What I find amazing is how much the USA has changed in just over 100 years. Also it saddens me to realise we are all mortals and not one figure pictured is alive today. Thank God for those guys who , in their wisdom, took all of these amazing photographs.
I left a comment but it showed up double so I guess it was censored. Still, it was a great look at our recent past. I’m 66 and my oldest grandfather was born in 1880; I knew him; he died when I was 6. I just got a really good glimpse at the world he and my other 3 grandparents lived in. From the horse and buggy days to Neil Armstrong landing on the moon!
I left a comment but it showed up double so I guess it was censored. Still, it was a great look at our recent past. I’m 66 and my oldest grandfather was born in 1880; I knew him; he died when I was 6. I just got a really good glimpse at the world he and my other 3 grandparents lived in. From the horse and buggy days to Neil Armstrong landing on the moon!
My grandma, born 1892 (Brockton, MA) had always wanted to see the West. She never did, but read and watched movies about it. She would have enjoyed these photos…as I too have.
Very interesting images . Those involving Custer and his scouts were especially so , I feel , as the scouts had warned him not to attack the huge Sioux and Cheyenne village he was so determined to hit with his 7th Cavalry . The scouts told Custer it was just too big for the 7th on it's own. We know Custer paid no heed !
"They fought for what they thought was good their lands, their homes, their daily food We who read here of their fame feel the Indians did the same." - R I Patterson
Nice photos of places and people my parents, aunts and uncles may have known. My family came to California in 1851 and traveled all around the west prospecting, mining, logging, ranching, hunting and fishing until the 1950s. Yes, the US has changed a lot since then but definitely NOT all for the better.
Thanks. Very interesting photos and well narrated. What a rugged, fearless group of people who settled the " wild West". It is just such a heart breaking time of our history when you consider the plight of the indigenous people. This was a very informative and intriguing look at this chapter of history. Great narration also.❤❤❤
Amazing photos. It seems like that had to be many hundreds of years ago instead of just two average life times. Unbelievable how far we've come so fast.
If one wants to know what it was like in the Wild West, I recommend reading W S Hearts autobiography 1929. He was born in 1865 or there about and was there ! Also was an honest man that tells it right .
Indigenous people Who are they? What happened to the Windover Florida, or the mound people of the lower Mississippi valley, the Mogollon, Anasazi and Hohokam of the American southwest? The word ‘Anasazi’ gives us a hint. The word means enemy of my grandfather or ancient enemy. How about those tribes and people in Mexico under the Aztecs? We are told that the US is built on stolen lands. But who did we steal it from the thieves of prior groups. To whom does the land belong? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. - Chief Seattle
@@jamesf4405 Point being there were people here before the so called Indians and they were killed off by those they came after them. The difference is that the whites did not commit genocide. As he libs would have us believe
At 11:49 notice the bartender has a very rare Bergmann Simplex semi-auto pistol. An Austrian made weapon that used a weak 8MM round but became one of the first semi auto magazine (this one was fixed) pistols. Generally not a pistol one would expect to see in the old West, but I guess if the bartender was German, Austrian or even Spanish, they may have brought the weapon with them.
These are nothing short of fascinating. My grandfather owned the Bar-V ranch in New Mexico about 1903 (where some train robbers once tried to hide), and I am familiar with this genre of photos. (I am 80, lived in Bisbee, AZ, Ely, NV, and Tucson, AZ, and Alamogordo, NM, and have been to many of these places in the photos..)
Lived in small town USA Oklahoma in the 80s as a kid. There were bars/pool halls that sill used those long carved wooden bars, old decorations, mirrors and furnishings. Having always occupied those spaces, all remained unchanged since the 1880s. One pool hall had photos of the vintage building along with hitching posts and the dirt streets. Seemed dank and old at the time as the interiors had a specific musky odor. Didn't appreciate the history of course but it made enough impression that I remember it today.
The image of the man in the saloon with pistols aimed at the floor near his feet, has be dated after 1896. This is due to the fact that the bartender is holding a Mauser C96 Broomhandle semi auto pistol. As the name suggests, the German made C96 was not produced until 1896.
Amazing number of early 1900s photos of makeshift and wooden shacks and houses that these folk lived in and then, hey presto, final photo of 1880s with large old brick buildings and awesome 'telegraph' poles
Station there in Tonopah in the Army, I help out a lady who was broken down in Gold field NV, back in 1981...Assisted her and her daughter over to Tonopah Nv Met her husband, who works for Boeing in Seattle, Washington. She said she loves the desert, but being broke down there for 2 days, behind an old bar, she said never again.. No phone, no motel, nothing but that old bar.😂
“Thank you immensely!” One of my grandfathers was born in 1880; he was the oldest and my other 3 grandparents were born over the next 23 years;-1903. I knew them! But until now I didn’t really understand where they were coming from. I would hear small bits and pieces of what it was like; -seeing these images makes it more real. My other grandfather born in 1901 boasted about having lived to see mankind’s journey from the advent of production automobiles to seeing a man landing on the moon in his generation! Now, I’m the grandfather of 7 at 66; and nothing much to brag about since the 60s/70s due to the loss of American freedoms and the inevitable onset of democrat socialism.
Very cool real life photos. When I was a kid my grandparents had a very old book that was a historical account of the civil war era with similar kinds of photos complete with photos of the dead which was a thing they did back then
Both informative and entertaining. It's amazing to see so many photos from the "wild west," taken at a time when photography was a major project. I have one slight quibble, however, with the narrator's text: I believe that the word "cowboy" is frequently used here in a misleading way. In the actual Old West, few would have called themselves "cowboys," as the word often had a slightly pejorative connotation, suggesting an itinerant worker without a permanent job at best, and an outlaw at worst. Men who worked on ranches preferred to be called "ranch hands," and those who worked on cattle drives were known as "drovers" or "trail hands." Of course, the word became romanticized in the press and popular fiction, which is probably why today we use it in the way it is generally used here. But even today some of the negative connotations still attach to it; for instance, when President George W. Bush was accused of conducting "cowboy diplomacy," it was not intended as a compliment! However, this comment should be understood as merely a minor corrective; I offer it only as a matter of historical accuracy for the curious. Feel free to disregard it. On the whole, the video was excellent, and I enjoyed it greatly. 👍
What is interesting in the wagontrain photo is one of the wagons has 8 horses pulling 2 wagons and a buggy. The girl from the Hoppi tribe could well have been an extra in Star Wars as her hairstyle and Princess Laya's is the same.
Never forget the indigenous peoples, and never forget that they were never free. They all had to dress the same and think the same and could never leave. "Rights" were not a thing and the women had no choice but to do the same thing everyday for whatever man/men had chosen them in their non-technological societies. They were not individuals, but homogeneous half-people, with animism as their guide. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it's a privilege to look back at them romantically or something. Everyone just wants to be left alone, but that's not reality.
Nice video but at 11:37: Not 1880. The pistol the guy on the bar is holding looks like a Mauser C96, aka "broomhandle", one of the earliest semi-automatic handguns which was first introduced in 1896.
Great grampaw left the Southwest hating the US cavalry and Pancho Villa. He couldn’t tell who were the worst robbers. Bought a farm in Los Angeles Calif in 1911. He mistrusted electric outlets, keeping something plugged into every one. Was afraid the electricity would leak onto the floor and he would get charged for it, otherwise. Passed at 104.
At 11:39 in the bar, the man in white siting on the bar is holding a Mauser pistol. Manufactured 1896 to 1937 in Germany. The gun it white. Not sure when white ones were made.
Typed on my wife’s ipad I caught the Mauser. The white could be the result of the photographer’s flash powder going off. There was an early flat side (within the dates you reported) that would have reflected the flash well.
I'm wondering how all those photos would look if processed through Artificial Intelligence programs to enhance them, to even make them into short videos showing movement. Please do look into that and give it a try.
Speaking to my great grandmother back in the 60’s she said the saloon women where all very fat women! My grandmother Minnie came out west on a wagon train when she was six
A couple of corrections… Custer’s last stand was in S. Dakota, not Montana. Near the end of the video, the photo of a Sioux Council was said to be located in California. However, they didn’t occupy that territory but lived in the upper Midwest.
It's all so different as to what you see on the films, how rugged the daily life was and how roughly they dressed not at all I was expecting to see, I feel so sorry for the injustice the native Indians were treated by the white man having there land taken away from them and destroyed by the Americans, the buffalo nearly exsterminated and the redwood trees cut down all for the sake of money 😢
In the photo of the Wyoming bar, the man sitting on the bar has a mauser broomhandle, which didn't come out till after 1896, so it couldn't be of 1880 circa photo.
Good question. Maybe they were brought out by train for a Wild West show of some kind. Before movies existed, it was through shows like this that people (especially non-readers) got their ideas about the recent past.
How did you get copyright to all these photos very interesting but then I have a bunch of photos that I've had for quite some time most of them are postcards and some others are rather large pictures of variety of loggers logging in the forest😊
Custer was actually a lieutenant colonel. a long way from being a general - although he did not mind being referred to as a general. A flag officer would never be in command of a mere regiment. that is lt colonel territory - as testified on lt colonel Custer's grave stone.
A great collection of photos which show how tough and hard those times were !
Merci pour ce partage,avec des photos authentiques de cette époque avec en plus des commentaires dans une traduction très bien faite 👍🤠👍
What great photos, just reminds you of how easy we have life today, and how brave and resilient those pioneers were👍UK admirer
Goon ! 🤔
What I find amazing is how much the USA has changed in just over 100 years. Also it saddens me to realise we are all mortals and not one figure pictured is alive today. Thank God for those guys who , in their wisdom, took all of these amazing photographs.
I left a comment but it showed up double so I guess it was censored. Still, it was a great look at our recent past. I’m 66 and my oldest grandfather was born in 1880; I knew him; he died when I was 6. I just got a really good glimpse at the world he and my other 3 grandparents lived in. From the horse and buggy days to Neil Armstrong landing on the moon!
I left a comment but it showed up double so I guess it was censored. Still, it was a great look at our recent past. I’m 66 and my oldest grandfather was born in 1880; I knew him; he died when I was 6. I just got a really good glimpse at the world he and my other 3 grandparents lived in. From the horse and buggy days to Neil Armstrong landing on the moon!
FukkingFascistLeftistCensor!
I had no idea photography back then was so advanced to be able to take these shots..
Love the spaghetti western music accompanying these authentic western photographs!
And it doesn't overpower the narrator.
My grandma, born 1892 (Brockton, MA) had always wanted to see the West. She never did, but read and watched movies about it. She would have enjoyed these photos…as I too have.
Great rare photos. Thanks.
Enjoyable, entertaining and educational.
Fascinating glimps into our past.
Very interesting images . Those involving Custer and his scouts were especially so , I feel , as the scouts had warned him not to attack the huge Sioux and Cheyenne village he was so determined to hit with his 7th Cavalry . The scouts told Custer it was just too big for the 7th on it's own. We know Custer paid no heed !
Custer led with his arrogance instead of logic. If his goal was to be remembered and to leave a legacy, he sure did.
Never underestimate your enemy😅
It was Lieutenant Colonel Custer, Dummy😮
"They fought for what they thought was good
their lands, their homes, their daily food
We who read here of their fame
feel the Indians did the same."
- R I Patterson
Always like looking at old pictures, helps you see the past a little more vividly!
Another great post. Thanks for sharing.
It is fantastic to sit back looking at these old photos and imagining what it would have been like at the time. Old man pete from OZ.
Greetings from England, what a fantastic collection of photos! Evocative and memorable. 🤓👍
I love to look into the past
Thank you. It was very educational.
Nice photos of places and people my parents, aunts and uncles may have known. My family came to California in 1851 and traveled all around the west prospecting, mining, logging, ranching, hunting and fishing until the 1950s. Yes, the US has changed a lot since then but definitely NOT all for the better.
They were great and tough people !
Some very interesting, maudlin and unique historical pictures!👍✊🏻✊🏼✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿
Thank you very much, loved the look into the past....
A fantastic and fascinating collection of photos. Thank you for posting.
A riveting look at the eras of my paternal grandmother born 1868 and my father born 1906. She died in 1960 so I was fortunate to know her as a child.
Incredible.....new subscriber here. Can't wait to see all your uploads my friend. ⛏🎥📽
So interesting I could watch this all day . I love the history of the west and all over the USA thanks so much for sharing these hard to get.🙏🇺🇸
Incredible photos, thanks for posting.
Superb. what a daring these people were and also so much new initiative lovers against any odds. Great imagination of photographers too.
Thanks. Very interesting photos and well narrated. What a rugged, fearless group of people who settled the " wild West". It is just such a heart breaking time of our history when you consider the plight of the indigenous people. This was a very informative and intriguing look at this chapter of history. Great narration also.❤❤❤
Yes it was a tough and often heart breaking time for both the Indian and European people.
Amazing photos. It seems like that had to be many hundreds of years ago instead of just two average life times. Unbelievable how far we've come so fast.
Thank you, I passed through some of these places while crossing the states.
Very interesting I wish I could go to all these old towns and see how it was.Thanks.
It's amazing how far we have come in such a short period of time.
It's scary
That's very debatable
@@stevegarth6902how many "progressives" you figure there were back then ? 😅
And grown so little…
If one wants to know what it was like in the Wild West, I recommend reading W S Hearts autobiography 1929. He was born in 1865 or there about and was there ! Also was an honest man that tells it right .
Excellent pictures ,thanx
The wonderful photos brings the past closer. I almost want to reach out and say Hi.
Never forget the indigenous people.
Indigenous ? You mean Indians ?
Indigenous people
Who are they? What happened to the Windover Florida, or the mound people of the lower Mississippi valley, the Mogollon, Anasazi and Hohokam of the American southwest? The word ‘Anasazi’ gives us a hint. The word means enemy of my grandfather or ancient enemy. How about those tribes and people in Mexico under the Aztecs? We are told that the US is built on stolen lands. But who did we steal it from the thieves of prior groups. To whom does the land belong?
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
- Chief Seattle
I was born in the USA. Does that make me indigenous too? 😂😂😂
@@jamesf4405 Point being there were people here before the so called Indians and they were killed off by those they came after them. The difference is that the whites did not commit genocide. As he libs would have us believe
jamesf4405...
Yes, it does. Me too.
So glad you popped up on my feed. I subscribed great pictures.
thanks
Amazing how things have changed, thank you.
I love these old west era photos
At 11:49 notice the bartender has a very rare Bergmann Simplex semi-auto pistol. An Austrian made weapon that used a weak 8MM round but became one of the first semi auto magazine (this one was fixed) pistols. Generally not a pistol one would expect to see in the old West, but I guess if the bartender was German, Austrian or even Spanish, they may have brought the weapon with them.
No, it's a Mauser C96.
Thanks. ✌🏻👊🏼
These old photos really turn my crank!
Great pics! Thank you! Subbed.
This is the best channel I’ve seen on you tube for old west 👍👍👍
Groovy episode. My parents once owned a large mansion in Goldfield, NV.
NV?
Nevada
Featured in the popular 1971 movie "Vanishing Point" with Barry Newman, Cleavon Little and other popular cast members.
Brilliant info.,….thanks for the BA info for my history!
All 4 of my grandparents were born in the mid 1890's in Oregon, N. California and Alberta Canada. Very moving photo presentation. Mahalo!
Love these thank you ❤
These are nothing short of fascinating. My grandfather owned the Bar-V ranch in New Mexico about 1903 (where some train robbers once tried to hide), and I am familiar with this genre of photos. (I am 80, lived in Bisbee, AZ, Ely, NV, and Tucson, AZ, and Alamogordo, NM, and have been to many of these places in the photos..)
Great shown history. From shows compared to the movies and TV shows hardly anyone had a side arm strapped on.
Amazing photos of history
Excellent👍
Wonderful
Great video!
Painful relationship of the conquered and the conquest.
Very interesting, thank you.
Thanks 👍 born in the 1960s but love to look back at the good old times ❤
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Good old times, I don't think so.
Check out the cemetaries. Women and girls certainly didn't think their dy'ng so young was "good ol times".
Good old Times ? > You must have seen different photos than the ones I saw !
Amazing photos
Great work!
Lived in small town USA Oklahoma in the 80s as a kid. There were bars/pool halls that sill used those long carved wooden bars, old decorations, mirrors and furnishings. Having always occupied those spaces, all remained unchanged since the 1880s. One pool hall had photos of the vintage building along with hitching posts and the dirt streets. Seemed dank and old at the time as the interiors had a specific musky odor. Didn't appreciate the history of course but it made enough impression that I remember it today.
The image of the man in the saloon with pistols aimed at the floor near his feet, has be dated after 1896. This is due to the fact that the bartender is holding a Mauser C96 Broomhandle semi auto pistol. As the name suggests, the German made C96 was not produced until 1896.
Very nicely done. New subscriber.
Thanks!
Amazing number of early 1900s photos of makeshift and wooden shacks and houses that these folk lived in and then, hey presto, final photo of 1880s with large old brick buildings and awesome 'telegraph' poles
very good ,thanks
Station there in Tonopah in the Army, I help out a lady who was broken down in Gold field NV, back in 1981...Assisted her and her daughter over to Tonopah Nv
Met her husband, who works for Boeing in Seattle, Washington. She said she loves the desert, but being broke down there for 2 days, behind an old bar, she said never again.. No phone, no motel, nothing but that old bar.😂
“Thank you immensely!”
One of my grandfathers was born in 1880; he was the oldest and my other 3 grandparents were born over the next 23 years;-1903. I knew them! But until now I didn’t really understand where they were coming from. I would hear small bits and pieces of what it was like; -seeing these images makes it more real. My other grandfather born in 1901 boasted about having lived to see mankind’s journey from the advent of production automobiles to seeing a man landing on the moon in his generation!
Now, I’m the grandfather of 7 at 66; and nothing much to brag about since the 60s/70s due to the loss of American freedoms and the inevitable onset of democrat socialism.
If your want to talk about countries with 'loss of freedoms' - The USA is not one of them! Look at Russia, certain Arab, Asian and African nations ! -
Very cool real life photos. When I was a kid my grandparents had a very old book that was a historical account of the civil war era with similar kinds of photos complete with photos of the dead which was a thing they did back then
Love The Old nostalgia
That one cowboy in the saloon had a broom handle Mauser. That’s cool.
I'm from Sweden and I like that you tell us some about every photo
What a time to be alive.
After seeing the " Ladies of the Night" it's easy to conclude why whiskey was abundant!
Always Great to see western films and history.
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Both informative and entertaining. It's amazing to see so many photos from the "wild west," taken at a time when photography was a major project. I have one slight quibble, however, with the narrator's text: I believe that the word "cowboy" is frequently used here in a misleading way. In the actual Old West, few would have called themselves "cowboys," as the word often had a slightly pejorative connotation, suggesting an itinerant worker without a permanent job at best, and an outlaw at worst. Men who worked on ranches preferred to be called "ranch hands," and those who worked on cattle drives were known as "drovers" or "trail hands." Of course, the word became romanticized in the press and popular fiction, which is probably why today we use it in the way it is generally used here. But even today some of the negative connotations still attach to it; for instance, when President George W. Bush was accused of conducting "cowboy diplomacy," it was not intended as a compliment! However, this comment should be understood as merely a minor corrective; I offer it only as a matter of historical accuracy for the curious. Feel free to disregard it. On the whole, the video was excellent, and I enjoyed it greatly. 👍
Thanks
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GOOD ONE.
That saloon woman was exceptionally beautiful.
Very Cool.. Subbed...
much happier times... good food, women and plenty of gold to be found!
You must have seen different photos ! I see mainly suffering and hardship by European and Indian people !
Great
Spiffing ! 👍
What is interesting in the wagontrain photo is one of the wagons has 8 horses pulling 2 wagons and a buggy. The girl from the Hoppi tribe could well have been an extra in Star Wars as her hairstyle and Princess Laya's is the same.
Never forget the indigenous peoples, and never forget that they were never free. They all had to dress the same and think the same and could never leave. "Rights" were not a thing and the women had no choice but to do the same thing everyday for whatever man/men had chosen them in their non-technological societies. They were not individuals, but homogeneous half-people, with animism as their guide. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it's a privilege to look back at them romantically or something. Everyone just wants to be left alone, but that's not reality.
I would like to more from Leadville Colorado 1895, and on, he was born there then
Hard times strong people.
It struck me that the women seemed to be the only ones smiling. I have no idea what that means, except they all appeared to have their sh!t together.
Nice video but at 11:37: Not 1880. The pistol the guy on the bar is holding looks like a Mauser C96, aka "broomhandle", one of the earliest semi-automatic handguns which was first introduced in 1896.
Great grampaw left the Southwest hating the US cavalry and Pancho Villa. He couldn’t tell who were the worst robbers. Bought a farm in Los Angeles Calif in 1911. He mistrusted electric outlets, keeping something plugged into every one. Was afraid the electricity would leak onto the floor and he would get charged for it, otherwise. Passed at 104.
At 11:39 in the bar, the man in white siting on the bar is holding a Mauser pistol. Manufactured 1896 to 1937 in Germany. The gun it white. Not sure when white ones were made.
Typed on my wife’s ipad
I caught the Mauser. The white could be the result of the photographer’s flash powder going off. There was an early flat side (within the dates you reported) that would have reflected the flash well.
@ so, not black or white. Polished metal.
His gun is the only one not pointed at the man's feet. His gun is pointed at the man's head.
He also has all white clothes, no skin color, and only one with no hat. It looks like he has no legs below the knees.
@@KevinCoop1 ...maybe it's a ghost ? ? ?
I'm wondering how all those photos would look if processed through Artificial Intelligence programs to enhance them, to even make them into short videos showing movement. Please do look into that and give it a try.
In the bar scene where they're "shooting" at a man's feet in circa 1880, the barman has a 96 Broom Handle Mauser, as in 1896...
Speaking to my great grandmother back in the 60’s she said the saloon women where all very fat women! My grandmother Minnie came out west on a wagon train when she was six
Fat compared tobthe 1890’s, or fat by today’s standards.
They ate a ton of lard, women 5’3 weighing in at 250 was normal
A couple of corrections… Custer’s last stand was in S. Dakota, not Montana.
Near the end of the video, the photo of a Sioux Council was said to be located in California. However, they didn’t occupy that territory but lived in the upper Midwest.
It's all so different as to what you see on the films, how rugged the daily life was and how roughly they dressed not at all I was expecting to see, I feel so sorry for the injustice the native Indians were treated by the white man having there land taken away from them and destroyed by the Americans, the buffalo nearly exsterminated and the redwood trees cut down all for the sake of money 😢
Yes it is a sad history for the Indians, but also a tough one for the European immigrants !
Appreciating the group of Appache kids, one posing with a cavallry horn, another with the associated hat. Daddy`s out hunting....
In the photo of the Wyoming bar, the man sitting on the bar has a mauser broomhandle, which didn't come out till after 1896, so it couldn't be of 1880 circa photo.
Any thing about early southern Arizona. Tucson fort hauchuca
Not the clean shirted cowboys shown on the TV westerns.
Photographer spent a lot of time in brothels.
When did the Sioux go out to California?
Good question. Maybe they were brought out by train for a Wild West show of some kind. Before movies existed, it was through shows like this that people (especially non-readers) got their ideas about the recent past.
Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history , are doomed to repeat them! Poor America, WTF happened to you?
Donald dump.
How did you get copyright to all these photos very interesting but then I have a bunch of photos that I've had for quite some time most of them are postcards and some others are rather large pictures of variety of loggers logging in the forest😊
Custer was actually a lieutenant colonel. a long way from being a general - although he did not mind being referred to as a general. A flag officer would never be in command of a mere regiment. that is lt colonel territory - as testified on lt colonel Custer's grave stone.