Jim Bridger: Ashley's 100 Revealed and the Epic Legends of Hugh Glass
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2023
- When Jim Bridger was a young man, the entire western half of what's now the United States was - for lack of a better term - a wilderness. A land teeming with bison and ruled by Indigenous hunter-gatherer societies. Untamed. Untouched. And unsullied.
Bridger would join the ranks of Ashley’s One Hundred while still a teenager and - alongside other future legends like Hugh Glass, Jedediah Smith, and James Beckwourth - head up the Missouri River in search of beaver. From present-day northern Montana all the way down to the Gulf of California, from the Mississippi on west to the Pacific Ocean, Bridger saw it all; discovering and blazing trails that still bear his name to this day while at the same time facing off with some of the deadliest warriors who ever strung a bow. #wildwest #history #western
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Thanks for the great video. Jim Bridger was one hell of a man. It is amazing that any of the mountain men survived at all. I've been reading stories about these men since I knew how to read in the 1950s. Your rendition is great. You depict them as they were good men with some flaws like the rest of us
Probably my favorite era of history
@WildWestExtravaganza can't cheat the mountain, Pilgrim. Mountain's got its own ways
Told my Pap and Mam that I was heading out west to trap and be a mountain man.... Acted like they was gut shot!
@@everettweeks2195 Ya ain't seen anyone pass by lately? No, ain't seen nobody pass in front of me , can't tell whats in back of me though.
Indians put you here? Twernt Mormons!
Man, everytime l run across that scene it cracks me up. My mom & dad and l went to the theater to see that when was first released. I was 10,and it left an indelible impression on me.
Greetings from and adios down Texas way!
Best channel on u tube
Too kind
Another great episode. First time I ever heard of Jim Bridger was when I was maybe 10, I watched the movie Tomahawk starring Van Heflin as Jim Bridger. While probably not a a historical accurate film about him, that was the first time I remember hearing about him. Then of course there's the Johnny Horton song about him as well.
Fantastic. I named my son Bridger, after Jim Bridger, of course. He's now serving his country in Germany.
Great name! Tell him I said thanks for his service
@@WildWestExtravaganza Roger that! Will do.
When I was very young I trapped with my Uncle Greg. We trapped any and everything. We also snared fox, coyote and I snared rabbit. I was only 10 to 14 years of age and now I'm 57. We trapped in central N.B., Canada 🇨🇦. We caught beaver by also their food sources. They love popular trees. Actually they stashed it like squirrels stash nuts. So that is another sign of beaver. I was a lucky kid, grew up hunting, fishing, trapping, fighting, drinking, driving and many other things with my Uncle Greg. Times have changed. We caught numerous fox, raccoon, rabbit and coyote. Plus 2 bobcat and a fisher. Plus the St. John river gave up many muskrat and fish of all kinds. Salmon, bass, chain pike (or pickerel) and green eal. Now that is all done due to over fishing but mostly due to pollution. I miss these times and the men who taught me my code and morals. God bless them all.
Sounds like an ideal life
The absolute best and most entertaining western podcast/UA-cam content on the web. Always worth the listen! Thank you.
Thank you, Casey
Oh, loving all the western history!! Thanks
Thanks
I'm a homesteader in Central Italy. Your channel is my best friend in my downtime. Thank you for all the work friend.
Grazie!
Enrico Morriconi composed some of the quintessential musicscapes that we associate with the American West
For a man like Jim Bridger to end up Blind in his old age is a real pity. The last actual comment I can find of Bridger was when he had been forced by that Blindness to live with his Daughter.....They were talking about his time in The Rocky Mountains, and he looked with unseeing eyes, off into the distance and said "I'd love to see them thar just one more time", and as we all know, that was Not To Be, but I like to think he's still up "Thar" roaming his Beloved Rockies for all time.....My Admiration of Jim Bridger and Most Real Mountain Men, combined with my Sentimental Side makes me Believe that Jim Bridger earned the divine right for his spirit being able to Roam there Forever.
I grew up in Utah's Cache Valley and every year it seemed there would be a school play or song celebrating Jim Bridger and the fur traders of the region. Thanks for sharing a piece of incredible history.
Very cool! Is the story about how Cache valley got its name well known there?
@Wild West Extravaganza at the time I believe it was. That was during elementary school back in the 70s. They still hold mountain men rendezvous yearly in the region. Reenactment type stuff.
Another great one! Love the tall tales of Jim Bridger!
Thank you, sir
I love these stories! My favorite story is about Jedediah Smith.
I talk some about Jed next episode!
Another great podcast. Thank you very much Josh this is one of my favorite periods of American history and I love the references to the movies such as Jeremiah Johnson and the revenant keep them coming.
Thanks for listening!
I'm a trapper the price of pelts have been down for quite a few years for instance used to get $50 for a big Coon now you're lucky to get $5 and what people forget is fur is a renewable resource and it has to be managed otherwise some of the diseases that the animals get can be passed to humans
My grandfather used to trap to supplement his income. He got up and ran them before work and after work before he got home. Its hard work for little pay. The trapper serves a purpose, due to the lack of predators. Bless you for keeping the tradition alive.
Love Jim Bridger. Been a fan since I heard the song from Johnny Horton
I almost mentioned the song! You'll be sad to know that there's no indication that Bridger and Custer met
Man I’ve got to tell you. I am absolutely a fan love the videos. You covered everything with fact and discussion fiction. You even source resources. Amazing keep up the good work.
I appreciate that!
Yes!!! I was getting a little worried that something happened. So glad your back!
Great episode. Thank you for the content.
And another awesome episode senor. Good to hear your voice, and get educated as only The Wild West Extra can.
Man….. I love your pod casts…. A ton of these remind me of the old movies I watched as a kid, now I know the facts. Thanks dude
Thank YOU, Scott
Hey old friend alway nice to hear from you. Your one of the top story tellers in the trade. Keep it up Josh, you will always be welcome by my fire as long as it burns
Thank you sir
Great work. I look forward to the rest of the series on Jim Bridget. I have enjoyed all of your videos since I joined the ranks of your subscribers.
Awesome, thank you!
Another foray into historical excellence sir!
These guys were hand to hand fighters all the way! With just a few shots available, the mountain made great use of the blade or bow. This episode is so great! I love hearing about these guys, especially bridger and Carson, these guys stories were so Awsome even if most was fiction! Keep trucking homie! Love your channel
Thanks Edward
Well damn, I find myself weak in fortitude. I succumbed to temptation. I had start the mission of viewing my way from the bottom of your content list, and patiently work my to present. However the title of the the next Bridger sequel captured my attention. The words Bugs boys is a term from anyone from anywhere in years. To watch that episode I have to watch this one first.
Be came aquinted with your content the other night on the bang bang boys live stream. On that night you was introduced to Duke Frazier a historian reanactor of the national park service at Fort Laramie. A quick introduction of myself is That was the Duke Frazier 40 years before. Shortly I became unsatisfied with just talking the talk, I moved on to walking the walk. At least as one could a hundred plus years removed from tribe's little lone hostels. Wasn't long before within the state of Wyoming didn't even know I had a real name. I was simply known as mountain man. Today old age played itself hairy tricks on me, and left me with memories lacking a top knot. Nope not scalped, just my really cool 1970's center parted hair got WIDER. Sumbitch! I have not made it to the ol Hugh episode yet but I generally comment often, needling in my mountain man into it.
Glad you're here, Steve!
I can't wait for your videos! Great Job!!!!!!
By God Your Name Is Josh.
Annnd This Is Definitely The Wild West Extravaganza.
YEEH. HAAAAR!!!!!
Big thanks and just what the frontier doc ordered.
A sweet cup cup of harden the hell up. 😘
Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺👍
Horrendous food! Young man I'll have you know we British built an empire on tripe and onions, limes and strong black tea!...Where is my horsewhip? Bloody butler put it somewhere...I'll teach that cheeky Yank about food..
Hiked and camped in the Bridger Mountains near Bozeman Montana not long ago, thought of him while I was there.
Great episode and great channel.
Haha
Green river knives are still great knives at great prices!! Still made in the USA. I have three. Made by what they became Dexter/Russel. You are a great story teller and have a new fans no sub.
I need to pick me up one or two
Another great episode, you rule Josh! Listened to this while sanding the stock of a Winchester 73.
Nicccce
Great video. I’m kinda want to help you out on your word “discovered”. I know we use the word as “found” or first to “come up on” but in historical context it almost always eludes to “mapping” who was the first to put it on canvas.
Grew up near Cody, WY and would highly recommend the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum their weapons collection is incredible and goes from the 1700's up to at least Vietnam era. They also had a great Art exhibit and dope section on the local wildlife.
That's what I hear. I can't wait to visit.
Oh the beaver I'd harvest when I was younger 😊 more beaver than I knew what to do with. Those were the days...
Good one beaver nice mention of the old hickory blades good knives
YeeeeHaw! Diggin on WildWestExtravaganza!
The HBC had an entire fur trading empire in place throughout most of northern North America by the time the US declared their independence.
I live in northwest Canada, and there was an HBC trading post in place by 1774.
Yep. Far as I can tell the entire North American fur trade - as far as Europeans go - started in what's now Canada
@@WildWestExtravaganza - It blows my mind to think that they set up their first fort in 1670.
Thanks for another superb video!
Can't wait
Just found your channel 🙂 I enjoy your presentation. The Revenant was a good movie, even better book. Cheers
Cheers
Thank you awesome content
Glad you enjoy it!
Can’t find To Be a Rebel on UA-cam. Can you give us a link?
I don't think he's on UA-cam yet, just podcast apps
A name I have heard often, probably the first time because of Johnny Horton, & always thought frontiersman, but never knew any details, until your Hugh Glass episode. Also living here in Australia, I used to watch Fess Parker as Daniel Boone on tv in the 70s. Also Davey Crockett. So Daniel Boone was an actual person? Methinks we need a series on this too. Even the Rangers. Can't remember the movie's name, but starred Spencer Tracy
PS. Wish I could drown in beaver!
Oh Daniel Boone was def real!
Well I definitely want to hear more about him@@WildWestExtravaganza
I always wondered why they couldn't pronounce the name of that college correctly. Great video.
Glad to see a new upload on this icey day in Dallas, at least I got something to do now besides look at 4 walls and yell at my cat
Stay warm, it's miserable out
Great content. thanks for doing these videos
Glad you like them!
You're cool man, I hope your channel takes off cause it will.
I hope so too
The Universal British Recipe.....Take a hunk of something, preferably some or of Meat, place in Pot, add water and some Taters if you want to be all Fancy about it. Then Boil The Ever Loving Shite Out Of It until you are either too Hungry or too Tired to wait any longer......Bon Apetit
I would imagine that beaver trapping then was much the same as today. Beavers are territorial and castor mound sets and crossover sets and other simple sets of the like. Beavers are a smart animal though and after they’ve seen a companion or two caught they get trap shy especially with body grip traps, they get square shy so these days the round body grips help out not having straight lines. I do wonder if they used body grip or even snares back then. Snares can be a real killer on beavers when they’ve been pressured a lot but you better have a way to drown em most times as they can and will chew through the cable with enough time to do so. I’ve always thought about all that as I’ve listened and read stories of old time trappers.
Good info
Josh,
Thanks so much for posting this latest episode!
You’re awesome!
You're pretty awesome yourself, Jordan
Dude,
I can’t even imagine how much time you must put into researching and generating these episodes.
Far more than just offering a basic recanting of history, I really appreciate all the background information and detailed insights that you provide, along with your funny comments!
It’s really late here in Maine, but tomorrow I will 100% become a member of your Patreon channel(?) or whatever it is.
I’m not sure if that’s the proper term for it, but I’ll re-listen to the ending of this episode and subscribe to what you mention so I can binge listen!!
(God I suddenly feel old & technologically inept - 50 going on 85!!).
Thanks again.
I live about 20 minutes from the three forks of the Missouri River or Headwaters state park
Beautiful country
Fur gets "prime", or ready, when daylight shortens so the best trapping starts in the Fall. There can be good trapping during Spring before fur goes out of prime. Long before I started bowhunting I would trap rats, mink and coon each Fall and as kids we always thought it was the cold weather that turned fur prime. This is not true because how do you explain states like Louisiana and Mississippi and the rest of the South?
Waders and hip boots used to be pretty poor quality back in the 70s so getting up early and checking traps before school was always an adventure, there were a few old timers in the area that would just wear wool clothing and would wade creeks and rivers with no rubberized protection, never failed to blow my mind. But getting dunked or slipping and getting a few gallons in your chest waders was not only cold as all hell but could be dangerous depending on how close you were to deep water.
Nothing but respect for these men that went West and battled not only the elements but hostile tribes in their pursuit for fur, what a wild life they lead and is definitely my favorite part about American history. Great video!
Late edit: Everything Ive read says most guys trapped in pairs, they set and checked traps at night and holed up during the day when in dangerous country. Everyone skinned their own furs because if you do a bad job at skinning it reduces the value of the fur. They must have eaten a lot of beaver, no pun intended, because trapping is time consuming and you dont want to be out shooting at game while in enemy territory.
Good info!!!
Best Jim Bridger movie?
I don't know
Bummer
I think the only one I've seen portraying him is The Revenant
Why do you always have ad breaks but no ads? I understand it may not always be possible to get a sponser but then why leave the ad break in when it cold just be cut easily?
They're dynamic ads that are placed in after the episodes are uploaded into my hosting site. If I knew there would be no ad I wouldn't bother.
@@WildWestExtravaganza oh right I knew that, because I....see ads too like everyone else. I was just testing you.
I grew up reading about these guys in the 80’s. Loved the mountain men and Americas early western lore. It’s so amazing now how much I can find out now in the age of electronics compared to the same my days of computer. So much more info is available, but a lot of it is BS. This channel is Awsome, I don’t know accurate it is but it seems to strive for showing all info for and against. Great channel
Daggum how time and life moves things about good work Josh
I'm looking for Hugh Glass?
IM HUGH GLASS.
Johnny Horton sang Jim Bridger.
Good work Josh. What happened to the colorful language? Have you been saved? 😢
Well done on the Rocky Mountain fur trade
Thank you, Greg
Fuck yes man, fuck yes. Love what ya do.
Have you read about Joe Meek. He gives a little more detail about work as a trapper. I think he was with Ashley.
I've read some but I need to learn more
Let's drink to old Jim Bridger yes lift your glasses high
All this talk about beaver got me feeling some type of way..😂
I’m sure they ate a LOT of Beaver!!
So here I am and I had to stop already and fill a blank for you I speak four different native languages and study for simple phrases from all and one thing the all have in common is they reference themself as our people, the people in one variation or another. For example in the odawa/ojibwa nation the word is ashwanabee. Lose interpretation people of this land. Blackfoot, bloods, lakota, Cheyenne was the other's called them. AI us and them. Sorry just felt compelled.
Onward! At that mentioned exchange, the merry mountain man was given a new name. Shiam Shaspusia, the great lier for he could out-lie the crow.
Damn the money Josh you are damn entertaining and funny. Accuracy good .Something many a who could learn from. Not to name names, but the initials are, History at the OK coral. Shit that stuff is dry.
Any who a tip of the hat from the ol mountain man
It was the same Mike Fink my ancestor he was killed up there after getting in a fight over a Blackfoot woman David Fink.
@ around 9:50, davey crokett and the river pirates, i was not yet 10 years old, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.........................
Do one on jedediah smith ?
Im hoping to
Jed was a man and a half , absolute legend !
For a fact
We all hate it when Winnebagos are raiding
Call themselves the ho chunk in my neck woods changed it back years ago . Means people of the big voice
@@wadetaylor1299 that’s a very polite way of putting it
@@dannysimmons3167 what ya mean by polite? U got sum winnebago scalps
Isnt this the guy that abandoned hugh glass ??
Possibly
You should look up my great grand pappy Private Wood Saunders Texas Ranger. Or not. Just sayin it might be interesting.
You mean to tell me, I’ve been paddling around in the wrong skin flute?
If it feels good it can't be wrong!
Illinoistown became east st louis, Illinois.
You know i really cant imagine taking on such threats as plains and the west where everything abd everyone wanted to kill you with a fricken single shot cap and ball musket and single shot pistol good lord even later when they transitioned from those flashy fire musjets ( cant remember what there called) to cap and ball cap and ball was a tas better then what they had but still time consuming to reload the lever action metal cartriges where serious game changers
Imagine just having arrows and stone knives
Heidi Fleiss made a fortune selling beaver too.
Warshington is in DC.
Where'd I say it was?
@@WildWestExtravaganza just giving you a hard time on your pronunciation. Here in the state we say Washington.
You sure there's not an R in there somewhere?
The baddest mfer to ever ride the west.
Did you say corn pop?
I don't remember. What part?
@WildWestExtravaganza sorry, I re listened and it was " main pop".
So happy I found this. Need so sub on patreon
Do you put your skin flute inside her skin canoe?
Sometimes