How They Wrote on the Frontier
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- Writing in the Old West
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Thumbs down are ink-haters.
Or perhaps victims of having their hair dipped in the inkwell at school?
You guys always have a good like to dislike ratio . Always very few dislikes. I always enjoy these vids
From those who know not how to write in longhand.
Yeah I don’t know how you get thumbs down just for trying to impart knowledge to others. Answer someone’s question. You know?
You should maybe do dressing the part us cavalry scouts
“OwO operator” never laughed so hard in my life.
OWO
I had to look that one up...😉
there are a couple meanings...
:-)
"UWU" i say!
I love the calligraphy they used on official papers and correspondence back in the day! I think it is a real shame that kids do not learn penmanship in grammar school anymore and that many kids, even those in college today, cannot even sign their names using cursive writing! It's a lost art that should definitely be revived! Thanks for another great video Santee. Hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas!
We did. Hope you did too. I'm inspired to write more because of these folks.
Excellent! fun sketches and an education to boot.
Much appreciated.
Merry Christmas Santee to you, Rita, and all of the Ghostriders renegades, rebels, & rogues. Rapscallions all 🐎🐎
Thank you! You as well, Red.
What he said!☝️
This was a really great episode. You folks just keep getting better and better. "Frontier" font should be a new type option, especially for a channel like AZ Ghostriders. Can't wait to see what you have in store for New Year's. Happy Holiday's.
Thanks....I can't wait to see what I have in store either!
@@ArizonaGhostriders
We have faith in you Santee....... Can't wait.
Dan: "Where's he going?"
Other Dan: _"Hey get over here!"_
Me: *"We got a runner!!"*
Sorry Santee. Couldn't resist. Thanks for the great video. In my vast fountain pen collection, I do have a steel nib attached to an Ebonite shaft from India. Though now that I think about, it might have an Ebonite feed too. Oh well, love writing with fountain pens. Happy New Year, Santee.
Very cool!
I see you are practicing social distancing.
Oh, this is my absolute favorite video you made yet !!
Yay! Thank you!
Ah, I miss my Saturday morning's watching Mr. Holster, Batjac's Saturday morning radio show and finishing up with the Arizona Ghostriders. Life travels on. Santee - may you have a prosperous and blessed 2021!
Right on. You too, Greg!
Santee: hey siri call Dave Rogers
Siri: calling Jake from state farm 😂
LOL!
Learned to write using the Palmer Method. The Nuns loved it! Hey, now there's a topic - Nuns in the west.
Great suggestion! If I do a series on them, would that be a habit?
@@ArizonaGhostriders Perhaps, but if you are a Catholic you probably ought to confess that joke.
@@ArizonaGhostriders lol
@@ArizonaGhostriders he who puns would pick a pocket.
A subject near and dear to my heart. The art of the written word and the science of paper. I use disposable fountain pens for day to day use and calligraphy for special occasions on laid paper.
And hopefully medicated paper that is splinter-free.
Love that! I used an example of laid paper in there.
Instant like on that state farm joke... Didn't see it coming 😅
Thank you.
Merry Christmas Charlie Brow- Uh, Santee
HA!
Would love to see a video on housing and living options in the old west. From Adobe and log cabins to antebellum houses and everything in between.
Did one on houses!
@@ArizonaGhostriders I now see! Thank you. You covered everything I was expecting. Brilliant job as always.
@@Thomas-rl9xd Thank you! Much appreciated.
Santee, Your frickin' videos are addictive. I can't stop watching the blasted things!
Glad you like them!
"Wanted for cow tipping Reward: 2¢" That one cracked me up.
You can still get pens and steel nibs in lots of various sizes and angles at art supply stores.
Yep, you sure can. I'm gonna try a broader nib for mine.
Fantastic video. I inherited my grandfather's old Fountain pens and Dip pens so I've taken to useing them every day. Even when taking notes I always use cursive. It's good fun and proven to help with memory.
Well that sure is neat!
Back in the west the quality of education and both spoken and written grammar outshines today's "college education"
Keep up the good work!
How about one on Fire safety and fire fighting in the old west?
Sounds interesting. Thanks!
My Dad had old three rolling front book shelf that I believe dated back to early 1900 maybe late 1800.lots of old books from the family.dating back to 1840sh or so.including several maguffy readers.used to teach letters and writing back during the 1800s.plus a few family Bibles with names birth/death dates. I cherish these as I love the historical and the family ties value so much.
I would love to see a vid on the education system and teaching tool used back then.
Thanks! I've done a couple on education.
Thanks again Santee & Co. I'm reminded of the scene in The Patriot when the newlywed bride put ink in her husband's tea . Ha Ha ! I understand that one old formula for ink was based on the secretion that squids use for defense . I'm also reminded me of the song Love Potion Number Nine , and the line ' It smelled like turpentine , it looked like India ink ' . Good film , and good song . Well , Merry Christmas ! three day weekend , and Happy New Year ! in advance .
LOL! Thank you!
This was really interesting! I'm glad you did an episode on this. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Another great Saturday morning video. I like the part about the old west white out. Oh and good luck with those warrants Santee.
Thanks, you too!
Jesse and my brother can prove as witnesses to those warrants.
~Sincerely,
ES
LOL!
Santee, Great episode! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of ya! Sarsaparilla Joe
Same to you! Appreciate all you do, pardner.
Thanks Sir for this educational video , it was to my liking and I appreciate very much. We were taught the American cursive writing . Can't take my eyes off your videos. Keep makin' 'em . Thank you. Love from Pune City Jai Maharashtra.
It's my pleasure
As if the “calling Jake from State Farm” bit wasn’t funny enough, I actually got a State Farm ad ON the video! 😆 Good stuff, as usual.
~Jed 🤠
LOL!! Funny.
Thanks Santee for this information and Great Video 😎👍
My pleasure!
Nice to see you got away. Another great start for my weekend. Happy New Year
Same to you!
This was another awesome topic. 🤗
Yay, thank you!
This was great! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I hope you had a Great Christmas and you have a Happy New Years too, Santee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You too!
Hi Santi Arizona Ghostriders. Merry Christmas From Kent, England. I have been watching your on youtube for a couple of years now. I am a big western nut and love your shows so keep up the great work and a happy new year.
Wow, thanks! Happy New Year to ya!
Awesome as Always !!!!!!
Thanks again!
Thanks for the awesome video I am trying to learn to write like the did in the 18th century. It is truly awesome.
You're very welcome!
Happy belated Christmas santee my friend hope you had a fantastic day with your family give that shirt back santee lol great upload and I want to take this chance to thank you for being such a genuine friend thumbs up buddy 👍
Thanks! You too!
Handwriting was so beautiful and ornate! I'm so glad they still taught cursive when I was in school. My little brother never learned it unfortunately.
Thanks for sharing!!
@Arizona Ghostriders, in the one room school houses, the chalkboards had the old letters both large & small letters across the top of the boards. I know due to one of my toys was a full size one room school house complete with everything still in it & the other was a full size 2 story log cabin. Anyhow before I learned to print I learned those cursive letters just playing. For some odd reason I always got A's in pinmenship when it came to cursive writing. Plus my teachers always said I wrote big enough that a blind person could read it. (Someone with bad eyesight not a person who couldn't see at all.) Anyhow Happy Holidays & Happy New Year's! Blessings!
That is pretty cool, JT! Thanks.
Another great episode! Thanks for sharing.
Our pleasure!
Beautiful handwriting, guess I need to start practicing:) Thank you for the great work your doing Santee :)
My pleasure 😊
Great episode, Santee. Hope you Rita and Siri had a wonderful Christmas. Have a Happy New Year to you as well!
Same to you! Thanks for watchin'
Excellent. Keep up the great videos!
Thanks! Will do.
Ahhh the beautiful handwritting of the days gone bye.. sad to see the scribble we have today.Cheers Santee and Co.
Tell me about it!
Howdy, Santee. Your Western buff here from San Juan City, Philippines. Yep, this is one Filipino boomer dude who grew up with the Lone Ranger, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill, Maverick, Wyatt Earp, Palladin and of course John Wayne. Really enjoy watching the Arizona Ghostriders series. Wish you many happy trails, Pilgrim. Favor: could you do one on the spiritual life in the Old West. Thanks, Pardner. Stay well and God bless.
Will do and same to you.
Happy New Year, and I'll see YOU down the trail.
You Too!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & Happy New-Year, Santee! I've always been fascinated with old documents, and hand written documents. Love the old currency, that is hand signed. Very cool stuff!🤠🍻👊
Same to you!
Good video Santee!! Now this is history. I see old inkwells in antique (junque) stores all the time...gonna look at them a little closer now. Merry Christmas🎄 and Happy New Year! 🎉🍾
Right on
As always fantastic stuff! Happy New Year!
Same to you!
Hey there I'm in AZ too I met ya the other night in a live panel..I subbed to ya😊
Thank you kindly! Have a Happy New Year!
Real interesting video. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas. Happy New Year to the team.
Same to you!
Hey that was really interesting. I love the way they wrote back then I would love to be able to write like that. 🤔🤔
Just takes patience...and practice. Both of which I fall short of.
Great video Santee .
Thanks 👍
Happy new year to you too 😎☕
🎉
I’ve been working on Spencerian for about 18 months! I love it.
Nice!
I'm a Land Surveyor, so I have lots of experience with hand written deeds. My favorite was one written by a Loudon County Virginia lawyer named Noble B. Peacock, ESQ. It was written with distances expressed as chains, rods, and perches. We have one very old hand written deed in my county with distances described as bow shots. Yes the deed transferred land from a local tribe to a settler. Land Surveyors tend to be fascinated by history. Oh and I have a glass pen from the 1890's.
Wow! That is some terrific stuff, Bill. Thanks for sharing.
Bill never lets me down playing his tricks lol..Enjoyed this very interesting!!! Hope you have a Happy New Year as well....Try not to get arrested lol...
LOL! Thank you!
Happy 2021 Santee! And I really like that Buckskin jacket you were wearing in the video. I also liked how you slipped away from those warrant holders. Take Care!
Thank you. You too!
very well, done very informative and with some humour
Much appreciated!
Great video
Thanks!
This was awesome thanks Santee
My pleasure!
Happy new year Santee & Co! I just got my late Christmas gift today: An Arizona Ghostriders shirt! I've been wearing it a bunch and love it already.
Keep up the great videos! - From NSW, Australia
That is awesome! So glad to hear it. I hope to get to Australia one day.
My first thought on seeing the title was for my English teacher, named, interestingly enough, Miss Young, though she was anything but. She first began teaching in the 1890's when she was in her early teens. When I had her, she was in her 90's, but still teaching as though it was the turn of the century. She had a yardstick from the local hardware store, the old style ones made from a piece of 3/4 inch hardwood. And she applied it liberally, across the knuckles. Bad penmanship? Whap! Bad grammar? Whap! Not paying attention? Whap! She whipped us unruly farm boys into shape. Just out of the luck of the draw, I had her for 3 years in a row, so she had plenty of time to go to work on me! The only drawback was it later took me years of concentrated effort to be able to write anything without it sounding like a narrative from the Ken Burn's Civil War series. :) But in my adult life, it helped me tremendously to be able to write proper business letters and reports.
We still had the old desks, with the fancy cast wrought iron base, hole for the inkwell, and all from when the school was first built in 1884. There were other things that a collector would treasure, pictures on the walls of the presidents placed there in the era, books, glass work, architectural details not seen since, and so forth. But of course to us kids, it was just old junk.
She has long since passed away, and the building was torn down and replaced with an ugly modern brick affair decades ago. As a kid I dreaded going to her class, but looking back as an adult, she has become one of my favorite teachers over the years. So I'd say that other than making my own ink, or cutting a quill, I am all too familiar with how they wrote on the frontier! LOL
Great history you lived! Well, without the knuckle-rapping.
Now I know! I've always carried a pocket knife since my grandfather gave me my first one when I turned 8. I never knew why the rounded, stubby blade was called the penknife. It was for actual quill pens. Who knew? Santee, apparently.
I had to find out, myself. Thought they were called that because they were carried in small pockets where pens would be.
Also heard a sample from “guys and dolls” I don’t only come watch for samples I enjoy getting educated on American history as you can see I’ve learned quite a bit about the golden era
That's awesome to hear.
This is my new favorite video
Cool!
As a major fountain pen guy, I was actually looking thinking about this yesterday. I don’t love dip pens, but they’re kinda cool
I use one at work. It makes you want to write better.
Excellent job!
Thank you very much!
Combining education with humor ingenious lol 💜
Thank you!
I was not ready for the State Farm reference. I'm never drinking coffee while watching your videos again.
It happens, Jake from State Farm.
@@ArizonaGhostriders (laughing in khaki)
Have a happy new year!
Happy new year!
Merry Xmas n a Happy New Yr :D
Happy holidays!
Long before the days of IBM, Apple & Mac, graphics cards, word processers, and copiers, handwriting was a THING and it hung on for a long time. My parents, born in the early 30s, were taught the subject of Penmanship; considered a necessity. Old official documents before and after the turn of the century continued to be handwritten in the elegant calligraphic style.
Yes, and today people who can really do calligraphy well can make some $$$$
As someone whose career extends into examining public records, I can tell you those old documents deeds leases etc. are indeed a work of art. It’s almost like reading a different dialect of English because of the penmanship they had back then. Most people open up those old deed books or court cases from the 1800s And just kind of give up. Because they think there’s no way they can read this. But if you take some time to examine you can understand enough to get familiar with it real quick
That's so true. I love to read them, and learn the 'vernacular'....if it can be called that.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I like reading some of the old legal descriptions of land back them. Like Chief Wild Eagle from F Troop wrote the metes & bounds: “thence go south 00 west 1000 varas (spanish 1 ft = 2.77 ft) to the rock that looks like a bear, thence north 89 east 360 varas to the bear that looks like a rock, thence north .45 degrees east 3607 varas to the pig nut (the what?), thence south 50 degrees a good ways (what unit of measurement is that?) to the oak tree (that was cut down 80 years ago) etc etc etc.”
And I have to plot all this on a modern map
Loved it!
Thank you!
Thanks for the great episode, it's a subject that has always interested me. I'm also glad to see that you got away from Dan and Dan!
Glad you enjoyed it!
In the 19th century writing was done by moving your whole arm. This was taught in our 1800 schools thru our 1890's public schools, in order to make your letters flow. It is now almost a lost art, except for a very few people....3 of my home school grandchildren can write like that. The youngest is 7 yrs old, and I taught them from what my grandfather taught me. Happy New Years to The Arizona Ghostriders.
Thanks for keeping the Old West alive!
Happy New Year 🎉🍾🥂🇺🇸
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What are you doing to get in so much trouble? I used to have a really nice set of calligraphy pens many moons ago but my writing was never as nice as some of the stuff I had seen. Another fine episode Santee!
I will try my best to get better.
Awesome! I would love to write like that
You can.
Merry Christmas Santee
Same to you!
I learned to write cursive from a book my father had that was published in the 1800s.
Cool!
The State Farm Hong was hilarious. Back in the 60’s, the nuns made us use fountain pens. But the end of the day a lot of us would have blue and black ink all over our hands and brand new white shirts and pants. That ink didn’t wash out. We would use the empty ink cartridges as small pea shooters in class. We called them pistols. When Bic pens came out, we’d pull out the ink thing with our teeth, refining our pea shooters. We called those our rifles.
HAHA! SO cool.
In the old times, all that was taught was the 3 Rs which was all you needed anything else you cared to know you could learn own, saw a letter that written by Billy the Kid, beautiful penmanship and not one mistake in spelling.
Wooooweee!
I love your videos
Thank you!
Nice use of the old telegraph key! People are actually using something similar, hooked to their computers, to send morse code over the inter-webs, and around the world! (Via Amateur Radio)
Cool!
luv your videos, but they are way to short...lol...awhile back I asked if you could do an episode on Hotels and their rooms. How big they were, how expensive they were etc...👍🍁🤠
With a full time job it's hard to do more. I will do one on hotels after COVID is over and I can get to some to get footage.
Okay, I loved the video. 👏👏Especially with the cell phone call and it calls Jake from State Farm. I have had the same problem, ask my phone to call someone and it dials something else. 😄Thank you. But this I got to add. Thank you for using the real Jake from State Farm. Just sayin and grateful. Awesome video as always!!👍
Yeah, he's the classic!
Thanks much. I learned here.
Glad it was helpful!
@@ArizonaGhostriders It's interesting how important actual correspondence was even with the telegraph.
The old handwriting is so neat and clean but the problem is that it’s impossible to read.
Yes. I have to try and read, many old land deeds, for my land title business. And its almost impossible to read the script, and the legal lingo used at the time.
HA! But it sure looks nice.
my penmanship is so bad that doctors cone to me to learn my secrets 🤣
and kudos to Bill for using his mischief for good: who uses a telegraph in this age? the telephone is what the cool kids use! 🤣
Cool kids....yeah.
That was a lot of tomfoolery packed into one episode, thanks!
You bet!
So to Seal the deal the AGR logo presents itself on the critters chest, then we see the AGR logo rocking to the blotter, and even though barely visible the AGR logo gets cleverly sliced off the paper, that must have taken lots of research and as usual well done! great info Thanx
Thank you. It was fun to research it.
Wow that week went fast lol
YES!
Love the talking seal lol another great review santee how far as pens come in today’s world what have you been up now santee lol
Thanks, John!
Dan's Derby looks nice. 👍
It does!
By comparison we now a days don't now how to write! And writing was a art to be sure! I hope you did have a good Christmas, and I wish to you and all ghostriders happy new.
Thank you! You too!
@@ArizonaGhostriders ..... year sorry!
😂 terrific. Thank you
You bet!
I’m still waiting on my episode on insults in the old west.
Why you no good, striped shirt-wearin', spencer-shootin', rapscallion!
How's that?
@@ArizonaGhostriders that’s a pretty accurate statement. Am I ugly enough to buck the buzzards off a gut wagon though?
Some people certainly wrote beautifully back then.
Yessir!
Signature and document experts that verify such speak of 'live ink', the natural movements of writers as opposed to more controlled a deliberate movements of forgers. I don't know enough to tell difference, but something to consider if buying a document or period piece with supposedly writing contemporary to period regarding legitimcy.
Interesting!