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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2024
- In this collection of true stories from the Old West, we’ll discuss Bass Reeves, one of the first black deputy marshals west of the Mississippi. We’ll also look at the opposite end of the spectrum with Crawford "Cherokee Bill" Goldsby - the son of a buffalo hunter who became one of the deadliest outlaws in Indian Territory. Finally, we’ll celebrate the life and death of Brit Johnson, a former slave whose quest to retrieve his wife and children from the clutches of captivity would help inspire John Wayne’s The Searchers. #history #wildwest #western
0:00 Bass Reeves
74:53 Cherokee Bill
138:38 Brit Johnson
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Bass was one of the best trackers in the history of the old west, Reeves and Story deserve their place in American history.
Bass Reeves, is a real life superhuman. Heck his mustache alone has 30 confirmed kills.
At least 30
the comparison between Bass & Lone Ranger is absurd. The legend of Bass is vastly superior.
Bass Reeves has been honored in my hometown of Ft. Smith, Ar. with a large bronze statue, among other things. He was a true 'Badass' Deputy Marshall. He rose above his situation and became a legend. R.I.P. Bass Reeves.
wheres this statue at? I want to see it next time im in town.
SOUTHSIDE HIGH OR NORTHSIDE HIGH? I WENT TO SOUTHSIDE
@@artwerksDallas St. Anne's
I think he may be buried in my hometown of Muskogee. I've recently become interested in judge Parker and all that history and surprised me to see reeves' possible burial site here. Which is unconfirmed. Makes me sad to know such a legends burial site location may not even be known.
Some we kill, some we save, so goes the life of our fore fathers. Great channel going here.
Thank you!
Thanks again for your history lessons. I hope 100years from now they can watch your videos.
I hope so too
@@WildWestExtravaganza check out the Cherokee traitor story.
5am here in England, get the notification, coffee made and I'm awake starting my day in my favourite way! Thanks Josh!!! 🙏🇬🇧😉
Good morning innit?
@@WildWestExtravaganza oh hell yeah!!! 🙏🇬🇧😉
Resting down in Cornwall?
I love your retelling of the history! Bass Reeves was a total Bad Ass!
THANK YOU for this video and acknowledging this aspect of Western history. THANK YOU!
My pleasure
Yeeeeehhaaaaaw "Jolly Foul-mouthed Josh"
Another epic episode!!
Just found this fine channel. Love it! Thanks for your hard work!
Welcome aboard!
Great representation for black history month.
Nice story Josh, thank you. ... Remember; you can only please some of the people some of the time, ... take care. "Brilliant"
Absolutely
This should cover a couple of coffees Josh.
Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
Thank you, sir
Yes!!! It showed up on the top of my feed!!🤘🤘🤘🤘
Nice
You could sweep the floor with that freaking mustache.
Ha
I pass over bass Reeves memorial bridge dayly it's under major construction I know exactly where the land is on fern mountain road I've been told theres old cowboy cemetary there b a good place for me to hike this spring might get lucky find it or some names of outlaws you could maybe do podcast on
Quite a man Bass was,sure dedicated&an honour as a black man.
Amazing story about an incredible man and time in history.
Damn good video thank you❤
Thanks Joe
You’re a hero for making this video
Ha!
Let's never forget Sheriff Bart, who was appointed to the position in 1874 and worked out of the town of Rock Ridge. Despite the initial hostile reception in which he had to rely on his quick wit, the former railroad worker turned out to be quite the boon to the townsfolk. With the assistance of a washed up local gunfighter who went by the moniker "Waco Kid" he went on to eradicate the gang raised by corrupt Attorney General Lamarr who, with the complicity of the governor, were attempting to run the townsfolk off in order to profit from the incoming railroad. Ain't that a kick in the head?
This Channel is Badass.
Thank you!!!
@@WildWestExtravaganza you are Very welcome Sir. I'm from El Paso Texas. I saw your John Westley Harding video. Amazing. Been hooked on here since
Well hello El Paso!
Always great👍🏼👍🏼
Brit, has gotta be my favorite dark tinted cowboy. As far as your show goes. Ive yet to see the New show about Bass.
As usual, enjoyed your material.
Thank ya for your time.
Thanks
Hay Beaver, I really like this length.
500 yard shot is nothing for an experienced shooter, even in those days.
Thanks for making this video 👏👏👏
My pleasure
im new....love the channel...got my sub
Heck yeah! Welcome aboard!
Awesome
44-40 drops over 84"at 300yards,doubtful it was 500,but he was a good shot,but that cartridge would have had almost nil energy.Probably was 200 or less as you said.
Binging these videos overnight while i drive out west is just 🤌🤌🤌
That's what I'm talking about
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
Bass Reeves was a law man second to none. He was as good has Bill tilghman or heck Thomas and much better than Wyatt Earp.
You are possibly the greatest man of all time. People say that maybe, not me, but you are awesome and deserve riches and rewards and such.
love this channel
Thanks!
I prefer your version of his story. Thanks man.
Thanks for listening!
I love your content especially the stuff about doc holiday as I am from his home town and can visit the site of his dentist practice and such, do you have any biographies on just holiday?
Not yet
While I do agree with your comment that John Wayne's version of True Grit is a classic, the Cohen brothers version is not a remake but rather their interpretation as they followed the book more closely. I love them both.
I can't imagine how much reading you must have done to make all these. I did all of my Louise L'Amour and Zane Grey books in my bunk on my fathers fishing boat. If I did a video podcast, I would have to call it Stories from the Galley Table. But I didn't figure on being this ill with ailments this early in life. I started commercial fishing in Kodiak at age eleven. It included a king crabbing trip that I really learned from, like it can get a lot rougher in the winter.
Keep up the challenge.
I do a lot of research on boats of the northwest. You should check out the Everett Massacre sometime and see if there isn't a story for there.
Unforgiven is the greatest western of all time!
Daggum. " you can say a rooster spits snuff but it ain't true till you see him spit" I've been a might curious about just such a time and place my friend. Whoop
Thank you again Josh. I wish you were my history teacher back in 1980 something. I would have gotten A's instead of C's and the occasional B. This was a long episode but you made it interesting and intriguing! 👍🤠👍
Wow, thanks!
Great video as usual. I was wondering if you knew the story of army surgeon Bernard Irwin. Some consider him to be the first M O H winner even though it wasn't awarded to him until 1894. Maybe you could do something on him if you haven't already done so.
Good suggestion
Bass brought them in alive. He didn't get paid for dead men.
I'm barely into this video and my whole entire brain just blew up from the fact that dude was like naw I can't trust you with reading but here's a gun though.
This is all new to me, thanks for exposing such a personage n I truly enjoyed it, if you don’t like it, watch something else
“taint tickler!”
WTF!!?
Tonight, I’ll be roasting coffee on my wood stove listening to this on my live stream on a different app, 🫶
Heck yeah!
holy bleep u funny sir!
“The Original BMF” part 2!
What was the name of the movie about Bass Reeves? Was it any good?
I haven't seen it
Bass Reeves was the BMF of the old west. I wish we could’ve gotten a true adaptation of his life instead of paramount plus gave us
I love this story ! Thank you for all your hardwork and honestly. You have a new subscriber and the praise and respect of a so called boomer.
Thank you!
It's surprising that you'd have to so extensively explain making sense of apprehending your child, but I guess in this day an age some people assume that responsibility becomes someone else's after a certain point. That being said to be clear. As a man I believe your child is always your responsibility. It's a honor to get the chance to be a parent not a chore.
You ever hear of Mickey Free? Scout who hunted Apaches and was a friend of the Apache Kid...If they sent him a-huntin' yew, start praying.
America is gangster af
14 in 40+ years, in OK Territory, doesn't seem overly aggressive. ... and I'm a Tree Huggin Hippie Freak.
George Reeves, the original Superman, & father of Christopher Reeves
Exactly
46:19 Brother never backtrack or try explaining When you know you're speaking the truth. You don't have to backpedal on the truth. Whoever can't accept the truth let them fall off, unsbscribe or whatever they do. At the end the day you told the truth/fact so there's no way you can be wrong........Awsome commentary by the way!!
Well I guess 500 yrds is possible. The bkackpowder 44-40 cartridge usually had a 200 grain projectile going around 1150fps or more at the muzzle so it'd still be going like 700ish at 500yrds. A pretty good whack if it didn't kill ya.
Please continue making such gangster content...it's the only thing that keeps me from intentionally swerving off the road Doordashing afyer being offered the 3rd order with $2 tip or less...wish I sacked up like good Ole Bass and call them out.
Cant imagine how a 45 could slide on out a 44 cal.barrel?
Reckon that's how it got stuck
Bass should have been played by Woody Strode years ago.
Great actor
Bill Pickett what about him
Soon
Shane Gillis, is that you?!
Change your name from kickin wing to kickin bass, i would
- joe dirte
Great narration. But no production at all. You could've done something man. But I did enjoy the story
As a Reeves i hope im somhow related.
11:28 my Great Great Grandfather in his diary, stated that a Sherrif and deputy was shot in the back today, left in the trail dust, bush wackers are every where, eliminating any Northern Union troops heading back home after the war..
Lonesome Dove was one of the best western movies ever the only thing wrong with it… The Duke John Wayne was not in it. I love the old Charlton Heston and Brian Keith movie the mountain men is another great old classic movie 🎥
You do know that originally John Wayne was slated to play Gus, right?
Thats one fine lip pelt
Bass was an Indian and he was apart of the Buffalo Soljas
None of what you just said is true
The Searchers is NOT playing on HBO....
It’s not?
@@WildWestExtravaganza No... I checked just after you mentioned it and could not find it.... Bummer..
Russ
My bad. When I originally recorded that like 3 years ago it was.
Good Doc. Not arguing a point just another perspective. I agree that education is powerful. However, I disagree your reasons for not allowing Bass to read. His owner probably saw no point to it. Had no idea ANY person of color would ever be free, but teaching him to handle a pistol was beneficial to both Bass and his owner, considering Bass's position as a slave, he wasn't a field worker. Just another way to look at it. Considering the time period, educating a Black man to empower him wasn't even a thing, let alone even the slightest consideration. That's a 60s Black Panther mentality.
Thanks! I hear what you're saying but it was a big enough issue for several states to pass laws prohibiting the teaching of slaves to read or write. One of the big concerns was that they'd forge documents in order to gain their freedom.
Not All slave states passed those laws after the 1831 slave revolt. Lastly, the for mentioned papers were rare. Really rare. I don't think that was an issue, it's another wife's tale.
@@user-uo9cy2ep2h Correct, not all states. But it’s hard to say that something was an old wives tale when there were literal laws passed against it.
Wasn't Reeves in Judge Parker's jail for three months? You think, maybe, the Judge was sending Reeves the message to bring in more of his arrests alive?
He was in jail for 6 months
At the Judge's pleasure.@@WildWestExtravaganza
When it comes to Reeves, you really have to read between the lines.
Bass Reeve's last gunfight at 69. World class taint tickler. Coinkidink? I think maybe NOT.
You get it
Aubrey searched all men and I can give best reads accolades I wouldn't put him higher than heck Thomas or Bill tilghman but I will put him in the same company as them they are definitely the top three. All of them went into no Man's Land what used to be called Indian Territory then Oklahoma territory bringing out all sorts of outlaws sometimes lying over a saddle. But then again you might need to put bass Reeves over them to because they had the added benefit of being white. If I was a man back in carrying a load of money I would want one of these three men guarding me and that includes bass Reeves.
Django 🎉😮WHAT
if u saw me and then heard who im listening to im ppl would be like wth 🤣glad i was raised to love everyone lmao without internet man u cant find talent and jusr hearing someone from a complete diff culture and for me talking about good history lol the good side of the internet lol .....
He had one eye on you. And the other one elsewhere
speculation, all you got to know!
What the hell did bass do with all that money ,he was literally like a millionaire back then 🤔
Maybe back child support 🤣
Ordered a book on Bass. It was dry & not narrative oriented at all.
But Jo-osh!
How can you say The Searchers was the most influential Western of all time?
We all know that goes to the story of Black Bart, a negro lawman of the wild west, that you have failed to even mention in this episode! You know, Blazing Saddles!
& all these native tribes that you mention in your episodes, I have never once heard you mention the Hekawis!
&
MOST cowboys were Black or Hispanic. Only a few jobs they could get and cowboy was one.
…a scourge then and now
Who’s that?
Maybe I'm full of shit, but they say compilation. I believe that means that sevel videos have been put together, 8na different order, perhaps, for the reason of reshowing.
Correct
You are limiting your potential in growing your channel severely by refusing to cover or partake in a segment covering the Wild West massive success of Red dead redemption 2!
I highly advise you simply look up Mojave D. Red dead redemption play through.
The 72 year old gentleman. Decided to cover the Title and has grow over 20k in a couple of months.
It’s not about gaming. It’s about capitalizing on the affinity for the Wild West that exist in the world today. Not only will you gain the support of the Red Dead redemption 2 community that is millions strong.. but you will be filling a void in said community that is urning for more Wild West content as the game is now over a decade old.
I bet you $100 if you post a stream titled. Playing red dead redemption as a non gamer for the first time. Your Channel will get 10k subs minimum within a month
The cowboy being featured in this story sounds fascinating
The commentator is hard to listen to
His method of storytelling leaves the listener annoyed
Imagine how I feel
“Take Steve Harvey Tom sellek and Sam Elliot then sprinkle some testosterone😂😂😂 This is y I love your channel in comparison to others #BLM💪🏾🏆🤌🏾
Credible facts,sadly maybe racist remarks to put down a good man!
Huh?
I miss the old days when you came out with new content instead of recycling old stuff.
I'm sorry you feel that way
I love listening to you my man. This one and others seem a little bit rehashed.
Fret not young grasshopper just a refreshing recall of greatness
@@WildWestExtravaganza correct me if I'm wrong. But these type of videos are just mashups of previous videos you've made that fit together in someway?
This video isn't a new recording, right?
@@bignateesquire are they new videos or is he just combining like old videos?
Well said,anarchy is what the USA.is heading into!
I miss when it was bloody beaver. Wild West extravaganza…original. Brilliant
He def didnt burn his home down because it was still there when the posse of 30+ men came to do it soon after. Too sad. Ned Christie was terribly misunderstood.
BOOO 👎