I really enjoyed your video on the American Frontier. The United States truly was wild and it took strong people to survive in it. I came from pioneer stock and am proud of my ancestors and all that they did to find the dream they had of freedom. We are a melting pot of so many cultures and that is what makes us so wonderful. Keep making your videos. They are wonderful. Thank you.
Yaaaa, I dont think you understand the story or, the history. Since your statement is obvious and overt, I also dont think you understand todays politics as they pertain to our history.
@@decibellone696 oh where to start. Statements tend to be overt and obvious ,because the respondent immediately understands that which is to be measured and is done in an open and obvious way. It cant be both a story and history, history is uncountable while a story is countable, history really happened a story is imaginable. You should stick to watching the videos rather than revealing your stupidity online while trying to put others down with moronic statements. You think you are clever until you realise how smart you are.
One of Santa Ana's junior officers wrote in his personal journal that Crockett and the other men who surrendered were executed by direct order of Santa Ana. It seems that the general was not happy about the way the battle had gone.
Because 200 militiamen held off 1,800+ professional soldiers, with superior artillery for 13 days, inflicting about 150 casualties, and wounding nearly 500 more.
@@KONEIL1775 Let me start this off by saying Santa Ana already told the Militia before hand that they would take no prisoners because they aren't POW's by the book. Therefore I doubt the reason survivors were executed was because the Mexicans were mad about a battle where both sides sustained equal deaths and the Mexicans wiped them off the map. The men and women of the Alamo were very brave but took a major L nonetheless, please do more research before engaging in arguments, thanks :)
@@paralegalbeagle8897 My college US History teacher, Dr. Thomas, didn't think the Alamo battle was such a big deal.His take on it was that Santa Ana was enforcing Mexican law on Mexican territory, which is what he was supposed to do.
I have read a series of books on women’s diaries that they kept on their migration to Oregon and California. I completely admire the people that went out west. They were tough, and determined. I would not have made it!
The woke folks of the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest must not have been descended from these great pioneers!! The slightest discomfort sets them off big time!
Marylin, have you discovered a book titled "into the eye of the setting sun"? It was a recollection of a five-year-old girl on the Oregon Trail in 1843 by Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood. It is a very personal and accurate account of the times.
Same here though. But it was not uncommon for the British to give incentives to slaves and native Americans for doing their dirty work. They saw an opportunity to prey on vulnerable people and frequently took it.
AMEN BROTHER!! This is something you'll never hear from Americans themselves, as the same, damn, shameful, mentality that created the nation continues to exist to THIS, VERY, DAY!!!! There is no evolution in this nation. None at all. My Best. Out.
Most of them died on the Trail of Tears, being forced to walk while whites rode on horses, through snow, storms, etc. due to sickness, injury, starvation, sepsis, and dehydration. Some managed to stay, my ancestors, and others made it to Oklahoma where the reservation was set. The ones that stayed are generally impoverished as our families didn't value physical items much, or it was stolen. They sold the land to the whites thinking they were ripping them off because, Could I sell you a cloud? Seems impossible? Same thing to them, you couldn't own land and it was a silly thing to imagine.
I am from Sumner Missouri where i was raised by my grandmother Mabel Calloway Hardy .She is related to the Calloway sisters one of which became Daniel Boones wife. Sumner is not far from Chillicothe in northeastern Missouri.Ifeel so lucky to have lived there during the 1940's. it was so free and everything i ate was alive an hour before i ate it. Very interesting video, thankyou so much!
I think bear attacks were common. One of my ancestors was out hunting and heard the call of nature. He leaned his rifle against a near by tree. A bear attacked him. He stabbed it to death. He then crawled home . He then died. They ate the bear at his wake.
What about York, the Black man who was enslaved by Clark? York was also on the expedition as he was an experienced hunter and frontiersman. His skill in navigation and experience with hunting helped keep them fed and from traveling in the right direction. He also saved a couple of people from the crew from drowning. Unfortunately, once the expedition was over, he asked Clark for his freedom through payment or as a reward for the expedition. Clark, not the nice man you'd imagine, denied him his freedom and kept him as a slave.
There's actually a reason Clark wouldn't free York. York was his companion since early childhood. They grew up playing together. Clark simply didn't want him to leave. That maybe odd and morally wrong but I can see why. York was treated as a friend and companion. In Clark's mind he was doing what he thought best for York.
@@billdunlap320 I agree with everything except the part about clark doing it because he thought that was what was best for him. It was what was best for clark, end of the day a point blank selfish move.
Proud to be a distant relative of Daniel Boone, you didn't include how the Chillicothe Shawnee tortured his brother in law and young son to death but still respected them and felt no Ill will towards them after all the fighting was done, and abandoned Boonsboro fort when the men along with Virginia militia wanted to retaliate against the Shawnee and killed blackfish
The American mentality toward First Nation's Peoples in utterly, sickeningly, putrid. It really is. I swear, it has not changed one iota, over the past friggen, 500 years. YOU TOOK THEIR LAND!!!! When will you EVER, get that through your damn, thick, skulls?! Out.
"Lincoln thought military leaders did not have the authority to make a proclamation" 😂. Kings make proclamations, military leaders and presidents do not.
Daniel Boone was a great American hero, he respected the Native Americans (Shawnee) and to respected him. If anyone was larger then life, it was Daniel Boone.
What is seldom spoken about when describing frontiersman alcaldes is none of it would have been done without the help of Native American guides and trackers and expertise of the land .The frontiersman owe a lot of homage to them .
@@Adoniis101 I agree with you, the westward expansion was going to happen no matter what once the United States possessed that land. There's also the fact that while there were helpful Indians, there were also extremely hostile Indians too. They killed a lot of white people so if we're going to give Native Americans credit let's give them credit for everything they did, not just the good things. That's called 'realism'.
@@supremecaffeine2633 Doctrines develop and evolve over time as what works and what does not work becomes more apparent. The very roots of Army Ranger doctrine are deeply embedded in history. What you said is the equivalent of saying "We don't use the same weapons that were used in the 19th Century so firearm training is no longer used." The weapons and doctrine have both evolved, the reasons for those weapons and doctrines remains much the same as the original concept. I'm a Marine, not an Army Ranger but I've known a few Rangers in my day. Apart from the airborne component Army Rangers have basically the same level of training as a Marine infantryman. In general, we have a lot of respect for each other. Stop trying to sound like you know what you're talking about while saying nothing. It's a bad habit.
@ACTS That does not make a lick of sense. Modern Ranger doctrine was born from the British Commandoa of WW2, not an adaptation of a Native American not used since the, at latest, the American Civil War. That's nearly 80 years out of action, and I can guarantee that it has as much similarity to modern Ranger Doctrine as the Jager doctrine during the Napoleonic War You, being a marine, adds nothing to this discussion regarding the history of the US Army Ranger doctrine. Being a badass soldier doesn't automatically make you a good historian.
I just got back from a 3 week stay in New Mexico and went to Billy the Kid grave but just right down the road is Fort Sumner Very little is talked about this place and the bad that happened there. They have built a new museum at Fort Sumner telling all. I wish you can do a story on this place and not Billy the Kid. Fort Sumner story will tear your heart out and open the eyes of a lot of people. History should be told as what really happened the good and bad. I hope you look into this.
The battle between Davy Crockett and the bear was co-opted by the producers of the TV show "The Adventures of Jim Bowie", making Bowie the eventual winner over the bear (Crockett at the time was apparently nowhere near Louisiana) and used as the explanation for the creation of the Bowie knife. This was probably done because the real opponent in Bowie's struggle was not a bear, but a Rapides Parish sheriff named Norris Wright with whom Bowie had a dispute. After each Bowie and Wright backed two separate men in an inconclusive duel, a riot broke out during which Wright stabbed Bowie with his sword. When Wright came for his sword, Bowie pulled him down and eviscerated Wright with his hunting knife.
Would love to see a segment on the Yokum Gang that operated in the Neutral Zone between Texas and Louisiana…They got their start as river pirates on the Mississippi river. One of them ran an Inn there in the zone where guests with money never left and were put in a near by alligator slew to get rid of the bodies…At one point the Texas Governor issued death warrants on all Yokums and all got hanged wherever found and several had nails driven into their heads to make sure they were dead…I’m a direct descendant. The Yokums were distantly related to Billy the Kid and I’m related by blood to Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde fame…The Yokums never got the attention the latter gangs did due to their operating mostly between The 1820’s to 1850’s but were more colorful than the latter more well known gangs. Telling this story would be awesome as there is quite a lot of online info about them available. Thanks
The Yokums got their start working with John Murrell a river Pirate .He once gave tent revival’s with impressive riverside preaching while my relatives and others stole their horses and wagons by loading them on barges …Thomas Yokum is said to have buried more gold than anyone but John Lafette…Luckily some of my family on other sides were Texas Rangers, Judges, Police and generally good folks…Thomas was my great grandfather’s guardian and uncle and the area postmaster being he could read. He treated his black housekeeper like a mother and not a slave and her son never worked the fields. It was a very colorful family that many would find interesting…
Seriously? Can't believe it took someone like me to take this long to listen to this excellent site.its the reason I constantly search even after I have many great sites subscribed to. Excellent
Lewis and Clark were first encountered by my people the Nez Perce nation in what is now the area that connects Washington Oregon and Idaho the first were to see them were young children playing in the meadow they were so horrified by their appearance these strange looking people with white skin and hairy all over with mostly bald heads but profuse hair growing out of their faces was enough to terrify the most Brave of the children they ran back to the Village to tell of the approach of these people or beast as I should say it was debated by My Tribe of whether to kill them or not unfortunately there was a woman in the tribe that met white people earlier in her life as she was a captive with another tribe and the white people that came to that tribe were very nice to her she said and these people Lewis and Clark should be spared and allowed to live how unfortunate that decision was to allow them to live they should have been killed like any other past or vermin it was a very unfortunate chain of events
The trail of tears was also sensationalized. The US government offered monetary compensation that would have been in the millions today, armed escort for protection, and medical assistance to travel with them.
Here in Oklahoma in around muskogee and Cherokee county area we always heard stories about the little people and how'd they snatch up naughty children and drunks, I've heard and seen some crazy things In this neck of the woods 😮
I noticed in the movie "The Shootist" with John Wayne, there was a character who played a dime store novelist that was interested in writing about JW's character. The setting of the movie was in CARSON City Nevada. Interesting coincidence. On another note... yeah, we had a violent history. Still do. Back to work.
In Boone's later life it is said he had more in common with his Shawnee neighbors than the new "white" settlers. IIRC Boone had resettled to the Missouri area under Spanish rule.
Conquest, fueled by theocratic supremacy racism ,greed , ignorance , and genocide. Please let's do better in the future.Our conscience must guide us and our Constitution shall lead the way
@@trinidadburquez6387 easy for us to judge from our air conditioned homes and smartphones. Now if you look at the history of it it’s basically blood feuding over and over the immigrant settlers we’re not welcomed, the interesting thing is people who celebrate immigrants think the ones that went into the frontier should be attacked, kidnapped and raped and when they respond their terrible for it while at the same time saying we presently shouldn’t have borders you can’t make this up.
Kit Carson and John C. Frémont wouldn't have departed from Santa Fe, as this was still Mexico. I believe they met in either Pueblo or Bent's Fort, which were on the border of the United States.
I also think Frémont's father-in-law, a politician, is commonly seen as the catalyst for him 'taking the initiative' in the Bear Flag revolt to hold California before the 'inevitable' Mexican-American War (his father-in-law's opinion).
Davey Crockett sounds like an even better man than I thought. The forced removal of Cherokee,who were taking up an agrarian,sedentary lifestyle like Washington wanted ,and then removed,was wrong. The constant growth of government has been a disaster for the American experiment. It’s made rent seekers and lazy people. It’s killing the entrepreneur spirit.
What i did not understand about them starving is... You're surrounded by game, edible flowers and greens ect and you eat leather off your shoes and then starve to death. Baffles my mind. At least try
I live about 15 miles North of Chillicothe Ohio. It's the start of the App mountains there with the Scioto river that runs all the way to the Ohio rivet at Port smooth Ohio. So if Boone came from Kentucky to Chillicothe and stole his daughter back and made it back! He's one bad ass dude!
You completely omitted Joseph Rutherford Walker who helped establish the Santa Fe Trail. Walker was the mountain man who led Fremont to California and saved him more than once. In the book “Westering Man” by Bil Gilbert, Walker said of Fremont, “I would say he was timid as a woman if it were not causing an unmerited reproach on the sex.”
Constructive criticism. The yellow "cards" with the extra information move too fast to read the entire thing (and you must be in full screen to make everything out without pausing). If you pause the video, the title of the video goes right thru the second line of text. Perhaps you could relocate the text or allow it to remain on screen just a bit longer? I am generally a fast reader - and I can't make it thru the full text in the time it remains on screen. Thank you for the interesting video.
I don't think the Davie Crocket story fighting with the bear is told in the movie "The Revenant" The Revenant was the story of frontiersman/trapper "Hugh Glass" who was attacked by a brown bear that left him almost dead. @5:33
Mostly accurate. I suggest anyone interested in these topics read books from the time. Especially those written by contemporaries of these great American frontiersman.
Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name Yet he deserves the front row seat in History's Hall of Fame He forgot more about the Indians than we will ever know He spoke the language of the Sioux the Black Foot and the Crow - (Let's drink to old Jim Bridger yes lift your glasses high) As long as there's the USA don't let his memory die (That he was making history never once occured to him) But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like Jim
@@t8r507 Mountain men, doing anything to anyone for that precious, yellow metal. Don't mention cannibalism, the only edible part is the brains, and those bearded freaks didn't have any.
@@t8r507 If anything, I'm usually told I provide TOO MUCH content, especially regarding lineage and learning U.S. history at the same time I realized Natives were considered EXTINCT outside of the PNW, where I grew up, and the value of some childhood experiences in Alaska, where Natives were the norm and everyone else "outsiders".
Anyone know where I can get me one of those double headed four wheeler horses? I would not of ordered a standard one if I'd known of those bad boys 🤭🤭🤭🤭🐴🐴🐴🐴🐎🐎🐎🐎 20:02
I really enjoyed your video on the American Frontier. The United States truly was wild and it took strong people to survive in it. I came from pioneer stock and am proud of my ancestors and all that they did to find the dream they had of freedom. We are a melting pot of so many cultures and that is what makes us so wonderful. Keep making your videos. They are wonderful. Thank you.
Love this channel. Keep up the great work you are truly what the history channel should be.
Davy thought the government was corrupt and too big way back then fkn legend
@@danholm4952 you mean never more than now! Also you mean than, not then
Yaaaa, I dont think you understand the story or, the history. Since your statement is obvious and overt, I also dont think you understand todays politics as they pertain to our history.
@@decibellone696 oh where to start. Statements tend to be overt and obvious ,because the respondent immediately understands that which is to be measured and is done in an open and obvious way.
It cant be both a story and history, history is uncountable while a story is countable, history really happened a story is imaginable.
You should stick to watching the videos rather than revealing your stupidity online while trying to put others down with moronic statements. You think you are clever until you realise how smart you are.
Then he assisted that same corrupt government in the illegal annexation of Texas. Not a fkn legend...
@@decibellone696 Just because he doesn't agree... doesn't mean he doesn't understand!
Videos like this are so rare on the internet.. i love these stories from the old west
One of Santa Ana's junior officers wrote in his personal journal that Crockett and the other men who surrendered were executed by direct order of Santa Ana. It seems that the general was not happy about the way the battle had gone.
Why would he not be happy? He won.
Because 200 militiamen held off 1,800+ professional soldiers, with superior artillery for 13 days, inflicting about 150 casualties, and wounding nearly 500 more.
@@KONEIL1775 Let me start this off by saying Santa Ana already told the Militia before hand that they would take no prisoners because they aren't POW's by the book. Therefore I doubt the reason survivors were executed was because the Mexicans were mad about a battle where both sides sustained equal deaths and the Mexicans wiped them off the map.
The men and women of the Alamo were very brave but took a major L nonetheless, please do more research before engaging in arguments, thanks :)
@@paralegalbeagle8897 My college US History teacher, Dr. Thomas, didn't think the Alamo battle was such a big deal.His take on it was that Santa Ana was enforcing Mexican law on Mexican territory, which is what he was supposed to do.
@@williamdonnelly224 That same reasoning justifying Santa Ana could be applied to any other dictator.
Crockett really was a good guy who stood up for rights of the Indians
Very interesting...well researched and presented in an easy to follow format...! Subscribed.
I have read a series of books on women’s diaries that they kept on their migration to Oregon and California. I completely admire the people that went out west. They were tough, and determined. I would not have made it!
The woke folks of the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest must not have been descended from these great pioneers!!
The slightest discomfort sets them off big time!
There's not a woman alive Today that would.
Yes, you're right!
They wouldn't have wanted you there!
@@chucklynch6523 You are right. My ancestors came to Oregon in 1843. The people you speak of would never make it.
Marylin, have you discovered a book titled "into the eye of the setting sun"? It was a recollection of a five-year-old girl on the Oregon Trail in 1843 by Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood. It is a very personal and accurate account of the times.
I love this channel keep up the good work guys!
Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett - American Legends
Real men back then!!! Real women too...not sure I'd have had the courage or stamina.
Simon Kenton is badder than both, he saved Boones life.
Sacagawagia was an amazing woman. She deserves her own segment. What an interesting life she lead.
If she had been a White man and done the same stuff, no one would have remembered his name.
I'd like to hear more from the native American perspective.
Same here though. But it was not uncommon for the British to give incentives to slaves and native Americans for doing their dirty work. They saw an opportunity to prey on vulnerable people and frequently took it.
Same! Barely anyone talks about it
AMEN BROTHER!! This is something you'll never hear from Americans themselves, as the same, damn, shameful, mentality that created the nation continues to exist to THIS, VERY, DAY!!!! There is no evolution in this nation. None at all. My Best. Out.
Most of them died on the Trail of Tears, being forced to walk while whites rode on horses, through snow, storms, etc. due to sickness, injury, starvation, sepsis, and dehydration. Some managed to stay, my ancestors, and others made it to Oklahoma where the reservation was set. The ones that stayed are generally impoverished as our families didn't value physical items much, or it was stolen. They sold the land to the whites thinking they were ripping them off because, Could I sell you a cloud? Seems impossible? Same thing to them, you couldn't own land and it was a silly thing to imagine.
@@BxBirthday Most Indians never took that walk or lived anywhere near it.
I thought this video would be about frontier hygiene 😂
Very informative and loved the paintings/images!
Exact words to his fellow Tennesseans " y'all can go to hell I'm going to Texas"
NOT much difference
I always get Davy Crockett and Danial Boone confused, probably because they were both portrayed by Fess Parker in the old Disney movies.
Me too!!😏
Wow, well done! Visually interesting and a good pace!
FYI. Cumberland Pass, more commonly known as "Cumberland Gap".
I am from Sumner Missouri where i was raised by my grandmother Mabel Calloway Hardy .She is related to the Calloway sisters one of which became Daniel Boones wife. Sumner is not far from Chillicothe in northeastern Missouri.Ifeel so lucky to have lived there during the 1940's. it was so free and everything i ate was alive an hour before i ate it. Very interesting video, thankyou so much!
You have to do a part two including Jim Bridger and Hugh Glass.
Davy is rolling in his grave along with every other good man that stood for truth .
These generations couldn't handle the pioneer days back then.
Oh So True They’d Be Dead
I think bear attacks were common. One of my ancestors was out hunting and heard the call of nature. He leaned his rifle against a near by tree. A bear attacked him. He stabbed it to death. He then crawled home . He then died. They ate the bear at his wake.
What about York, the Black man who was enslaved by Clark? York was also on the expedition as he was an experienced hunter and frontiersman. His skill in navigation and experience with hunting helped keep them fed and from traveling in the right direction. He also saved a couple of people from the crew from drowning. Unfortunately, once the expedition was over, he asked Clark for his freedom through payment or as a reward for the expedition. Clark, not the nice man you'd imagine, denied him his freedom and kept him as a slave.
Want to touch on slavery, look into Anthony Johnson (colonist)
Wow. And he's a hero Today
There's actually a reason Clark wouldn't free York. York was his companion since early childhood. They grew up playing together. Clark simply didn't want him to leave. That maybe odd and morally wrong but I can see why. York was treated as a friend and companion. In Clark's mind he was doing what he thought best for York.
@@billdunlap320 I agree with everything except the part about clark doing it because he thought that was what was best for him. It was what was best for clark, end of the day a point blank selfish move.
@Bill Dunlap I think it's just as awful. If York wanted to be free, Clark should have understood. York was a human being, not a dog.
Proud to be a distant relative of Daniel Boone, you didn't include how the Chillicothe Shawnee tortured his brother in law and young son to death but still respected them and felt no Ill will towards them after all the fighting was done, and abandoned Boonsboro fort when the men along with Virginia militia wanted to retaliate against the Shawnee and killed blackfish
The American mentality toward First Nation's Peoples in utterly, sickeningly, putrid. It really is. I swear, it has not changed one iota, over the past friggen, 500 years. YOU TOOK THEIR LAND!!!! When will you EVER, get that through your damn, thick, skulls?! Out.
That's what I was going to say
I don't mean to steal your thunder but many millions of Americans are his ancestor.
They estimate the ancestors of the Mayflower have 35 million ancestors worldwide.
Yeah I'm aware, there's many of us in the comments......? Lol
I grew up 10 mins down the road from Boonesboro an I've walked the Sheltowee Trace trail many times. It's cool to see the history of the area
yeah I doubt it.
@@franki2085 lol
…”rocket crocket…see what I did there?” Lololol 😂😂😂 I love you
Here is a little tidbit. The cherokee fought on the Souths side during CW1.
I heard Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday weren't 'friends. Could there be videos about deadly vendettas and mutual hatred through history?
"Lincoln thought military leaders did not have the authority to make a proclamation" 😂. Kings make proclamations, military leaders and presidents do not.
Great history story 👍😁👍.
Let’s just take a moment to acknowledge this great documentary…. For free…
Daniel Boone was a great American hero, he respected the Native Americans (Shawnee) and to respected him. If anyone was larger then life, it was Daniel Boone.
What is seldom spoken about when describing frontiersman alcaldes is none of it would have been done without the help of Native American guides and trackers and expertise of the land .The frontiersman owe a lot of homage to them .
I don’t see how you think it wouldn’t be possible without them. It definitely would be. It would just take longer.
@@Adoniis101 I agree with you, the westward expansion was going to happen no matter what once the United States possessed that land. There's also the fact that while there were helpful Indians, there were also extremely hostile Indians too. They killed a lot of white people so if we're going to give Native Americans credit let's give them credit for everything they did, not just the good things. That's called 'realism'.
@Howard J Benjamin Church's Rangers only share a name with the US Army Rangers. Their training doctrine was most likely not used since the Civil War.
@@supremecaffeine2633
Doctrines develop and evolve over time as what works and what does not work becomes more apparent. The very roots of Army Ranger doctrine are deeply embedded in history.
What you said is the equivalent of saying "We don't use the same weapons that were used in the 19th Century so firearm training is no longer used." The weapons and doctrine have both evolved, the reasons for those weapons and doctrines remains much the same as the original concept.
I'm a Marine, not an Army Ranger but I've known a few Rangers in my day. Apart from the airborne component Army Rangers have basically the same level of training as a Marine infantryman. In general, we have a lot of respect for each other.
Stop trying to sound like you know what you're talking about while saying nothing. It's a bad habit.
@ACTS That does not make a lick of sense. Modern Ranger doctrine was born from the British Commandoa of WW2, not an adaptation of a Native American not used since the, at latest, the American Civil War. That's nearly 80 years out of action, and I can guarantee that it has as much similarity to modern Ranger Doctrine as the Jager doctrine during the Napoleonic War
You, being a marine, adds nothing to this discussion regarding the history of the US Army Ranger doctrine. Being a badass soldier doesn't automatically make you a good historian.
Great channel that is entertaining as well as educational.
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Interesting video.
I just got back from a 3 week stay in New Mexico and went to Billy the Kid grave but just right down the road is Fort Sumner
Very little is talked about this place and the bad that happened there. They have built a new museum at Fort Sumner telling all. I wish you can do a story on this place and not Billy the Kid. Fort Sumner story will tear your heart out and open the eyes of a lot of people. History should be told as what really happened the good and bad. I hope you look into this.
What happened at Ft Sumner ???
Waaa
Billy the Kid was a thief and murderer.
I could not believe that Billy's headstone had been stolen and was recovered years later in Huntington Beach, CA of all places!
I love western history! Having lived here all my life I am in tune and intrigued with how the west was built.
The battle between Davy Crockett and the bear was co-opted by the producers of the TV show "The Adventures of Jim Bowie", making Bowie the eventual winner over the bear (Crockett at the time was apparently nowhere near Louisiana) and used as the explanation for the creation of the Bowie knife.
This was probably done because the real opponent in Bowie's struggle was not a bear, but a Rapides Parish sheriff named Norris Wright with whom Bowie had a dispute. After each Bowie and Wright backed two separate men in an inconclusive duel, a riot broke out during which Wright stabbed Bowie with his sword. When Wright came for his sword, Bowie pulled him down and eviscerated Wright with his hunting knife.
That was entertaining. Informative and enlightening. Thx
You can’t tell me DuWitsy Peters isn’t a name straight from Key & Peele’s College Football All Star game skit 😂😂
Would love to see a segment on the Yokum Gang that operated in the Neutral Zone between Texas and Louisiana…They got their start as river pirates on the Mississippi river. One of them ran an Inn there in the zone where guests with money never left and were put in a near by alligator slew to get rid of the bodies…At one point the Texas Governor issued death warrants on all Yokums and all got hanged wherever found and several had nails driven into their heads to make sure they were dead…I’m a direct descendant. The Yokums were distantly related to Billy the Kid and I’m related by blood to Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde fame…The Yokums never got the attention the latter gangs did due to their operating mostly between The 1820’s to 1850’s but were more colorful than the latter more well known gangs. Telling this story would be awesome as there is quite a lot of online info about them available. Thanks
Yikes! That is one lineage I would quietly keep in the closet.
The Yokums got their start working with John Murrell a river Pirate .He once gave tent revival’s with impressive riverside preaching while my relatives and others stole their horses and wagons by loading them on barges …Thomas Yokum is said to have buried more gold than anyone but John Lafette…Luckily some of my family on other sides were Texas Rangers, Judges, Police and generally good folks…Thomas was my great grandfather’s guardian and uncle and the area postmaster being he could read. He treated his black housekeeper like a mother and not a slave and her son never worked the fields. It was a very colorful family that many would find interesting…
Yeah...but are you related to Dwight?
@@Master...deBater maybe I’ll be fast as you
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Seriously? Can't believe it took someone like me to take this long to listen to this excellent site.its the reason I constantly search even after I have many great sites subscribed to. Excellent
Andrew Jackson drove out the central bankers.
Best boss President move to date.
You're definitely in my top three best narrators. ♥️
Lewis and Clark were first encountered by my people the Nez Perce nation in what is now the area that connects Washington Oregon and Idaho the first were to see them were young children playing in the meadow they were so horrified by their appearance these strange looking people with white skin and hairy all over with mostly bald heads but profuse hair growing out of their faces was enough to terrify the most Brave of the children they ran back to the Village to tell of the approach of these people or beast as I should say it was debated by My Tribe of whether to kill them or not unfortunately there was a woman in the tribe that met white people earlier in her life as she was a captive with another tribe and the white people that came to that tribe were very nice to her she said and these people Lewis and Clark should be spared and allowed to live how unfortunate that decision was to allow them to live they should have been killed like any other past or vermin it was a very unfortunate chain of events
In a nutshell, It was just a bunch of crazy killers killing a bunch of other crazy killers.
Excellent stuff bro 🇺🇸
Note for those history revisionists out there: The majority of the USA was appalled at the "Trail of Tears" incident.
Apparently not enough.
@@russellhogan2708 You have no idea of what you are writing about. Do some searching online.
The trail of tears was also sensationalized. The US government offered monetary compensation that would have been in the millions today, armed escort for protection, and medical assistance to travel with them.
Incident? Such a polite term for Genocide!
@@countycricklewood Genocide? Not even remotely close.
Here in Oklahoma in around muskogee and Cherokee county area we always heard stories about the little people and how'd they snatch up naughty children and drunks, I've heard and seen some crazy things In this neck of the woods 😮
Those were powerful whiskey drinking times.
Let’s Hear About Bigfoot back in the Day - & Present now !
Would u mind telling us about some of those "crazy things"?This Louisiana girl is all ears-thank u!
Love this channel keep up educating the world we need it to become better than we were in the past truth is very important
Why is it that when I watch an American documentary I always feel that it is appealing to someone younger than me ?
It wasn't a land grab- it was conquest.
Exactly
Can you do one on life in the Cahokia empire?
I went to elementary school with some Crockett descendents. Yep they still had the Crockett last name.
It wasn't the Mexicans they fought at the Alamo. It was the Spanish.
umm
Mexico declared independence from Spain in 1821, but what do I know, I just live about 8 miles from Mission San Antonio de Valero.
While Davy may have fought a bear, that story you attribute to him was the story of Hugh Glass.
I noticed in the movie "The Shootist" with John Wayne, there was a character who played a dime store novelist that was interested in writing about JW's character. The setting of the movie was in CARSON City Nevada. Interesting coincidence.
On another note... yeah, we had a violent history.
Still do.
Back to work.
These frontier secrets are absolutely filthy.
Great voiceover work. I really like the sound of your voice, man.
In Boone's later life it is said he had more in common with his Shawnee neighbors than the new "white" settlers. IIRC Boone had resettled to the Missouri area under Spanish rule.
I'd like to hear more about stonewall Jackson
The Revenant story has nothing to do with Crockett. That story is about Hugh Glass, whose story occurred much later in 1823. Totally unrelated.
Damb, life musta ben purddy EPIC back then not to mention tuff as well to make a livin and survive.
Now that is what I’m talking about. In other words I learned a few things.
I think Crokett was a true honest man .
Sounds just like the series from the History Channel
"Forced removal...forced labor" doesn't make it not slaughter, thievery, and slavery.
Conquest*
Ah,someone who calls it like it is.
True.
Conquest, fueled by theocratic supremacy racism ,greed , ignorance , and genocide. Please let's do better in the future.Our conscience must guide us and our Constitution shall lead the way
@@trinidadburquez6387 easy for us to judge from our air conditioned homes and smartphones. Now if you look at the history of it it’s basically blood feuding over and over the immigrant settlers we’re not welcomed, the interesting thing is people who celebrate immigrants think the ones that went into the frontier should be attacked, kidnapped and raped and when they respond their terrible for it while at the same time saying we presently shouldn’t have borders you can’t make this up.
Kit Carson and John C. Frémont wouldn't have departed from Santa Fe, as this was still Mexico. I believe they met in either Pueblo or Bent's Fort, which were on the border of the United States.
I also think Frémont's father-in-law, a politician, is commonly seen as the catalyst for him 'taking the initiative' in the Bear Flag revolt to hold California before the 'inevitable' Mexican-American War (his father-in-law's opinion).
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When i see a title with "filthy secrets" I click!
I really love all those drawing you use to illustrate the stories. Many look of a similar style - where do they come from?
I'm blessed to live on the wilderness Road in Lee Co VA
I think the indigenous tribe should have put a thick coat of grease on Plymouth rock.
Davey Crockett sounds like an even better man than I thought. The forced removal of Cherokee,who were taking up an agrarian,sedentary lifestyle like Washington wanted ,and then removed,was wrong. The constant growth of government has been a disaster for the American experiment. It’s made rent seekers and lazy people. It’s killing the entrepreneur spirit.
John Fremont had a US Army officer’s commission. In the Army’s Corps of Discovery
Informative and entertaining.
What i did not understand about them starving is... You're surrounded by game, edible flowers and greens ect and you eat leather off your shoes and then starve to death. Baffles my mind. At least try
Winter.
I live about 15 miles North of Chillicothe Ohio. It's the start of the App mountains there with the Scioto river that runs all the way to the Ohio rivet at Port smooth Ohio. So if Boone came from Kentucky to Chillicothe and stole his daughter back and made it back! He's one bad ass dude!
Very interesting.
Not even a mention of the frontiersman Simon Kenton. Crazy
Hi, for mountain men I also expected to hear about Jim Bridger
How about Yosemite Sam? The "blood thirstiest, shoot em firstiest, doggone worstiest hombre to cross the Rio Grande".
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You completely omitted Joseph Rutherford Walker who helped establish the Santa Fe Trail. Walker was the mountain man who led Fremont to California and saved him more than once. In the book “Westering Man” by Bil Gilbert, Walker said of Fremont, “I would say he was timid as a woman if it were not causing an unmerited reproach on the sex.”
Seems like about everybody guided Fremont, calling him the great pathfinder, or whatever it was, always kinda galled me.
Constructive criticism. The yellow "cards" with the extra information move too fast to read the entire thing (and you must be in full screen to make everything out without pausing). If you pause the video, the title of the video goes right thru the second line of text. Perhaps you could relocate the text or allow it to remain on screen just a bit longer? I am generally a fast reader - and I can't make it thru the full text in the time it remains on screen. Thank you for the interesting video.
Great I love history I love ❤️ American history good or bad you cannot say where you are going until you know where you came from
Read blood and treasure. Boone was built different!!
"Hit him with a bunch of sticks" 💀
How are these secrets? I learned every bit of this in the 7th grade.
Would you please do a follow-up to this video?
Pause at 0:10. That's crazy. Mexico had a huge part of this country and Texas was ginormous.
Nice video
It’s not Nutty History it’s Filthy Secrets History.
I don't think the Davie Crocket story fighting with the bear is told in the movie "The Revenant" The Revenant was the story of frontiersman/trapper "Hugh Glass" who was attacked by a brown bear that left him almost dead. @5:33
Mostly accurate. I suggest anyone interested in these topics read books from the time. Especially those written by contemporaries of these great American frontiersman.
Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name
Yet he deserves the front row seat in History's Hall of Fame
He forgot more about the Indians than we will ever know
He spoke the language of the Sioux the Black Foot and the Crow
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(Let's drink to old Jim Bridger yes lift your glasses high)
As long as there's the USA don't let his memory die
(That he was making history never once occured to him)
But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like Jim
Despite his genocide
It seems you're on his side
In Hell he sings his tongueless hymn
@@t8r507 Mountain men, doing anything to anyone for that precious, yellow metal. Don't mention cannibalism, the only edible part is the brains, and those bearded freaks didn't have any.
@@t8r507 If anything, I'm usually told I provide TOO MUCH content, especially regarding lineage and learning U.S. history at the same time I realized Natives were considered EXTINCT outside of the PNW, where I grew up, and the value of some childhood experiences in Alaska, where Natives were the norm and everyone else "outsiders".
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@@t8r507 I'm doing a bunch of office work this morning and I already forgot if I have some interaction scheduled with you
Anyone know where I can get me one of those double headed four wheeler horses? I would not of ordered a standard one if I'd known of those bad boys 🤭🤭🤭🤭🐴🐴🐴🐴🐎🐎🐎🐎
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My great grandfather was a frontiers man and apparently I've got native American in me and my mum practically looks Indian....small world 🌎
Enjoyed your content v much from Ireland Alan f