10 Reasons Why Life In The American Old West Was Actually Terrible
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10 Reasons Why Life In The American Old West Was Actually Terrible.
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My father was born into the start of the Great Depression. It started in Aug 1929. He was born in September 1929.
He was about 5 when his father decided to move to NM to claim and improve a section of land. His family joined a wagon train/cattle drive with about a dozen families from their area of Deep East Texas.
He told us about how difficult it was, not just getting there, but trying to survive once they arrived.
They were fortunate because they could travel on roads. But it was a long slow trip
Once they arrived, they put together a one room dug out shelter. It was half above ground, half below. This helped tremendously in heating in winter and kept it cooler in summer.
Having just arrived, they didn't have a well yet as the very first job was getting crops in the ground.
The next section was a mile away, so hauling water was a never ending job.
When Grandma needed to wash, she had to carry the wash tub, rub board, soap and my father and his two younger siblings across the mile to the neighbor's house.
In the heat or cold it was miserable, but it was much worse when it had rained.
The mud would build up on the shoes/ feet with each step. Every few feet she would have to set her load and the baby down, take the stick that she brought for just this purpose, and scrape the huge clos of mud from their feet. Then, puck up the load and the baby and proceed a few more steps and repeat.
My father and his siblings developed scurvy. They were always right on the verge of starvation.
Daddy said that one of the reasons they lasted as long as they did was because they had a dog that was half greyhound.
Daddy said that Jack, that was his name, would be able to catch jackrabbits fairly easily in the summer. But, in winter, the dog would gain ground on snow free ground. But, if the hare could get on snow, it would start pulling away making the prospect of dinner more of a challenge. Most dogs were working dogs and valued only for what they could do. But, with Jack, it was a matter of survival to keep him healthy and close by.
All of this was in 1934. Imagine if that were 75/100 years before. Only the hardest/most fortunate survived.
My father's family only made it about 1 1/2 years before admitting defeat and heading back to East Texas.
Jack sounds like a hero of a dog. I know that kind of mud it doubles the size of your boots. Tough people. I was collecting water 15 yrs ago. Gives you muscles.
I enjoyed your story.
@@seriousros7280 And a salty vocabulary
@@christinemerlino5080 TY. I enjoyed retelling it. I love thinking about my parents and their lives
@@cwavt8849 Yes, our parents lives were interesting for sure...that's history. Thank you for sharing your dads story ❤.
My wife and I live right now with a small RV trailer with a 14'x20' room we built for a whopping cost of $286. It is made much as these people made theirs. Logs from the forest make the walls, the floor is made of flag stone we gathered not to far from our home. We have the advantage of windows we salaged from transportainers. Temps in the winter go as low as -20°f. It is warm and comfortable. Yes it is much easier to live in the times we live in compared to the homesteaders, but you can build a comfortable home from the natural materials at hand.
I lived in a school bus with a wood stove that got warm in the winter but didn't hold the heat like a house.
It is actually a miracle that people made it across the continent.
They where the traveling homeless
For those referring to Appalachian cabins and such, they had timber, the prairie didn't. Open space and some probably didn't know what they were getting into, they just wanted something of their own.
Many of those people had to dig into the ground , make cave like room underground to live in, these were known as "dugout":homes also people made "soddy" houses , cave like rooms dug into small undulating slopes that were located in some different areas of the great prairie
After serving in the Civil War my great-grandfather homesteader in western Kansas. He proved up his land and got the title He was a successful wheat farmer and bought more land and tripled his original acreage. It was very rough going in the desolate landscape of KS. The Kansas Historical Society sent someone to interview all the early homesteaders in the 1920's and that's how I read about him, he's on the internet. He had hazel eyes as I do, which is the 2nd rarest eye color. So I am proud of him and his accomplishments.
Is there a video on CZcams? What is it called? I would love to read and or watch it. So interesting, thank you.
@@peppercat8718 No video, but, his story is on the net. His name was James Richard Bruner, just google his name. Very interesting. He voted for Lincoln. He was from Lane County, Kansas. He was in the Civil War, but, wasn't in a battle. I sent for his war record and found out about his eyes, and a copy of his handwriting. His brother died in a battle in Missouri. At the time they lived in IL. Thx for the interest.
My great grandparents dug a hole in the ground on the Saskatchewan prairies, and covered it with wood. That is where they lived for the first year before they could get a house built. My great gran never came out of the hole the entire winter. My mom said the only living room furniture they had in the 1930's was an army cot. We have it lucky.
Yes, often we forget how good we have it.
Wiping out the buffalo was a great evil. The entire scope of destruction was horrific.
Yes, it was!! It's horrible what the white man did!
True, but can you imagine hitting a buffalo in your car at 75mph?
@@missanthrope2 your ignorance is stunning, an obviously racist comment. They needed the Buffalo for everything! The meat and the hides were life saving. Your comment is stupidity itself.
@@missanthrope2 your ignorance is stunning, an obviously racist comment. They needed the Buffalo for everything! The meat and the hides were life saving. Your comment is stupidity itself.
Wiping out the buffalo was the way to tame the Native American. It was their food source
These days in 2024, housing still unaffordable.
To be honest, depends on the area. Where I live in the CA Bay Area it really is unaffordable, the average house on my street is $2 million. In Utah, the same house would be $0.4 million. I think I’ll be moving to Utah.
Maybe homeless camps are just the new frontier
@@QualityPen Then please leave your Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Gruesome politics behind.
@@QualityPen Please don't.
@@user-kn3qq4he7u You are a bit off topic for this video. did you even watch it?
There's a good book called "The Good Ole Days were Terrible". City life was just as bad esp in summer. The rich left NYC in summer due to the smell.
thank you for your comment to the Native Americans. THEY knew how to live well and comfortable and made better use of ressources than those miserable settlers. But they were pushed away and their way of life and culture were destroyed and replaced by something that did not work out very well for the settlers, if you compare the survivors to those who did not make it.
My family were settlers/indians and survived in the Cyprus swamps for generations…still do
The Oregon Trail game was pretty harsh. “ you have died of dysentery “
My parents talked of how every meal of almost every day in their growing up during the depression days , was only some sort of potato , their parents would try to add something a little different within the potato dish when they could afford such
Visuals are extremely random and many have no connection to the story.
We have it made in the shade today and yet we complain. I thank Almighty God I did not live in those days.
I agree with you. I now I would not of made it then.
My 2xgreat grandpa built a small, sturdy shack on his land. My great grandpa built a log cabin nearby. The log cabin was added to over the years, gaining wings and a second floor. The house is unrecognizable now, unless you go down to the root cellar and see the rough hewn timbers and stone. My uncle still lives there. The original shack is mostly gone, swallowed in the woods, but we used to play in it as children. The house and land are now worth many millions of dollars.
Coming to America was a BAD IDEA back then, and it's still a bad idea today. Just stay wherever you are!!
This sounds like it came from one of Trump's recent campaign speeches.
@@roberthenry9319 I actually like Trump, even though I can't vote for him for obvious reasons, but I hope he gets elected again so that relations between Europe and Russia normalise. He's not perfect because after all, he did allow all the riots to continue, he believed all the misinformation about Covid, and did NOT build the wall or have Hillary arrested.
Try looking through the history of different groups who came to he United States at different periods in history. The Irish for instance, were starving in Ireland, it was sure death or traveling across the ocean. Jews were being murdered throughout various European countries. Italians had only total poverty to look forward to in Italy.
I thought the little house books were pretty accurate. They were written for children, and they have some nice stories, but they talk about how hard it was too like trying to stay warm in "The Long Winter" and having to continually twist and burn straw, how they had to live underground in the dugout at Plum Creek, but they would move into town with other homesteaders for the winter so they could be near each other, and waiting for supplies that were held up since the trains had to be dug out of the snow and lots of other difficulties are explained too. Other than their bathroom habits, and the fact that their written in a way that children could read them without being exposed to adult themes, they basically cover most everything the video covers so much so that they could have been used as a reference if necessary. The television show was very different from the books though.
Omg u make it sound like a horror story. I live off grid, no electricity or municipal water, dug my own well,, always make sure the outhouses are downhill from the well,a duh.
And how much have you learned about it thru books and videos.? .they didn't have that luxury and were probably poor city folks who wanted to escape that life without even thinking about how hard it would actually be . Much different times
So smug. Wait til your legs dont work.
But people somehow made it didn't they? My sympathies always to the natives. God help us
They would have scalped you too.
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ulNah, I'm bald as a cueball --- maybe give me a spit shine...
Not always...
Amen
@@MegaJackpinesavage No hair? Well that makes it easier to split your skull.
What are photos of starving people from India doing in this mix. Those kids are suffering from quashiokore.
Half of this video looks and sounds like bs
@@truesosense7722because it is.
A+ video!
Incredible video, very helpful for understanding the culture of The American Old West!
Some pictures aren't even in united states.
Piss poor research.
Thank you for sharing HISTORY keep it alive.
Laura Ingles Wilder's books do describe how harsh life was.
These pictures have absolutely nothing in common with the narration .
Lmao.....ok I thought it was just me.!!
Same here@@sevenspecie592
The pictures show the truth. Yes, it was difficult, but tens,even hundreds of thousands, succeeded. This narration is poppycock!
AI .....intelligence? I fear for upcoming generations swallowing this wholesale. Very sad.
Well, most of the pictures really are American Frontier treasures. The pictures of starving people in India, results of famine in Ireland, an encampment of soldiers in WW l, scenes of poverty in New York City in the early 19th century, a group of newly freed slaves in 1865 and a few other misplaced pictures, while interesting, do seem a bit off topic.
Looking at the pictures chosen for this, quite a few appear to be from foreign countries, the 1930's, WWI, etc.
New sub here I'm loving yours channel keep up the good work 👍🏽
That was a very educational video. I have never heard this about the old west before.
Where have you been?
@@lindickison3055 I don't live in the USA, I live in Australia. Henceforth I have a very limited knowledge of the Old West.
The homesteaders did not live in jungles or make houses out of bamboo. Where did this clown get his materials?? There are plenty of real homesteads photos. No need to go to New Guinea to find primitive home photos.
Sounds like you live in either New York or Istanbul.
@@johnellison3030 Oh. Well, we do not care. Why did you feel like sharing this enlightening bit of information with us?
Very enlightening. Thank you very much for showing us this truth. God bless you.
This is for the most part completely false. Log cabins built in the 17 - early 1900s are still all over the Appalachian Mountains. They were constructed very well.
The western settlers took these skills with them.
Many of the western settlers were from the big cities. They had no skills like the folks in Appalachia did
The old west was pretty much over by the 1890s, let alone the early 1900s
i wonder why they didn't copy the native Teepee's. They were the experts
What,and admit they weren't superior to the indigenous people:not a chance!
Boo hoo
A lot of settlers would have perished without help from Native Americans. The Donner party was rescued by a tribe that invited them to stay the winter, knowing they couldn't make it. So many instances like that. Over and over they came to our aid...and were repaid with genocide. 😒
I was just thinking the teepee 's were probably so much warmer in the winter months! The white man was to busy trying to kill & control everything!
Some probably did as a stop gap measure as they worked to complete their permanent housing. Not everything was documented.
it was hard on the settlers but the natives had it right
I love history. I lived in Montana we use to go to the old cemeteries where only children were buried there. I can imagine life was so hard with not only poor housing but diseases were all too familiar..
The love of this era engulfed my father and in the 1960s, tried to raise us like it was 1860, locked indoors, long dresses, caps, and later, no college.
Ih my god!!! Chores must’ve been awful. How did you children do in school or out in the world ? I do hope you all have done well. 🌷🌱
It was no better any where else in those days in the 1800’s
Frontier life was harsh.
Why did he show pictures of people in Europe, India and large cities back east? Pics were very misleading.
Wow😢 I did romanticize how I understood the frontier to be😮 My goodness how horrible it was. I need to be more thankful.
We all need to appreciate what we have . People talk about how bad things are today ,but people living back then would think today’s living heaven .
My ancestors must have been a lot smarter than the people you're talking about. They knew how to build and supply themselves with food and heating. They built outhouses and knew where to place them. This whole video is WAAAAAYYYYY over done.
I'm sure there were hardships,but not nearly as grim as portrayed here.
Good for them, that’s great. I’d be interested in knowing when your people were getting a start in the west and where they did it.
I guess the record of their lives was passed down to you. Imagine a wagon with a man, a wife, and a 10 year old child,along with their meager possessions, living in a tent, well, you know what, I’m tired of trying to show my wristwatch to a hog. You have no idea what you’re talking about, I’m sure your ancestors did what you said but there must have a home depot near by and some people to help with the project.
They probably learned what to do from those who went before them. I learned not to drink from the streams in my area after several people went through a bout with giardia.
Not everyone was smart enough to live at least comfortably. If a man was lazy or drank alcohol things were doomed.
@@stevewheatley243 Especially near the end of the 19th century
A lot of people today don’t know how to change a car tire
Pioneer life? Way too many photos of city life!
Neighbors helped each other to build houses and barns even though they were not close by they helped each other
At least the people was not cry babies 😂
I’m surprised that childbearing was not discussed.
Some of these photos are nothing to do with the American Old West.
Some of this is true most of it is not.
Aren’t some of these movies or documentary films 🎥 showcasing? But what a great storyline! I like your voice. It’s not boring! ❤❤❤
I would say that the pilgrim fathers' time is also heavily romanticised.
I saw early pictures of that time. The Daltons/ The James and other outlaws taken pictures of after their death. In order to prove they had been killed, most of their clothes had been taken of. You could see they were meagre, malnourished, alcoholics. A couple of the pictures on your video also show that some people were very very thin. There are a couple of pictures of Calamity Jane. She went from being a nice loking Irish girl, to a fat and bloated alcoholic.
These disastrous conditions explain why so many lost their claims, and we got to today's situation: most Midwestern/Western farms are huge and owned by few. This was of course re-inforced by the great depression in the Dustbowl, and "Okies" (using this word with love) forced to go west.
The issue actually ressembles what happened when Europeans explored the Arctic. Many of them were too arrogant to understand that Inuits and Sami, who have lived in these parts for very long know how to face the climate. Likewise, these European invaders were unable to understand that they would be much better off if they lived like the Indians were living. Which on the other hand, got more difficult with time, because of the destruction of the Buffalos, which provided much of the Indians' building/clothing/cooking materials.
My grandparents had to leave their Saskatchewan farm in the mid 30's to come west for a year because they couldn't grow crops due to the drought. In order not to lose the farm to the government, they had to get one of their relatives to live on the farm until they could come back.
You mean the Pilgrims killed Jesse James? And you saw pictures of the Pilgrims from 1620? Must have been from one of those old Polaroid cameras they brought over with them on the Mayflower.
It struck me that descriptions of the hard times that people had to endure, giving birth to kids and taking care of them was never mentioned. The photos of Asia were comical. I have peers who started out life with outhouses. They were still around on the east coast in the 1950s. All that said, the content was interesting. From what I can see, the closest we come to spending so much of your time merely maintaining your home is the life of people who are living in their cars, vans, box trucks, RVs, etc.
It was almost unimaginably hard compared to the comfort we enjoy today. My older sister (who is actually well read) still pretends that pioneering and cow herding was just like the Saturday morning cowboy TV serials where good guys wore white Stetsons and sequined shirts. I guess pretending made her difficult life with our even more difficult father a little easier.
The photo at 11:50 looks like Australian first world war troops. Mounted infantry known as Lighthorsemen , probably taken in the middle East.
That photograph is emaciated children during the holodomor in the Ukraine,when 15 million people died from starvation under Stalins brutal oppression of the Kulaks!
That photo at 6:48 says it all.
The kids on the first picture are Russian . They were starving during Stalin's Holdomor.
I do not think you should have shown pictures from starving Indians and Africans: there were plenty of US ones.
History is history ugly as it is sometimes. That's the problem now there's an attempt to hide history from future generations. No, it all must be known so that people aren't ignorant to it.
15:30 That's not the Old West, that's India! My guess is that was taken during the famine in Bengal during 1943. Regardless, that is not the United States.
A lot of the pictures have nothing to do with what he's talking about. There are pictures of the Irish famine and victims of the 1920-1921 Russian famine.
@@missanthrope2 Oh? Care to name a place and a time?
@@missanthrope2 Well, that one came through. Try again. If it still doesn't work, try rewording it. I don't think they have people policing the comments, but a computer algorithm.
Getting clean water in The Americn Old West sounds stressful!
Sounds like India and China today and in a few years America itself😢..we are killing the planet
Fabulous journalism
Hooray! The commercials rule! This is the first YT video so dismal as to make the commercials welcome.
Poor video! Even have pictures from other countries. So many clips from movies rather than real life. Tons of picture not from the 1880s.
I think he's talking about the 1840s/1850s
Whaa,, 😭. 👈. 🎥👀🤠🇨🇦
Defiantly not the west of Hollywood. But another informative video..
Why does everybody say "defiantly" instead of "definitely"? One person makes the mistake and then everybody copies it.
You kidding? There were tons of scenes from the Old West of Hollywood. Not sure why, but there were.
I’ve always been astonished that American films glamourised the Wild West. It must have been tougher than tough and more like the life of a medieval peasant without the benefits of a nearby village such as you’d find in Europe. I think it’s a past that should be celebrated, be proud of because people survived. I don’t understand the rather whiny tone of the narrator.
Please,tell us the date and location of each authentic picture 😢
You need to find a different cover image since the one you are using is from the 1920-1921 Russian famine
I would have gone straight to Colorado and Denver after the civil war where I've lived all my life now. I never would have lived in the places they showed here and in those homes.
I appreciate this video providing the facts. The people who did this were tough. It is disappointing that often the rich would come inbehind the settlers after all the hardwork was don and towns were established to provide a workforce for the rich.Nothing was ever done for the sske of the people it was always for the advantage of the rich. Give tracts of land let the common man establish it then come in buy up land and hire workers to do all the work
Most photos were totally unrelated to the narrative. Why bother showing photos at all?
God bless them. It was a terrible hard life.
Great commentary, but a lot of your photos were inappropriate. I saw photos of soldiers from the Civil War and even one from WWI!
My family came West settled in the Dakota’s wagons would pass by with families written on one side of the canvas was the words In GOD we Trust Kansas or Bust a few months later that same wagon would pass headed the opposite direction written on the canvas was “ In GOD We Trusted in Kansas We BUSTED…..
What has pictures of cities to do with pioneers
SO THE HOUSE ON BONANZA WASN’T REALLY THE WAY IT LOOKED⁉️
Abe Lincoln looked like a Zombie. First Zombie President.
Where are the statistics supporting this video's statements that the settlers were agressive and the Indians victims? Some very bold statements were made depicting the settlers as barbarians. These were farmers with their families for the most part whose only "crime" against the Indians was developing the land to support peaceful and prosperous life through hard work. They were attacked in standard stone age warfare by the Indians, ie terror and murder of people without regard to age and sex, plus theft, scalping and destruction of their means of survival (ie genocide) - the same warfare the Indians had waged against each other to gain domination of vast tracts of land over competitor tribes. Forthousands of years before the appearance of the European "tribe" in North America, the competing tribes had tormented and annihilated each other so they could not trust each other, so they hated each other, so could not unify sufficiently in the long term to advance their civilization.
Is the writer of this script aware that many of the buffalo were killed by the Indians for buffalo fur trade, something they fought each other to take advantage of? Are they aware that the campaign to remove the buffalo was to root out renegade warriors /bands, mainly Commanche, who "laid claim" to about 200,000 square miles of land (which now supports many millions of people in peace and prosperity) and achieved that sovereignty by the universal stone age law of sovereignty of survival of the fitest, ie horrorible acts against other Indians and the American settlers who were either scared off or wiped out, right down to toddlers and babes in the womb, sometimes with torture thrown in, and almost always scalps taken to prove the glory of the deed?
The bold, broad statements reflect Hollywood's romanticized, inaccurate version of the meeting of stone age civilzation of warlike, brutal and divisive culture, with a civilization 3,000 years more advanced with ideals of human uniity, common law and dedication to peace, cultivation of the land and resources, which resulted in widespread prosperity, peace, happiness and advancement of civilization.
A thorough, unbiased investigation of the day to day violence on the ground will reveal a reality the opposite of what is presented i this video - the settlers, from the time of the Jamestown colony were tormented by the stone age natives who wanted to maintain their domination over the land and resoureces that they had stolen from competiting tribes and to maintain the negative stone age culture and mentality of barbarism, murder, theft and genocide as a virtue, a culture and mentality usually dominated by male aggression, vain glory and social and political domination, though often the women (who typically did all the work and had no rights) were some of the most viscious.
Every civilization has been through the stone age in its evolution. No civilization that has passed through it has chosen to go back to it, for good reason.
This video is an extreme distortion of the truth, a distortion that has been stated so often, and with the effective emotional impact of Hollywood cinema, and the phony half truths by leaders and spokespeople of today's Indians, that is now accepted as truth. It is not. And this distortion is a betrayal of the settlers who suffered terribly to live a peaceful life of law and order, hard work spiritual nobility and goodness resulting in one of the greatest, most positive, most beneficial civilizations ever. One must ask: would a United Tribres of America have been able to accomplish what the the United States of America has accomplished? - amazing prosperity, liberation of and the universal rights of the individual, and empowerment of mankind to come ever closer to the ideal of Unity and Universal Love
It's all very sad situation treaties we're broken and the natives were treated the same way their sacrifice of their land for gold sacride land and Mt Rushmore built-in to a sacred mountain it's just awful 😞 not just for the pioneer but the native American people to everyone was a savage in their own way glad Them days are over for some theirs still more humane fighting going on over land and treaties hopefully one day everyone will realize we all bleed the same color and that God loves us all ❤
Basically agreed, Richard.
But it was the incoming, more advanced civilization of the settlers, not the Stone Age civilization of the indigenous people, that had the understanding and enshrined by long-developed law and daily life practice, the ideal and reality that "we all bleed the same color and that God loves us all". This was a novel, baffling idea to the North American indigenous Stone Age peoples, for the most part,
There was indeed some injustice on the part of the incoming civilization and indiiduals and there was some nobility and goodness on the part of the natives, because this the reality of the human being, but overall the conditions and mentality that were inherent in stone age conditions and civilization fiercely perpetuated by the indigenous people was negative, inferior, damaging and restrictive of the potential of the human being. It was tragic that these people had to experience the growing pains and misunderstandings involved undergoing 3,000 plus years of evolution crammed into a few hundred years to catch up with and join the incoming, more desirable, more benign and benevolent civilization. Many did, but many chose to cling to "the old ways" and so underwent self-imposed suffering, and more important and wrong, inflicted unspeakable atrocities and cruelties on the inoffensive and usually helpless settlers who were the practical constructors of the wave of improvement and advancementl that came to North America starting in the 17th century.
There are losers in the evolution of civilization, there must be for the old and flawed must give way to the new and more ideal, just as there are losers in day to day life. No one individual, no group or even an entire civilization can withstand Nature's imperative for the improvement and evolution of mankind and the Earth toward the ideal, and the fundamental reality, of Unity and Univesal Love.
Yes, treaties were broken but treaties were also kept by the Americans, and their tolerance, empathy and compassion far exceeded that of the Stone Age civilization they met in North America. Compromises were made on both sides. But inevitably, the stone age paradigm of claiming vast tracts of land for the dominaiton and benefit of a few, and that by horrible violence and cruelty to all ages and sex and condition, destruction of means for survival, genocide, disunity and enshrinement of brute power as a virtue for the survival of one tribe over another, had to give way to the incoming advanced civilization ultimately devoted to the universal dignity and rights of mankind, sanctity of life and stewardship of the Earth and the ideal of Unity and Universal Love.
Regarding "sacred places/land" that the primitive,often earth-bound and animistic spirituality of the stone age mentality and consciousness , in reality, it is the heart and life itself that is sacred. The land, the stage of life, is meant to serve these. Mount Rushmore reminds us of leaders of humanity who championed the ideals of advanced civilization /the upliftment of humanity and so ultimately Nature, and so ideals which are naturally and universally sacred to the mass of more conscious humanity. Just because a very small segment of humanity clings to the illusion that a particular mass of rock and earth is sacred, does not mean the rest of humanity must comply with that mentality and idea.
No one has destroyed the Indians' temples and no one has denied them the right to worship God and live in harmony with that wonderful reality according to their own understanding and awareness. just as no one is allowed to destroy churches or synagogues nor suppress or dictate the religion of others - this tolerance is one of the fundamental ideals of the advanced civilization that has displaced intolerant and ruthless stone age civilization. It is okay for an individual or group to claim a structure as off limits to certain behavior and use, according to their perception of God /the higher REality, but not to force on others the exclusion of the legitimate and positive use of the Earth by the rest of humanity.
Sounds like history is uncomfortable to you. You sound as if forcibly taking over one's land and lifestyle didn't require brut force and atrocities. You call this narration an extreme distortion because the natives met with a civilization 3000 years more advanced with ideals of human unity, common law and dedication to peace. You talk about the settlers who suffered terribly to live a peaceful life of law and order, spiritual mobility and goodness, liberation and universal rights of the individual. You did an entire diatribe on some self serving belief that has little basis in fact. You're asking for proof, the proof is on you. You should read more.
Some of your photos are not from America. I noticed Australian settlers…
Grandpa worked as a COOK on a CHUCK WAGON for a Cattle Heard one morning cooking Flap Jacks on the prairie a Tall Stoic looking Indian approached standing behind Grandpa wearing only a blanket as Grandpa cooked he stacked the pancakes and began to notice they seemed to disappear looking at the Indian standing stoic the Indian didn’t move so Grandpa took the skillet heated it on the fire and then stuck it up under the blanket with a HOOP and SCREAM up in the air went the blanket and a stack of pancakes and the Naked Indian shot out across the prairie….
Life was quite harsh
for Trash - 17:45 cities, cities, cities. Maybe drawings!?
We don't have much room to talk now..
These people had grit!!
Think! Way, way back people move to America to hope to have a better, safe, peaceful and prosper life. Remember according sometimes they didn't like their government or they were trying to get away before their wars beings to start, when they would catch ear of it. A lots of countries had their own fighting revolutionary wars against some other countries.
Your initial photo: What a sin. Their bellies were swollen from malnutrition, and they had no clothes to protect them from the cold.
I guess you realize the photos you are showing are not from this country. I noticed the use of palm branches for roofing for one example. Please try to find photos that support your narrative. I think you are a fine speaker, bty.
lol they didn't have phones or any other distraction's so this was just basic life for them and entertainment. They worked to survive. We created lazziness.
But the pics of NYC or Borneo? Why? The dialogue is good but the freaky pics?
So he took a wagon in 1934? Seems strange to me.
Many of your photos are from Europe 20s 30s & 40s
This entire narration has pretty much NOTHING to do with reality. The teepees, for instance, were used by Native Americans, not settlers. I do see one photo that includes film star John Wayne, which makes the whole statement ridiculous.
Even pictures from European war WW1
Number 11. Child birth and the death's of both mother's and babies!!
Here after RDR2
Nice photos of starving people in India and ethnic New York City neighborhoods.😟😵💫
I was following along with the narrative, and agreeing with all of it, but you lost me 15:51! "In 1874 a collosal swarm of 12 trillion locasts descended upon the praries darkening the sky, and descimating entire fields of crops within hours." No disrespect, but I call total BS. on that statement! Who the F was out there counting, and even if there was we all have enough common sense to know they couldn't count to 12 trillion, especially in the midst of a disaster of that magnitude! Just sayin'. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Rough!
Some of the photos and films aren’t from America. Get your historical sources right!
More photos were of city dwellers, not frontier photos. Couldn't you have just showed only the western pics?
Nonsense. To say that manure accumulated with little practical use is just ignorant. I mean, DUH! That's fertilizer and they knew that. This dude makes this one-sided view that is inaccurate and sometimes downright facetious.
tis should be shown to the woke dross living now
Nothing changes then.its just homeless got more places to be placed and hidden at least they got tents.
Thumbnail is from Holodomor, not the American West. Ya T Bone Steak!!