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When you consider the exact location and even the year it occurred is in question you begin to realize the short comings with oral history. Indians just like whites want to always appear to have acted and behaved better than they actually did. The individual combat probably happened. The details are questionable, and each tribe has their own spin on it.

I read that she and Jim were married. Great video.

Great storytelling. No incredible storytelling and story. I'm a new subscriber .

Her boyfriend? She was from Iowa.

Really enjoyed the video! I could have sworn the wind was trying to blow my car off the road the first night I drove through this terrifying stretch of road. The moon and the stars have to align justtt right in order for me to take this route again in winter!

This is a great video! Thanks for the information and for sharing the actual site of the tragic lynching.

This was a very interesting story, very well told. Have read everything I can get my hands on about the old west and native american history in particular. Have never read much details about this event, though.

I came to your site looking for photos of Cattle Kate for my own video on her. I learned a lot from your video. Great job!

Constantly on the CB ["How Bout that Elk Mountain?"] Ahh...Double Nickel all the way thru, Lil Slick with some gust...not bad. How bout them Three Sisters? [EASY Up and Down]

I used to travel from Jackson to Casper regularly for years.. So I would drive by that butte thousands of times. I always heard they met on top of the mountain also… 😂 I always wondered if what I was told was true. That’s why I just looked this up. I used to get warnings of going through that area also. I was told to never pull over for a broke down car in the middle of the night in between the Pavilion cut to the highway and Dubois. It was how the Natives in the area would Rob people. There’s a huge Wind River Rez right there. I also used to stop at a little tiny bar in that area with a metal door. It had one of them slide things that would open so the owner could take a look at you and decide to let ya in or not. The owner personally showed me bullet holes, shotgun blasts, in the door and the bar from drunk Natives that he would refuse service after hours from. I had also noticed he had a shotgun himself behind the bar.. I also use to Deep root feed those spruce trees in front of the crowheart school for free. It’s been awhile, but they were like 4” tall at the time. In the late 90s, early 00s we would regularly stop and get drinks to go through the drive throughs. Bloody Mary’s usually… but strong as fuk!

Happy to find this channel! Led here researching the Corps of Discovery for fourth grade Westward Expansion. It's been an interesting rabbit hole to go down! I feel so many of the men such as Colter are under-represented in the average WWE history lesson. It's a shame because they have some very powerful stories that lend to the subjective aspect of the various experiences of people back then. No doubt certain consistent experiences could've led to a grander scale of assumptions in culture, and the opposite as well if information was not taken into account.

Well researched and informative. What a journey. Hard times pulling a cart across harsh terrain let alone during a early season blizzard..

Etta Place was not a school teacher. Sorry. But not sorry. Do you have any stories about Etta in Wyoming? Say 1896-1900?

Wyoming History Channel, if this was truly trucking industry that pushed this route, then the next year, in 1971, a bypass route, along the original route, would have been built. Yet here we are years into this mess, 2023, and no bypass is built.

driven semi for years across all parts of Wyoming and seen all these names on signs for towns, parks, rivers, mountains, etc… its so cool to hear the history behind all the names.. thanks!

Nice video, Sam!

Excellent video, thank you

I was Born and Raised in Worland, Wyoming, my parents and I left Jackson Hole in 1959 and now as I have no Relatives left, I am coming back to Wyoming to hopefully buy a place somewhere from Worland to Lander and my Father told me about this battle of the Shoshone and Crow Chiefs having this occurrence but not to the IN DEPTH way that You Sir has described this Historical Event ! You got me VERY Interested More in the History of Wyoming !!! Therefore I Subscribed to get More of Your EXEMPLARY , FANTASTIC ,and INTERESTING History Lessons !!! THANK YOU Ever So Much ! You have a New FAN !!!

What is your favorite book behind you ???

Well THERE'S a day you won't soon forget! Glad you made it out (finally) with all your kit.

Very informative. I read your article in the Cowboy State daily and found some of your quips hilarious. But beside that, what happened to Ellen Watson and Jim Averel is tragic. I could get up on my soap box but I think you did a great job in recalling the truth of what really happened. Thank you.

This is greatly insightful to me. Thank you very much. I enjoy your work.

Thank you for this work.

THANKYOU!! I really enjoyed your video and will watch the rest!!

Hi Sam, Read about all of this last winter and have wanted to go and see the area too. Thank you for the videos and withstanding the Ghost of Kate. Love the history . Will you do another video for the guys in Kaycee too?

They are still bullies in Wyoming! Don’t move to Wyoming they don’t want progress there. Inbred and narrow minded and, Mike Hickey murdered Kelly Wykuse in the 1970’s. Mike mutilated her body and used her genitals to carry his tobacco snuff. He is a well respected rancher in Lonetree Wyoming. I don’t get the mindset there. Murderers are respected?

Power hungry men existed back in 1889, and still exist today, sadly. This is a heart wrenching story, and Im so glad you told it in a very interesting manner. Thank you for your hard work, and Im sure Ellen thanks you for bringing truth to her story.

Thank you for helping to set the record straight on what actually happened to Ellen and Jim. The humerus aspects of the story added greatly to it. I found your story in the Wyoming cowboy daily. Thanks so much for the hard work and for setting the story straight.

Very enjoyable and well put together. Thank you for your hard work getting the facts straight, and visiting the hard to reach spot. If it's any consolation for all the hot difficult time you experienced making this story, for those of us who are educated by your due diligence, I hope it was worth it. Thank you.

Thank you for this video. I found your channel in the Cowboy State newspaper. I hope you do more videos. I Will watch them. In my younger days I spent a few years living in Wyoming doing seismograph work. I love Wyoming and truly enjoyed the work that I did. I've seen many many historical places there. Most of which were out in the boonies. I plan to go back out there when I retire and do some more exploring. Thanks again for your hard work !!!

My goodness the trials you went through to get this story filmed and documented!! I appreciate your hard effort and apparently Ellen wanted you to tell her story by evidence of you finally finding your phone (haha). I'm looking forward to watching any other adventures you bring to us. You did an excellent job Sir.

After reading your article in the Cowboy State Daily I found this this Wyoming history channel. I am so grateful that I did!! The story of this video production had me laughing while simultaneously engrossed in the information I did not know about “Cattle Kate”. Thank you for the extreme efforts to film this segment and I look forward to watching many more now that I have discovered your channel. Saluté and job well done!

Really enjoyed the story. It was well told.

Thank you for sharing this story. I read the book about Ellen, thoroughly enjoyed it, and glad that the truth finally came out.

Nice video, Sam.

RIP Ellen Watson. Great storytelling!

Thank you for the history. What a tragic story.

Thanks for presenting this very good video. I esp. liked the far off shot of the train at the end. The railroad is the technology on which all others pivoted.

Very interesting video. I found the part about Wyoming quarter horses to be especially interesting. I’m not trying to be rude, but the US Army has posts, not bases. Sorry, it’s an Army thing.

Great channel. Born and raised raised in Wyoming good to see someone care enough to talk about our state's ridiculous history.

Drifting goose [ magabobdu] the last free hunkpati Dakota sioux leader during the 1870's. He never allowed American settlers in the James River valley north of Redfield County SD untouched land. Drifting goose with his warriors led non violence raiding parties against the American settlers and rail road survivors by causing to much trouble! The us government wanted Drifting goose to leave his land! Finally by the spring of 1880 the peaceful Dakota sioux chief led his last free proud hunkpati Dakota sioux people to the crow creek sioux Indian reservation at old Fort Thompson SD were his descents live today. Drifting goose never signed a treaty with the us government. The Aberdeen SD news paper called him the last resistance of his people.

Look me up if you tackle the Jim Bridger Trail. There's some remaining history on the surface that can be traced to a wagon wreck at the Devil's Backbone near Bridger Butte in the Bighorn Basin.

Very interesting story and I really like Wyoming, especially the great down to earth people. Just out of curiosity, what building is at 4:12?

Actually, at the mouth of Clarks Fork Canyon, the Bighorn Basin is to your east. The Powder River basin is on the east side of the Bighorns. John Colter must have had more guts than brains to travel the Absarokas, Tetons, and Yellowstone alone in the dead of winter, yet he survived. What a testament to the ruggedness of the man. I've had plenty of times when the wind and cold in the Absarokas have left me frozen to the bone even with modern clothing but I had a hot shower and a warm bed to come home to. It would be hard to imagine what he thought and felt as he tried to warm himself in front of a fire at night... alone in a frozen wilderness. Tremendous respect for that man.

Keep political rhetoric out it’s much better that way.

The wildlife was not hunted out of existence, they burned sage and cow poop for cooking. The trees were gone 10,000 years ago after the last ice age. The high desert looks today very much as it did in the 1840’s.

Just found this channel. Love it

Well done. Thank you.

This was a fantastic video !

Please do a segment on the Mountain Meadow Massacre .