My Great great great uncle was Chalkley Beeson, born 1848, part owner of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City Kansas. My family told me stories that he served as a guide on the Great Buffalo hunt...... wish I could prove it was true...... I had no idea it was such a big deal until I watched this video.......History Guy ....thanks so much for doing what you do !!
Buffalo Bill's wild west & congress of roughriders came to my town on a tour of Britain in 1904. There was a parade of international horsemen, which included Russian Cossacks riding alongside Japanese Horsemen! during the Russo-Japanese war! Your videos are the best! no matter what the subject i'm always completely fascinated by the end! :D
You are so right about History being more interesting and entertaining than any of the fictional stories that writers work so very hard at producing. You also do a great job at delivering these stories. This story in particular is just funny with all of these amazing people who individually are historical coming together in what was obviously one Hell of a party. Thank you!!!
Here's a story idea. Ikua Purdy, the pani olo (Hawaiian cowboy ), and the 1908 Cheyenne frontier days. I have recently heard of the book "Aloha Rodeo" and plan on reading it soon. The story sounds fascinating and also right up your alley. I watch a lot of your videos but haven't seen them all. Maybe you've àlready done this?
Again Mr History , you have added to mine own knowledge of such things. (Most vids I had no ides about) But as usual your presentations are most informative and entertaining...You have recieved a standing ovation !
It was during this time,,, the later half of the 19th century, that US arms manufacturers were able to sell with success to the Russian military. The Russians bought the break open Smith and Wesson revolver chambered in the appropriate .44 RUSSIAN. then around the turn of the century, the Russians bought the Winchester model 1895 chambered in russian military 7.62R. 300k were made, making this the largest acquisition by any army of lever action rifles. These rifles were used during WW1 and were favored by baltic units of the russian army.
Love ya man! I love all the odd, or even strange tid bits from history you present. Strength to you and your wonderful channel, (and anyone helping you out - you rock whoever you are!)
Before chiming in here I reviewed all the comments submitted before this time. I am amazed that NOBODY noticed the great similarity of the Royal Buffalo Hunt to the similar story in the MAVERICK movie. Graham Greene was the great tribal medicine man and Mel Gibson was Maverick. (Actually Maverick Jr.) Anyway these guys arranged for a grand entertainment for the royal Russian visit, all in the Old West style, including "shooting Indians" and all kinds of things that were faked, just to please his emminence the archduke. It's a pretty funny movie with many changes of story line. But there was a real parallel in the movie, to the account just told to us by The History Guy.
Good episode. I didn’t know about many of these events. Knowing George Armstrong Custer took part in this farce makes me feel better about his fate at the Little Bighorn.
This story put a big smile on my face. History is so crazy and funny sometimes. Really fascinating how good US-Russia relations were and how the Russian Duke had a great time in the USA.
Fascinating. A valuable expansion of this study would be what the relentless slaughter of the American bison meant for the plains ecosystem. The gaudy numbers of animals killed, human beings displaced and square miles of land permanently altered is jaw dropping. In two or three decades the great “American Serengeti” went from a wild wonder with massive herds of pronghorn, bison, deer, tens of thousands of wolves and bears and myriad other species which had supported thriving societies of native peoples for thousands of years, to roughly what we see today; a mostly cordoned off grid of monoculture fields of corn and soy and “slow elk”. This Great Buffalo Hunt helped to kick off an extraordinary transformation of the land. Thanks for your work here, you have created a wonderful place to explore.
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Thousand views. What a shame! It deserves definitely more than that.
That was an interesting gathering in the West with Custer, Cody, Russian Duke, military and Indians all on a dog and pony show of a hunt. Certainly entertaining period.
I have visited some small museums in the west, and some claim that the buffaloes were purposely hunted to extinction in order to ruin the native american indians. That seems plausible to me given how our government treated them. You may want to consider assessing the truth to this, and if true, that would seem to be a good topic for one of your shorts... Thank you very much for putting these together and sharing them. They are quite interesting and informative! ScottM
My life in Bangkok has led me to having a Russian army fur hat...On the few times a year it's cool enough I wear it when walking the dog..That does get some curious looks from the neighbors..
Great story! The small town of Hayes Center, Nebraska celebrated the Buffalo hunt for many years. There is a Nebraska State Historical marker near the camping site.
Sorry, that fact got swept under the rug. You might not get the full story here in the USA. I have NEVER heard ANY historian comment on that affair. It’s like it never happened!
I am a history dork. My grandpa as a kid in Benson county ND had a neighbor (old guy) was a legend among gramp's brothers. He claimed to be a member of Buffalo bills wild West show. They listened to his tails of wild west none of gramp's brothers really believed him. But they admired the old man's shotgun (I can't remember for sure the gauge of the shotgun I know it was at least a 8 gauge but may have been a 6 or even 4 gauge in fact I am pretty sure it was a double barrel 4 gauge shotgun my gramp's was like 6 years old his older brother hounded the old man to let him shoot his shotgun finally the old man relented. At age 10 or 12 the old man took them out behind his home loaded the shotgun and told gramp's older brother to pull BOTH TRIGGERS SO IT WOULD KICK LESS . NEEDLESS TO SAY GRAMP'S OLDER BROTHER WAS KNOCKED ON HIS ASS AND SWORE HIS SHOULDER WAS BROKEN. UPPON THE OLD MANS DEATH THEY FOUND A TRUNK FULL OF POSTERS FROM THE BUFFALO BILL WILD WEST SHOW FEATURING THE OLD MANS NAME AND SHOTGUN SKILLS. GRAMP'S GREW UP TO BECOME THE CHIEF OF POLICE FOR MADOCK AND THEN SHERIFF OF BENSON COUNTY.
Another wonderful history lesson, thank you so much for these- you are great! Would love to see one on Chief Red Cloud who compelled the US to burn it's own fort to the ground. Thanks again.
I have always heard that American and Russian troops in the Allied relief expedition during the Boxer Rebellion got along so well that they preferred to march together and helped each other with their equipment.
i dunno if its a subject worth considering but in 1975 I was on the USS Leahy CG-16 when we sailed into Leningrad with another US Navy warship. 2 USSR warships visited boston harbor. it was a detente visit. I believe it was the first such act since ww2. The Russians were warm open kind people. We were treated like old friends.
I used to think John Wayne was the original American action hero. Now I think Bill Cody gets that crown. Addendum: I happened to be in Golden, CO yesterday and was very pleased to learn that I could easily visit Cody’s gravesite (and wife, Louisa) on a it’s scenic location at/near Lookout Mountain park. This within days of my watching this history installment from The History Guy.
Not so great for the buffalo. Mr. History Guy, love your channel! How about telling the story of the tragic history and last-minute salvation of our National Mammal; the American Bison?
Have you read John Quincy Adam's diary? It's particularly enlightening about early US Russia relations. Plus, my understanding is that it's often cited as the founding blueprint for how to behave as an ambassador. I couldn't find it in book form, so I printed it out and bound it. After reading it I can't help but to feel an emotional affinity for czarist Russia.
I’m born and raised in Nebraska, I remember learning about Custer and Buffalo Bill, but not this haha, I’ve been past Ft. McPherson many times as it is now North Platte, NE.
It’s a bit of an understatement to say U.S.-Russian relations broke down after the 1917 revolution. The U.S. (and the U.K.) invaded Siberia in 1918, trying to help set up a “white” state to counter the Bolsheviks. The last American troops didn’t leave until 1920.
Leave North Platte on US83, take highway 23 at Maywood, to Stockville, and follow 18 east, you can see some of the same country they did. The Medicine Creek was an important travel route between the Platte and Republican rivers.
Very interesting. I'm wondering if any other 7th Calvary soldiers accompanied Custer. I have a distant relative who was the second in command of the 7th at that time, Major Joel H. Elliott, a Quaker from Indiana who fought for the Union in the Civil War and died at the Battle of the Washita under Custer's command.
This story reminds me of the scene in the movie Maverick, where the Russian duke pays Maverick to go shoot an Indian. The bone pile at 9:09 is so sad, as is the history between US and Russia which follows. Symbolic perhaps.
A big surprised to me !!! One of my favorites of so many lessons particularly in that I knew of most of the participants except for the Grand Duke of Russia. How significant Utube is for you and for all of us. We all can learn in your huge classroom, everyone one of us has access. Has UTube helped fill the vacuum left by the downfall in our freedom of speech and the press exhibited by the continuing shrinking of the independence of our newspapers and other independent media by the consolidation through buyouts of the pillars and guardians of those freedoms through buyouts and consolidations by major corporations allowed to do so by the politicians and our government representatives? Yes the Internet is a marvelous tool but are we at risk of losing a Constitutional precious guaranteed right that our forefathers felt was so very important, so fundamentally needed as to put it in Article One of our Bill of Rights! Let's hope and pray that future generations will not be listening to the History Guy discussing the loss of the people's guaranteed rights of the freedom of the press and freedom of speech early in the Twentieth century in the category of "History that deserves to be remembered."
Rear Admiral of the Russian Navy, John Paul Jones, commanded the sailing squadron in the Dnieper-Bug estuary, held the flag on the 24-gun flagship Vladimir and acted with the Zaporozhye Cossacks Sidor Bily and the Black Sea rowing flotilla of Anton Golovatyi, on June 7, 1788 won a victory at the Liman the Turkish fleet Kapudan-pasha of Eski-Hussein, on the night of 15 to 16 June, drunk vodka with the Cossacks and dressed in a Cossack dress, swam in a boat to the Turkish flagship, who was stationed in Ochakovskiy harbor, and wrote aboard with a torch on board - “Burn”. Paul Jones "June 18, the Turkish fleet was finally defeated at Ochakov
1:05 First League of Armed Neutrality 1:40 John Paul Jones 1:45 War of 1812 mediated treaty 1840s St Petersburg to Moscow Railroad overseen by George Washington Whistler Ottoman Empire Crimean War Russia American relations so good that Russia built ships in American shipyards..? Russia sells the state of Alaska, goodwill
Who is the smokin' hot girl in that picture with Buffalo Bill and those two other guys? She's second from right, on Cody's left. It looks like she's wearing some kind of costume that people of the times thought of as Turkish. It's the picture with the guy on the far left who has hair in an abundance of curls, and they all look quite young compared to the usual pictures of Cody and his performers. Hey History Guy, tell us more about that girl. I doubt that it's Annie Oakley, she was an upstanding Christian woman who would never have dressed like that.
Wow, what a story this is, history is better than fiction.
In a lot of ways history is weirder than fiction
My Great great great uncle was Chalkley Beeson, born 1848, part owner of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City Kansas. My family told me stories that he served as a guide on the Great Buffalo hunt...... wish I could prove it was true...... I had no idea it was such a big deal until I watched this video.......History Guy ....thanks so much for doing what you do !!
Hilarious and educational. I wish you had been my history professor!
Buffalo Bill's wild west & congress of roughriders came to my town on a tour of Britain in 1904. There was a parade of international horsemen, which included Russian Cossacks riding alongside Japanese Horsemen! during the Russo-Japanese war!
Your videos are the best! no matter what the subject i'm always completely fascinated by the end! :D
At the Wild West museum in Wyoming they had a map of where the wild west show went. It was amazing how many places they made it to.
You are so right about History being more interesting and entertaining than any of the fictional stories that writers work so very hard at producing. You also do a great job at delivering these stories. This story in particular is just funny with all of these amazing people who individually are historical coming together in what was obviously one Hell of a party. Thank you!!!
This story deserves two thumbs up!
Ah, once again I hit the "like" button before the story has even begun, because I know I'm going to love it.
That is such a fantastic story. It is such a shame so much has changed in U.S.-Soviet relations.
They weren’t soviets
They aren't soviets.
What a great history lesson. TYVM!!
So glad I found this channel. Such great content.
Here's a story idea. Ikua Purdy, the pani olo (Hawaiian cowboy ), and the 1908 Cheyenne frontier days. I have recently heard of the book "Aloha Rodeo" and plan on reading it soon. The story sounds fascinating and also right up your alley. I watch a lot of your videos but haven't seen them all. Maybe you've àlready done this?
i finally have met with an episode i had no inkling about the info. great!
Great story, horrific photo of buffalo skulls
Just incredible.
Damn I love history
Great story including many of our historical national icons! Love it!
Thank you for another awesome history lesson .
Again Mr History , you have added to mine own knowledge of such things. (Most vids I had no ides about)
But as usual your presentations are most informative and entertaining...You have recieved a standing ovation !
Thanks for another great video Sir.
Sir I think you have the best TH-cam channel
I enjoy your Tales of History very much
thank you
It was during this time,,, the later half of the 19th century, that US arms manufacturers were able to sell with success to the Russian military. The Russians bought the break open Smith and Wesson revolver chambered in the appropriate .44 RUSSIAN.
then around the turn of the century, the Russians bought the Winchester model 1895 chambered in russian military 7.62R.
300k were made, making this the largest acquisition by any army of lever action rifles.
These rifles were used during WW1 and were favored by baltic units of the russian army.
Love ya man! I love all the odd, or even strange tid bits from history you present. Strength to you and your wonderful channel, (and anyone helping you out - you rock whoever you are!)
Before chiming in here I reviewed all the comments submitted before this time.
I am amazed that NOBODY noticed the great similarity of the Royal Buffalo Hunt to the similar story in the MAVERICK movie. Graham Greene was the great tribal medicine man and Mel Gibson was Maverick. (Actually Maverick Jr.) Anyway these guys arranged for a grand entertainment for the royal Russian visit, all in the Old West style, including "shooting Indians" and all kinds of things that were faked, just to please his emminence the archduke. It's a pretty funny movie with many changes of story line. But there was a real parallel in the movie, to the account just told to us by The History Guy.
Good episode. I didn’t know about many of these events.
Knowing George Armstrong Custer took part in this farce makes me feel better about his fate at the Little Bighorn.
This story put a big smile on my face. History is so crazy and funny sometimes. Really fascinating how good US-Russia relations were and how the Russian Duke had a great time in the USA.
Fairly new subscriber. I’m enjoying the channel.
I swear this would make for a great movie. Great story!
Always enjoy your enthusiasm
Fascinating. A valuable expansion of this study would be what the relentless slaughter of the American bison meant for the plains ecosystem. The gaudy numbers of animals killed, human beings displaced and square miles of land permanently altered is jaw dropping. In two or three decades the great “American Serengeti” went from a wild wonder with massive herds of pronghorn, bison, deer, tens of thousands of wolves and bears and myriad other species which had supported thriving societies of native peoples for thousands of years, to roughly what we see today; a mostly cordoned off grid of monoculture fields of corn and soy and “slow elk”. This Great Buffalo Hunt helped to kick off an extraordinary transformation of the land.
Thanks for your work here, you have created a wonderful place to explore.
Thousand views. What a shame! It deserves definitely more than that.
32 thousand now. I think History Guy fever is catching on.
That was an interesting gathering in the West with Custer, Cody, Russian Duke, military and Indians all on a dog and pony show of a hunt. Certainly entertaining period.
Thanks HG, I have never heard this story before now.
What a great story, thank you!
Lucreczia Borgia still exists amd that is a sound fine rifle that surely have been on many hard days,but been taken care of and treated well .
Another awesome video. Thank you so much.
Excellent Sir. Thank You !
Absolutely fascinating! What an unlikely gathering.
I have visited some small museums in the west, and some claim that the buffaloes were purposely hunted to extinction in order to ruin the native american indians. That seems plausible to me given how our government treated them. You may want to consider assessing the truth to this, and if true, that would seem to be a good topic for one of your shorts... Thank you very much for putting these together and sharing them. They are quite interesting and informative! ScottM
My life in Bangkok has led me to having a Russian army fur hat...On the few times a year it's cool enough I wear it when walking the dog..That does get some curious looks from the neighbors..
jeff robinson I have one too!
jeff robinson in Thailand you have no idea what cold weather is 😂
Great story! The small town of Hayes Center, Nebraska celebrated the Buffalo hunt for many years. There is a Nebraska State Historical marker near the camping site.
Please do a video on the American intervention in Russia during the Russian Civil War where we occupied Vladivostok for two years.
Sorry, that fact got swept under the rug. You might not get the full story here in the USA. I have NEVER heard ANY historian comment on that affair. It’s like it never happened!
Damn I need to look that up!
Amazing what history there is out there that is widely unknown.
Sounds like a modern hunting party except we drink Miller the champaign of bottled beer
Wow, you must of been way back in the sticks to not be able to find anything else
What a great story.
Storyteller myself. Retired near Gettysburg. Great story. Sharing with my phone book. And I prefer Jim Beam bourbon. Shame for the buffalo, tho....
Incredible
You rock, history guy!
Crazy cool! Where do you find these great gems of history?!
Thank you.👍
there's a movie in this, wildman
You old mate are the Apex, of telling a good tale.
that is very fascinating!
i wish i had you in world history.
but then, im at age 71 !
hope to hear more of the old west.
I am a history dork.
My grandpa as a kid in Benson county ND had a neighbor (old guy) was a legend among gramp's brothers.
He claimed to be a member of Buffalo bills wild West show.
They listened to his tails of wild west none of gramp's brothers really believed him.
But they admired the old man's shotgun (I can't remember for sure the gauge of the shotgun I know it was at least a 8 gauge but may have been a 6 or even 4 gauge in fact I am pretty sure it was a double barrel 4 gauge shotgun my gramp's was like 6 years old his older brother hounded the old man to let him shoot his shotgun finally the old man relented. At age 10 or 12 the old man took them out behind his home loaded the shotgun and told gramp's older brother to pull BOTH TRIGGERS SO IT WOULD KICK LESS .
NEEDLESS TO SAY GRAMP'S OLDER BROTHER WAS KNOCKED ON HIS ASS AND SWORE HIS SHOULDER WAS BROKEN.
UPPON THE OLD MANS DEATH THEY FOUND A TRUNK FULL OF POSTERS FROM THE BUFFALO BILL WILD WEST SHOW FEATURING THE OLD MANS NAME AND SHOTGUN SKILLS.
GRAMP'S GREW UP TO BECOME THE CHIEF OF POLICE FOR MADOCK AND THEN SHERIFF OF BENSON COUNTY.
Another wonderful history lesson, thank you so much for these- you are great! Would love to see one on Chief Red Cloud who compelled the US to burn it's own fort to the ground. Thanks again.
What a story!
I could totally see Putin riding a horse with Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner shooting buffalo.
I have always heard that American and Russian troops in the Allied relief expedition during the Boxer Rebellion got along so well that they preferred to march together and helped each other with their equipment.
From personal experience, all I can say is that sharing a wagon full of alcohol is still a great way to improve Russian/American relations. :-)
LOVE all your "STUFF"!! None is ever taught i n our schools.......I wonder why?
WOW History repeating itself.
i dunno if its a subject worth considering but in 1975 I was on the USS Leahy CG-16 when we sailed into Leningrad with another US Navy warship. 2 USSR warships visited boston harbor. it was a detente visit. I believe it was the first such act since ww2. The Russians were warm open kind people. We were treated like old friends.
It was an interesting Cold War event. I will do more research.
I used to think John Wayne was the original American action hero. Now I think Bill Cody gets that crown. Addendum: I happened to be in Golden, CO yesterday and was very pleased to learn that I could easily visit Cody’s gravesite (and wife, Louisa) on a it’s scenic location at/near Lookout Mountain park. This within days of my watching this history installment from The History Guy.
Go to Cody Wyoming and they will tell you he is buried in Cody.
Don't forget the real original American action hero, Davey Crockett.
Not so great for the buffalo. Mr. History Guy, love your channel! How about telling the story of the tragic history and last-minute salvation of our National Mammal; the American Bison?
Hey, I lost count of how many I had to scroll through to fine an appropriate comment. Good on you.
He mentioned it, or didn't you watch?
Have you read John Quincy Adam's diary? It's particularly enlightening about early US Russia relations. Plus, my understanding is that it's often cited as the founding blueprint for how to behave as an ambassador. I couldn't find it in book form, so I printed it out and bound it. After reading it I can't help but to feel an emotional affinity for czarist Russia.
Now that's what I call a hunting party, amazing!!!
thanks
I’m born and raised in Nebraska, I remember learning about Custer and Buffalo Bill, but not this haha, I’ve been past Ft. McPherson many times as it is now North Platte, NE.
Topic suggestion: The Big Burn of 1910 and the founding of the US Forest Service.
It’s a bit of an understatement to say U.S.-Russian relations broke down after the 1917 revolution. The U.S. (and the U.K.) invaded Siberia in 1918, trying to help set up a “white” state to counter the Bolsheviks. The last American troops didn’t leave until 1920.
How are you not on TV?
Ah, I see why the Grand Duke was promised to the Russian Navy. He was such a crappy shot he'd have never made the infantry.
Nice!
Those are Bison not buffaloes. Buffaloes are in Asia and have large horns compared to Bison. Still love this channel thanks
Was aware of much of this, but didn't know the gov't encouraged the buffalo slaughter, much less as a weapon to suppress the Plains' nomadic tibes.
This also (loosely) inspired the Lucky Luke album "Le Grand Duc".
I would have loved to have been on that trip. I bet it would have been a hoot
Dimes On His Eyes ,
A party not soon forgotten,
That is for sure....
Leave North Platte on US83, take highway 23 at Maywood, to Stockville, and follow 18 east, you can see some of the same country they did.
The Medicine Creek was an important travel route between the Platte and Republican rivers.
True life is the best movie
As usual, you've told a great story. While the great hunt was good for American/Russian relations, it didn't work out too well for the Natives.
Very interesting. I'm wondering if any other 7th Calvary soldiers accompanied Custer. I have a distant relative who was the second in command of the 7th at that time, Major Joel H. Elliott, a Quaker from Indiana who fought for the Union in the Civil War and died at the Battle of the Washita under Custer's command.
You rock!
When my grandfather was a little kid he got to meet him and shake Buffalo Bills hand.
First learned about this in Mel Gibson's movie about Brett Maverick, with Graham Greene playing the Indian chief with overarching cynicism.
I would have loved to been on that hunt, what a great collection of people!!!
a little dose of that kind of diplomacy of yore would certainly go a long way towards regaining decent relations with modern day russia
This story reminds me of the scene in the movie Maverick, where the Russian duke pays Maverick to go shoot an Indian. The bone pile at 9:09 is so sad, as is the history between US and Russia which follows. Symbolic perhaps.
Yes, it is awful to think of how many beautiful animals had to die to make that enormous pile of bones.
Great story shame we can't get along without killing each other now
So much of history is told through a filter
A big surprised to me !!! One of my favorites of so many lessons particularly in that I knew of most of the participants except for the Grand Duke of Russia. How significant Utube is for you and for all of us. We all can learn in your huge classroom, everyone one of us has access. Has UTube helped fill the vacuum left by the downfall in our freedom of speech and the press exhibited by the continuing shrinking of the independence of our newspapers and other independent media by the consolidation through buyouts of the pillars and guardians of those freedoms through buyouts and consolidations by major corporations allowed to do so by the politicians and our government representatives? Yes the Internet is a marvelous tool but are we at risk of losing a Constitutional precious guaranteed right that our forefathers felt was so very important, so fundamentally needed as to put it in Article One of our Bill of Rights! Let's hope and pray that future generations will not be listening to the History Guy discussing the loss of the people's guaranteed rights of the freedom of the press and freedom of speech early in the Twentieth century in the category of "History that deserves to be remembered."
Rear Admiral of the Russian Navy, John Paul Jones, commanded the sailing squadron in the Dnieper-Bug estuary, held the flag on the 24-gun flagship Vladimir and acted with the Zaporozhye Cossacks Sidor Bily and the Black Sea rowing flotilla of Anton Golovatyi, on June 7, 1788 won a victory at the Liman the Turkish fleet Kapudan-pasha of Eski-Hussein, on the night of 15 to 16 June, drunk vodka with the Cossacks and dressed in a Cossack dress, swam in a boat to the Turkish flagship, who was stationed in Ochakovskiy harbor, and wrote aboard with a torch on board - “Burn”. Paul Jones "June 18, the Turkish fleet was finally defeated at Ochakov
1:05 First League of Armed Neutrality
1:40 John Paul Jones
1:45 War of 1812 mediated treaty
1840s St Petersburg to Moscow Railroad overseen by George Washington Whistler
Ottoman Empire Crimean War
Russia American relations so good that Russia built ships in American shipyards..?
Russia sells the state of Alaska, goodwill
Buffalo Bill Cody was ridiculed by real mountain men as a dandy.
That Grand Duke Alexis could have gotten killed by the bison.
I suspect there were plenty of people standing by to shoot it if need be.
Why was there never a movie made about this?
Wow
I just learned recently that Russian word i see from time to time that looks like POCHNA, is actually just RUSSIA in Russian!
i tink my kin involved. philip claymore, army scount in 1890's and spotted tail kin.
Are you a vet,history guy?
This should be a comedy movie
Were they using third model Smith & Wesson Russian pistols?
Mr Saturday Night Special yes, the Grand Duke was using a Smith and Wesson model 3 revolver.
The History Guy: Five Minutes of History
Cool I'd love to own one.
This is begging to be made into a film
Who is the smokin' hot girl in that picture with Buffalo Bill and those two other guys? She's second from right, on Cody's left. It looks like she's wearing some kind of costume that people of the times thought of as Turkish. It's the picture with the guy on the far left who has hair in an abundance of curls, and they all look quite young compared to the usual pictures of Cody and his performers. Hey History Guy, tell us more about that girl. I doubt that it's Annie Oakley, she was an upstanding Christian woman who would never have dressed like that.
On further examination, the dress she is wearing might have her costumed as "Lady Liberty"