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  • Top 5 Badass Facts about the Old West
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    The Old West has been misrepresented in film for decades, with facts turned into myths. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and join us as we delve into interesting and surprising facts about the Wild West.
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    In this instalment, we're providing some clarity about the essence of a wildly misrepresented era, as we count down the 5 most interesting and surprising facts about The Old West, a period lasting from roughly 1820 and 1920.
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  • @flintcountytomarkarth786
    @flintcountytomarkarth786 8 років тому +261

    Old West will never die as long as RDR keeps on spinning.

    • @PP-rg1rh
      @PP-rg1rh 5 років тому +2

      You are right

    • @fazefaze5535
      @fazefaze5535 4 роки тому +2

      Flint County to Markarth time traveler?

    • @thegodoffools5871
      @thegodoffools5871 4 роки тому +3

      Young njja *face palm* red dead revolver- red dead redemption- red dead redemption 2
      It is’t called red dead redemption *2* for a Reason its a sequel *idiot*

    • @yassinsherif88
      @yassinsherif88 4 роки тому

      2:40 hey uncle

  • @keegansparks7789
    @keegansparks7789 4 роки тому +104

    “HAHA, FOUND YA LENNY.”

    • @EseSlicc_Diablo
      @EseSlicc_Diablo 4 роки тому +2

      Shut up morgan

    • @EseSlicc_Diablo
      @EseSlicc_Diablo 4 роки тому +2

      By the way i stole your money

    • @ftgluckymoney6676
      @ftgluckymoney6676 4 роки тому +1

      I hAvE a PlAnNnNnNnNnN

    • @nitsuagaming6121
      @nitsuagaming6121 3 роки тому

      @@EseSlicc_Diablo what money? It all went to john marston. Also doc shouldn't you be busy with dentist work or gambling or shooting guys at ok corral?

    • @EseSlicc_Diablo
      @EseSlicc_Diablo 3 роки тому +2

      @@nitsuagaming6121 i got a different career and by the look on your face your outa aces friend oh i know lets have a spelling contest

  • @MaCabaret
    @MaCabaret 8 років тому +150

    Jesse James had quite the career to be robbing banks in the 1970s.

    • @mattly2597
      @mattly2597 8 років тому +9

      I hear he was also wrapped up in Watergate

    • @stacyshelton515
      @stacyshelton515 8 років тому +3

      lmao I noticed that too I was like wtf

    • @SomeOneBrokeMe
      @SomeOneBrokeMe 8 років тому +8

      1870s to the 1970s lol. Would be funny seeing a man over 100 robbing banks on horseback.

    • @paalaasengstubbrud3524
      @paalaasengstubbrud3524 8 років тому +5

      He apparently had an afro and a thick greasy moustache.

    • @earlleroybonaviewthe3rd112
      @earlleroybonaviewthe3rd112 8 років тому

      I had to go back and see if I heard that right lol.

  • @BTHABIT.
    @BTHABIT. 8 років тому +107

    is true WatchMojo has lost some of its Mojo and that's not even a joke

    • @Merlinthehappypig
      @Merlinthehappypig 8 років тому

      k

    • @BTHABIT.
      @BTHABIT. 8 років тому

      +Darius Bodea you know what they say what comes around goes around

    • @frenchhonhon
      @frenchhonhon 8 років тому

      +Trump vs Hillary who will win no... what?

    • @soccerandtrack10
      @soccerandtrack10 8 років тому

      I'd rather have Nazi zombies in the mix instead of choosing clinton or trump.

  • @TheMarine316
    @TheMarine316 8 років тому +57

    The best depiction of the old west is red dead redemption... that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

    • @synisterv7703
      @synisterv7703 8 років тому +2

      Still playing that game right now........on my PS3 tho.........this game sucked me right back in..........even GTA 5 couldn't do that.........

    • @DatGrunt
      @DatGrunt 8 років тому +2

      Started playing it again on X1...still as good as the first time I played it.

    • @Thirty-OughtSick
      @Thirty-OughtSick 8 років тому

      And that was 1911

    • @danielandres1579
      @danielandres1579 8 років тому

      Same here!

    • @cha5
      @cha5 8 років тому +1

      I'm still waiting for a 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' video game
      in which you can play as Tuco, Blonde, or Angel Eyes.

  • @husavik4
    @husavik4 8 років тому +2

    For me, my Wild West surprising fact is that many famous Wild West happenings were actually in states that today are considered Midwestern states. Hollywood movies make it seem like the Wild West drama was always in Southwestern deserts and the Rocky Mountains, but many famous Wild West incidents happened in Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Arkansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. These states may not have dramatic mountains or deserts, but they have wild and rugged places, amazing rivers and beautiful scenery in their own right. It´s worth checking out. Plus many of these states have beautifully preserved old buildings and natural wilderness areas (such as the badlands in North and South Dakota and Nebraska). You can even follow the routes of the Oregon Trail, Pony Express, Mormon Trail and Texas Cattle Trail. I love the American West sites in the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest Deserts a lot, and it´s great to also combine them with the Wild West history that happened in what are now Midwestern states, as well as all the amazing Wild West history you can find in Texas, a state that covers a lot of geological terrain.

  • @1504Shawn
    @1504Shawn 8 років тому +268

    Give us Red Dead 3 god dammit!!!!!!!!!!

  • @joaquinflores3547
    @joaquinflores3547 8 років тому +28

    they forgot to say that the first Cowboys where Mexican

    • @thepennbard8598
      @thepennbard8598 8 років тому +2

      And what Cowboys actually were rather than the way Hollywood portrayed them.

    • @mirkecWii
      @mirkecWii 8 років тому

      WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE

    • @joaquinflores3547
      @joaquinflores3547 8 років тому

      I mean in California and Texas mostly

    • @shooshoobob1
      @shooshoobob1 8 років тому +4

      The tradition got its start in Spain, actually.

    • @joaquinflores3547
      @joaquinflores3547 8 років тому +3

      Joey Uphigh but the Spaniards where not known as Cowboys in Spain they didn't use Cowboy boots that was a Mexican Invention as well as the lazo and the chaps

  • @mezuki64
    @mezuki64 8 років тому +41

    in the memory of my dad he loved oldwest movies😥

  • @TheNewRiflemanBob
    @TheNewRiflemanBob 8 років тому +113

    First of all the old west was really a period around 40 years from 1865 - 1905. It was no where near a century long. The reason why the old west lasted a short period of time was because it was a very brutal and dangerous time in America. Law and order was very few and far in between. Keep in mind that all of the old west legends and infamous outlaws gained fame/infamy in the later half of the 19th century. Billy the kid died in 1881, the same year as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Wild Bill Hickok kicked the bucket in 1876. Those are just three examples. There are plenty more but it would take too long to list them. If you doubt what I'm saying then do yourself a favor and google any legendary person of the old west and you will see that they lived in the late 1800's. Very disappointing video WatchMojo. Very disappointing.

    • @magnificentfailure2390
      @magnificentfailure2390 8 років тому +5

      The murder stats are kind of skewed, too. I'm sure a whole lot of people died out on the high lonesome and were never reported or heard of again. I live in southern Arizona and every once in a while remains are found that have obviously been dead a long, long time.

    • @brantleylansing7696
      @brantleylansing7696 8 років тому +8

      +Pat Gawne yeah MOJO seems to never do enough research when they make videos, it's pathetic

    • @bcubed72
      @bcubed72 8 років тому +2

      Yeah, the "lawless west" era was a by-product of disaffection for how the Civil War turned out, combined with the CW practice of using "irregular" armies whose duty it was, essentially, to rob and pillage the opposite side. Just like Britain using Privateers, this led to continued lawbreaking once the war ended.

    • @TheNewRiflemanBob
      @TheNewRiflemanBob 8 років тому +2

      Thomas Headley Interesting comment you made. I'll research your statements when I have some time.

    • @terrytwobears5945
      @terrytwobears5945 6 років тому +1

      billy the kid did not die in 1881

  • @magnificentfailure2390
    @magnificentfailure2390 8 років тому +2

    I'd say the Old West was as violent as I have always thought it was. A lot of bad things that happened didn't happen in towns and villages. Consider the Mountain Meadows incident in Utah, the Camp Grant massacre in Arizona and other horrible incidents. How many died on the trails and remote places?
    Of course, I grew up in what was left of the Old West, so I have heard tales that would make you shiver.

  • @airmackeeee6792
    @airmackeeee6792 8 років тому +2

    That's quite interesting to hear about the existence of feral camels in the old west. Around the same time period camels were imported to Australia to be used as pack animals by the military forces and traders. These camels also got loose, became feral, and REALLY proliferated. To this day they are still considered a major, if unusual, pest problem.

  • @anxiousfox9761
    @anxiousfox9761 5 років тому +5

    0:44 Lmao That man with the beard looks exactly like Hollowpoiint and it’s even funnier because he’s played RDR1 and 2 😂😂😂

  • @theylied1776
    @theylied1776 8 років тому +13

    One big mistake, Jesse James wasn't robbing banks in the early 1970's? I think you meant the 1870's?

    • @davidwitt8888
      @davidwitt8888 8 років тому

      Brah of course during the 70s was when fucking Jesses James was at large

    • @theylied1776
      @theylied1776 8 років тому

      David witt He said in this video it was 1970. That would make Jesse James over 140 years old.

    • @davidwitt8888
      @davidwitt8888 8 років тому

      theylied1776 I know i was just picking

    • @davidjames8031
      @davidjames8031 6 років тому

      You didn't realize he came back from the dead to rob more banks? Lol

  • @emiyahhh
    @emiyahhh 8 років тому +8

    Camels in Red Dead 3 confirmed?? 🤔🤔

  • @studlygrish
    @studlygrish 8 років тому +1

    three things that stopped the outlaws. 1. photograph ( now we know what you look like) 2. telegraph ( they're headed you way) 3. the automobile ( out run the horse)

  • @arte4arte
    @arte4arte 8 років тому +9

    You neglected to mention that nearly all the trappings of what we understand to be American "Cowboy" culture was largely appropriated from northern Mexican "Charreada" culture during the hacienda era in the 19th century. Many white immigrants, some deserters from both the Union and Confederate armies found work in the northern Mexican haciendas, and adopted the culture and techniques of the "Vaqueros", or Mexican cowboys....

    • @savage_turtle1791
      @savage_turtle1791 5 років тому

      mustang cobra dumbass🤣

    • @savage_turtle1791
      @savage_turtle1791 5 років тому +1

      mustang cobra you should be the one doing research, yea obviously horses and guns weren’t here before the Europeans, but the cowboy culture started in the northern states of Mexico or New Spain before it was Mexico

  • @jonathanbohm6489
    @jonathanbohm6489 8 років тому +214

    Canadians are making a list about the AMERICAN old west hmm...

  • @geohikari
    @geohikari 8 років тому +46

    Is it true that it's always high noon in the ol' west?

    • @ShootTheDamnZombie
      @ShootTheDamnZombie 8 років тому +26

      It's high noon somewhere in the world...

    • @victorramirez3504
      @victorramirez3504 8 років тому

      Cant find anything about the old west without someone talking about high noon

    • @BellaNoceur008
      @BellaNoceur008 8 років тому +1

      +Victor Ramirez It's okay..... I've got them in my sights....
      I'm sorry....

    • @jaydenb.9902
      @jaydenb.9902 8 років тому

      when it was high noon i got a massive sunburn that only made me get 5 hours of sleep during a three day period. its still here

    • @escapefromtibet2530
      @escapefromtibet2530 8 років тому

      Step right up

  • @teeassassin9143
    @teeassassin9143 8 років тому +11

    for jesse james robbing he said during the 1970

  • @warn7892
    @warn7892 6 років тому +10

    Can’t wait for Red Dead Redemption 2

  • @KeS52
    @KeS52 8 років тому +13

    I'm just here because Red Dead redemption is now backwards compatible.

  • @aircoolguy5218
    @aircoolguy5218 3 роки тому +1

    The Wild West is my favorite time period in American history and all of history for that matter

  • @commandplay
    @commandplay 8 років тому +19

    How fitting, I just finished watching the Hateful 8

    • @FrenchSaladMac
      @FrenchSaladMac 8 років тому +5

      Cool, just watch Django (made by the same director Quentin Tarantino) and finally play read dead redemption, and it will make an excellent experience

    • @commandplay
      @commandplay 8 років тому +1

      looks like you're having a "old west" day haha

    • @FrenchSaladMac
      @FrenchSaladMac 8 років тому

      +commandplay lol I've done it before u won't be disappointed

    • @chedrick78
      @chedrick78 8 років тому

      +Gh Senior Django has to be one of the greatest movies of all time.. Well at least in my opinion, same with Red Dead. I immediately started playing RDR right after Django

    • @FrenchSaladMac
      @FrenchSaladMac 8 років тому

      +chedrick78 Yeah Rockstar games don't dissapoint , rdr is executed masterfully, the story, soundtrack and protagonist are all embodiment of the old West Era, u liter feel like you are in a western, my favorite part is when u go to Mexico. After I watched the hateful 8, I played rdr and always captured my bounties alive with a lasso haha

  • @Vandalier83
    @Vandalier83 8 років тому +29

    is that a misquoted "1970's" I hear about Jesse James?

    • @Vandalier83
      @Vandalier83 8 років тому +1

      around 3:04

    • @dekkard
      @dekkard 6 років тому +2

      Just what I was thinking... wtf?

    • @davidjames8031
      @davidjames8031 6 років тому +2

      I heard it too! I had to run the video back a couple of times to make sure I heard that. I guess Jesse James' ghost had come back 100 yrs later to rob some more.

  • @joezingher4770
    @joezingher4770 8 років тому +2

    Actually, the term "red light district" originated with the red lantern that the trainmen carried. The "red glass door" at 2:30 would be a unique thing to just the one bordello in the one city. But, across the country, wherever railroad workers were visiting the establishment, they would bring their lights with them. So, you could see the red lights and know that it was the local bordello.

  • @SuperDib07
    @SuperDib07 8 років тому +1

    Hey that was brilliant!! Can you do some more facts about the wild west please?

  • @jamesa.meadow4711
    @jamesa.meadow4711 5 років тому +2

    Wait so if the Wild West ended in 1912-1920 why are Bonnie & Clyde considered Wild West outlaws if their crime spree began in 1932?

  • @Higgy867
    @Higgy867 8 років тому +1

    I'm impressed watch mojo you actually had facts I didn't know

  • @patrickstewart3446
    @patrickstewart3446 8 років тому +3

    Actually, Jesse James DID have a PR Man. He was a reporter for the Kansas City Times who gave glowing and loving reports of Jesse James' robberies.

    • @leemehan
      @leemehan 3 роки тому

      I know somebody that is related to Jesse James!

  • @mariohds86
    @mariohds86 8 років тому +24

    Fact number one should be cowboy culture originated in Mexico.

    • @donaldtrump3310
      @donaldtrump3310 5 років тому

      you mean spain?

    • @JoseTrujillo
      @JoseTrujillo 5 років тому +3

      @@donaldtrump3310 No Mexico. Spanish were not called Vaqueros. ( which Americans tried to use the word...I believe buckaroo, then tried to translate the word, now cowboy, by the way makes no sense in spanish). The Spanish were Caballeros, it is until the Mexican (the mixed race) that the word Vaquero started to become popular. The wild west was really a Mexican thing. I think it still is!

    • @donaldtrump3310
      @donaldtrump3310 5 років тому

      @@JoseTrujillo nope the wild west is not a mexican thing the wild west started when the european settler came in. mexicans were only cowboys wich is originaly from spain and bieng gunslinger was originialy a white american thing

    • @Auto-Toon
      @Auto-Toon 5 років тому

      Most of the cowboy lingo is from Mexican Spanish... look up the etymology Lariat, Rodeo, chaps etc etc

    • @pepstorres5741
      @pepstorres5741 5 років тому +1

      @@donaldtrump3310 White folk always thinking they were first at every thing ......rebrand , repackage and rename so you could call it your own ,Thee Merican way .

  • @kw0s
    @kw0s 7 років тому

    I laughed so hard watching Blazing Saddle, I really was rolling on the floor. I still get a chuckle if watch it again.

  • @steffenflindt8670
    @steffenflindt8670 8 років тому +9

    0:12 Big Al from Blood In Blood Out

    • @beefyoso
      @beefyoso 8 років тому

      yeah, and that's denzel washington hitting him with the shovel!

    • @joaquinflores3547
      @joaquinflores3547 8 років тому +1

      looks like big al hahaha

    • @steffenflindt8670
      @steffenflindt8670 8 років тому

      "that was the last pork chop" lol

    • @joaquinflores3547
      @joaquinflores3547 8 років тому

      Steffen Flindt he will never give out pork chops ever again

    • @mengarooo3149
      @mengarooo3149 8 років тому

      You play your cards right...you could have it all baby...

  • @pancho4083
    @pancho4083 8 років тому +4

    3:04, so according to Watchmojo Jesse James was a time traveler

    • @Jamescush
      @Jamescush 8 років тому

      That would make a cool movie.

  • @skrrank4423
    @skrrank4423 8 років тому

    Can we just sit back and appreciate this channel to some it's just a count down channel but for me I loved it since it started

  • @mbabist01
    @mbabist01 5 років тому

    Check out "Hawumps" with James Garner, about the camels. They were mainly used in California, around present day Fresno.

  • @thewanderinginternetwizard4361
    @thewanderinginternetwizard4361 8 років тому +2

    Blazing Saddles is probably the funniest movie I've ever seen.

  • @Idk-tb9kq
    @Idk-tb9kq 4 роки тому +2

    One fact: you would never be able to kill Wild Bill in a gunfight

  • @natethagod2426
    @natethagod2426 8 років тому +36

    Watchmojo is just unbearable now

    • @DrewJPS
      @DrewJPS 8 років тому +5

      Bye then.

    • @BullworthGraduate
      @BullworthGraduate 8 років тому +1

      Why? Because they posted an interesting video about one of the most iconic time periods in America's history?

    • @SonicSP
      @SonicSP 7 років тому +1

      So why are you watching? Seriously if you don't like WatchMojo, don't watch it or comment on their channels since that helps them out.

    • @AAWT
      @AAWT 7 років тому +1

      Interesting if you have no clue of real history. Those who can see it for what it is - left-wing BS/propaganda - are right to object to this nonsense.

  • @Tkenny922
    @Tkenny922 8 років тому +26

    I'm pretty sure the low violent crime rate in some towns was due precisely to the fact that firearm ownership was so high.

    • @DrewJPS
      @DrewJPS 8 років тому +1

      I couldn't afford guns you fool. They could barely afford a bullet, let alone a gun.

    • @garconimunster
      @garconimunster 8 років тому +5

      Easy to kill when you know they cant fight back, but of youre gonna shoot someone and you know they're armed, you might think twice.

    • @nyc1164
      @nyc1164 8 років тому

      Yeah, but they weren't allowed to carry it in town

    • @Tkenny922
      @Tkenny922 8 років тому +4

      +sphinx onyx Fucking bomb ass comeback, girl! Consider my mind changed!

    • @TheRealMEEDABEE
      @TheRealMEEDABEE 8 років тому

      +nyc1164 That was only one town I believe. Also, the only reason why it worked is because most to all citizens were law-abiding.

  • @jessicajayes8326
    @jessicajayes8326 8 років тому

    I have one! Many cowboys didn't wear stinsons! They often wore bowlers!

  • @carlwitt7950
    @carlwitt7950 8 років тому +5

    I dare anyone to watch Blazing Saddles and tell me anything that funny could be made today. So sad what our country has lost.

  • @blueasterstyles7126
    @blueasterstyles7126 8 років тому

    My great-grandfather was the subject of a front page story in a San Francisco Newspaper for stopping a train robbery in his job as a Wells Fargo Security agent while in AZ.
    He was Charles Jennings who was credited in the article for shooting the brains (the story said) out of a would be robber-assilant by the name of Sandy who then yelled "I'm DAID" as he fell to the dirt from his horse.
    I think some of those places possibly didn't bother counting. On the other hand-- it is nice to hear something good about the West.😕

  • @JamesRDavenport
    @JamesRDavenport 8 років тому

    Another fact: The common western movie cliche' of ordering whiskey straight wasn't as common in real life, as a good number of saloons either had rotgut or watered down. Many locals actually preferred mixed fruity drinks and cocktails. I saw somewhere the most often ordered drink was actually a Champagne Flip.

    • @aimraah2586
      @aimraah2586 8 років тому

      And Coca-Cola had actual cocaine in it... Fuck your coffee! Coke is it!

  • @GamingCatToys
    @GamingCatToys 8 років тому

    Dang make a list about top 5 colored tables made out of plastic plz make this I've been wanting this to show up for a long time

  • @stevewhite8059
    @stevewhite8059 8 років тому

    For camels in the Old West (not quite so old, coming into modernity) watch Ride the High Country by Sam Peckinpah which has a race between horse and camel at the start of the film. If you check out the early history of the Indian Territory/Oklahoma you'll find plenty of non-mythical violence and outlawry going on, plus of course the Kansas border wars before and during the Civil War. The emergence of the likes of John Wesley Hardin and James Butler Hickok came directly after the Civil War and were but two of the more famous 'Man Killers' or 'Shootists'. The Wild Bill Hickok Vs Davis Tutt duel being well documented at the time and being erroneously used as a template for almost all the Hollywood shootouts. Why not, it makes for good drama!

  • @kevinstout6988
    @kevinstout6988 8 років тому

    Blazing Saddles...Love that Movie!!

  • @tonym994
    @tonym994 7 років тому

    in the book 'Wild West Show' they expose a rather harmless piece of trivia.before 1885, there were no tumbleweeds. they are a strange plant that came here the same way as the pilgrims,by boat! but not before 1885.

  • @MaxiDoesStuff
    @MaxiDoesStuff 3 роки тому

    My favorite old west movie is actually "Young guns" not only is it the story of BIlly The Kid, but it also shows what the west looked like. man i wish i could time travel there.

  • @terrorcop101
    @terrorcop101 5 років тому

    I think Confederate President Jefferson Davis brought in his own bunch of camels to use in the Civil War, but with most of the heavy fighting taking place east of the Mississippi, the idea basically fell through.

  • @felixhalby6886
    @felixhalby6886 5 років тому +3

    anyone here because of Red Dead Redemption 2?

  • @Kampfkeiler01
    @Kampfkeiler01 5 років тому

    The 'fact' concerning the red light district is also a common Myth. Railway workers were carrying red lanterns and would often stumble into a brothel after a hard day of work to ... well i guess you know what. Anyways their red lanterns illuminated the brothels in a red light, which was soon adapted as the brothels signs and façades were painted red, hence the name red light district.

  • @theoldgringo1966
    @theoldgringo1966 4 роки тому

    Hawmps! (1976) a comedic rendition of the camel in the West.

  • @johnryding1630
    @johnryding1630 8 років тому

    The red light district was named for the red lanterns the railroad conductors would hang outside so they could be found when the train was ready to leave.

  • @damodgc
    @damodgc 8 років тому +9

    I actually like Hollywood's take on the Old West. Better than the reality anyway.

    • @JD-lo9tg
      @JD-lo9tg 8 років тому +4

      just like pirates am I right?

    • @jcnz84
      @jcnz84 8 років тому

      +Jay Draper and ninjas

  • @Jack_Klash
    @Jack_Klash 8 років тому

    One can be that there were no Wanted Posters because they were expensive to make and two Bounty Hunter is a term made by Hollywood.

  • @jonathanbohm6489
    @jonathanbohm6489 8 років тому

    13 million subscribers but only 31000 views? That's a shame

  • @omegagilgamesh
    @omegagilgamesh 8 років тому

    I'm surprised you didn't mention how Wyatt Earp was a murderer. As I understand it, he killed one man doing his duties as a sheriff and at least three men as a means of personal business (as in murder).

  • @BCSchmerker
    @BCSchmerker 8 років тому

    At Tombstone, AZ, USA, constable Doc Holliday kept busy tracking the evidence to pin down each night's corpse to a culprit. Rivalries among the residents apparently survived the War Between the States; occasionally a Negro turned up among the dead, and Holliday would have to figure out, among other tasks of investigation, whether the Invisible Empire might have been involved. The Fremont Street gunfight that gave the Earps infamy, and put Wyatt on trial on a murder charge (the jury returned a not guilty verdict), was a gun confiscation gone awry.

  • @eancola6111
    @eancola6111 7 років тому +1

    I live in Arizona and know my history, maybe only five murders a year were reported but many more happened

  • @mengarooo3149
    @mengarooo3149 8 років тому

    0:04 What TV show or movie is this, please?

  • @hlynnkeith9334
    @hlynnkeith9334 8 років тому

    Camels: There was a movie made about camels in the old west: Hawmps! starring James Hampton.

  • @schizoidboy
    @schizoidboy 8 років тому

    One thing I heard about the lawmen of that time they were often good at pistol whipping troublemakers. Handguns in those days were probably more sturdier than we give them credit for and just as often it was a better attack then just shooting criminals. Bat Masterson was considered good at using a gun to strike as well as to shoot.

  • @masonklabunde1550
    @masonklabunde1550 5 років тому

    Deadwood is such a cool town.

  • @thatmandan4993
    @thatmandan4993 5 років тому +1

    let me drop some knowledge, the Euorpeans had knights but America didnt have time for that so they had cowboys, fun fact there where more bank roberies in 2016 than the whole period of the wild west.

  • @jonathanbohm6489
    @jonathanbohm6489 8 років тому +4

    Jeese James robbed banks in the 1970s?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @killerkale2769
    @killerkale2769 8 років тому +1

    what is the movie with the black cowboy that held gun to his head

    • @hemangchauhan2864
      @hemangchauhan2864 8 років тому

      Blazing saddles, I believe

    • @killerkale2769
      @killerkale2769 8 років тому

      Hemang Chauhan thank u

    • @DominusLuna
      @DominusLuna 8 років тому +1

      Blazing Saddles. Likely my favorite comedy of all time. Mel Brooks.

  • @matttouma5476
    @matttouma5476 8 років тому

    Please do top ten Pyscho series episodes

  • @Guitarfollower22
    @Guitarfollower22 8 років тому +3

    How many videos does WatchMojo crank out in one day?

  • @thirdbase314159
    @thirdbase314159 8 років тому

    By the early 1970's? Damn Jesse James lived a long healthy life.

  • @johntinawin2456
    @johntinawin2456 7 років тому

    am i the only one who feel nostalgic when, i see something about the old west

  • @cathycovarrubias11
    @cathycovarrubias11 8 років тому

    you know how some people shout "shotgun!" so they can sit in the front of the car with the driver? That comes from when stagecoach drivers needed a gunmen to sit there in case they ran into robbers.

  • @Ryooken
    @Ryooken 6 років тому

    Actually there was a western with James Garner movie that featured camels in the west.

  • @ShidaiTaino
    @ShidaiTaino 8 років тому

    People become history. History become legend. Legend become myth.

    • @sparkydoodle696
      @sparkydoodle696 8 років тому

      I've heard that somewhere, can't remember where though.

    • @whatsup7253
      @whatsup7253 8 років тому

      fox news

    • @sparkydoodle696
      @sparkydoodle696 8 років тому

      Mike Mcgee Goddamit, I was hoping somewhere cool

  • @brettpeacock9116
    @brettpeacock9116 8 років тому

    No camels in westerns? Really... I guess that the camel in Sam Peckinpah's "Ride the High Country" was a mirage then....
    plus I can recall at least 1 other camel in something from the 50's....

  • @alexalvarado5753
    @alexalvarado5753 3 роки тому

    Valentine, New Hanover during 1898-1899 was REALLY violent. like 100 murders per week.

  • @hdhale2
    @hdhale2 8 років тому +1

    Except of course that the murder statistics for a vast region of North America where communications were not always reliable or essentially nonexistent is basically unknowable (indeed, bands of outlaws relied upon poor communications to ply their "trade"). Similarly, trying to credit gun bans with a lower murder rate doesn't work either, since only an idiot or someone criminally insane would shoot a man in cold blood in town in front of potentially dozens of witnesses--you'd wait until your victim was out of town where you were far more likely to get away with it. Note too they are talking about the "murder rate". Shooting a man in self defense wouldn't be counted as murder, and shootings in self defense were more frequent than they are today. The bottomline is that in the Old West it was far easier to get away with killing someone, and while towns like Dodge City were generally peaceable places and didn't fit the stereotype, there were far more places were the law was corrupt or non-existent and carrying a gun for self defense was just common sense.

  • @yassinsherif88
    @yassinsherif88 4 роки тому

    2:40 hey uncle

  • @jordansammons1576
    @jordansammons1576 8 років тому +1

    Tombstone was a great movie

  • @rascallygoose4926
    @rascallygoose4926 3 роки тому

    1. The Van Der Linde gang was the strongest in the 1890’s

  • @Sewage105
    @Sewage105 5 років тому +1

    Where the hell is the blackwater massacre???

  • @8aleph
    @8aleph 8 років тому

    Actually the ordinances banning the carrying of firearms was more honored in their breech than their enforcement

  • @smileymcmiley4169
    @smileymcmiley4169 8 років тому

    the OK coral gun fight was actually only a couple shots

  • @justsayin1576
    @justsayin1576 7 років тому

    Actually there was one western with a camel in it, staring James Garner 1973, "One Little Indian" with Jodie Foster and Jay Silverheals.

  • @brendenjames3659
    @brendenjames3659 7 років тому +8

    this video is needlessly political

  • @Rangersly
    @Rangersly 8 років тому

    "Tombstone largest muder count in a single year never surpassed five".
    Hey that's not too bad... Wait! What was the population of Tombstone in those times a few hundreds? And, aside from murder, how many deaths ruled as "accidents"?, How many wounded by guns, knives, etc.?!?

  • @Willysmb44
    @Willysmb44 8 років тому

    The greatest story of American history that has yet to be written is of the former Union and Confederate veterans working on the railroads alongside former slaves...

  • @01dhdk
    @01dhdk 8 років тому

    do a video on celebrity gold chains

  • @oldenough8011
    @oldenough8011 8 років тому

    Red dead redemption should've had camels lol

  • @benlicea3601
    @benlicea3601 8 років тому

    My great great grandfather was a bandit in the old west he was in a group called wolfs gang

  • @BeverlyM52
    @BeverlyM52 6 років тому

    Camels at Fort Tejon! Just down the road!

  • @MrAndrius12
    @MrAndrius12 8 років тому

    Ah how I love watching old something, whatever it may be! :')

  • @cudwieser3952
    @cudwieser3952 8 років тому

    Extra fact. Prior to the old west, prior to settlement even. Camels originated in the Americas. With Migration and the dividing of land masses, Camels were lost from the Americas and found home in Africa, Asia and Australia.

  • @jets23y
    @jets23y 8 років тому +11

    Fun fact - Billy the kid is actually my ancestor.

    • @arrocoda3590
      @arrocoda3590 8 років тому +16

      Fun Fact - I'm related to the person who killed Billy the Kid

    • @arrocoda3590
      @arrocoda3590 8 років тому

      Garret

    • @benmatthews9760
      @benmatthews9760 8 років тому

      Fight, Fight, Fight!

    • @zylissclassicrotarycheeseg6061
      @zylissclassicrotarycheeseg6061 8 років тому

      Oooh gurl, its goin down up in here

    • @TheRealMEEDABEE
      @TheRealMEEDABEE 8 років тому +1

      Fun Fact: I have a grandfather clock nearby, meaning you guys could duel it out at high noon in about an hour and fifteen minutes. Interested? :D

  • @TheLookingOne
    @TheLookingOne 8 років тому

    Are there any verified instances of 2 people standing facing each other and having a shootout (with or without somebody saying "Draw") ? If so, when and where?

  • @richardtexmo9507
    @richardtexmo9507 5 років тому

    Partially, the myths can be traced back to Wyatt Earp in Hollywood. Based on some research at least. I mean, Earp was friends with John Wayne.

  • @MtlCstr
    @MtlCstr 8 років тому

    Watchmojo needs to watch Hawmps!

  • @montanamountainmen6104
    @montanamountainmen6104 7 років тому

    Jesse was robbing banks in 1970's , well he found the fountain of youth then and robbed it to. Way to go Jesse!!

  • @superunatural3825
    @superunatural3825 8 років тому

    the camel part is the only one to suprise me.

  • @billyburke18
    @billyburke18 4 роки тому

    Fact # 1 Dutch Van Der Lin always has a plan.