The Real Wild West: A History of The American Frontier | Documentary
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- Every country has a past that seems to be embraced within their contemporary character projected on both themselves and to the wider world. For the Nordic nations of Sweden and Norway, it's their Viking ancestry. For Japan, it's their feudal period with tales of the Samurai. For England, it's their history of Kings and Queens with Knights clad in armour while for the United States it is their tales of the Wild West.
We all have an idea of what the Wild West was like with visions of gunfights in the streets between heroes and villains, cattle trains thundering across open plains, bandits leaping on trains to rob its passengers, and enduring animosity between the white settlers and the native peoples. All of it has been ingrained in the public consciousness after decades of movies, books and legends of the old West portraying it as such but like all tall tales told throughout history, we have to question how much truth there is in the popular perception of this fascinating and crucial period of American history.
In this documentary, we are going to examine the true history of the old West and study how its influence has helped define the culture of the modern American nation. This is the story of the Real Wild West.
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As a non-American kid, I used to view the Wild West through rose-colored glasses, seeing only the romanticized ideals of Cowboys and Indians. The videogame, Red Dead Redemption 1 (and 2) made me fall in love passionately with the Wild West’s History. Good and Bad, I find delight in learning it’s history passionately. Thank God for CZcamsrs like this who take the time to create such informative yet highly entertaining videos. If ever I get to visit the US, I wish to travel the lands west of Mississippi on a Wild West History tour on a motorbike roadtrip.
As someone's who's taken a few westward road trips across the United States, it cannot be recommended enough! Here's to hoping you have that chance one day.
Same here! Heres to hoping we'll both achive our goals of seeing the old west of america (though id go in a van or something over a moterbike) good luck to u my dude!
As a US Citizen of pennsylvania, there are a lot of sights to see. A lot of cliff sides, beautiful pine and oak forests. a lot of history if you go to specific places. like for me, i have a gas station / diner nearby called the conestoga wagon. It started out as a wagon and became what it is today. there's a lot of really interesting history for every square inch of land.
Take route 66 all the way to San Bernardino California.
You'll be entertained more than just watching empty fields go by.
Take it from an American born and raised in the American Deep South, who has been deeply fascinated with Wild West & Southern US History. I believe everyone American or not should take a road trip across the American Southwest at least once in their life. Starting in Northwestern Texas on through New Mexico to Arizona & Nevada, then Up to Colorado where you pass the Continental Divide and continue on up to the Great Plains and Black Hills In South and North Dakota. It’s truly an unforgettable experience, and you will lay eyes on some of the most stunning and beautiful Wild country you’ll ever see.
As an English person who knew very little on this subject, I found this documentary very well made and informative and I feel like I understand the subject alot better now. Great job.
I agree this is a very good documentary that doesn't include the lies and propaganda normally regurgitated by most Americans.
Read Lonesome Dove. It could have only happened in America.
@Pa Gall we are not educated in the American Frontier. But we are very well educated. I can understand your somewhat bitter. But the above person lives 100+ years after the fact.
Respect to you, what school did you attend Sir?
It's actually horrible and filled with half truths, and paradoxes.
Idk if he's bad at narration, editing, or studying, or all 3.
But it's a solid c- for highschool history
I come here because rdr2
Goated game , i go online time to time just to drink coffee ingame and watch the scenery
I come here because of RDR2 two😂
Same
Me too
The old west is made to look glamorous, adventurous and glorious in movies, novels and comic books. But in reality, it was ruled by poverty and was horrible. Scarcity of food and water, poor sanitation, low moral values, fear of Bandits and results of poor education, administration and law and order were an everyday activity. The wild west also had many women who lost their husband, son or brother either in the American Civil war or at the hands of unruly and merciless outlaws. Gold was a highly coveted item.
That's how alot of movies portray it
it was built on the genocide of the indigenous people
low moral values?
@@SI-cd7xs yea,low moral values like killing innocent native Americans to take their land
The West is a lot more complex concept than a lot of media portrays it as.
A lot of people think of things like cowboys and cattle drives.
It also includes things like mountain men, coureurs de bois, voyageurs, people like Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Lewis & Clark, etc.
The wild west is my absolute favorite era in history closely followed by the medieval era. I play Red Dead Redemption 2 almost everyday bc of my love for that era and this was an amazing video to listen to
this is the same for me
the historical research that went into making that game is one of the aspects that makes it so entertaining and fascinating to play, you really are transported to another world and its so interesting
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@@DaveMcIroy Why are you showing me a picture of yourself?
@@skyvolt2566, quite a good comeback for a 3 year old.
Absolutely tragic the way humans have treated each other and continue to do so
Not really.
Try observing the behavior of any given other animal.
Aussie living in the USA stack at home with Covid falling down rabbit holes! Thank you so much for this great documentary! I appreciate the reverence you show towards the native Americans and their plights.
I find this period of time fascinating, my father was born in the year of 1891. He lived to be 102 years old. And the stories he would tell me were fascinating.
This is an excellent documentary about the old west. I thank you for posting it. Now I have learned even more! My heart is buried in Wounded Knee. Geronimo was a great warrior, Red Clouds, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, all great warriors. I often think that the Iron Horse was the cause of the Indians losing the war. That fact makes me feel such sadness for the Indians, because after all is said n done, We were the ones who were the invaders. We discovered, then took their lands, killed them and stuck the surviving onto reservations. Anyway.. thank you again for this excellent documentary. Very accurate and a pleasure to watch!!! ❤
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It's true
Custer's Last Stand took place near the Greasy Grass River (as the Natives called it) . . . not the Grassy Grass, as the doc calls it. Better known today as the Little Bighorn River.
He had it coming. If you go out there, the headstones are not in rows as it is in other National cemeteries. That’s because each man was buried where he fell.
@@BryanChandler1905
Yes. I was there. I could see where the women, children and elders were still at the camp (in my mind's eye of course) and I actually cried. It was a beutiful place but of great sadness.
I usually watch Grit tv on 66.4 westerns around the clock westerns!
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THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN. THE HEROES WERE THE NATIVE AMERICANS. Custer was the pathetic fool that didn't listen to his scouts. Custer's wife made a fuss and made it about her husband.
Especially with documentaries about the West, ONCE I start noticing clips and excerpts from known films used to aid the narration, I'm out of there within the first 2-3 minutes. However, this presentation was well done. Perhaps, because it sort of came across as a book-report-- and that's certainly not me taking a jab at the production. I really enjoyed the presentation and would be interested in viewing more from 'Footprints'. Thank you :)
I think he did it to show how the legacy of the Wild West endures today.
Wild West
@@katherinetutschek4757 That makes sense.
Absolutely LOVE the documentary. We grew up on western movies building our curiosity and imagination, intriguing us into learning about the American Frontier. We love traveling to the West Coast and visiting ghost towns and places touched by the Wild West History.
Our passion went as far as us building a short term rental property (located in the beautiful Poconos, PA) inspired by the American Frontier.
*Based on the History Books accounts, one of the most exciting successful achievements in this country's History, post European migration, is, hands down, the "Lewis and Clark Expedition".*
What that group accomplished, still stuns me. To make that trip, the miles, over the terrain, and encountering a variety of different Native Peoples (with all that had to mean to both the Expedition and the Native Peoples), and to make the "return trip", all with only the tools, supplies, medical and first aid supplies, available at the time. These considerations, and their success, with limited issues and loss, has to have been an unbelievable achievement when reported to the Public at that time.
With the tasks assigned for the purpose of the Expedition, there were supplies necessary that required additional burden upon their efforts.
Having been so successful at this challenge leads me to question the reported situations surrounding the final trip for Lewis, who was making his way to Washington DC from Louisiana, ending in Tennessee, close to the Alabama line.
My favorite time in American history is from 1800 to 1840 .
Equivalent to the moon missions.
Amazing, right?!
Well someways. Lewis and Clark found Indians on horses that some could speak French.
@@karlfonner7589 Some of the Natives gave them alot of help along the way.
A very good documentary. With regard to the Sioux uprising, you said "grassy grass". I believe it should be "greasy grass". The native Americans called the Battle of the Little Big Horn the Battle of the Greasy Grass
If all docus were narrated like this I'd watch them all!!!
A much better documentary than others I've found on the subject. You finally enabled me to get a grasp on the basic outline of events that had been proving elusive in an engaging way. Thanks!
I agree. This is presented in a fair light unlike others that skip facts for one reason or another.
You forgot to talk about the Mexican vaqueros… who were the first cowboys.
actually the first cowboys in the Americas were in Brazil. also called Vaqueiros. but unlike Mexico, because there's no historical connection with Brazil and the U.S , it obviously gets very little attention
@@bconni2 no sir the first cowboys came from Mexico to be exact in central Mexico, the state of Hidalgo way before Mexico became a country when it was still considered ~Nueva España~
Wrong again. Everyone knows the first real cowboys were the Vaqualualuas in Waikiki
@@jasoncampos2933Cabeza de Vaca and them were exploring before the Anglos, that's for sure
52:35 as someone from California, I agree that the Wild West ended around the 1910’s and in some places as late as the year 1920. Of course mountain towns like Bodie stayed old but they’re an anomaly.
Part of my reasoning with some strong holdover culturally from the Victorian era in society
Tell me about Bodie Brodie🤔
Well I think the west is still very much wild evan today.
@@coryondreako8227 there are still many western towns today.
Bodie is a state park that's why it's an anomaly.
I read or saw somewhere that the settlers didn't use the Conestoga wagons because they were too heavy. They were mainly used to haul freight.
prairie schooners.
Amazing video. Thank you for this!
I'm from North Dakota we have a pretty big native population kind of where they made their last stand where the government pushed them but you go 300 400 mi and you don't see a native American we're around here you see them all the time I travel from here to California and only saw one or two only saw a few reservations as well it's just crazy lot of history a lot of people died to get where our country is today no matter how dark the history is at least it's not forgotten and we can be grateful for the life we live today it's sad so many people lost their land and their way of life history ain't pretty all the time also traveling so far from the plains to the Rocky mountains to the desert I just imagined people traveling on wagons and white people and Indians fighting when you travel west there's still a great sense of adventure and freedom and you really know how small you are compared to the Earth and how big America is Great documentary thank you
An exceptional documentary. Thank you !
Red dead 2 really got me into the wild west
Ong💀
This is this man’s first video and it’s his best video. That’s wild
Just saw your comment, and I couldn't say it better myself
Great video.
Great documentary
"I have a plan Arthur"
Dutch
A lovely overview of the topic with great art and visuals and exemplary editing. ❤
Saloon
Fabulous. Really enjoyed watching that thank you.
Great documentary..thx👍🇸🇪😀
Excellent documentary, very well put together with superb editing. Your documentary is actually much better quality than some stuff I've seen on cable, which is supposedly more professional. The only minor critique I'd make on your documentary, would be the exact same critique I'd have to level at any other documentary covering the same subject: too little time to cover such a complex and chronologically long subject. This is very well done and gives as good a "thumbnail sketch" as it would be possible to give the history of the Western Frontier in American History in a too-short 55 minutes! Thank you for publishing this video.
This is a fantastically put together and well researched documentary. Bravo, very very good.
Amazing video, i learned a lot, more people should watch it
Great storytelling.
A well put together documentary. Well done!
Possibly one of the most post colononial histories I’ve listened to congratulations chum
Fantastic work
exceptional documentary and well narrated.Thank you !😊👍👍
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Wow! Such a great documentary. I'm Kenyan and I love it!❤️
Impressive documentary .
Thank you bro, this is sick. Always been in love with the wild west and the year 1947 specifically, thanks to rockstar I got L.A noire for my 1940's obsession and RDR1 and RDR2 for my wild west obsession, and now I find this sick documentary, sick.
Very interesting. Thx
I think the fact that during the settling of the West there were a host of organizations of White Americans that supported Native Americans and the rights the should have been afforded. A quick check of historical records will bare me out. I find it very curious how these type of "HERE'S THE TRUTH" documentaries always leave this fact out of their production.
I was thinking to myself, "This documentary could branch out to so many others." And then I went to your page! Thank you! Subbed!
Great channel. Super interesting.... Thanks
I was born and raised in New Mexico. Red Dead Redemption sparked my interest in old west history
Thank you so much for making these videos!
I've only recently discovered your channel but I am thoroughly enjoying every video that I watch!
I've always been fascinated by the wild west (and slightly bitter that my great grandparents didn't make the journey across the pond back then haha!).
Your narration, editing and delivery are excellent and you've clearly put in a lot of time researching your content.
Keep up the great work!
P.s - I'd like to echo what others are saying in these comments, that this particular documentary is better than any I've seen on "TV"
Awesome!!!!!
Really well done! Thank you from Texas.
Awesome presentation 👏👏👏🙂
Documentrys using people not pictures are great viewing it shows the time spent on them .
Phenomenal video. Thank you
I love this thank you man.
Very well made video. So good.
The bridging of the divide between the east and west is when this county started to go down hill.
Great documentary, thank you. Your matter-of-fact method of telling what happened is refreshing. I didn't feel as though you were trying to influence my opinion. This is what needs to be taught in our schools. The truth with a calm voice. Again. thank you.
Exactly!
My wife and I visited friends near St Louis, in 2001 and 2004. We saw the
reenactment of the Lewis & Clark
Expedition on the Mississippi and
Missouti River in winter 2004. The
Father from the friends we visited
was a reenactor on a Keel Boat there.
We also visited Fort DuBois and the
museum with the Keel Boats and
other artifacts there, and had adinner
with some of the actors in uniform.
I still have some souvenirs from it
almost 20 years later. 😊
Thank you!
They did not use Conestoga wagons. They were called prairie schooners. They were small farm wagons.
Jefferson set two expeditions, one up the Missouri River (Lewis and Clark) and one up the Upper Mississippi River (Zeb Pike)
Thanks for ur history info
Love your channel...
There were actually two Medals of Honor given to Buffalo Bill. He gave away the first one to family. He later regretted that act of generosity and appealed to his friend General Nelson Miles for a replacement...his friend obliged him. His Medal of Honor was rescinded in 1917. The reason behind the action was that he was merely a scout and not an actual member of the military therefore his was not eligible, despite his valor. The decision was reversed in 1989 and his Medal of Honor was restored. Both medals are on display at two separate museums...and there you have 'the rest of the story'.... Enjoyed the Documentary!
The Brilliant 1883 tv series showed a snatch of this life.
Right!!! After watching first 2 episodes I had to look it up on youtube. That life was merciful and lawless asffff
Good job on this video
Time to binge
One group i didnt see mentioned are mountain men
The amusing thing here is the claim that the 'wild' west was not as 'wild' as portrayed in novel and film, and then go on to say it was exactly as portrayed; you cannot have it both ways...
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It's what happens when you have non professionals upload these videos...they try but often get it wrong.....NOONE really knows what EXACTLY happened back then because everyone is DEAD,smh
@@BryantBrothers-gm1qxbruh it’s not ancient history there are written records of these things it was only like 150 years ago
Yes you can have it both ways.
@@BryantBrothers-gm1qx What a dumb comment. lol 🤦♂
I found your channel today and subscribed to it today 👍
No you didn't
@@dionst.michael1482 oops, now I did 😉
What a wonderful video. Informative and concise. All the while being so enjoyable to watch.
Thank you, very well done team, truely enjoyed this film.🤠 little political in some of the comment’s of the notation.
Excellent documentary
Brilliantly narrated documentary, worthy of broadcast on TV.
Your channel is dope...thanks
The Spanish term 'Vaquero' was transmogrified to the Anglicized term 'Buckaroo'.
True.
Vaca=cow.
Vaquero=cowman.
The Conestoga wagons were way too heavy for the western trails and rivers. At least in the early days before there was road maintenance.
Most were much smaller wagons and most people walked most of the way alongside the wagon to lighten the load on the oxen but mostly because they were bumpy and uncomfortable to ride on.
Some even push hand carts or wheelbarrows.
There was another option that no one ever talks about it going by ship either around the bottom of S America or taking a ship to Panama and riding across on the railroad and continuing on another ship up to the west coast
I assume it was much more expensive but I have never seen a comparison.
it's obviously not mentioned in this vid, but the North East Sertão region of Brazil had their version of the American wild West about 200 years earlier in which the Portuguese along with the native Tupi people, Mestizos and runaway African slaves engaged in a level of lawless violence and debauchery that would make even the most ambitious psychopath of America's wild West envious
Happy to see clips of Deadwood here ❤
Very interesting and well narrated.
Great video just maybe some work on understanding names noticed a few simple that where mispronounced.
would appreciate a list of the films and tv shows used in the video :-) recognised a few!
Additional comment on 'vanishing Native Americans - US Census, 10 year intervals, LA, Ca. A man, at the same address, with the same name and birth date first identified himself as 'Indian', 10 years later, he Identified as 'Mestizo', and for the following census he Identified as 'Spaniard'. He didn't vanish, he changed his listed heritage.
Was there a ”Canadian frontier” in Canada? Were there cowboys and saloons there as well? - a Finn who’s not sure 🇫🇮 Great video!
Yes, Canada has a West
Canada is a communist country so who cares.
@@donaldbarnes1144 Brother Donny, the French were actually the best at getting along with the Injuns because they always had a loaded pipe and would sit around smoking out with the Natives. The chief would cough and say, "This is really good shit." At this point, they might offer you their daughter. No matter even if she was butt-ugly and reeked of buffalo dung, you better accept his offer or they would string you up and stuff your nuts in your mouth and leave your sorry ass right next to an anthill..DOH!
@@donaldbarnes1144 Ain't nothing like an arrogant redneck, being proud of things he has nothing to do with and chatting s*it about places he's never been to.
@@donaldbarnes1144 I heard of Texas. Heard ya only find steers and queers there. I don’t see no horns so what are YOU? Hahaha!
Geronimo which was not his real name.. received his name when he attacked a Mexican village during the feast of St Geronimo.. that's why people used to yell Geronimo and he used to attack..
His name was Goyaałé - in Athapascan pronunciation: kòjàːɬɛ́ - meaning 'the one who yawns'.
I have always lived in Wyoming and Montana in my 82 years.
I have always lived in Washington State and Alaska in my 51 years, with a little bit of New Mexico. Howdy part'ner! 🤘
My Ancestors from Kassel Germany,
were artists, which I saw some years
ago.
Charles Christian Nahl, and his brother
Hugo left Europe around 1850 and
went Brooklyn, NYC, from there went
through Panama, and then to the new
San Francisco and state I f California. He became known as the Artist of that
Gold Rush, and I think his brother
either created the Bear on the State of California Flag and the state seal.
We saw an excibit in 1976 for the
Bicentennial of the US at the Crocker
Museum in Sacramento, and a tour
there with the museum director too.😊
It's Red dead redemption now🤠 no moe wild west
And rock star abandoned the gem they got 😢
You picked the right western for this love the new magnificent seven Denzel is awesome
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Just a note: The main reason of the wagon-trains being in the circle comes from the fact that every night, when the wagon-train set up camp, they would put them in a circle to help keep their precious cattle from wondering off.🐂
I like how the scene at 1:16 only one dude actually has the rhythm to ride the horse
Right?! The one guy looks like he's thinking, what's a horse? 😉
i can see Arthur Morgan and Dutch here
A well put together documentary. This just reminds me how vile humans can be.
That's all you got out of this?
Or how incredible the human spirit can be ….
An hour isn't brief. But I'll take it 🤝🏻
Custer's rank after The War Between The States was Lieutenant Colonel rather than General.
That's right, by the end of the Civil War he was ranked Major General. However, after the war he was demoted back to his basic rank of Captain, before he in 1867 joined the 7th Cavalry and got promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.
Something I didn't hear when you're speaking on the native Americans as that a lot of native American tribes had seen white people way before Columbus ever arrived. Lots of tribes talk about the pale skin or the white man. So I believe in what history is starting to show is the Scandinavians and Europeans were probably in America way before Christopher Columbus and also they can show the Chinese were in America before Columbus. But what says everybody else wasn't there already. History is told by the victors. That doesn't mean history is right
Columbus was European
Thanks John Madden
I live in Oklahoma and we are learning Oklahoma History and we learned that it was possible Vikings came through because they found tunes from a Nordic language from the Viking times in a cave in Oklahoma
Can you cite any sources?
@@drizzo4669 look up Spanish exhibitions in 1541 and there were possibly Vikings because there are relics of em in Oklahoman caves
So, nothing has changed, amazing
everything has changed
Amazing! very well done, thank you!!
As a proud descendant of the Cherokee nation- by the way we are American Indians - i can say with
certainty, all Amercan Indians are better off -
Ask yourself this - What would have happened if Russia or Germany or China decided to explore North America ? I can tell ya - it wouldnt be pretty - Russia starved over 2 million of its own people - China ? We would have been enslaved immediately - I dont even want to think what Hitler would have done - Hitler had a relationship with Mexico and Mexico hated Indians -
These are true life scenarios - Nature can't be stopped - Survival of the fittest - Thank God the Europeans got here before Hitler - think about it ,young fella
While I appreciate the work done on this doc, and that it does not reek of political correctness:, the only people who know real history are the people who lived during that time. Romanticizing
different ethnic groups through food music dress and art help people to understand one another
and to get long and avoid bitterness and prejudice. People would never marry or do anything good with out romantic notions.
The mindset and cultural differences between Settler Americans and indigenous American people varied from tribe
to tribe. Early on, the Cherokee soon acquired their own written alphabet and translated the Bible into their own
language.
An insightful book , is entitled, I fought with Geronimo, by Jason Betzinez. The book and others like it describe real history by people who lived it.
Outside the box. (Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull were good friends)
Great comment; I thought this was just a boring and generic program.
Try reading 500 Years of Indigenous Struggle. That’s the real story of the filthy settlers who couldn’t survive on their own without native help.
@@borninvincible So says the simple minded anti white leftist.
@@lilajagears8317 lmao anti white leftist? why are Americans so slow ?
@@lilajagears8317 what was the last book you read concerning the topic? instead of attacking my position, you attack my character. ad hominem.
" Railroad building in
" 1930" '??
The Wild West?
1830 I think he means
Gracias
We declared our independence on July 2nd. It was announced publicly on July 4th. It wasn't officially signed until August 2nd. Just to get the facts straight.
It's observed on July 4th, so that's a minor discrepancy.