I went to the museum in my hometown and found an pamphlet from the 1880s that was made to attract people to the area. It talked about all of the businesses in town, what the people were like and the pass times they enjoyed, the cash crops and what most farmers were growing, the sort of people they were hoping to attract, etc. It was amazing. I learned more from that packet about my hometowns past than from anywhere else. I wish i could find it.
Fun fact my great great grandpa was a blacksmith, ferrier, and carpenter in his town and his brother was a texas ranger! Love these videos on our past are truly fascinating
gosh i absolutely want to visit these one day, i love the wild west alot especially if its a video game, not that i would want to live those times but maybe atleast a glimpse or something from the past
Great work. Love the channel. We took a family trip to see the location of our family store circa 1900. My aunt was crestfallen to see that the store was down by the sale barn as opposed to the main street. I thought it was a pretty canny idea myself.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I concur, sir. I look forward to visiting you one of these days in Old Tuscon. Any fan of The Cheyenne Social Club is my kinda guy.
Two of my favorite old west towns is Silverton, CO and Lajita, TX. Not sure why, but perhaps the ambiance and simplicity of them. Both are exceptionally well maintained and kept a portion original. Especially Lajita, TX. You should visit there if you have not done so. Getting to Lajita, TX requires a long drive south of Apline, TX passing through Terlingua where a lot of scenes for Red Headed Stranger and the last James Arnez movies were filmed. The landscape between Terlingua will look exceptionally familiar as many films were made there just for the scenery. Stay at the old motel there. Now that's something else.
Thanks for the information. Would love to see one on how they build a building the wooden ones and Adobe ones, like the processing of the wood, bricks and mortar etc up to the finished article
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks, just watched it and it has a lot of information in it. You may want to check this out. It blew my mind. This is what I want to do but on a smaller scale (fewer buildings) but if I had a load of land, then I would build a full town ua-cam.com/video/-nbWVKk4FVc/v-deo.html
William Tecumseh Sherman was the guy who laid out the grid of the streets downtown here in Sacramento. The east-west streets are mostly letters of the alphabet. The north-south streets are numbers, except what would be "First street" is called "Front street". I believe that is because it is next to the waterfront on the river. Anyway we had a train to Folsom too. I bet there was rich folks eating in a fancy dining car...
Very good job friend. Love the interaction with Batjac. He is the person who told me about your channel, and for that im greatfull. you do such a professional job, top quality and content. How is it even possible that you do not have thousands of subscribers?
I know all about slow growth. My channel is like a truck going uphill that ran out of gas....it's all I can do to keep it from rolling backwards, loosing all forward momentum! You obviously work in the professional film industry. May I ask what you are working on, or what movies you have worked on? Do not mean to pry, just interested. Have a spectacular day friend.
I get the occasional gig working as an actor in movies and it has been a terrific learning experience. I hope to do more. Ironically, three movies I am in are not released yet! HA! You can see some of the recent project titles here: arizonaghostriders.com/cast/
Hello , we're planning a trip to Arizona this year and are planning to visit Tombstone and Mascal and Western locations suggestions I'd appreciate it Thank you.
I would add Trail Dust Town for a steak and the Pistoleros show to that. Bisbee is another fun location to burn a couple hours. Plenty of historic spots throughout southern AZ.
Santee another great episode of the Arizona Ghost riders. I love history and I specially love history of the old west enjoy your channel very much. Cowboy action shooter captain Pat. Sass badge number 96101
well there are plenty of cases where the railroad really did go through town…hence “wrong side of the tracks”. but then again, those towns grew alongside the trains due to prosperity 😎 funny, railroads saved my hometown from completely burning down twice because of the line cutting it in half 😳
@@andersonlopez9790 Well, you need to have an interest and a passion in the history, then you find a group or audition for a movie. There's an investment in clothing and a gun or two as well. It doesn't hurt to have talent,...
Interesting about the Adobe bricks. A friend of mine is going to build her house using Adobe bricks because they last longer and actually cheaper. And she is going to make them. And it saves on the carbon footprint. 🤠🌵
@@ArizonaGhostriders is there anyway you could make Les videos and take more time to make longer ones and by the way can you do a video on bullwhips buggy whips thank you for replying back to my comment
That was an old one. People don't have much to say about old towns. They can't all be boom towns . Someone must have thought this is an interesting place to build a town and started to look for investors with trade skills , especially lumbering And timber making. Including building skills. Can't be to many with the money to import timber and skills directly since it was the poor that generally went west. Even your founding fathers moved there do to lack of opportunity in Europe.
Sure, some towns, like Tucson, were originally settlements from 100 or more years prior. Some sprouted around trading posts. It was hardly ever because of "interesting", but more because of available resources, soil, water, georgraphy, etc.
@@ArizonaGhostriders how did they get skilled trades to comes and spend months creating timber and assembling it into functional buildings? These are not just log cabins they are putting up. History takes on a whole new dimension when you start looking at the logistics of it.
@@Number6_ Some of these men were already skilled. Carpentry is an age old skill that many Europeans would have had. There were also "ready made" houses that could be ordered through catalogs.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I have seen those houses in catalogs they went for $900 . A lot of money for people who couldn't afford east cost living. I suppose they traded skills instead of money. Doc would work for chickens, carpenter would be in credit at the store. Everyone had to help each other as money was in very short supply.
Anybody ever start a gold-strike rumor to drum up business? It seems the people supplying the prospectors made more money than most of the prospectors themselves.
Well, I work a full time job on top of making these videos and researching. This is about all I can do and deliver a quality product. It leaves the door open for going into more specifics with future videos.
Outrider, absolutely. There was such an influx of immigrants. German, Scandinavian, Mexican. Until the 1870's many of the settlements here in southwest AZ were predominantly hispanic.
There’s an episode of The Twilight Zone titled “A Stop at Willoughby,” about a man who yearns for a sort of perfect “everytown” in 1888 that may or may not be real. It speaks a lot to the current state of things where, as the view count here (and RDR2’s sales...) shows, millions of people seek to escape to that period. For now, Santee is the closest thing we have to a time-traveling Old West tour guide.
Tombstone, Dodge, Deadwood were like that too. They did go up in flames quickly. But a business district is successful if the shops are closer to each other.
I went to the museum in my hometown and found an pamphlet from the 1880s that was made to attract people to the area. It talked about all of the businesses in town, what the people were like and the pass times they enjoyed, the cash crops and what most farmers were growing, the sort of people they were hoping to attract, etc. It was amazing. I learned more from that packet about my hometowns past than from anywhere else. I wish i could find it.
That is pretty amazing. glad you found that.
Fun fact my great great grandpa was a blacksmith, ferrier, and carpenter in his town and his brother was a texas ranger! Love these videos on our past are truly fascinating
So glad to hear it! Thank you!
gosh i absolutely want to visit these one day, i love the wild west alot especially if its a video game, not that i would want to live those times but maybe atleast a glimpse or something from the past
Old Tucson is the model for Armadillo in RDR2
@@ArizonaGhostriders oh damn really?
I enjoyed this video very much. I learned more about towns, and the way they were laid out, and contrasted. Thank you for sharing this.
There will be a follow up to this.
good thing you make great videos.i can't stop binge watching them.
I am from Ecuador and my father is a fan of the old west cowboys movies, someday I will take him to visit this place! 😁
He will have a good time.
Great work. Love the channel.
We took a family trip to see the location of our family store circa 1900. My aunt was crestfallen to see that the store was down by the sale barn as opposed to the main street. I thought it was a pretty canny idea myself.
That is still pretty darned cool!!!
@@ArizonaGhostriders I concur, sir. I look forward to visiting you one of these days in Old Tuscon. Any fan of The Cheyenne Social Club is my kinda guy.
Rex must have played a big part to the mucky-muck in the streets. The train going through the town. Great visual. As always, thanks for your channel.
wild west cannot ends
I love history and this channel too
Thank you!
How about the importance of the blacksmith and the difference between a blacksmith and a farrier?
Absolutely. Got it on the list. Short answer for today: A Farrier is one who fits and trims shoes for horses. He has to know some blacksmith skills.
We always enjoy your videos!
Thank you!
I love this channel! My only negative comment is that it should be, could be longer!!
Thank you. Hard to do with a day job, but one day maybe.
Have you notice how clean the streets are in the old western towns in movies and on tv ?
Not unusual. People didn't live in filth back then. Stores took care of their fronts, and there were people that cleaned up horse poop.
Two of my favorite old west towns is Silverton, CO and Lajita, TX. Not sure why, but perhaps the ambiance and simplicity of them. Both are exceptionally well maintained and kept a portion original. Especially Lajita, TX. You should visit there if you have not done so. Getting to Lajita, TX requires a long drive south of Apline, TX passing through Terlingua where a lot of scenes for Red Headed Stranger and the last James Arnez movies were filmed. The landscape between Terlingua will look exceptionally familiar as many films were made there just for the scenery. Stay at the old motel there. Now that's something else.
Very cool. I hope to check them out.
There you go; a quick glimpse of JW in wardrobe. But can you tell me more about Asins in the Old West?
Sure.
I wish we have more of them around. But they are all almost gone.
Sad!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Yes, very
Informative coverage the topic lightly.
Very good work Santee.
Great vids, Santee.
Awesome!!
Thanks!
A train going through town 😂
Taking things so literally here at AZ Ghostriders.
I'm pretty sure that's the beginning of polar express
Really informative video….I sure enjoy ‘em‼️
Thanks for the information. Would love to see one on how they build a building the wooden ones and Adobe ones, like the processing of the wood, bricks and mortar etc up to the finished article
Look up Houses in the Old West. Another video
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks, just watched it and it has a lot of information in it. You may want to check this out. It blew my mind. This is what I want to do but on a smaller scale (fewer buildings) but if I had a load of land, then I would build a full town ua-cam.com/video/-nbWVKk4FVc/v-deo.html
Came for the history, stayed for the humor.
Thank you so much. That's my intention!
Learned a lot from this video. Thank you!
Glad to hear it!
William Tecumseh Sherman was the guy who laid out the grid of the streets downtown here in Sacramento. The east-west streets are mostly letters of the alphabet. The north-south streets are numbers, except what would be "First street" is called "Front street". I believe that is because it is next to the waterfront on the river. Anyway we had a train to Folsom too. I bet there was rich folks eating in a fancy dining car...
Old Sacramento is pretty cool.
Very good job friend. Love the interaction with Batjac. He is the person who told me about your channel, and for that im greatfull. you do such a professional job, top quality and content.
How is it even possible that you do not have thousands of subscribers?
Glocked, I think the content caters to a special interest viewer. But, it is growing...slowly!
I know all about slow growth. My channel is like a truck going uphill that ran out of gas....it's all I can do to keep it from rolling backwards, loosing all forward momentum! You obviously work in the professional film industry. May I ask what you are working on, or what movies you have worked on? Do not mean to pry, just interested. Have a spectacular day friend.
I get the occasional gig working as an actor in movies and it has been a terrific learning experience. I hope to do more.
Ironically, three movies I am in are not released yet! HA! You can see some of the recent project titles here: arizonaghostriders.com/cast/
Keep me posted on your movies friend.
1:29 that's from little house on the prairie
😋
Hello , we're planning a trip to Arizona this year and are planning to visit Tombstone and Mascal and Western locations suggestions I'd appreciate it
Thank you.
I would add Trail Dust Town for a steak and the Pistoleros show to that. Bisbee is another fun location to burn a couple hours. Plenty of historic spots throughout southern AZ.
Santee another great episode of the Arizona Ghost riders. I love history and I specially love history of the old west enjoy your channel very much. Cowboy action shooter captain Pat. Sass badge number 96101
Yeeehaww! Thank you, Capt. Pat!
Doc Alex & I know about the old west. We are very good friends.
Red Dead Redemption 2 really got me into the Wild West theme
Welcome to the addiction!
Some pretty good humor, guys!🐴
Thank you!
I suppose the main factors to establish a town would be a water source and a mining cave?
Water source is paramount.
This channel reminds me of a show called Wild West Tech, do you know of it?
yes!
When I first saw that Joe Kidd scene I died laughing
Thanks!
Where do you work because I always see a Western town behind you
Trail Dust Town, Harker's Old West Town, and Old Tucson Studios are where I film mostly.
Those were the good old days.
Before subways?
I am a new sub. Glocked 17 sent me over. I used to live in chandler and Laveen for about 9 years.
Welcome WgW! Chandler isn't far from us. Where ya livin' now?
I have moved back to Ontario, Canada about 4 years ago.
How's about something on old west fire departments?
Certainly.
I HEARD THATS HOW PHOENIX GOT IT'S NAME !! ALSO UP IN MONTANA HAD BATH HOUSES .. YOU EVER DO ONE ON THAT ?
Not yet.
nice vid!!
Y'all should come out to Ohio and check out our Wild West Town...
Dogwood Pass. Beaver, Oh.
It's quite the town and THE place to be.
I bet! Thanks for the invite.
well there are plenty of cases where the railroad really did go through town…hence “wrong side of the tracks”. but then again, those towns grew alongside the trains due to prosperity 😎
funny, railroads saved my hometown from completely burning down twice because of the line cutting it in half 😳
Gave enough space between the buildings to thwart the fire, eh?
Red dead redemption 2 brought to this channel earned yourself a subscriber love your channel santee
Thanks!
Arizona Ghostriders make that 2 subscribers!!
@@666thprayer Awesome! I am doing a series on the Old West sets we film at starting tomorrow!!
@@ArizonaGhostriders hey Santee how do you become a Western actor like you? I'm intrigued
@@andersonlopez9790 Well, you need to have an interest and a passion in the history, then you find a group or audition for a movie. There's an investment in clothing and a gun or two as well. It doesn't hurt to have talent,...
2:35 had to pause after this as i burst out laughing
LOL!
Great video and Greeting from Flagstaff. Glocked 17 sent me over
Welcome. Glocked 17 is good people! How's the weather up there?
Lots of snow lol
Santee : old West night lighting
Santee could I please get a video on what money people would carry around in the 1800s
I have a couple of them already for you. Search for currency
Kansas , Oklahoma,Texas, Colorado. Have there share of Ghost towns .
They do.
Interesting about the Adobe bricks. A friend of mine is going to build her house using Adobe bricks because they last longer and actually cheaper. And she is going to make them. And it saves on the carbon footprint. 🤠🌵
They are cheaper? I thought the opposite.
Great Historic Information!
Awesome!
2:29 there's a cat running along the porch :3
howdey
Yeah, Trail Dust Town has a colony of 'em.
Kick your boots up Santee and enjoy lol don't mind bill he did survive the Halloween 👻 thanks ghostriders
I appreciate you, Marco!
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I wish they made these videos about 10 to 20 minutes longer than they do
I wish I had more time to make them.
@@ArizonaGhostriders is there anyway you could make Les videos and take more time to make longer ones and by the way can you do a video on bullwhips buggy whips thank you for replying back to my comment
awesome!! ha ha ha..... let's see, note to self... no Bay Rum for JW :-)
Hehe. Yeah...well, I warned him about Bill when he came to AZ.
Funny, but educational!
Thanks, Bob.
educational but funny!
2:28 - KITTY!!! I hope...
The ghost is left-handed?!
Ambidextrous from what I can tell. He drinks my whiskey with either hand also.
Who's that ghost playing pranks on everyone?
William Whitney Brazelton. Stagecoach robber who died in 1878.
Background music makes it more difficult to hear and understand what is being said.
I lowered it later on. Early ones were too loud.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Thanks. I really like this channel.
That was an old one. People don't have much to say about old towns. They can't all be boom towns . Someone must have thought this is an interesting place to build a town and started to look for investors with trade skills , especially lumbering And timber making. Including building skills. Can't be to many with the money to import timber and skills directly since it was the poor that generally went west. Even your founding fathers moved there do to lack of opportunity in Europe.
Sure, some towns, like Tucson, were originally settlements from 100 or more years prior. Some sprouted around trading posts. It was hardly ever because of "interesting", but more because of available resources, soil, water, georgraphy, etc.
@@ArizonaGhostriders how did they get skilled trades to comes and spend months creating timber and assembling it into functional buildings? These are not just log cabins they are putting up. History takes on a whole new dimension when you start looking at the logistics of it.
@@Number6_ Some of these men were already skilled. Carpentry is an age old skill that many Europeans would have had. There were also "ready made" houses that could be ordered through catalogs.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I have seen those houses in catalogs they went for $900 . A lot of money for people who couldn't afford east cost living. I suppose they traded skills instead of money. Doc would work for chickens, carpenter would be in credit at the store. Everyone had to help each other as money was in very short supply.
@@Number6_ yes!
Valentine
Anybody ever start a gold-strike rumor to drum up business? It seems the people supplying the prospectors made more money than most of the prospectors themselves.
That is a fact!
I really like the videos, but I have one complaint: they are too short. I'm just not sure you're really doing justice to most topics you cover.
Well, I work a full time job on top of making these videos and researching. This is about all I can do and deliver a quality product.
It leaves the door open for going into more specifics with future videos.
I bet they had habidasherys! lol
At some point could you just spell it correctly? lol
Is it true that some towns in the old west didn't speak English? Thanks, Outrider SASS 72622
Outrider, absolutely. There was such an influx of immigrants. German, Scandinavian, Mexican. Until the 1870's many of the settlements here in southwest AZ were predominantly hispanic.
Maybe this could be a good subject to cover. The Chinese were also there.
how about HORSE PACKING OR MULE SKINNIN & MULE SKINNER
Sure!
barrels will smoke like hell if starbucks exist in the old west. what i mean by that? 🤔
Not sure!
@@ArizonaGhostriders yes demand will very high.....
There’s an episode of The Twilight Zone titled “A Stop at Willoughby,” about a man who yearns for a sort of perfect “everytown” in 1888 that may or may not be real. It speaks a lot to the current state of things where, as the view count here (and RDR2’s sales...) shows, millions of people seek to escape to that period.
For now, Santee is the closest thing we have to a time-traveling Old West tour guide.
Well, I don't charge the same prices, either.😆
@@ArizonaGhostriders And thank God for that! Cheers, Santee. Love your work.
How 'cause towns in movies and old tuscon build against each other with plenty of plains around?
Builtin fire hazard...
Tombstone, Dodge, Deadwood were like that too. They did go up in flames quickly. But a business district is successful if the shops are closer to each other.
Santee humor is just like Arizona dirt roads......... dry