I've had friends who carry the larger unfolded bill wallets. They work well if you have an inside vest pocket in a coat or jacket, but become easy targets if stuck in a back pants pocket. I've carried both bifold and trifold types and it kinda comes down to what doesn't create quite the bulge in your clothes.
Today a larger wallet with unfolded currency works well in a suit jacket. As to bifold or trifolds. I quit carrying one in by back pocket years ago. If I left it in my back pocket on long drives. Oh my aching keister. But today if you do everything by card it just works better to carry it on your front pocket. And those truckers wallets with the chain. IMO they just make you look like a dork.
@@mpetersen6 thats the whole point,....of being an 'old school ' trucker. i knew a guy, had a cabover, older one. He got out, and was hung up, by that wallet chain, on the door handle. You know, back in the day, when THINGS WERE REAL METAL......
Fun fact-scene in "Shootist" guy shot by the derringer almost died for real, cause crew forgot him, and left him wet in cold and he had to walk miles back to where they were staying. John Wayne found out and paid him extra $ for his troubles.
I love my trifold for money and cards but I was gifted a tobacco pouch that strongly resembles the long wallets and it is just plain fun to pull out of a coat pocket.
I can't think of many, or any, other channel that offers us such informative, interesting, and creative news, in such a precise, compact way.👏👏 At the same time, you include a variety of terrific, informative visuals. DEFINITELY, one of THE BEST channels out there, IMO.👏🤠👏
Nice use of "Laugh In" there, Santee. I used to watch the reruns on Nick at Night with my step-father, when I was much younger. Dan Rowan & Dick Martin were comedic geniuses. There are plenty of jokes on that show that they wouldn't be able to get away with today. It was a simpler time...
@@ArizonaGhostriders Artie Johnson as the dirty old man. Gosh I loved that show as a kid. Artie also was the German soldier. On one show, as the German, he tells Bob Hope that he waited for him every Christmas. Bob used to do the USO Christmas shows for our enlisted soldiers every year.
Great episode as always! Some historical sutlers make them to fit current size money. Wish they also made them for period reproduction money for reenactor use. Had to make my own. At least Dan gave you back your wallet. He is really a kind soul. 😁😎
@@adams7763 I buy bags of scrap leather from Hobby Lobby . They're sold in clear plastic bags so you get an idea of the contents , and last time I bought some it cost about $8.99 for five pounds .
Awesome video! As always, good information. Growing up, I had a little cousin who asked for a "pocket purse". No one could figure out what she was talking about. Well, she wanted a wallet, like her daddy. In her mind, women carry purses, but men carried "pocket purses" in their pants or jackets. LOL!
I have one I use for re-enactments. You can easily slip cash,a credit card, drivers license and other needed papers to get to the event. Just can’t carry as many is all. It works well and adds to your authenticity if you have to buy your lady an ice cream or a cold drink while there🤠
Always something new to learn watching this Channel. I’ve seen a lot of these older wallets in the movies and tv shows as a kid but never really knew how accurate they were. Thanks Santee
Thanks for making fun and informative videos. It sure is nice to see stuff like this in today's "always bad news" age. You keep me interested in on of my favorite eras.
I have one similar to the check book style and I’ve had it for maybe a couple of days and the leather is already starting to form. It’s working out great.
Thanks again Santee & Co. I've bought scrap leather from a hobby store and made many small leather products including my bifold wallet . When I was in the navy overseas I learned the trick of carrying two wallets . One fat wallet full of low value bills for small purchases and the possible pickpockets and muggers . A second thin wallet hung by a cord around my neck under my shirt with my military ID and larger bills . As the old saying goes , don't put all your eggs in one basket .
My Grand dad always told me that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he drinks his whiskey and the way he carries his money.... I drink my whiskey straight up and carry my dinero in a leather long wallet just like he did... all bills facing the same way and organized by denomination... great video Santee !!!
Now that you got your wild west wallet. Perhaps a video on the longest poker game ever played at the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone would be pretty interesting.
Great idea for a video. You always have us thinking my friend. I would love to have some of the paper bills from back in the day. Cheers my friend. "A little something extra" The Duke
I carried the large unfolded bill wallets for years. Carried it in my boot. Always kept a small amount of change or ones folded up in my front pocket. Carrying in your back pocket didn’t work to good on a horse or a motorcycle.
I like to use this wallet very much, I have used it since I was a child. From the material to the fabric to the change to genuine cow leather. say hello from thailand
Thanks for the video and the links, Santee! Always great to expand my knowledge and my kit (now if I can just keep the cinch on my britches tight....). Always brings a smile to my Saturdays!
Well now I declare if my eyes saw the AGR logo on that there wallet but wait did I also see a bit of the logo peeking out as well? Nice detail on you all vid as usual great job team!!!
Hey Santee. Off subject here. But I wanted to let you know that we went to Mascal Studios this morning, what a fun group of people that volunteer there. I wanted to thank you for putting this wonderful piece of movie history on several of your episodes and letting us know about the restoration efforts. We stared out with a singing cowboy had a wonderful tour guide."Lt Dan" . I encourage everyone who is able to visit Mescal studios do it, you won't regret it.
Another great video brother . Thank you for sharing . I enjoy every video . Especially when you slide good ole Dirty Dan lol . Look forward to the next great video
Another great video! Had a thought on security, if you tuck your wallet in the front of your belt you have the added security feature of if someone goes reaching for your groin you're probably going to notice.
Another excellent video Santee, good to see old Bill again. Wallets had there uses, but money belts had multiple uses. As I recall my ancestor journey, after the boys father died (he thought he was his grandfather at the time). "Grandfather" pick the boy up, six years later and continue the journey. He was described as a gunslinger by the descendants and carried a "money belt", as wallets got in the way. His belt also carried bullets. But when he was riding the locomotive, he switched to the Wallet which he carried in a deep pocket in his coat over his heart, and laced with metal. I figured it out it was probably yto protect his heart, as there were stories of bibles been used for the same thing. Although the other side in this was how they "folded" the money in the wallet. The more I look into the boys travel, the the little details of his adventure with his dads dog, his father and "Grandfather" are amazing. Anyways, keep up the good work Santee and crew.
Great episode Santee. Inown several originals and reproductions. They are really cool inthe different designs. Don't forget Missouri Boot and Shoe. Robert makes great embossed wallets.
I had a wallet like, the one with the strap closure, you showed in this episode as well as a poke for my coins. Kept the wallet inside breast pocket of my Confederate uniform. We were paid with copies of Confederate or, if we raided the Yankee payroll, Yankee government money. We had areas that we could spend it for food and drink stuff. We carried real money for the areas where we needed real money for.
Santee, great episode. Always learning something new. Thanks 😊! How about doing also maybe an episode on the old west for cooking stoves, like the Great Western Stove Company. Thank you again.
Good Morning Santee, Excellent episode… Do believe that as westerns evolved they gave a basic idea of wallets, but as I have seen from watching your videos… Not everything is as they say. So, again … thanks for the western history lesson.
This is why wallets were called billfolds . I love your videos and practical history is fascinating. A video about how Victorian gals carried things would be interesting. They were quite inventive
Very awesome and informative interesting video, I definitely learned a lot about wallets in the old west. I’m definitely going to adding the old west wallets to my old West inspired novella stories I’m writing. Great job and well done, I as always got even more inspiration for the old west inspired novella story I’m getting ready to write.
Good evening mate always love a bit of amazing new knowledge..I'd think coins wouldn't of made you as stealthy it's amazing how far things have come even If now most of its all by card I can't remember the last time I carried cash on Me..much love brilliantly presented
I have always carried a wallet! Pretty much every style you’ve shown here! I don’t like bending bills so I use the long single fold! Has to be leather! Years ago my bank pissed me off so when I went to close my account to took a poke! Cool video!
Dang Judges! I got dinged at a show for having a modern wallet when I WAS carrying a three-fold 1880s one! I also got dinged for a modern watch, when I was carrying a T-clip chain! I learned a long time ago, from a Cannon from the Church of England, how he learned for crossing himself, "spectacles, testicles, wallet & watch"!
Cool Video 👍enjoy the old movie clip subs!! I Picked up a cool old long Ranger style studded leather Wallet months back. Thinking it goes back to at least 1920s -maybe earlier 🇺🇸
What do you edit with and also how do you do the animations with the mouse moving and stuff I would like to know how you do your videos they’re really good.
I can't remember even seeing any wallets in any western I have seen. So this will be intresting. By the way I tested elijah craig small batch today. Thank you for recomending it. We liked it.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I remember asking what whisky you liked, and then I saw that I could get some I went for it. Now I have one bottle in my collection.
Thanks Santee for the wallet info. Now! Can you do a video on "cartridge money belts". Until just this month, I hadn't realized how common they were until I borrowed "Packing Iron" from the library and it appears they were more common than standard cartridge belts. Bullwhip Mckinna
Wallets and even before I hit play I'm thinking :" Wait for it....wait for it." Sure enough Dirty Dan shows up and takes your cash to make wise investments for you. What a nice friend. :)) THANKS for showing wallets for men back in the day and explaining that greenbacks were larger then. The idea of a check book sized wallet makes sense with the larger bills. I think perhaps keeping your bills in nice condition was a source of pride or showing how well to do you were for a man. I was taught that all bills should face the same way in retail cash registers. It also shows respect for your own hard earned cash not to crumple it up! I learned the meaning of 'poke' too, although how do you get a pig in a poke ? and who first tried it is a mystery. Might be another topic for another day?
Thanks for the video, Santee. It is often surprising how far things go back in history. Here in the UK some 80% of payments are made by card so wallets tend to carry less money in them now. In fact many people use their phones to make payments. Phone cases are the new wallet. I no longer use a wallet as I rarely use cash any more. Cheque books, your check books, are a rarity today as well as very few people use them. We have come close to getting rid of them entirely but that are some business who still use them apparently.
@@ArizonaGhostriders They pretty much there already. My life partner has a touch card but she does not need to use it as her phone can do the same thing. And any payments using her banks app are instant. Mine won't allow me to pay using the phone as its a business account and therefore has extra security
Here in Canada most businesses no longer accept cheques. Every place has "the machine" that you use a debit or credit card to pay. But, I still pay my phone bill and rents with paper cheques but I am sure that sooner or later than will go away.
I am so glad I found these videos, thank you so much for making them. I’ve been slowly getting into the old West reenactor world, trying to find my way. So hopefully I can end up at some ghost town with a bunch of tourists doing oral history and maybe shooting a few blanks before I have to lay down and pretend to be dead. Could you make a video talking about how people like me can find her way into that activity as a hobby once in a while every year?
Another great episode, Santee! I've always heard that back in the day, paper currency was far less common than gold coins. As much as I love Deadwood, it seemed every transaction was conducted in paper currency, and almost never in gold. When did currency become more common than gold coins? -Desert Rat Rick
Greenbacks became Federal Gov't money on March 10, 1862. Before then even gold nuggets or gold dust was used as money too. During the Civil War the Gov't (on both sides) were crazy to get their hands on silver and gold to fund the war and mint coins. Course it would take time for greenbacks to get to far flung places and to be trusted as REAL. I feel it might of happened sooner than we think. Military still had to pay it's soldiers, ships still sailed to California and steamer ships still made it to Oregon Territory and far down the Columbia and Snake Rivers headed East. In time stage coaches carried money boxes too.
@@Rags2Itches Great info, thanks. But in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, circa 1876, wouldn't gold coins have been in far more common use than paper currency?
@@rickkinki4624 I think so since every one was after the gold. Gold coins would have become the standard earlier on, as well as silver coins. There were US mints producing them pre paper money. I feel that the Deadwood director did a very good job on historical facts. Deadwood seems to have a very good Historical Society so it might be a good idea to contact them with this question? Can you imagine carrying around a bag of gold coins all the time? I remember when I was in Canada when the gold Loonie , a one dollar coin was issued. Men were joking about needing to go buy a purse, lol. Then they issued the Twoonie, yep a two dollar coin. Never mind your spurs, talk about the jingle-jangle of coins in your pocket!
Here’s another detail for my books old West inspired world: In the worlds of terragartha and earthstone the currency that the inhabitants use are Jade coins, and obsidian coins, as well as sand dollars and shells.
Nice... I see I am not the only person how carried beef jerky in his wallet. 😁 but really.. I knew a guy when I was in the army. who carried bacon in his wallet and or pants. He went back and forth. Never failed he was always eating it when we were on patrol in Iraq. And no he never put it in a plastic bag. He just put it in his pocket or wallet. 😕
These old wallets are cool!!!! It’s true, people treat cash like crap these days. Strange, because it seems to mean so much to everyone. Good jokes in this one (as soon as I can get a woman to talk to me lol)! Great video Santee, and again, when are you gonna stop letting Dan bully you?
I've had friends who carry the larger unfolded bill wallets. They work well if you have an inside vest pocket in a coat or jacket, but become easy targets if stuck in a back pants pocket. I've carried both bifold and trifold types and it kinda comes down to what doesn't create quite the bulge in your clothes.
Great points!
Today a larger wallet with unfolded currency works well in a suit jacket. As to bifold or trifolds. I quit carrying one in by back pocket years ago. If I left it in my back pocket on long drives. Oh my aching keister. But today if you do everything by card it just works better to carry it on your front pocket. And those truckers wallets with the chain. IMO they just make you look like a dork.
Most of the trucker/biker wallets today are still that size. They usually have a chain that attaches to your belt now-a-days.
@@mpetersen6 thats the whole point,....of being an 'old school ' trucker. i knew a guy, had a cabover, older one. He got out, and was hung up, by that wallet chain, on the door handle. You know, back in the day, when THINGS WERE REAL METAL......
That must be true as I heard women whispering that you didn't have much of a bulge in your clothes. 😉
Fun fact-scene in "Shootist" guy shot by the derringer almost died for real, cause crew forgot him, and left him wet in cold and he had to walk miles back to where they were staying. John Wayne found out and paid him extra $ for his troubles.
WOW!
For years I've not been able to find myself a good wallet. They say they are made from leather, but not. Awesome and very interesting Santee
The thin leather ones are pretty cheap and I find only last a year or two.
I love my trifold for money and cards but I was gifted a tobacco pouch that strongly resembles the long wallets and it is just plain fun to pull out of a coat pocket.
That's cool.
Have you covered money belts?
I have! In Cartridge Belts.
That's something I have not made yet, thanks for the nudge!
You're welcome. Make one you can stick a Deringer in.
I'd like to see that video.
The Best part of Saturday mornings thanks for the new video
Much appreciated
I can't think of many, or any, other channel that offers us such informative, interesting, and creative news, in such a precise, compact way.👏👏 At the same time, you include a variety of terrific, informative visuals. DEFINITELY, one of THE BEST channels out there, IMO.👏🤠👏
So nice of you to say!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Dear Santee is the book "news of the world" that people tell the news to people accurate or not?
Nice use of "Laugh In" there, Santee. I used to watch the reruns on Nick at Night with my step-father, when I was much younger. Dan Rowan & Dick Martin were comedic geniuses. There are plenty of jokes on that show that they wouldn't be able to get away with today. It was a simpler time...
Thanks!! Had to get Ruth Buzzi in there
@@ArizonaGhostriders GOOD LOOKING GAL WITH A KILLER FIGURE!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Artie Johnson as the dirty old man. Gosh I loved that show as a kid. Artie also was the German soldier. On one show, as the German, he tells Bob Hope that he waited for him every Christmas. Bob used to do the USO Christmas shows for our enlisted soldiers every year.
I loved the tricycle guy 👍🤣🤣🤣
I never missed an episode of that show.
Howdy Santee got a new phone happy to be able to watch your videos again 🤠
Thank you!
Great episode as always! Some historical sutlers make them to fit current size money. Wish they also made them for period reproduction money for reenactor use. Had to make my own. At least Dan gave you back your wallet. He is really a kind soul. 😁😎
Don’t let that get out!
Where did you find the resources to make your own. I have the same problem.
Edit: to clarify I’m talking about the prop money.
@@adams7763 I buy bags of scrap leather from Hobby Lobby . They're sold in clear plastic bags so you get an idea of the contents , and last time I bought some it cost about $8.99 for five pounds .
@@ArizonaGhostriders tell Dan your money's been counterfeit.
Awesome video! As always, good information. Growing up, I had a little cousin who asked for a "pocket purse". No one could figure out what she was talking about. Well, she wanted a wallet, like her daddy. In her mind, women carry purses, but men carried "pocket purses" in their pants or jackets. LOL!
Thanks for sharing!!
Technically, a wallet really is just a small, long purse designed to be folded flat into a pocket.
Lol I some how knew John b. Books would show up in this one
Yep
I have one I use for re-enactments. You can easily slip cash,a credit card, drivers license and other needed papers to get to the event. Just can’t carry as many is all. It works well and adds to your authenticity if you have to buy your lady an ice cream or a cold drink while there🤠
Thanks for watching
3:40 Good Santeee ! Ruth Buzzy, and Henry Gibson (James Bateman).....miss those episodes, too !
Thank you!
Always something new to learn watching this Channel. I’ve seen a lot of these older wallets in the movies and tv shows as a kid but never really knew how accurate they were. Thanks Santee
You are welcome
Thanks for making fun and informative videos. It sure is nice to see stuff like this in today's "always bad news" age. You keep me interested in on of my favorite eras.
I appreciate that!
I have one similar to the check book style and I’ve had it for maybe a couple of days and the leather is already starting to form. It’s working out great.
That's awesome!
@@ArizonaGhostriders also I just wanna let you know that I love your channel man
@@seanm7539 Thank You!
Thanks again Santee & Co. I've bought scrap leather from a hobby store and made many small leather products including my bifold wallet . When I was in the navy overseas I learned the trick of carrying two wallets . One fat wallet full of low value bills for small purchases and the possible pickpockets and muggers . A second thin wallet hung by a cord around my neck under my shirt with my military ID and larger bills . As the old saying goes , don't put all your eggs in one basket .
That's pretty neat, Victor.
Great idea! I'll have to use that if I'm traveling.
My Grand dad always told me that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he drinks his whiskey and the way he carries his money.... I drink my whiskey straight up and carry my dinero in a leather long wallet just like he did... all bills facing the same way and organized by denomination... great video Santee !!!
Thank you! Whiskey with ice is a travesty.
How much do I like your channel. I let the commercials play, give thumbs up, and occasionally comment.
Works well for me!
Thanx for including links in the description section to places people can go for reproduction wallets.
You bet!
Our boi Bill Brazelton is gonna be pissed, someone else pinched Santee's cash before he could. 😂
LOL!!
Santee! "Ruth and Artie" nice touch!! Thanks for the visit, see you next week!!
Had to get Ruth Buzzi in there
Thanks Santee, good topic, nice to see Bill made it Back.
Yeah!
Now that you got your wild west wallet. Perhaps a video on the longest poker game ever played
at the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone would be pretty interesting.
I will do that. Thanks!
" just throw your wallet...yes sir and something extra in it " Bang...another sidewinder dead! Have a great weekend and keep your wallet safe amigo.
You too
got one and love it
Good!
I love your channel man! Great stories, good laughs and well thought out episodes! Take care, God bless!🙏🎚🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾
I appreciate that
Great idea for a video. You always have us thinking my friend. I would love to have some of the paper bills from back in the day. Cheers my friend. "A little something extra" The Duke
Much appreciated!
I carried the large unfolded bill wallets for years. Carried it in my boot. Always kept a small amount of change or ones folded up in my front pocket. Carrying in your back pocket didn’t work to good on a horse or a motorcycle.
Right!
I like to use this wallet very much, I have used it since I was a child. From the material to the fabric to the change to genuine cow leather. say hello from thailand
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video and the links, Santee! Always great to expand my knowledge and my kit (now if I can just keep the cinch on my britches tight....). Always brings a smile to my Saturdays!
You're welcome.
Well now I declare if my eyes saw the AGR logo on that there wallet but wait did I also see a bit of the logo peeking out as well? Nice detail on you all vid as usual great job team!!!
Thank you!
Hey Santee.
Off subject here. But I wanted to let you know that we went to Mascal Studios this morning, what a fun group of people that volunteer there. I wanted to thank you for putting this wonderful piece of movie history on several of your episodes and letting us know about the restoration efforts.
We stared out with a singing cowboy had a wonderful tour guide."Lt Dan" .
I encourage everyone who is able to visit Mescal studios do it, you won't regret it.
Lt. Dan you've seen on the channel a lot. Glad he took care of ya and happy you enjoyed Mescal.
Hey, even those wallets seem fatter than mine. Ha. Good stuff yet again. Thanks Santee
Yeah...mine too!
Boy do I love my good ole wallet
You got one?
@@ArizonaGhostriders sure do
I appreciate you and the videos. I carry a trip fold wallet in my boot.
Cool
Fantastic video thank you! I was watching cowboy vids and wondered about their wallets and asked UA-cam and bam there you are!
Thank You!
Thanks for the new video.
Stay safe out there man, and take it easy. 😎
Thanks
Another great video brother . Thank you for sharing . I enjoy every video . Especially when you slide good ole Dirty Dan lol . Look forward to the next great video
Right on
Another great video! Had a thought on security, if you tuck your wallet in the front of your belt you have the added security feature of if someone goes reaching for your groin you're probably going to notice.
I'd say!
Another excellent video Santee, good to see old Bill again. Wallets had there uses, but money belts had multiple uses. As I recall my ancestor journey, after the boys father died (he thought he was his grandfather at the time).
"Grandfather" pick the boy up, six years later and continue the journey. He was described as a gunslinger by the descendants and carried a "money belt", as wallets got in the way. His belt also carried bullets. But when he was riding the locomotive, he switched to the Wallet which he carried in a deep pocket in his coat over his heart, and laced with metal. I figured it out it was probably yto protect his heart, as there were stories of bibles been used for the same thing. Although the other side in this was how they "folded" the money in the wallet. The more I look into the boys travel, the the little details of his adventure with his dads dog, his father and "Grandfather" are amazing. Anyways, keep up the good work Santee and crew.
There was a cartridge money belt which I talk about in my cartridge belt video. Thanks for sharing your family history.
It's weird how similar yet different everything was back then, oh well great video as always^^
Glad you enjoyed!
Another good one, thanks. The earlier ones looked much like ones used in the 18th century.
Some in the 18th, some in the 19th.
My favorite time periods to learn about are the old west and the 1920’s. Just something about them are both interesting.
Awesome!
Great episode Santee. Inown several originals and reproductions. They are really cool inthe different designs. Don't forget Missouri Boot and Shoe. Robert makes great embossed wallets.
Thanks! Will do!
Cool who knew well you and thr ghost . Thanks 👍
You're welcome.
A friend of mine carries a wallet similar to those he said he doesn’t like his money folded. Great video big thumbs ups 👍.
Thank you!
how about a video on sniper(rifles) in the old west?
OK
Thank you Santee. Really enjoyed this
You're welcome.
I had a wallet like, the one with the strap closure, you showed in this episode as well as a poke for my coins. Kept the wallet inside breast pocket of my Confederate uniform. We were paid with copies of Confederate or, if we raided the Yankee payroll, Yankee government money. We had areas that we could spend it for food and drink stuff. We carried real money for the areas where we needed real money for.
Thanks for the exta info, Eric!
Santee, great episode. Always learning something new. Thanks 😊! How about doing also maybe an episode on the old west for cooking stoves, like the Great Western Stove Company. Thank you again.
You're welcome.
Didn't cowboys leave their wallet in the barn so they could be financially stable? Great episode! I liked the John Wayne wallet clips mixed in there.
OH that is a good one!
Saw the title of the video and immediately thought of that clip from the shootist. 10 seconds in I was not disappointed. lol
Me too
Awesome Santee 🍻🥃🤠👍👍👍👍👍
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Thanks 👍🤠🤠🤠
I was wondering what you'd have in your back pocket today. Great video.
Thanks
Haven't been around the channel much Lately but Love the Vids always fun 😃
Thank you!
Good Morning Santee,
Excellent episode… Do believe that as westerns evolved they gave a basic idea of wallets, but as I have seen from watching your videos… Not everything is as they say. So, again … thanks for the western history lesson.
Thank you!
Thank you.
You’re welcome
Nice wallet's
Thank you
@@ArizonaGhostriders most Welcome
This is why wallets were called billfolds . I love your videos and practical history is fascinating. A video about how Victorian gals carried things would be interesting. They were quite inventive
Thank you!
Very awesome and informative interesting video, I definitely learned a lot about wallets in the old west. I’m definitely going to adding the old west wallets to my old West inspired novella stories I’m writing.
Great job and well done, I as always got even more inspiration for the old west inspired novella story I’m getting ready to write.
🤠
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks 👍🏼🌟😎
Good evening mate always love a bit of amazing new knowledge..I'd think coins wouldn't of made you as stealthy it's amazing how far things have come even If now most of its all by card I can't remember the last time I carried cash on Me..much love brilliantly presented
Glad you enjoyed it, Izeak!
You should do a vid on the buckaroo it’s a fast dying breed
Thanks!
Always interesting guys , thanks !!
You're welcome.
I really enjoy your channel. Thanks for another great episode
Glad to hear it!
Very interesting id never gave it any thought on wallet's!
Good. I get a lot of questions about them
Hey Santee great video on billfolds of the old west also could y'all do a video on some pretty comedic moments of the Old West
Great idea
I have always carried a wallet! Pretty much every style you’ve shown here! I don’t like bending bills so I use the long single fold! Has to be leather! Years ago my bank pissed me off so when I went to close my account to took a poke! Cool video!
Thank you!
@@ArizonaGhostriders welcome
Dang Judges! I got dinged at a show for having a modern wallet when I WAS carrying a three-fold 1880s one! I also got dinged for a modern watch, when I was carrying a T-clip chain! I learned a long time ago, from a Cannon from the Church of England, how he learned for crossing himself, "spectacles, testicles, wallet & watch"!
Yeah, some of those judges we experienced then were just not very knowledgeable, Richard.
TO EACH THEIR OWN AS THEY SAY3
OF COURSE THANKS SANTEE 🤠
You're welcome.
Thanks Santee
You're welcome.
Cool Video 👍enjoy the old movie clip subs!! I Picked up a cool old long Ranger style studded leather Wallet months back. Thinking it goes back to at least 1920s -maybe earlier 🇺🇸
Very cool!
What do you edit with and also how do you do the animations with the mouse moving and stuff I would like to know how you do your videos they’re really good.
Thank you. I use mostly the Adobe suite. Have a history with Photoshop dating back to the 90s.
I can't remember even seeing any wallets in any western I have seen. So this will be intresting.
By the way I tested elijah craig small batch today. Thank you for recomending it. We liked it.
OH man, I hope you saved me some! My favorite
@@ArizonaGhostriders I remember asking what whisky you liked, and then I saw that I could get some I went for it. Now I have one bottle in my collection.
Thanks Santee for the wallet info. Now! Can you do a video on "cartridge money belts". Until just this month, I hadn't realized how common they were until I borrowed "Packing Iron" from the library and it appears they were more common than standard cartridge belts.
Bullwhip Mckinna
I've got one on cartridge belts and talk about money belts. Thank you!
I really like those early bills. I've got a 1917 series that is gorgeous.
Oooo!
awesome watch santee
Thanks
Wallets and even before I hit play I'm thinking :" Wait for it....wait for it." Sure enough Dirty Dan shows up and takes your cash to make wise investments for you. What a nice friend. :))
THANKS for showing wallets for men back in the day and explaining that greenbacks were larger then. The idea of a check book sized wallet makes sense with the larger bills. I think perhaps keeping your bills in nice condition was a source of pride or showing how well to do you were for a man. I was taught that all bills should face the same way in retail cash registers. It also shows respect for your own hard earned cash not to crumple it up!
I learned the meaning of 'poke' too, although how do you get a pig in a poke ? and who first tried it is a mystery. Might be another topic for another day?
Yes! Thanks.
Hey Santee I know this is a late comment but do you have any tips on how to get into leather craft so I can make one of those
Tandy Leather has some great starter kits as well as books that can teach you. I would also check your local Michael's and see if they offer classes.
I saw a tiny .22 Derringer that fit inside a wallet. I am thinking a slim knife would as well.
Oh yeah. I have a push dagger that would fit really well.
That’s cool, I want one of those wallets.
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LOL, now I know why they call him "Dirty Dan".
Great episode, really enjoyed it.
JT
Haha! Thanks!
Thanks for the links.
You're welcome.
Thanks for the video, Santee. It is often surprising how far things go back in history.
Here in the UK some 80% of payments are made by card so wallets tend to carry less money in them now. In fact many people use their phones to make payments. Phone cases are the new wallet. I no longer use a wallet as I rarely use cash any more.
Cheque books, your check books, are a rarity today as well as very few people use them. We have come close to getting rid of them entirely but that are some business who still use them apparently.
Pretty soon phones will be the wallet, if things keep progressing
@@ArizonaGhostriders They pretty much there already. My life partner has a touch card but she does not need to use it as her phone can do the same thing. And any payments using her banks app are instant. Mine won't allow me to pay using the phone as its a business account and therefore has extra security
Here in Canada most businesses no longer accept cheques. Every place has "the machine" that you use a debit or credit card to pay. But, I still pay my phone bill and rents with paper cheques but I am sure that sooner or later than will go away.
You really stuffed a lot into that one
I tried to fold a little humor in there.
Think you guys could do one on colognes and perfumes in the old west
Sure
I really wish you would do videos on what women wore in the Old West. It's so hard to find information on what everyday women wore outside of movies.
I will.
Tip of the day; if you drop your wallet in Frisco, kick it to Oakland before you pick it up!
Good to know!
I am so glad I found these videos, thank you so much for making them. I’ve been slowly getting into the old West reenactor world, trying to find my way. So hopefully I can end up at some ghost town with a bunch of tourists doing oral history and maybe shooting a few blanks before I have to lay down and pretend to be dead. Could you make a video talking about how people like me can find her way into that activity as a hobby once in a while every year?
Cool! I’ve got a video on that. “Getting started in reenactment”
I’ve done a lot of leatherwork lately maybe I should give making wallets a try
Lotta sewing but worth it
Another great video!
Thanks!
Another great episode, Santee!
I've always heard that back in the day, paper currency was far less common than gold coins. As much as I love Deadwood, it seemed every transaction was conducted in paper currency, and almost never in gold. When did currency become more common than gold coins?
-Desert Rat Rick
Thanks Rick. I think in the West is was probably 1880s.
Greenbacks became Federal Gov't money on March 10, 1862. Before then even gold nuggets or gold dust was used as money too. During the Civil War the Gov't (on both sides) were crazy to get their hands on silver and gold to fund the war and mint coins. Course it would take time for greenbacks to get to far flung places and to be trusted as REAL. I feel it might of happened sooner than we think. Military still had to pay it's soldiers, ships still sailed to California and steamer ships still made it to Oregon Territory and far down the Columbia and Snake Rivers headed East. In time stage coaches carried money boxes too.
@@Rags2Itches Great info, thanks. But in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, circa 1876, wouldn't gold coins have been in far more common use than paper currency?
@@rickkinki4624 I think so since every one was after the gold. Gold coins would have become the standard earlier on, as well as silver coins. There were US mints producing them pre paper money. I feel that the Deadwood director did a very good job on historical facts. Deadwood seems to have a very good Historical Society so it might be a good idea to contact them with this question?
Can you imagine carrying around a bag of gold coins all the time? I remember when I was in Canada when the gold Loonie , a one dollar coin was issued. Men were joking about needing to go buy a purse, lol. Then they issued the Twoonie, yep a two dollar coin. Never mind your spurs, talk about the jingle-jangle of coins in your pocket!
Here’s another detail for my books old West inspired world:
In the worlds of terragartha and earthstone the currency that the inhabitants use are Jade coins, and obsidian coins, as well as sand dollars and shells.
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@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks 😎🌟👍🏼
2:48 what pocket knife is that Santee!
Actually a Benchmade. It was given to me by a friend who has since passed away. I've lost it in my truck twice!
Do one on fishing in the old west
On the list!
Nice... I see I am not the only person how carried beef jerky in his wallet. 😁 but really.. I knew a guy when I was in the army. who carried bacon in his wallet and or pants. He went back and forth. Never failed he was always eating it when we were on patrol in Iraq. And no he never put it in a plastic bag. He just put it in his pocket or wallet. 😕
I bet the dogs loved him
Apparently he misunderstood the meaning of the phrase, "bringing home the bacon".😒
@@ArizonaGhostriders ha!
These old wallets are cool!!!! It’s true, people treat cash like crap these days. Strange, because it seems to mean so much to everyone. Good jokes in this one (as soon as I can get a woman to talk to me lol)! Great video Santee, and again, when are you gonna stop letting Dan bully you?
If Dan stopped bullying me you might stop watching. Can't have that.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I’d keep watching. I’m just saying there’s a better way for him to do things, that’s all. 😂
Is there a way you could do a video on how men stayed fit on the frontier besides all the hard work they had to do?
I've got a couple videos on that out there. Check out Frontier Fitness.