise. He's not perfect because after all, he did allow all the riots to continue, he believed all the misinformation about Covid, and did NOT build the wall or have Hillary arrested.
Try looking through the history of different groups who came to he United States at different periods in history. The Irish for instance, were starving in Ireland, it was sure death or traveling across the ocean. Jews were being murdered throughout various European countries. Italians had only total poverty to look forward to in Italy.
Why don't you leave
@@SunRabbitTrump is traitor scum
i wonder why they didn't copy the native Teepee's. They were the experts
What,and admit they weren't superior to the indigenous people:not a chance!
Boo hoo
A lot of settlers would have perished without help from Native Americans. The Donner party was rescued by a tribe that invited them to stay the winter, knowing they couldn't make it. So many instances like that. Over and over they came to our aid...and were repaid with genocide. 😒
I was just thinking the teepee 's were probably so much warmer in the winter months! The white man was to busy trying to kill & control everything!
Some probably did as a stop gap measure as they worked to complete their permanent housing. Not everything was documented.
This is for the most part completely false. Log cabins built in the 17 - early 1900s are still all over the Appalachian Mountains. They were constructed very well.
The western settlers took these skills with them.
Many of the western settlers were from the big cities. They had no skills like the folks in Appalachia did
The old west was pretty much over by the 1890s, let alone the early 1900s
I guess it’s a lot easier to build a snug cabin in the APPALACHIANS than say, oh, on a prairie? Or somewhere that isn’t a bloody forest? They can have all the skills they want if there’s not a zillion trees? And a good majority of them had never build a cabin in their lives. They were trying to get out of cities and get a bit of land of their own. . Do people even think before they start with know it all comments?
It struck me that descriptions of the hard times that people had to endure, giving birth to kids and taking care of them was never mentioned. The photos of Asia were comical. I have peers who started out life with outhouses. They were still around on the east coast in the 1950s. All that said, the content was interesting. From what I can see, the closest we come to spending so much of your time merely maintaining your home is the life of people who are living in their cars, vans, box trucks, RVs, etc.
My grandparents were homesteaders in Alberta before the province even was a province. Life was tough. As a result my mum was tough too and I think that got handed down to the next two generations. You have to be tough to survive in a log cabin during Canadian winters.
If they would have listened to the native Americans and not treat them so bad and killed them they could have survived way better than. The teepee was not only removable easily but it kept you really warm.
Looking at the pictures chosen for this, quite a few appear to be from foreign countries, the 1930's, WWI, etc.
I also noticed that. Still, this made me think.
Those people were HARD bless them for they gave us what we have today
Wow😢 I did romanticize how I understood the frontier to be😮 My goodness how horrible it was. I need to be more thankful.
We all need to appreciate what we have . People talk about how bad things are today ,but people living back then would think today’s living heaven .
There was nothing at all romantic about this period. It was rough and sometimes very rough and bloody.
Law truly was determined by who had the quickest draw for a long time.
That was a very educational video. I have never heard this about the old west before.
Where have you been?
@@lindickison3055 I don't live in the USA, I live in Australia. Henceforth I have a very limited knowledge of the Old West.
The homesteaders did not live in jungles or make houses out of bamboo. Where did this clown get his materials?? There are plenty of real homesteads photos. No need to go to New Guinea to find primitive home photos.
Sounds like you live in either New York or Istanbul.
@@johnellison3030 Oh. Well, we do not care. Why did you feel like sharing this enlightening bit of information with us?
Very enlightening. Thank you very much for showing us this truth. God bless you.
I appreciate this video providing the facts. The people who did this were tough. It is disappointing that often the rich would come inbehind the settlers after all the hardwork was don and towns were established to provide a workforce for the rich.Nothing was ever done for the sske of the people it was always for the advantage of the rich. Give tracts of land let the common man establish it then come in buy up land and hire workers to do all the work
it was hard on the settlers but the natives had it right
Neighbors helped each other to build houses and barns even though they were not close by they helped each other
We have it so easy today. I have been laying in bed all morning playing on my iPad with a kitchen full of food and door dash at my fingertips.
It was no better any where else in those days in the 1800’s
My ancestors must have been a lot smarter than the people you're talking about. They knew how to build and supply themselves with food and heating. They built outhouses and knew where to place them. This whole video is WAAAAAYYYYY over done.
I'm sure there were hardships,but not nearly as grim as portrayed here.
Good for them, that’s great. I’d be interested in knowing when your people were getting a start in the west and where they did it.
I guess the record of their lives was passed down to you. Imagine a wagon with a man, a wife, and a 10 year old child,along with their meager possessions, living in a tent, well, you know what, I’m tired of trying to show my wristwatch to a hog. You have no idea what you’re talking about, I’m sure your ancestors did what you said but there must have a home depot near by and some people to help with the project.
They probably learned what to do from those who went before them. I learned not to drink from the streams in my area after several people went through a bout with giardia.
Not everyone was smart enough to live at least comfortably. If a man was lazy or drank alcohol things were doomed.
@@stevewheatley243 Especially near the end of the 19th century
My grandaddy was from Africa. He bought a house in a small town with a big yard. He grew all kinds of vegetables, fruit, nuts. Had chickens, a cow, sheep and goats. Fed a family of 7 kids, survived and fed family thru the depression and the war. They had it difficult, but survived well on what he grew and raised.
I love history. I lived in Montana we use to go to the old cemeteries where only children were buried there. I can imagine life was so hard with not only poor housing but diseases were all too familiar..
Yes children died of malnutrition as well. Hard times.
Ha as i watch it sounds like your talking about my living situation.. a wild fire burned us out few years back. Total loss.. thank god for home depot and amazon lol
Very interesting video. Thank you for exposing the TRUTH.
New sub here I'm loving yours channel keep up the good work 👍🏽
This is what built this country. I cannot imagine living so harshly and making so many sacrifices. Those who claim that their ethnic or cultural group built this country and are owed something for it don't know the history of this country. I admire and am grateful for all of the pioneer's work. Diversity isn't our strength. Our strengths are all the newcomers who come here and mutually agree to respect American law and order so we can all live in peace and safety.
Aren’t some of these movies or documentary films 🎥 showcasing? But what a great storyline! I like your voice. It’s not boring! ❤❤❤
I come from a long line of Pioneers, back when Tennessee & Kentucky were “the west” Believe my great grandparents when they told me the good old days were HARD! Especially for women! Thank our lucky stars we were born in an age where we didn’t have to HAUL WATER from a well or make EVERYTHING from scratch!! Children also died on a regular basis. 😢
If life on the frontier was this hard it's a miracle that we still exists and didn't die off
Because they weren’t big babies or quitters like people are today.
@KAT-dg6el I'm a old country boy I think I live in the wrong time
The so-called "wild West" must have been hell for so many people!
I had no idea that the American frontier spanned across India.
God bless them. It was a terrible hard life.
The Oregon Trail game was all about dying 😂
Yet we are now the greatest country in the world!
At least their family and Heritage wasn't torn apart. They lived A great life versus a lot of others in those times. Be grateful.
it was no different in the east. Life was hard in the time period.
I am reminded that abraham lincoln was raised in his younger years in a lean-to, a three-sided dwelling, with the fourth side open to the fire ,--- no fourth wall and no chimney.
It also teaches us who we we're and are right now.
My father grew up in log cabins with hard dirt floors and sod roofs in the Black Hills of South Dakota. My grandfather grew up in a dug out with low turf walls.
Saw an old grave site one time . Moses and his 5 wives. Life was very hard back then.
I’m surprised that childbearing was not discussed.
In those days, childbearing WAS disgust.
@@brendafegley3317 Cannot count on this guy for accuracy.
@@ohreally8929 Please go back to 3rd grade and find the meanings of those two (2) words.
@@marionmarino1616 Wow, you can't REALLY be THAT dumb, can you?
Yes dangerous to give birth for both mother and baby then some died young. Cemeteries going back shows this.
There were people with wealth who moved to the east and didn’t struggle as you portray.
There are always those that make it and those that don't. Their luck either good or bad.
People tend to look at the past with rose colored glasses nostalgia blinds people to the way things really were, and they weren't always that great.
It was almost unimaginably hard compared to the comfort we enjoy today. My older sister (who is actually well read) still pretends that pioneering and cow herding was just like the Saturday morning cowboy TV serials where good guys wore white Stetsons and sequined shirts. I guess pretending made her difficult life with our even more difficult father a little easier.
I noticed that some of the pictures had people from India.
I used to explain to my US history students (I retired in 1997.) about the "old west" seen in the movies and on television. I told them there was a lot of poverty and hardship. But I also included these two things about the real old west: Never in the entire history of the movement of wagon trains west did even one time Indians (Native Americans or First People) ever attack a circled wagon train. Not once. Why? Because Indians of the plains knew the travelers were just going through their lands and not planning to stay, build homes and raise a family. Another thing: Not once, never, did two men walk down the middle of the street in any town in America towards each other stop some thirty or so feet apart, draw their guns, either got shot or did the shooting because one faster than the other. Not once. It just plain didn't happened - except in Hollywood. (Sorry Gregory Peck in The Gun Fighter.)
My g.g. grandfather, his wife and 12 children left southeast Iowa in 1853 in horse drawn wagons (most were pulled by oxen) and settle in the Willamette Valley. They made it to Oregon. No one died and two of his children, his daughter 11 and daughter 9 walked bare foot all the way to Oregon herding two mares. He was born in 1803 years before railroad tracks were laid from east to west, when Lewis and Clarke were busy exploring the west by orders of Thomas Jefferson and died in 1900 three years before the man flew in an airplane for the first time. He was 97 years old.
Do you think that in one hundred years cancer will be a thing of the 21st century; when people actually drove automobiles; watched flat screen colored television and only dreamed of 3D screens and only lived to about 80 or 90 years old?!!
The photo at 11:50 looks like Australian first world war troops. Mounted infantry known as Lighthorsemen , probably taken in the middle East.
Quite a lot of these photos used in this vid, don't relate to actual frontier life in America.
I've always thought about water...
Instead of glass they would put paper in the windows and add grease to it thereby making it somewhat clearer.
Why are your photos of poverty showing India and not the US. Also I have seen John Wayne. Will Rogers and Lee Marvin in a couple of them. I mean really? There are any number of old photos available for reference. Much of my family helped to settle the southern part of Kansas and I have any number of old photos of them and their houses. Very tough people and very kind.
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Poor video! Even have pictures from other countries. So many clips from movies rather than real life. Tons of picture not from the 1880s.
I think he's talking about the 1840s/1850s
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Played Oregon Trail in 5th grade 1977. I was a pregnant blacksmith who got bite by a snake. I also made everyone in my group angry when we lost a day on trail because I didn't pack enough wood. Also cheated later by changing my supply list and added more water. Think teacher knew I cheated but she cut me a break and let me get away with it. I think if I had to tell the others in my group that we had to stop for water I would have ended up like the Donner party.
Some of this is true most of it is not.
Like what exactly?
Pioneer life? Way too many photos of city life!
The photos in this AI product are from all over the world, India, England, and Eastern United States cities; not reflective of the American West. Poorly done.
Every time I have ever watched a Western I have stated that I am soooo glad I didn’t live then especially as a woman.
I also spent about 10 years in a home built in the 1860s. It was a big house and it had two fireplaces. That’s when I realized the little house on the Prairie was bullshit. You wouldn’t be able to see that little house because it would be surrounded by wood in the winter lol
Very interesting-- TV and movies have created a very distorted view.
It was tough but they had never known anything else. They took in stride what we would call unbearable.
15:30 That's not the Old West, that's India! My guess is that was taken during the famine in Bengal during 1943. Regardless, that is not the United States.
A lot of the pictures have nothing to do with what he's talking about. There are pictures of the Irish famine and victims of the 1920-1921 Russian famine.
@@missanthrope2 Oh? Care to name a place and a time?
@@missanthrope2 Well, that one came through. Try again. If it still doesn't work, try rewording it. I don't think they have people policing the comments, but a computer algorithm.
ODD Fellows Lodges and Sanitariums/Orphan Schools, Indian Reeducation Camps,
Little House on the Prairie adapted for TV may have been "glossed over" but the books told of the winter they almost starved and Lauras loss of a newborn and other real stuff.
Frontier life was harsh.
Some of these photos are nothing to do with the American Old West.
Hooray! The commercials rule! This is the first YT video so dismal as to make the commercials welcome.
They could have taken some tips from the native tribes. Buckskin clothing lasts longer, buffalo chips for fuel ( mentioned) Tepees or Tipis were warmer and let smoke out
the top opening. Fur caps and mittens. So much more. Only the strong and resourceful survive.
Getting clean water in The Americn Old West sounds stressful!
Sounds like India and China today and in a few years America itself😢..we are killing the planet