The Baldknobbers: Vigilantes of the Ozarks
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
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See how the Baldknobbers, a vigilante group and later an outlaw group, reigned in the Ozarks during the 1880s, leaving quite an impression.
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There were a lot of annoying delays but I hope you'll enjoy the video now that it's finally up!
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Loved silver dollar city as a kid! My family is all from the ozarks in Arkansas and the washitaus in Oklahoma
EmperorTigerstar you can grow your channel if you keep making content like this
Can you make a video on the White League of Louisiana or the Redshirts Of South Carolina? They were both paramilitary forces made after the War.
Ill Blad your Knobbers
'Baldknobbers' sounds like a circumcision euphemism.
A bald knob is an area where a plain comes out of the forrest and rock knobs stick out of the ground. Not necessarily a mountain top. There are no mountains in Taney County or most of the Ozarks, just hills.
Like other outlaws they probably sat on the bald knobs and did recon on their targets.
I live in the Ozarks and It's nice to finally see an in depth video on the baldknobbers. Great Job!
Same.
Fellow Ozarkian here (from the Arkansas side). Loved hearing the bits of stories my grandma knew about the civil war in that area, which included bushwhackers and baldknobbers. She even once showed me some confederate money her dad had given her. Thanks for the video!
I live near Branson, missouri. I've seen the spot that gave them their name. As a history nerd, it is an interest of mine.
@Aarons117 it really is, especially near Kimberling City.
What spot ?
The hill they first met at, near Branson.
@@richardmyhan3369 do you know where it is ? Or the video about it ? Id love to watch it
@@onehitwarrior1708 Snapp Bald
I love learning things about my State that I didn't know. It sometimes seems that our history is stuck in the past but thank you for the history lesson.
Those that forget history are condemned to repeat it..
At Silver Dollar City in Branson there’s a ride that looks like it’s about firemen. If you ride it you discover it’s about firemen dueling Baldnobbers as they try to burn down bridges and towns. It’s actually kinda eerie.
FIRRRRRRE IN THE WHOOOOOOLE
One of my best childhood memories right there.
Haha 😄 Fire in the Hole???
Last time I rode that was in the 80s
So this year is the last year for fire in the hole. 😢
@@Benjamin-mj9pd yeah I’m super upset about that! I live close so I go and ride it all the time. Crazy they’d get rid of such a classic ride
Missouri history has a bunch of interesting and often ridiculous pieces of history.
We have:
The Pony Express (it took mail out to California in a few days but was only ran for a year due to the invention of the telegraph)
The Honey War (more of a territorial dispute. A guy cut down a couple trees on the Iowa border with some beehives and another guy wanted to fight over it)
The Garden of Eden acording to the Mormons (it's just south of Kansas City. The Mormons moved around a lot in that area before the governor signed an order in 1838 to kick them all out of the state by force)
Yeah independence is home of the “garden of eden” which is just a small field/ commune. it’s really strange but hey. what can you do.
Not entirely correct, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (such as myself), believe that Spring Hill in Daviess County MO, is where Adam blessed 7 of his sons 3 years before he died, and that he will visit there before the Second Coming. The place is named Adam-ondi-Ahman by the Lord. It's not the Garden of Eden, though we do believe that Eden is in North America.
There's a reason why we kicked them out. They're weird. Really weird.
I've always heard they were down south saying that Springfield is the "New Jerusalem" 😄
The men that started the Pony Express were all connected to Leavenworth prior to Pony Express. St Joe had better logistics.
Fire in the Hole is actually based on the town of Marmoros where Silver Dollar City sits now. And that town actually did burn to the ground and was said to be set on fire by the Baldknobbers because a Canadian family bought the land to have commercial tours in the cave that’s there, and they didn’t like the idea of foreigners owning their land. If you want to consider Canadians to be foreigners I guess
"WHY WOULD THEY STEAL YOUR PANTS?!?!"
I wonder what the answer was.....
This was a question of mine for a while too
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JoeTheWX Man17 HELL YEAH,
Hell yea!
Represent!
LETS GOOOO
I grew up visiting Silver Dollar City and rode the Fire in the Hole coaster a LOT. It's legit. Didn't realize how creepy it was as a child. Fun fact: in the 80s someone was decapitated on that ride.
I hate all of the stereotypes about y'all Ozark people and us Appalachians. My mom's family is from the area around matewan wv and beauty, Ky. Right on the Tug river and WV/KY border
Well this hit me right in the childhood. I'm related to members of the music group. They're some of my cousins.
3:24 well they can’t prosecute you if there’s no courthouse
Well....the abandoned old jail is still there at Shadow Rock, maybe thats from later
LOL
I work at Shepherd Of The Hills and I am one of the last Baldknobbers in Branson
That's so funny! I was living in Springfield a few decades ago. Branson was just getting 'born'. And Silver Dollar City was the thing. It's so funny... as soon as you said something about the funniest most memorable part of the ride "Fire in the Hole", I KNEW which part you were talking about! We are planning a week long trip to Branson over the 4th and for sure I will be hearing that famous like "The dang baldnobbers..." again! Thanks for this excellent compilation.
I live in the Springfield area, and I love the historical stuff around here. The battlefield at Wilson's Creek is like 5 miles away and there are markers in town where the CSA made it and then was pushed back. Branson really, really cashed in on the name tbh
You'll like what I've done to the area for the world of darkness settings.
Wilson's Creek is a thin spot to battleground and the shadowlands.
Davis Tut is a ferryman for the wraith population.
Prodominately Werewolf.
There's several Garou caerns and some changeling freeholds.
Pomme de terre is Sept of strange waters, Springfield is the mother road Sept, Wheatland is Sept of metal thunder, ha ha Tonka is the freehold of the laughing fool.
And the baldknobbers are back from the grave.
Wilsons Creek is where Frank and Jesse James deserted the CSA, during the battle
That was great fun. These little local histories are often fascinating.
Fire In The Hole is the world's first indoor roller coaster!
I didn't know you were from the ozarks! Im currently a student at Missouri State. Small world
Damn baldknobbers done stole mah damn pants!
From Baldknobbers country. Very cool of you to put up a history lesson on them! Thank you!
Fantastic video! I’ve read up on the bald knobbers several times before, but it’s so much more helpful to have it in video format like this.
I think that your voice is a little too quiet in comparison to the background music :/
As a member of the Darkride and Funhouse Enthusiasts, I seriously want to ride that ride now!
I went to Branson all the time as a kid but didn't know much about the actual history, so this was fun to learn about
How is this not a movie already? Think of the potential Oscars! I don't mind if it dramatizes the history as long as it is accurate.
Actually this is the reason I watched this video cause I'm thinking about it lol
Ahh yes, remember hearing about these guys in the Shepherd of the Hills show I saw in Branson and wondering who they were.
Hey neighbor. I'm running a Werewolf the Apocalypse game featuring The baldknobbers as the antagonists. Delving into our spooky history. The last baldknobber before he was hung placed a curse on the town of Ozark and five families. The whitlocks, blue (with the branches of blieu and Blu), Morris, morrigan, and Rogers. Vowing to return to kill the traitor.
being in the world of darkness, I've extended the curse to the area. And one of the elder Garou experiencing some burninating the thatched roof cottages. Yeah I know I went with the more simplified version, but got something or someone pulling the strings.
There's a Bilyeu family too
This is the last year that Fire in the hole will be available to ride.
I was unfamiliar with this topic, so it is always nice to learn something new! :)
I go to silver dollar city every winter, fire in the hole is an alltime favorite of mine
I went to Silver Dollar City as a child in the early 70’s. The most memorable part was the shoot out where more than one member of the gang was killed from a second story balcony and fell to the street landing on his back, dead. It was awesome. My mother’s family of both German and Irish ancestry lived around the Melbourne area. At that time there wasn’t a Baldknobber ride, however, I do remember a very prominent geographic feature called Bald knob, a steep treeless hill, that we passed on the road when our family drove from Arkansas back to Saint Louis where we lived at the time.
Correction: There WAS a ride called Fire in the Hole which I believe closed this year
FITH is still open. It’s in its last year as a new FITH opens next season.
fun fact in chadwick MO a small town now but there is a little tiny museum there its only open one day a year but there is a lot of baldnobbers
The baldknobbers ate my homework.
happened right close to me....Missouri was a rough state during war......Current river runs right through Ozarks!
I guess hello neighbor!
There's a town in Arkansas called Bald Knob named after this group
I don't think it was named for the group, as it was an accepted description relating to the geography.
Lighting strikes mountain tops more often than valleys, thereby causing brush fires. Because most of Arkansas is well watered, the fires often burn out as they go downhill and encounter creeks and wetlands.
This means that elevated areas are sometimes totally burned off, while leaving a fringe nearer the base of the hill or mountain green and bushy.
Such descriptive phrases were used among early travelers long before civilization made inroads to this early frontier. Wayfarers of those days seldom had maps of any sort, so such information was essential. By tying the imagery of a "bald head" sticking into the sky with a certain location, the information was less likely to be forgotten.
Descriptive place names are often carried over, even when no longer relevant. You can find the word "lick" in names, denoting surface salt where animals, and people, go to obtain the minerals. (Not far from Little Rock, - another descriptive name - is "Toad Lick Lock and Dam", an area of marshy wetlands with minerals frogs seem to groove on.)
There are towns all across the central and eaatern US (West Va, Va, Mo, Ark) and bald knob is just a clearing around a hill with boulder sticking out.
Wait a second, why in sam hill are the baldknobbers stealing pants?
Weird family history, Sheriff Zach Johnson is my great, great, great grandfather. we have a large original portrait of him (it's creepy 😅)
8:36 “giggity”
Sheriff Branson was my great grand father. Thanks for the video.
I remember when that gravestone was more of an a-frame style sign back in the day. Can't remember why they replaced it like that.
When I heard him list off a “Douglas County” in Missouri, I was so confused, I live in Douglas County, Colorado!
Didn't know you were a fellow from the Western Homeland of the hillbilly.
I'm from Howell County, and our local history is pretty much dominated by the West Plains Dance Hall explosion, with some mention of the killing of Sheriff Kelly by the Ma Barker Gang in 1931.
I grew up in Sharp County AR ways south of state line. My papaw is a Hatfield from the Mammoth/Thayer area.
Imagine living in Missouri
-this post was made by the northern missouri gang
Tigerstar, I love your content so much, but your mastering volume makes me feel like i need to schedule a hearing exam, could you please master a little louder? Thank you for the great content!
Been to Silver Dollar City. Great place. Love Branson.
Ohhh, Silver Dollar City!!!!! The memories... 😢
Oregon County native here, thoroughly surprised you’re from the Ozarks, Tigerstar
I once lived in McClurg, well, really outside of there a ways. But Taney County was gettin' entirely too crowded, so I moved to the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas for some peace and quiet. (Not to mention the only job back then was at the charcoal plant down in Branson.)
They used to have a Sheriff there, no names mentioned as he is dead and gone, that was a real corker. You could roll past him at 90 mph if his wife wasn't riding with him. He couldn't read or write, so if she was at the beauty parlor, he just let you slide. True story, as some of the old timers can tell you.
Him and his Mrs. arrested me once for carrying to much moonshine in my belly. It was cold wet weather, and my boots leaked, so I had put sandwich baggies over my socks.
They decided I needed to stay at the crossbar hotel till the circuit judge showed up to fine me for purchasing spirits from the sheriff's competitors, thereby cheating both the sheriff and the judge out of their cut.
This was back when the news about hippies and killer pot threatened the world order. So as I shucked my clothes, he noticed those baggies, and damned near busted a gut grabbing them. Unlike Bill Clinton, I truly doubt he had any acquaintance with the weed.
This was after dark, and my feet had been intimate with those dry baggies since before daylight. He grabbed one and buried his face in it from unibrow to chin, and inhaled with all the gusto of a pearl diver coming up for air!
The deputy kicked me in the ribs a couple of times while I was rolling on the floor laughing so hard I couldn't breath. The last time I saw that High Sheriff the whole weekend, his wife was trying to revive him with smelling salts.
Yes sir, I do remember the Ozarks real well. Just hope they don't remember me, or I may have to shoot me a baldknobber of my own.
Run boys run don't be slow baldknobers coming there's fire in the hole
“Tell our grandkids to get to the back of the bus… there won’t be a bus” ~ Paul Mooney
Always nice to know your areas history
This litterlay happened in my county! Omg!!!
You're from Missouri, Tiger? C'mon, man. I thought you were cool…
If you last long enough, you become what you hate.
Someone says it better than me.
Emperor Tigerstar is from Missouri? Kickass, I was born in Missouri.
I was born and raised in Missouri with dirt country roads and nature 2021
Springfeild bros where u at?
7:39 this started as a Tigerstar video amd ended as a Defunctland video
From Webster County Missouri just north of Greene County. Yeah I'm Hill Billy, but by God you better smile when you say it.
Missouri squad
As someone from Ky, who has been to that area a few times... It's "app-uh-lay-shuh"....
But, good video! :D
My uncle Paul henning made Beverly hillbillies he based his shows on my family pennycoat junction was based on a old hotel my family had here in eldon
They forgot Green Acres. i was also surprised that Paul Henning was one of the writers of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Am I hearing that right? Or do I some weird, auditory Freudian slip situation goin on?
My subconscious must be full of fellas knobbing bald dudes
I was born in Saint Louis :)
Huh...I actually lived near Branson for a couple years...
I honestly never would have placed you from the area either, so that's actually kind of cool.
imagine if Bruce Wayne was a superhero called Baldnobber
So Tigerstar, since you like the rollercoaster, does that make you a "Ozark Mountain Daredevil "?🤪
If he lives in aldritch where the band was form, yes.
Hey, I'm from the Ozarks as well.
Nice. Thanks.
Salute from Carroll County, Arkansas. \X\ 🫡
Huh. I grew up in Stone county and studied the Baldknobbers briefly in my 20s. By studied I mean I read that Ingerthorn and Hartman book as well as a bunch of blogs. Basically all the info I could find in the early 00s. I'd never heard that Nat Kinney and the original Baldknobbers were a pro union group though. That's really interesting.
Reminds me of the new Watchmen series.
Damn 7th Calvary
Woke garbage.
Badlaama Urukehu Wasn’t a big fan of it either
Ayyye like that Appalachia shoutout
They remind me of the Stories of the "Kelly's gang" from Australia.
Except the baldknobbers worked with (or rather, instead of) the police - at least at first.
Jeff Benton I said it reminds me of, I didn’t say it was same as
Then the second generation of baldknobbers thought we can do this for money.
@@YoFreshWiggy Fair.
Taney county awesome
Good video.
Turn up your master volume
Cool story.
So...basically late 19th century Batman?
Fire in the hole is the besssttt
Why in the Sam hill would they take that mans pants though?
A fellow ozark man
What's the music used in the video?
Sadly fire in the hole had shut down
🇺🇸thanks from John Robert Bruffett Junior of United States of America
i stole his khaki pants
2:15 ow another Oklahoma?
Hi
real yee haw hours at SDC
Does that look like Viggo Mortenson on the left at 7:34 to anyone?
Not deporting all the slaves after the end of the civil war is the third biggest mistake americans have made.
100%
I lived by the w house
7:37 Casey Neistat?
I came across a movie several years ago about the Baldknobbers. I can't remember the name of it. However, the acting and writing was so horrible, I could only watch about ten minutes of it.
Ah yes
Obligatory First!
So, this sound it like BDSM near the end.
Kill the music!