Josh, I know you take a light-hearted approach to history, and I know you work your tail off to research for facts. And you are self depreciating, but don't ever underestimate how important your work is and how good you are at it. You keep doing what you do, and we will be here to support you all the way.
I listened to Josh last night telling me more about the amazing Kit Carson. I'm from Washington State and I flew to Denver and now am driving with my brother to Tennessee, about ten minutes after we left this morning I was talking about the podcast and we crossed into Kit Carson county. No shit I had a short laugh and since this was still in que I figured I'd let y'all know of my experience. Thanks Josh for your help with my life's pleasure, truly.
Your extensive efforts to bring us a product that rivals big studios in quality is greatly appreciated. That said, I feel you have succeeded in this goal with the proof being this very recording. And, of course, the multitudes of previous uploads. Thank you for your transparency and dedication to bringing the finest in non-boring history! Looking forward to more and more of the same. Thank you again.
Josh, I appreciate your hard work, you've obviously done a lot of research and hard work. I enjoy your jokes and your folksy way of delivering the content. Keep up the good work!
Ever hear of the Harpe brothers? A delightful pair of fun loving brothers who roamed the "frontier" doin good during the very late 18th and early 19th centuries. Did a quick check of your video library and didn't see anything. 👍🍻
Appreciate the explanation of the audio. Your speaking and audio is excellent ! Love the content as well. Cannot imagine how much research you do to pull this off.
I got to hike in Philmont New Mexico when I was 15. Philmont was Kit Carson's ranch purchased by Phillips 66 (gas station chain) and donated to the Boy Scouts. Wonderful time.
@WildWestExtravaganza Your my favorite researcher and storyteller. I want you to succeed in this endeavor with all my heart and you and your family are happy.
Been to Fremonts Peak near Hollister many times. And his camp in the Santa Cruz Mtns. At Felton Ca. Amongst the giant Redwood Trees. Once again great job.
My elementary school was named Kit Carson. So we learned a lot about him. But this video was way more insightful than my 1980’s elementary school education lol. Thanks 👍🏾
I cannot believe people think you were using AI voiceover. AI is super easy to spot, anything with a number or just certain words always trip it up and I have unsubscribed from several channels that rely on it. I dont want to hear fake ass computers tell me a story, I want to hear the creator. Keep up the great work Josh youve made yourself a nice following here.
Love your work! It could be wrong but we pronounce it Free-mont here in CA. The state of CA seems to do everything wrong. 😏 yeah…I said it! 6th generation here! Edit: you atoned. Again, great work. Digging your channel!
I am very sure that you have been praised up one side and down the other for the work and talent you put into your content, I just wanted to add a bit more I guess!! I commend you on all the research you’ve done and how educated you are on the happenings in the “Wild West”!! Thank you Josh for all you do!! I wouldn’t know half the stuff I do about my native American History, if it wasn’t for your due diligence!! Take care of yourself bud!! 💎💯👌🏽🐎🔥✌🏼Peace!!✌🏼🔥🐎👌🏽💯💎
Your audio aways sounds exquisite, Josh. I'd much rather listen to you than some AI program, and I think most people agree. You'll stand out even more once most switch to that video style.
I'm getting ready to look for in your library to see if ya may have done my request. It was the wild west during their times. Have you thought about or done a talk on Mr. Danny Boone or Mr. Davey Crockett. Like I've said before, I have done learned mores from you than decades of wild west magazines.
Love your work! It could be wrong but we pronounce it Free-mont here in CA. The state of CA seems to do everything wrong. 😏 yeah…I said it! 6th generation here! Edit: you atoned. Again, great work. Digging your channel! Second edit: I told you we’re wrong about everything in CA!
Excellent video, sir. If I'm not overstepping I'd like to offer the smallest of corrections with respect to your pronunciation of "Paiute". They pronounce their name as Pie (as in apple pie) Ute (like the word cute without the C). Thank you very much for all of your work that you put into these videos.
Josh, my brother, I'm so glad that you covered this critical bit of history. I live just 20 miles south of Lake Berryessa and my High School was named after Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. I grew up in an area bordered by the East Vallejo "Finger Hills" north of Suisun Bay in the east, the Carquinez Straits in the south, the San Pablo Bay in the West and the Napa Valley in the north. The Spanish called the area "Nueva Eden" (New Eden). The area was covered with nut trees, fruit trees and ubiquituous edeble plants and game (then in the 1920s thru the 1980s it became a bulwark of the U.S. Navy and the natural flora was continually destroyed until now). To this day, the area has the best and mildest climate on the planet, rivaled only by Kobe, Japan. . . . Just Sayin' (It might look like a shit-hole, rife with very bad "woke" individuals, but the climate is still epically perfect ). . . The conquest of California began and ended in my backyard (in fact, some of these instrumental areas were commandeered by the likes of Janis Joplin and a plethora of 1960s icons at a place known now as "Olompali State Historic Park" [unfortunately, most of the historic buildings at that park burned with the love-generation - including the buildings inhabited by our hippy icons). The majority of "American" settlers in Spanish California didn't give a damn who was controlling the territory at all (whether they were formerly subjects of the confederacy or disillusioned transplants from the north or the Californios) until Castro issued his edict of naturalization or expulsion. Most Anglo settlers didn't want anything to do with any "national government" of any ilk. This ideology was maintained beyond the end of the civil war as was apparent by Californian neutrality during the conflict. (G. Washington said, "Avoid foreign entanglements" - and the majority of Anglos in California took that to heart.) The greater point of the Bear Flag Revolt/Rebellion was that all faith in the "governing powers" had been lost. During the entire Bear Flag Revolt conflict (which lasted less than two weeks) only 80 people lost their lives (MOST of which were unnecessary) - and that was mostly AFTER Fremont or Stockton's troops got into the fight. The rabble of the Bear Flag Revolt won California - and then had it ripped out from beneath them by a more powerful governmental force (just as the White Russians had their victory ripped from them by the Red army some 60 years later). There was VERY little racial tension in the exercise of the Bear Flag Revolt. In fact, Generalissimo Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the Spanish Governor of most of what is now Northern California was VERY sympathetic with the plight of the "anglos" and when assaulted at his home in Sonoma (his "Petaluma Adobe"), he welcomed the rebels into his house. ...After which action, he found himself hogtied and watched as his entire wine cellar was consumed by the anglo insurgents (we Californians LOVE our wine...). There is a LOT of nuance in this instance of history . . . much of which you glossed over (and I don't fault you). For instance, Catholicism has a HUGE role to play in the way the Californios and indigenous peoples took part in this period; the Anglos being mostly Protestant of one kind or another. For centuries, the Native Americans in the area watched their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters BURNED ALIVE or otherwise brutally killed for some perceived infraction of Catholic dogma. The last known (or recorded) instance occurred in Northern Mexico in 1890 when a man who refused to work on a Saturday was garroted to death in front of his entire pueblo (The record of this Spanish Inquisition execution can be found in the archive at UC Berkeley, California). None the less: THANK YOU for your sincere telling of the story. I love you, Josh. What you do is so friggin' important. Keep it up, my brother. (By the way [and TOTALLY OFF TOPIC], as a 15 year-old Boy Scout in 1981 at Camp Silverado (just a mile south east of Carson Pass a half mile from the north shore of Silver Lake and in the shadow of Thunder Mountain, I heard what could ONLY be identified as an inhuman sasquatch vocalization. I think it's interesting we don't hear more about those types of encounters in the "old west".) Anyway, I love you, Brother!! Great job!! And: THANK YOU!!! (And dammit!! Even AFTER you clarified the pronunciation of "Fremont" as "Fray-mon", you insisted on pronouncing his name as "FER--MONT"!! WTF?? LOL [Love you, brother].) . . . Anyway, to my understanding there were only 80 or 84 deaths during the entire struggle for California. Can you validate that number? (Also with regard to the above and in a sincere attempt to exonerate you (lol), having lived here for the VAST majority of my life, "Fremont" has been pronounced "FREE-mont" for as long as I can remember. . . . But then, "Buffalo, New York" was originally called "Beau Fleu" ("Beautiful Spring" in French) and I doubt there's a single Buffalo native who fucking knows that. . . . Shit gets lost over over time. It's our job to find the truth . . . And despite the neglected minutia, this was an AWESOME historical report!! Thank you, Josh!!!
You have my email, brother. You don't have to respond here. In fact, you don't have to respond at all!! :-) You would be AMAZED at how much "Old West" lore and history are rooted right here in California. I wouldn't even know where to begin . . . I love what you do, Josh. Don't stop doing it . . .
Polk was by far one of our greatest presidents. Definitely in the top ten and serving only one term. At one time, for a few years, Fremont owned Alcatraz.
It's a fine episode Josh :) I pronounce it "Flee-Mount" cuz every time he got around Stonewall in the valley he took the long way or remembered he forgot something back where he came from :)
I'd love to see you do a video on Champ Ferguson, a true bad @$$ of the civil war who avenged his son's murder and the brutality inflicted on his wife and daughter by Union Troops
Look Josh if people want to get their knickers twisted AND expect Red Blooded Americans to speack dat frenchay tis dem what need correctification! Enjoying the Kit Carson long jaw... take it easy, and carry on son.
7:43 -- RE: Fré ; Another Fun Fact for your pronunciation bug! Sound-wise, the é is a homophone for "ai" as in "vrai" and the V and F sounds are so similar you could practically say "Vraimont" instead and some people wouldn't hear the difference.
I Sing ur praise any time I'm around someone I shared Louis westerns I've owned every one but lending them out soon u have only three all about Lance Killkenny
My college gf studied in France. She said the old French men's lower lips hang way out from speaking French so long. So that might help as well. That was funny. Fremont it is.
I sometimes like to play a little game I call Historical Kevin Bacon. Although both being frontier types, I kinda doubt that Kit Carson ever crossed paths with David Crockett. Just as I also doubt that Crockett and Daniel Boone ever ran into each other. If they ever did, please site to me the historical evidence of such an encounter. There must be levels of separation connecting all these famous gents. For instance, I don't have any documentation perse in front of me to prove the following supposition, but here goes: I strongly suspect that Crockett personally knew Andrew Jackson. They didn't like each other, but they likely did have face to face encounters with each other from time to time. Since Jackson was a US president, he is likely to have had face to face encounters with his successor Martin Van Buren. They didn't like each other either. Nevertheless, it's traditional for every American president to have at least one face to face encounter with his successor, when the new president is moving into the White House and the old one is moving out. That makes a bridge of various provable connections on several levels between Andrew Jackson all the way to Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln personally new John Fremont. They didn't like each other either. Even though they were both instrumental in the founding of the GOP. Fremont personally knew Kit Carson. And oddly enough, they actually did like each other. This is the closest Historical Kevin Bacon like connection I could draw between Kit Carson and David Crockett. If anyone knows a shorter route, please comment about it below. I would love to read it.
After a little more research, I have come up with an even shorter, more direct route linking David Crockett and Kit Carson. And here it is. As stated before, David Crockett personally knew Andrew Jackson, they were at political larger heads almost from the get-go. And as such, they didn't like each other. Imagine that Andrew Jackson, a well-known hot-headed duelist, had a talent for making enemies. Who would have thought? Jackson as President was also at political larger heads with one of his main generals. General Winfield Scott. They had some rather angry and insulting correspondence with each other, which could have led to a duel were it not for the fact that Jackson was President of the United States. And presidential dueling was not actually a thing back then, or ever was. Obviously, Jackson and Scott didn't like each other. So they must have been personally acquainted with each other. There's that contention. Fast forward to 1861, and Winfield Scott is now Abraham Lincoln's top General, since Bobby Lee didn't want the job, being more loyal to Virginia, than he was to the federal government. So Scott and Lincoln personally knew each other. Whether they liked or didn't like each other, I don't know. Possibly not, since Lincoln didn't seem to like any of his top generals until Grant. And as stated before, Lincoln personally knew and disliked John Fremont and John Fremont knew and actually did in fact like Kit Carson, which is not surprising, since by all accounts, Kit Carson was a very amiable fellow, well liked by practically everybody. Unless you were an Apache or an Navajo, and maybe a Mexican soldier stationed California. Then you might not care so much for him. So there is my much shorter Kevin Bacon like connection between David Crockett and Kit Carson. Truly only six degrees of separation.
You have excellent audio. This is not true of all UA-camrs. Evidently, quite a bit of work goes into various aspects of these broadcasts to get sounds and content correct. Thanks
You forgot Kit Carson's graphic testimony of Colonel Fremont's masacre of Native Americans as they were conquering mexican California. Even Kit was revolted to his credit. Be well.
I used to use Audacity to lower the “pitch” of high vocal songs so I could sing them!! Other than that, I understood about 79% of what you said there at the end!! Lolol 😂 I clearly have always known that your voice was not AI. AI make ALOT of grammatical errors throughout the video. I’m not sure why but it does happen…ALOT! Alright well, back to the WWX Videos!!
Although its not wild west rather than turn of the century would u consider the topic of The Newton Boys the real facts it would probably be a 2 part series
Great question! So the video you're commenting on is part of a series on Kit Carson. When I write my scripts is always a struggle to not go off on too many tangents and to keep things at least somewhat focused on the topic at hand. In the case of Commodore Sloat, you're absolutely correct. He did capture Monterey and claim California for the U.S. He also was in poor health and replaced by Stockton (who I did mention) after just three weeks. If I were to do a dedicated video to the conquest of California, or even just the Bear Flag Revolt, I most likely would have included Sloat. As it were, since this was just about Carson, I didn't feel it necessary to include him.
You should consider doing videos on other people and culture or just the same time era in the usa.....like abolishionist cassius clay. The stuff he did in his life is bonkers. He lived to be in 70s or so, old. But that wasn't from lack of people trying to kill him or more fitting word, assassinate. More then often they ended up on the deader side. Im talking mobs of pro slavery people to him dueling.
Cassius Marcellus Clay was a legitimate badass. Born into one of the richest slave owning plantation families in Kentucky. Not only did he secure Russia's support of the Union during the Civil War, and was also one of the most vocal abolitionists, but later on he divorced his wife of 45 years (she was sick of his infidelities) and as an 84 year old married 16 year old Dora Richardson (who was possibly as young as 12)....and still kept ticking for another 11 years. His children and grandchildren were so upset that he reportedly installed a cannon in his front doorway to discourage anyone interfering with the wedding. 😂
I even got my correction wrong lol. Just realized I called the acute accent a horizontal line…I meant diagonal. Dang it.
was too shy to point it out
I was going to say, "But Jo-osh, is your laptop leaning? Or are you drunk as a trapper at a rendezvous?"
It's cool. You're a historian, not a geometrist. We'll probably form a support group and make it out alive. Btw. Thank you for another one, sir.🫡
Josh, I know you take a light-hearted approach to history, and I know you work your tail off to research for facts. And you are self depreciating, but don't ever underestimate how important your work is and how good you are at it. You keep doing what you do, and we will be here to support you all the way.
LoL less lessons and more teaching please 🙂
Love to listen to this channel when I drive or am loading software.
Glad I can keep you company
Thank you for the wonderful narrative of Carson and his important role during a great time in American History when California became a republic.
Another excellent episode. Really enjoyed your storytelling. Always look forward to your podcasts.
Thanks for listening
Been listening to you for years. Turned a few people onto this channel. Really enjoy all your presentations, comedy and wit
You rock!
I listened to Josh last night telling me more about the amazing Kit Carson. I'm from Washington State and I flew to Denver and now am driving with my brother to Tennessee, about ten minutes after we left this morning I was talking about the podcast and we crossed into Kit Carson county. No shit I had a short laugh and since this was still in que I figured I'd let y'all know of my experience. Thanks Josh for your help with my life's pleasure, truly.
Sounds like a fun trip
Just hitting the couch for the evening…perfect timing!
Time to relax
This kid's getten good at this.
@@akmchefskingdom6607 thanks
Your extensive efforts to bring us a product that rivals big studios in quality is greatly appreciated. That said, I feel you have succeeded in this goal with the proof being this very recording. And, of course, the multitudes of previous uploads. Thank you for your transparency and dedication to bringing the finest in non-boring history! Looking forward to more and more of the same. Thank you again.
Thank you very much
Let’s gooooo!!!!
Let’s Gooooooo!!!!!
Woo Hoo!
Thanks for covering my states history
🩸🦫 blessing us with more good content, right on time. Keep em coming brother Josh.
always a good day when josh uploads
I appreciate you saying so
This channel is fantastic
Josh, I appreciate your hard work, you've obviously done a lot of research and hard work. I enjoy your jokes and your folksy way of delivering the content. Keep up the good work!
Thank you sir
Ever hear of the Harpe brothers? A delightful pair of fun loving brothers who roamed the "frontier" doin good during the very late 18th and early 19th centuries. Did a quick check of your video library and didn't see anything. 👍🍻
newer sub here I can tell thr difference between older videos newer 1s your awesome bro keep it up sir
Thanks, will do!
Appreciate the explanation of the audio. Your speaking and audio is excellent ! Love the content as well. Cannot imagine how much research you do to pull this off.
Much appreciated!
Pico Blvd and the city of Pico Rivera were named after Pio Pico.
Your hard work and dedication in bringing us the kickass content you do, is much appreciated, Josh! 💯
🙌
I got to hike in Philmont New Mexico when I was 15. Philmont was Kit Carson's ranch purchased by Phillips 66 (gas station chain) and donated to the Boy Scouts. Wonderful time.
Very cool!
@WildWestExtravaganza Your my favorite researcher and storyteller. I want you to succeed in this endeavor with all my heart and you and your family are happy.
Santa Buenaventura is Saint Bonaventure.
Ventura city and county is named after Santa Buenaventura.
Been to Fremonts Peak near Hollister many times. And his camp in the Santa Cruz Mtns. At Felton Ca. Amongst the giant Redwood Trees. Once again great job.
Great show! Can't wait to hear the next
Just 2 and a half more days
Thanks!
Thank YOU
My elementary school was named Kit Carson. So we learned a lot about him. But this video was way more insightful than my 1980’s elementary school education lol. Thanks 👍🏾
Very cool!
I cannot believe people think you were using AI voiceover. AI is super easy to spot, anything with a number or just certain words always trip it up and I have unsubscribed from several channels that rely on it.
I dont want to hear fake ass computers tell me a story, I want to hear the creator. Keep up the great work Josh youve made yourself a nice following here.
Yeah, I think because it’s so wide spread currently that people somehow feel smart accusing everyone of using it.
Love your work! It could be wrong but we pronounce it Free-mont here in CA. The state of CA seems to do everything wrong. 😏 yeah…I said it! 6th generation here! Edit: you atoned.
Again, great work. Digging your channel!
California is always wrong, but you are correct
Thanks
Amazing work brother thank you
My pleasure
Thanks again for a very interesting story
Glad you enjoyed it
Great show im going to start calling it a show cant call it a listen but its the best show ever next to gunsmoke
Thanks as always, Bobby
Another banger
Many thanks
😂 that apology was great
I am very sure that you have been praised up one side and down the other for the work and talent you put into your content, I just wanted to add a bit more I guess!!
I commend you on all the research you’ve done and how educated you are on the happenings in the “Wild West”!!
Thank you Josh for all you do!! I wouldn’t know half the stuff I do about my native American History, if it wasn’t for your due diligence!!
Take care of yourself bud!!
💎💯👌🏽🐎🔥✌🏼Peace!!✌🏼🔥🐎👌🏽💯💎
Thank you!
Well spoken sir!
Thank you sir
Your audio aways sounds exquisite, Josh. I'd much rather listen to you than some AI program, and I think most people agree. You'll stand out even more once most switch to that video style.
Thank you
Right on time
Heck yeah
I'm still stoked you said Broadus correctly.
Me too honestly
Great show 🍺
Glad you enjoyed it
Thankyou
Welcome
Nice 'Tombstone' reference! Your audio sounds good to me - I've been recording music for eons, and you're doin' fine!
Rock on!
I think you're doing a good job on your audio quality.
Thanks
The gold mine in Mariposa county California is the Fremont - Carson mine. I grew up there
Hey Darth Vader (Sarcasm implied)😀
Great job brother look Forward to the next episode of West extravaganza!
👍👍
Hey, thanks!
We Drive by Kitt Peak often living in Tucson
Very cool
I'm getting ready to look for in your library to see if ya may have done my request. It was the wild west during their times. Have you thought about or done a talk on Mr. Danny Boone or Mr. Davey Crockett. Like I've said before, I have done learned mores from you than decades of wild west magazines.
I haven’t covered either of them yet but I plan on it
Love your work! It could be wrong but we pronounce it Free-mont here in CA. The state of CA seems to do everything wrong. 😏 yeah…I said it! 6th generation here! Edit: you atoned.
Again, great work. Digging your channel!
Second edit: I told you we’re wrong about everything in CA!
My car stereo EQ is AI. When my daughter wants Taylor Swift, i say EQ to Josh voice. Suddenly, I've got Josh's baritone booming out "Style" 😂
Nicccce
Now That's funny right there... I don't care who you are! -Larry the Cable Guy
Excellent video, sir. If I'm not overstepping I'd like to offer the smallest of corrections with respect to your pronunciation of "Paiute". They pronounce their name as Pie (as in apple pie) Ute (like the word cute without the C). Thank you very much for all of your work that you put into these videos.
Noted
Josh, my brother, I'm so glad that you covered this critical bit of history. I live just 20 miles south of Lake Berryessa and my High School was named after Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. I grew up in an area bordered by the East Vallejo "Finger Hills" north of Suisun Bay in the east, the Carquinez Straits in the south, the San Pablo Bay in the West and the Napa Valley in the north. The Spanish called the area "Nueva Eden" (New Eden). The area was covered with nut trees, fruit trees and ubiquituous edeble plants and game (then in the 1920s thru the 1980s it became a bulwark of the U.S. Navy and the natural flora was continually destroyed until now). To this day, the area has the best and mildest climate on the planet, rivaled only by Kobe, Japan. . . . Just Sayin' (It might look like a shit-hole, rife with very bad "woke" individuals, but the climate is still epically perfect ). . . The conquest of California began and ended in my backyard (in fact, some of these instrumental areas were commandeered by the likes of Janis Joplin and a plethora of 1960s icons at a place known now as "Olompali State Historic Park" [unfortunately, most of the historic buildings at that park burned with the love-generation - including the buildings inhabited by our hippy icons). The majority of "American" settlers in Spanish California didn't give a damn who was controlling the territory at all (whether they were formerly subjects of the confederacy or disillusioned transplants from the north or the Californios) until Castro issued his edict of naturalization or expulsion. Most Anglo settlers didn't want anything to do with any "national government" of any ilk. This ideology was maintained beyond the end of the civil war as was apparent by Californian neutrality during the conflict. (G. Washington said, "Avoid foreign entanglements" - and the majority of Anglos in California took that to heart.) The greater point of the Bear Flag Revolt/Rebellion was that all faith in the "governing powers" had been lost. During the entire Bear Flag Revolt conflict (which lasted less than two weeks) only 80 people lost their lives (MOST of which were unnecessary) - and that was mostly AFTER Fremont or Stockton's troops got into the fight. The rabble of the Bear Flag Revolt won California - and then had it ripped out from beneath them by a more powerful governmental force (just as the White Russians had their victory ripped from them by the Red army some 60 years later). There was VERY little racial tension in the exercise of the Bear Flag Revolt. In fact, Generalissimo Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the Spanish Governor of most of what is now Northern California was VERY sympathetic with the plight of the "anglos" and when assaulted at his home in Sonoma (his "Petaluma Adobe"), he welcomed the rebels into his house. ...After which action, he found himself hogtied and watched as his entire wine cellar was consumed by the anglo insurgents (we Californians LOVE our wine...). There is a LOT of nuance in this instance of history . . . much of which you glossed over (and I don't fault you). For instance, Catholicism has a HUGE role to play in the way the Californios and indigenous peoples took part in this period; the Anglos being mostly Protestant of one kind or another. For centuries, the Native Americans in the area watched their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters BURNED ALIVE or otherwise brutally killed for some perceived infraction of Catholic dogma. The last known (or recorded) instance occurred in Northern Mexico in 1890 when a man who refused to work on a Saturday was garroted to death in front of his entire pueblo (The record of this Spanish Inquisition execution can be found in the archive at UC Berkeley, California). None the less: THANK YOU for your sincere telling of the story. I love you, Josh. What you do is so friggin' important. Keep it up, my brother. (By the way [and TOTALLY OFF TOPIC], as a 15 year-old Boy Scout in 1981 at Camp Silverado (just a mile south east of Carson Pass a half mile from the north shore of Silver Lake and in the shadow of Thunder Mountain, I heard what could ONLY be identified as an inhuman sasquatch vocalization. I think it's interesting we don't hear more about those types of encounters in the "old west".) Anyway, I love you, Brother!! Great job!! And: THANK YOU!!! (And dammit!! Even AFTER you clarified the pronunciation of "Fremont" as "Fray-mon", you insisted on pronouncing his name as "FER--MONT"!! WTF?? LOL [Love you, brother].) . . . Anyway, to my understanding there were only 80 or 84 deaths during the entire struggle for California. Can you validate that number? (Also with regard to the above and in a sincere attempt to exonerate you (lol), having lived here for the VAST majority of my life, "Fremont" has been pronounced "FREE-mont" for as long as I can remember. . . . But then, "Buffalo, New York" was originally called "Beau Fleu" ("Beautiful Spring" in French) and I doubt there's a single Buffalo native who fucking knows that. . . . Shit gets lost over over time. It's our job to find the truth . . . And despite the neglected minutia, this was an AWESOME historical report!! Thank you, Josh!!!
You have my email, brother. You don't have to respond here. In fact, you don't have to respond at all!! :-) You would be AMAZED at how much "Old West" lore and history are rooted right here in California. I wouldn't even know where to begin . . . I love what you do, Josh. Don't stop doing it . . .
Polk was by far one of our greatest presidents. Definitely in the top ten and serving only one term. At one time, for a few years, Fremont owned Alcatraz.
Another superb episode and wise words about AI.
Time is running short for the hairless ape and technology is moving too fast.
Signed R2D2
Well said
"Getting screwed by everybody!" 😂😂
Viva la patria Viva Mexico 🇲🇽.
Having been to France a few times, you are always correct 😅
I listen on my cell phone. All the precision audio doesn't come through. I can't tell the difference.
How did Lt. Gillispe know where to find Fremont when he was at Klamath lake?
I have no idear
the mexicans thinking the bear is a pig is hilarious 😂
It was a very poorly drawn bear
Was just looking into Andreas pico's post-war activities last week. Great timing. Did you locate any pdf books on San Pasqual?
Unfortunately not
Free Mont California
Hell yes!!!
Morning Dale, have a great one today!
Thanks bub! You too!
It's 2am :)
👋
Josh
It's a fine episode Josh :)
I pronounce it "Flee-Mount" cuz every time he got around Stonewall in the valley he took the long way or remembered he forgot something back where he came from :)
I would pay good money to be sent an audio file of your rages, slubs and curse words my friend!
Maybe I’ll post one on Patreon
Goddamn, I had no idea of this part of Carson’s life. I seem to have inadvertently followed his trail my whole damn life
Great story looking forward to more.
I'd love to see you do a video on Champ Ferguson, a true bad @$$ of the civil war who avenged his son's murder and the brutality inflicted on his wife and daughter by Union Troops
Josh, you can't help a hillbilly spell. Thank you,I'll work on it.
Haha
To me I just picture Kenny Powers doin' all the talking....
As you should
Look Josh if people want to get their knickers twisted AND expect Red Blooded Americans to speack dat frenchay tis dem what need correctification! Enjoying the Kit Carson long jaw... take it easy, and carry on son.
7:43 -- RE: Fré ; Another Fun Fact for your pronunciation bug! Sound-wise, the é is a homophone for "ai" as in "vrai" and the V and F sounds are so similar you could practically say "Vraimont" instead and some people wouldn't hear the difference.
Oh people would hear!
Home now I can watch unfettered
You got it
Was able to get a few people to sub the channel i believe lol @WildWestExtravaganza
@@Bobbysixgun thanks man!
I Sing ur praise any time I'm around someone I shared Louis westerns I've owned every one but lending them out soon u have only three all about Lance Killkenny
Would you ever consider doing any presentations on cowboy poets or singers?
Maybe
Those back and forth trips to California would be 100 days plus.
Likely more than that
I love the smart ass comments
My college gf studied in France. She said the old French men's lower lips hang way out from speaking French so long. So that might help as well. That was funny. Fremont it is.
I believe it's pronounced freh-MON-tay!
I think you’re right
👍👍👍 fer gettin Free mont Amurkin. Oops, it's 'ser ah pay'.
you crack me up!!!! my name is Boucher That means Butcher of meat pronounced BOOCHAY is the way to say
You cajun?
In South Africa it's pronounced Bow cher. Just saying.
In Canada, or Quebec at least, it's boo shay, emphasis on the first syllable.
So,it would be Fuk,.'e ?😂
Haha
What exactly inspired the name bloody beaver?
I thought it was catchy, there was an available dot com, and it was meant to be a nod to the mountain men. That was a bloody time, bloody beaver
Who's the dude with the mutton chops? I've seen this photo before, & still wondering who he is
Oh what shall we do tonight? Hello, what have we here?
For your listening pleasure
Am I mistaken or do you constantly mispronounce Fremont?
Yaaahhh !!!
Yah
I sometimes like to play a little game I call Historical Kevin Bacon.
Although both being frontier types, I kinda doubt that Kit Carson ever crossed paths with David Crockett. Just as I also doubt that Crockett and Daniel Boone ever ran into each other. If they ever did, please site to me the historical evidence of such an encounter.
There must be levels of separation connecting all these famous gents. For instance, I don't have any documentation perse in front of me to prove the following supposition, but here goes:
I strongly suspect that Crockett personally knew Andrew Jackson. They didn't like each other, but they likely did have face to face encounters with each other from time to time. Since Jackson was a US president, he is likely to have had face to face encounters with his successor Martin Van Buren. They didn't like each other either. Nevertheless, it's traditional for every American president to have at least one face to face encounter with his successor, when the new president is moving into the White House and the old one is moving out. That makes a bridge of various provable connections on several levels between Andrew Jackson all the way to Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln personally new John Fremont. They didn't like each other either. Even though they were both instrumental in the founding of the GOP.
Fremont personally knew Kit Carson. And oddly enough, they actually did like each other.
This is the closest Historical Kevin Bacon like connection I could draw between Kit Carson and David Crockett. If anyone knows a shorter route, please comment about it below. I would love to read it.
After a little more research, I have come up with an even shorter, more direct route linking David Crockett and Kit Carson. And here it is. As stated before, David Crockett personally knew Andrew Jackson, they were at political larger heads almost from the get-go. And as such, they didn't like each other. Imagine that Andrew Jackson, a well-known hot-headed duelist, had a talent for making enemies. Who would have thought? Jackson as President was also at political larger heads with one of his main generals. General Winfield Scott. They had some rather angry and insulting correspondence with each other, which could have led to a duel were it not for the fact that Jackson was President of the United States. And presidential dueling was not actually a thing back then, or ever was. Obviously, Jackson and Scott didn't like each other. So they must have been personally acquainted with each other. There's that contention.
Fast forward to 1861, and Winfield Scott is now Abraham Lincoln's top General, since Bobby Lee didn't want the job, being more loyal to Virginia, than he was to the federal government.
So Scott and Lincoln personally knew each other. Whether they liked or didn't like each other, I don't know. Possibly not, since Lincoln didn't seem to like any of his top generals until Grant.
And as stated before, Lincoln personally knew and disliked John Fremont and John Fremont knew and actually did in fact like Kit Carson, which is not surprising, since by all accounts, Kit Carson was a very amiable fellow, well liked by practically everybody. Unless you were an Apache or an Navajo, and maybe a Mexican soldier stationed California. Then you might not care so much for him.
So there is my much shorter Kevin Bacon like connection between David Crockett and Kit Carson. Truly only six degrees of separation.
You have excellent audio. This is not true of all UA-camrs. Evidently, quite a bit of work goes into various aspects of these broadcasts to get sounds and content correct. Thanks
Thank you, I appreciate that
I mean it is one of Danzig’s best songs so its not exactly undiscussed
You forgot Kit Carson's graphic testimony of Colonel Fremont's masacre of Native Americans as they were conquering mexican California. Even Kit was revolted to his credit. Be well.
I did?
Just in time. Finally feeling better after fighting off a cold for 3 days. Coincidence, maybe or a little bit of manifest destiny.
Hope you’re back to feeling normal soon
@@WildWestExtravaganza thanks. As long as I don't have to belly crawl through a desert I'm sure I'll be fine.
I used to use Audacity to lower the “pitch” of high vocal songs so I could sing them!!
Other than that, I understood about 79% of what you said there at the end!! Lolol 😂
I clearly have always known that your voice was not AI.
AI make ALOT of grammatical errors throughout the video. I’m not sure why but it does happen…ALOT!
Alright well, back to the WWX Videos!!
Although its not wild west rather than turn of the century would u consider the topic of The Newton Boys the real facts it would probably be a 2 part series
Good suggestion
Damn, were they that cruel in the comments? I always feel like a jerk trying to correct people's pronunciation/grammar
Nah I’m just being silly
Yaaaassss
And thank you for not using/being AI! LOL
My pleasure
Why do you all skip over Commodore Sloat, who captured Monterey, raised the Stars and Stripes, and claimed California for the US on 7 July?
Great question! So the video you're commenting on is part of a series on Kit Carson. When I write my scripts is always a struggle to not go off on too many tangents and to keep things at least somewhat focused on the topic at hand.
In the case of Commodore Sloat, you're absolutely correct. He did capture Monterey and claim California for the U.S. He also was in poor health and replaced by Stockton (who I did mention) after just three weeks.
If I were to do a dedicated video to the conquest of California, or even just the Bear Flag Revolt, I most likely would have included Sloat. As it were, since this was just about Carson, I didn't feel it necessary to include him.
You should consider doing videos on other people and culture or just the same time era in the usa.....like abolishionist cassius clay. The stuff he did in his life is bonkers. He lived to be in 70s or so, old. But that wasn't from lack of people trying to kill him or more fitting word, assassinate. More then often they ended up on the deader side. Im talking mobs of pro slavery people to him dueling.
Cassius Marcellus Clay was a legitimate badass. Born into one of the richest slave owning plantation families in Kentucky. Not only did he secure Russia's support of the Union during the Civil War, and was also one of the most vocal abolitionists, but later on he divorced his wife of 45 years (she was sick of his infidelities) and as an 84 year old married 16 year old Dora Richardson (who was possibly as young as 12)....and still kept ticking for another 11 years. His children and grandchildren were so upset that he reportedly installed a cannon in his front doorway to discourage anyone interfering with the wedding. 😂
Um no... this is the wild west. Clay should have lived out here if he wanted to be included in the greatest American era ever
Did you draw that California flag with markers?
Finger paints
@@WildWestExtravaganzalooks great! 😎
@@CFarnwide thank you
Great video! I can’t stand AI voice overs I can tell immediately and always exit out right away
Thanks!
Can you imagine if Man like Kit Carson were alive today? What would the popular news say about him? How would they possibly degrade him? 😊
He’d likely be in prison due to a series of war crimes
You sound like Danny McBride from eastbound and down ❤😂😂🤠
Paiute is pronounced like Pie Yoot.
I thought it was pronounced: IDGAFSTFULOSERS!