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Man my inital thought when I Realized you were going to go in and discover what transpired was like oh my god as someone who's come to know the history for quite awhile are you ever in for the horrific shock of your life when you find out what happened, it''s honestly one of the most outraging events to ever happen in the united states and it's history. You know most of us, I'm 38 now but I learned when I was much younger but my generation was largely as naive a new born about labor history and had no idea like I grew up in a town where the local grocery store was unionized so even in childhood I had seen workers go on strike, strikes were the exception though they were definately not the norm and I had seen them picket Fred meyers as a kid and I had assumed that it might be hard to get the union to agree to go on one but that we had always had the right to provided we convinced the rest of our union coworkers. Bu nooo... What happened taught me that the history of labor is covered in blood and that our Freedoms and rights that we take for granted even today were literally the product of hard fought battles that at times the ultimate price was paid in sacrifice for the rights to.

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Good video,are there any books about this

l used to think this song is from the US cavalry in Civil War. Thank you for telling the background story.

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The Lieutenant's name was Beecher not breacher he was a relative of Harriet Beecher Stowe

I heard they thought they had cannons in the fort that’s why the Indians wouldnt attacked because they were terrified of those cannons

Who's the guy reading this? Great story, and I love Ft. Casper's history, but they could have found a better reader.

I'm glad for this video but am very annoyed that you did not give the location for the corner wall remains of Fort reno at 4:13 thru 4:30 of the video. I would like to make a mark of that point on my Google Maps app.

So he didn't ?? Bro!!

My wife is from TEXAS..From the time I saw her. She had always been my yellow rose

That opening needs a warning for headphone wearers

I have visited the site. There is a spirit of feeling therabouts that that i, noticed? Detected? Sensed? Spoke to me? Idk, but i will go back. Its a bit erie to stand there and think about the crazy, desperate, emotional battle that happened at that one small spot.

okay how can you know that they did not mean to be offensive at the time

Two of my 2x grandfathers fought with Forrest there in the 5th Mississippi Cavalry. Deo Vindice.

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So good

As an historian myself, I certainly appreciate your comment that REAL history should never be revised to suit the politically correct crowd. Personally, I think the real "yellow rose" probably was a woman of color, but hearing all the versions of the song that you included, I think it is best to let the listener imagine a girl whom he, himself loved, and lost, and wants to find again.

Good place to visit. Very few tourists, get to spend time with the ranger and walk the battlefield without any crowds

Fort McKinney, which was the renamed version of Fort Reno, was where the troops came from that bailed out the Texas hired guns that were besieged by the local cattle ranchers they were trying to exterminate during the Johnson County War.

I spent a lot of time in the Buffalo area working for Mountain West and ate many meals at the Busy Bee in Buffalo. I was made aware that there were still plenty of bad feelings as late as 1980 between the family's of the people involved in this war. Loved my time there. :)

Looking forward to Part II! I'm in Sheridan, my folks live in Buffalo, and I've been lucky enough to spend time at the KC and TA Ranches. Rich history in this area, from fur trade era to "wild west".

WHAT THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU IS THAT THIS FORT WAS USED AT TIMES AS A MILITARY BASE BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF INDIANS IN THIS AREA

Joe, Every time I watch one of Your videos I remember more of my life in Wyoming. I now live in St.Charles Missouri on the Estate that belonged to Captain John Sterling Shaw. Captain Shaw was at Fort Platte when Sabille and Adams purchased it. His Father Colonel Ludwell E. Powell was the Comander at Fort Kearney and Tom Horn named His Horse, E. W. after Captain Shaw's Son in Law... Elias W. Whitcomb. We have a lot of Stories in common. I am sitting here right now in Captain Shaw's 1875 Fur Traders Office, in the Basement of the Home of Major George Sibley House called ELMA that Captain Shaw later owned. Love Your Shows...

Hi Joe. A buddy and I have made two attempts to Fairyland Basin. The first in 2019 we made it to the top of the cliff above Fairyland, but it took us too long at that point, so many downed trees to climb over, it was already 2:00 pm so we decided not to try the descent out of caution because we would not have made it back to camp in daylight. The second attempt in 2021 got rained out. We learned some better vs. worse routes to take, but none of them ideal. We did learn from the first attempt that it takes a lot longer than the distance would indicate because of the terrain and downed trees, so on our second attempt we intended to start at the crack of dawn. We had constant heavy rain though that forced us to abort the plan. We did get to see Coffee Pot and Joseph's Coat twice though. Could have done without the rain on the second trip!

Tks for sharing our Laramée Story!

Joe, It makes me so Happy that You are doing all these wonderful Videos. I love watching Your Adventures. I lived in Cheyenne but now live in St. Charles Missouri. I miss Wyoming terribly. Thank you for filming all my memories Eric Brant Aufner

Interesting stuff. I saw this song referenced in a book I was reading. I felt it had significant meaning so I looked it up as Im not familiar with it and stumbled on this video. Very insightful.

Sorry about that. I have since dropped music during any narration. Thanks for watching and your constructive comment.

The music is louder than the narrator

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Although the term is seldom used, African American girls I knew in San Diego would still refer to lighter complexioned friends as High Yellow. In 1979 I shared the stage at the S.D. folk festival with Mississippi Bluesman Sam Chatmon, who later played at the music store where I worked. He often shocked audiences by calling himself a "Yellow Coon". He was 87. There are several CZcams videos of Sam.

I knew the story from the Woody Guthrie ballad. My great grandmother, born 150 years ago had an old saying many viewers might agree with: "Pray to the Lord of the poor, the lord of the rich wears horns!".

Thanks for kicking off with Doc Watson , his and Frank Proffit's version have a ring of truth lacking in watered down renditions. I'm proud to say I met Doc and Frank Jr. and other fine folks like lovely Jean Ritchie, bluesman John Jackson, Elizabeth Cotten and many others who had nothing in common with the depraved characters of this ballad, they were wonderful people.

We visited Ft Harrod a few weeks ago. My 5th great grandfather was one of the first people there, James Ray. Traveled from NC to KY with Boone.

An interesting historical side note, since you mentioned the film "Girant" use of the song in a scene, is the actual scene is when a white rancher defends his mixed-race granddaughter from slurs from a few white men at dinner, resorting to physical violence. My understanding of the adding hatred toward Mexicans/Americans in that region was somewhat answered when I discovered the history of the plot known as the San Diego Plan of 1915. This was during the Mexican Revolution and the period when the U.S. Army entered Mexico with the permission of the Mexican President to pursue Pancho Villa. The "Plant" was a conspiracy inside the U.S. Southwest to open a sudden violent takeover by Mexican/Americans supplied by Pancho Villa and who knows who else, wherein all white males over 16 living in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California were to be killed in student violence. The plan was never hatched because one man betrayed the plan to the Texas Rangers. But one can imagine the resulting emotions from the news of such a planned racial genocide and usurpation of the U.S. Southwest. This is also where the notion of Reconquista, which was so often quoted by ethnic political organizations such as La Raza in the 1970s and later 20th century. We can debate over whether this action is being realized in a form today.

The history of the flight of Texans after the defeat at the Alamo and Goliad is known as "The Runaway Scrape."

Mitch Miller was also the music director of Capitol Records (that company, I think) and controlled a lot of what got to be on record and radio. As a boy, my sisters and I sat around the TV every Friday night and sang in the show, "Sing Along with Mitch." I very much liked his version but was ignorant of other versions or the origins of it. It seemed like a rousing cavalry march that I could relate to as Western films and TV shows were everywhere.

Is that Cynthia Addai-Robinson the actress who played Emily Robinson in the mini series Texas Rising?

I refer to the Book "The Devil Forrest" But I could reason why Sherman would have concern and shared with Grant since it was Forrest's raids on their supply lines that disrupted Grant's strategy of moving into central Mississippi and eventually taking Vicksburg so Grant had gambled on an amphibious operation from the river and moving troops from south to Southeast then west. Having personally lived in Vicksburg I know a little about that one.

His version seems to give too much credit to Sherman's strategy. The march from Memphis was from an indignant reaction from the Union forces following a direct raid from Forrest into Memphis and actually raising a general from his sleep.

Great presentation!

Davis and Lee did not realize the potential of Forrest until the war was almost over. Most likely, if given command in the west early on, the outcome of the war would have been much different. When Lee was asked a few years after the war who he believed the best General of the war was, on either side, he said, "a man I have never met. His name is Forrest".

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GREAT JOB!

I LOVE THIS VERSION!

The sound mixing needs to be fixed, the music and the commentary are at radically different volumes. Had the potential to be a good video but that messed it up.

This drive is notable for successfully defending off the Indian raids, most particularly the effectiveness of breechloading cartridge rifles in proving themselves particularly useful in repulsing charges on horseback. Now this is a fine point because otherwise, the conventional wisdom was you needed a much larger force to repulse a cavalry charge. By the time a rider just comes into rifle range (500 yards), you don't have time to reload before he reaches you if he's going at a full gallop, if all you have is a muzzleloader! 3:43 as you said, Nelson had the foresight to stop in Levenworth and purchase those Remington Rollingblock rifles in .58 Spencer caliber. These rifles were brand new. I mention all of this because it's strange it doesn't get noted historically. Instead, the "Box Wagon Fight", which happened later that year, is mentioned as being historically notable for the reasons I mentioned. Anyway, these are notable events as it spelled the beginning of the end for plains tribes who had done ok in defending their territories up until this point. Doing raids on horseback became far less effective!

Thank you for making the video. We live in Europe but we play the song in the car. My 12 year old daughter said, this text is so different. So we looked into it. Very cool.