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Johnny Ringo was a member of the Beatles? 😂😂

The first myth is that the Red me were "native". They were just as invasive as the Europeans. Just a few centuries earlier.

Robbing only one stagecoach hardly qualifies as a legend.

Technically cowboy or vaqueros originated in medieval Spain not Mexiko.

Funny thing is I lived in the Southwest and the history the natives told contradicts some of your 21st century Woke crap! Just saying...

So....What does your thumbnail photo have to do with the story?...I never saw any mention of semi-auto pistols in your video! Just sayin'!

Movies show the hero shooting hundreds of shots at the baddies with their six-gun. Of course this is completely false- It would be no more than a dozen shots out of a six-gun before reloading. 🤔

Cowyboys didn´t wear pistols as seen in the Hollywood movies, they were cumbersom and could get in the way when working. If they did have any gun it was kept in their bedroll and taken out for when needed for hunting. Some cowboys did have small pocket pistols that they kept in their chap pocket but this was not a common practice.

sorry but very doubtful especially without verififable and credible evidence

well, the only really bad thing in tombstone is the price for gas if you didn't fill up in, say,. Tucson on your way to Douglas or wherever . and yes, you can watch a reenactment of the shootout like 2-4 times a day, depending on weather and day of the week. tourist -y stuff like that. couple of nice restaurants, too.

VERY WELL DONE. having lived there over 20 years til i moved to mexico, i have been thru tombstone at least30 times. they had gun control that would make NYC proud. ONLY criminals still carried, hidden, not on the hip. thank you for an excellent presentation. let me know, please, if you build/ write any other videos.

“Cowboys are an American invention”. And then you go on to say that they came from South America , which makes them undeniably an American invention. You do know that the United States is NOT all of America?

Why not use actual period photographs to illustrate your points rather than Hollywood movie clips? Particularly for the hats.

7 myths? Try about 7,777, Virtually everything everyone thinks they know about it is a "myth", and that's putting it charitably. Everything in movies is bollocks, from the depictions of town-layouts to gunbelts (no idiot kept his bullets in exterior belt-loops, because those didn't exist). Most photos are heavily doctored, most news articles were outragious hoaxes, and most promoted famous people outright frauds (including such luminaries and Danial Boone and Wild Bill Hickock). Read your mileswmathis updates daily.

So the Old West was populated solely by Clint Eastwood?

Isn't the fast draw a myth?

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The large mirror behind the bar was in place so patrons could see behind them to aboid being shot in the back. There were no stools to sit on at the bar ad it would be difficult to draw a pistol when seated.

The item is pronounced Shaps, not Chaps.

My son and I would love to visit Tombstone

Buckskin Frank Leslie killed him. And it was well known at that time.

Clickbait !Don't waste your time...doesn't mention anything about the topic until the last 20 seconds

I would add, that although the west could be a violent place, the old South of the 1800's was probably more violent than the west. Certainly there was much more extrajudicial violence, lynchings, murders, etc., in the South.

My buddy's girlfriend said it must've been hard for the pioneers in the winter as there was no one to plow the highways.

Also, Michael did not row the boat “ashore” . He left it about 30 feet out, and waded from there. But he saw a men watching hum and shouted, “Hey you! As far as you’re concerned, I rowed that boat ashore!” The guy said, “Yeah, sure. Whatever.” So that’s how that story got started.

SHOCKING! BRUTAL! QUACK!

Don't include everyone with these so called myths.

Two things make the rest less believable. One you stated the "Recorded" deaths on the Oregon Trail was between 10,000 and 30,000. How can the number but like if they are "recorded". Two you make the claim that there were 8 bank robberies cover 15 states. So did most of these BANK ROBBERIES only involve 1/2 of a bank. Good try but not spot on with everything.

Butaccidents and disease dint make for good movies so 90% of Hollywood movies are about Indian fighting. In most of those the Indian was the bad guy when all they were doing was defending THEIR land. But Hollywood seldom shows this because most people don't want to know about that

The term "cowboy" itself underwent changes over time. In Revolutionary times, boys handled the cows that belonged to to the Army. Obviously, without refrigeration, the cows needed to be kept alive until eaten. Then, in the Western Expansion, derilicts and roustabouts who were looked down upon were called cowboys as an insult, the implication being that they were good for nothing other than the work being done by boys. Gradually, the term was used for anyone who worked cattle.

There’s a lot of energy in Tombstone. You can feel it more, especially at night. Every single time we passed through there on our way to Douglas, i always felt something was off kind of like heavy and dreadful.

Tombstone was the most dangerous old west town in history

Hookers in the Old West werfe poor because there was no Donald Trump around who paid 120K for 30 secs. 😀

I just wish we taught more real history and civics in school. Instead we ban books for children that don't fit our fantastic views.

Debunking videos always interest me, and provide new prospectives. I just wish the debunkers would provide references sources for their debunking claims... Where do they get THEIR information. Would be nice to see this info in the video's notes, or even within the video. Without knowing the sources/references how do we determine accuracy?

Well, if misinformation is accounted as fact then this video is incredible! However actual accounts gathered from city, county and state records give the lie to most of this video.

good to know the truth

One other myth I heard was about the duel in the middle of the street. I heard that the mostly like encounter was that of sticking close to a wall, knees bent , and fanning the hammer of a pistol, sort of uzi style, while trying not to expose yourself too much.

One thing is for sure..... Lying conman Brushy Bill Roberts, was NOT Billy the Kid........you Brushy Bill people are utterly DELUSIONAL 😆😆

Brushy Bill was no more Billy the Kid than I am. That old, demented, dishonest huckster was 70 in 1950, not 91. His own family discredits Brushy Bill as a "teller of tall tales" and it is disgusting that people try to give the laurels earned by the real Billy the Kid to that fraud Brushy Bill who was unworthy of shining Billy's boots.

The American cowboy myth was so well established by 1904 that at a county fair you could be outfitted as a cowboy for pictures, the whole thing big hat, nun, holster, sheepskin chaps neckerchief and all. It would be similar to dressing as batman for a fun pickture today for kids. The popularization of the traditional idea of cowboys was somewhat like the comic books of today. I have a picture of a grandfather from 1904 taken at a fair in the getup. He ran a livery stable in Calgary. So when you see the fake cowboys of today reliving what they claim is history, understand it is comic book history.

Elmer Keith wrote in "Hell I Was There" how someone tried robbing the bank in his Montana town. The townsfolk turned out to help the sheriff take down the would be robbers. They did not get far. Citizens had an interest in protecting the bank since that was where their many was held and there was no FDIC to protect them against loss.

I think I saw that the bowler hat was quite expensive, but it was also a sort of safety hat.

the problem with the way the old West is portrayed in the movies is that since those movies make their way around the world, this is how the world sees the US and its history. It's basically propaganda, and Goebbels would have loved it.

O no! Are you telling me "They call me Trinity" is not based on fact and real events. There goes my admiration of the old spaghetti westerns. Even more shocking is the hosting of card games in brothels.....disgusting. 😏

Really liked that you inculded clips from Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies. More people should watch them and know them :)

Took family out west and made a stopped at Fort Sumter, saw where Billy and his two friends were intumbed inside a cage with Billy's grave marker was bolted down because some body had stolen it

Okay, this is bullshit. No, cowboys didnt wear bowlers- except when they got a pro Photographer to do a pic. Yes, the classic Stetson didnt come along until later in the perdio, but if you look at period photos of cowboys or texas rangers etc our working they wore wide brim felt hats- sometimes called 'wideawake" hates. This myth comes from one writer who did find that the classic Steson was a late development, and saw photos of the Wild Bunch etc wearing bowlers. Teddy Roosevelt when he was out in the west wrote that someone had a bowler hat and everyone made fun of him, and ridiculed him, knocked it off his head, etc. Mark Twain writes about his "wideawake" hat- not a bowler. The James Gang alone robbed over 20 banks- so one gang, more than twice the ridiculous 8 quoted here. (Wideawake hat- because the felt had no "nap" get it?)

That one pic is of Jesse james

Sorry, but saying “before the pilgrims” and then “Mexicans” is so grossly ignorant to what came first it’s not even funny.