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Interesting history! This channel is truly a gem

Thanks for the content, I love old west stories

I agree with that man about what work is. Strangely enough i use alot of the words they do. My kids are always on my case about it lol. Autocorrect make my writing better than my talking lol.

You said "In a camp of this sort, humanity is exceptionally interesting." It's a great quote, and reminds me of a Shackleton quote of the men he met on South Georgia island, something like "Most, if not all, of the men were at odds with life."

One thing I noticed is that they all seem to speak a LOT slower. Not sure if this is due to the old footage being digitized, or perhaps they were given instruction like "This is finnicky, please speak clearly, loudly and slowly". Maybe we all just speak faster now due to influence of radio, television and internet?

Fascinating as always. Thanks for putting this together and giving it to us.

Been to Leadville, Colorado a few times. 😊

Funny enough, there was widely supported gun control in the west. Literally been on tours throughout the west where they spoke about how just about every major western settlement had a gun control policy prior to entering a township. Crazy how everything changed. By the way, I love your channel. Leadville is a historical treasure.

Leadville, Colorado, that is … LoL

I'm a Colorado man and just stumbled on a channel about Leadville in the wild west! Awesome!

My Grandparents were born between 1915-1919. They would say davenport instead of couch or sofa

Excellent presentation! Thank you for using your real voice. You are soothing and interesting. You captivated my attention and that’s hard to do. There were many excellent choices at excellent prices. I wish it was so easy today.

Too diverse to know.

Why is old Ryan Gosling in the thumbnail

The "old West" was too new to develop its own accent. People talked like they did wherever they came from.

Accents are not always or even usually solidified at any age. For the first 24 years of my life I lived in NY not far from NYC. When I move to Syracuse my accent softened, and when I moved to Ohio less than two years later it didn’t take long (less than a year )before my accent sounded like most of the native Ohioans. I’m in my 50’s now still living in Ohio, and long gone are my days of pronouncing “coffee” as “cauffee”. Other people, however, never seem to lose their accents regardless where they live. The truth is that without recordings from a specific time and place in the distant passed, we can only speculate even when hearing some one from the era speak long after a particular time and place.

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Temperance? - I'll drink to that.

A new Lost Leadville always makes the day a little brighter. Thank you for this.

I completely believed the Hollywood cliches of gunfights at high noon, gigantic southern drawl, and high death rates during my youth. Funny how popular Hollywood was in my youth in the 90s to nowadays when everyone pokes fun at them at is very derogatory towards them. I believe that if what is called coming full circle.

Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday in Tombsone, was doing a Georgia accent because Doc Holliday was from Georgia, not the West.

The California native who was talking about the Concord coach did not pronounce his R's - I heard "Con-kid Coach", like he came from Massachusetts himself.

Doc Holliday was from Georgia, so he would’ve had a drawl. Rooster Cogburn was from the “Little Dixie” region of Missouri, so he probably would have also.

Still pockets in the foothills that sound like this

When America was white. 🙏 As a russian nationalist who never was to USA I feel kind of nostalgic and homesick when I see these old american one-story red-brick towns. This is real America and clearly you lost something very valuable with them. Anyway I'm reading Blood Meridian at the moment and this video is helpful. 😁

The "first" pronunciation is very Irish, still. It's still changed a bit but without the sound of the R or the sound of it has changed and blended in with the S. In fact, a lot of it is very Irish, combined with a posh English accent.

Hard times come again no more.

Wow they sound alot more British also very well spoken especially the old lady senator sounds like a posh RP accent.

lol the Missouri guy sounds like my wife's mamaw from west kentucky

One of the sad parts of globalization... unique mannerisms and characteristics of language forever diluded

I wonder why so few young people were recorded.

The Civil War veteran spoke exactly like the old timers spoke when I was a kid. Same pronunciation and cadence. Must be the 19th century midwest way of speaking.

3:31 I think you got your terminology wrong. A rhotic accent is an accent in which the R is always pronounced. The coil-curl merger is inherently non-rhotic or variably rhotic since the R in curl is dropped.

Thanks for the upload, and I completely agree with your words on Simon Roper, who really does a great job, trying to fill in on American dialects and some of it's origins. Thanks again ☺

Well famously Thomas Edison himself?

Based on this limited example at least it doesn't appear that chocolate was much of a thing then.

My grandparents on my mom's side are from the eastern shore in Virginia and Maryland in the 1930s. That's also a very cool accent to look up if yall are into that.

If this is accurate the most accurate wild west movie we have in terms of dialect is True Grit.

Also Southern German is different than Northern German see despite having both southern und northern German in me my accent is Southern German.

Love all this sort of thing, they sound a bit like northern English in some aspects. Also bits of West Country/ Irish mixed.

I am an Asian and I think I have heard these accent is cartoons such as Popeye the sialor man. Of course, Donald Ducj has the most special accent.

Where is your accent from?

the modern american accent is spanish much like the modern american people its been 250 years dont you think its time to move on? its time to press 2 for spanish indefinitely america should always have been a spanish speaking country

When I used to think about what people sounded like during the wild west era this wasn’t in mind a lot of the accent I hear most likely doesn’t even exist anymore it’s a interesting accent’s I’m hearing, and the farmer actually sounded a lot like the looney toon character Elmer Fudd exactly the same accent.

Sir Thank u for posting. You did what u set out to do and more. Very interesting and well done. Kudos!

Reminds me of the stereotypical grey-bearded spelunker accent personally

So basically, Moe, Larry and Curly run the gamut of accents.

I’m trying to track down court transcripts from cities in the old American West as speech samples, but I haven’t yet figured out how to find them.

You will respect my Authority lol ok cartman ancestors were from the old west

Very interesting video, thanks for making this :)