How to Create a Historically Accurate Cowboy in Red Dead Online
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Today we're looking at the historical appearance and clothing of Cowboys in the American West. For this week I used a variety of photo archives from the late-1800s. I also used primary source accounts from Hamlin Garland, and D.W. Wilder's 1882 book, 'The Annals of Kansas'. Additionally, I consulted an article by Emily Jane McTavish, Jared E. Decker, Robert D. Schnabel, Jeremy F. Taylor, and David M. Hillis titled, 'New World Cattle Show Ancestry from Multiple Independent Domestication Events,' that traced the migration of cattle from Europe to the New World. And last, I used an article by University of Washington professor, David Goldstein-Shirley called 'Black Cowboys in the American West: A Historiographical Review,' for statistics on cowboy ethnic and racial diversity in the American West during the late 1800s.
About Man vs History: Man vs History is a UA-cam channel that endeavors to combine both education and entertainment, specifically related to history. While the focus of the channel will expand beyond analyzing the historical accuracy of RDO, for the time being, there's still more quality videos to come on the topic. For the past decade I've been history professor at the college level. The knowledge and skills I acquired through my educational journey and profession are put to work in the creation of these videos, allowing me to locate rare primary source materials, analyze them carefully, and coherently deliver the content in an entertaining and educational manner.
For each one I conduct an immense amount of research, scouring American and British archives, books, and scholarly journal articles. Gratefully, my profession also grants me access to a network of historical experts & specialists including authors, university professors, and museum curators. I hope you enjoy the end result!
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Thank you all for the 10,000 subs! You folks are awesome! Can't say how much I appreciate it. Let's keep rolling!
Love your channel! Can you do one on a saloon bar master?
What about a historically accurate moonshiner outfit
Top notch as usual. Cheers mate!
just found your channel and i love it! i forgot how awesome the old west/frontier era is!
Congratulations!!
Literally every tryhard in an effort to look like a badass cowboy, they look like they're heading to a My Chemical Romance concert
Ha!
good one
I see nothing wrong with that. lol
you're right most of the players have a terrible and random outfit that doesn't look like a cowboy at all
Love mcr
It is hilarious how much weirder, for some reason, “Cow Man” sounds than “Cowboy”
I agree. I feel like 'cowman' is just much harder to say- but it might not be, and it might just be me being used to 'cowboy'.
"One day, son, you'll grow up to be a cow-man."
@@slimothyjames4577 lol
Well the problem is that you're saying cow-man and not cowman
cattleman sounds a lot better
I've now spent more time changing clothes trying to look "historically accurate" than playing 🤣...man this game needs content!
Ha! I love it.
One of the new glitches introduced with the last patch makes gang members at camp constantly criticize my clothing choices, its driving me mad and making me change attire constantly.
Its annoying like let me wear my goddamn shirt
@@OneofInfinity. Oohhh that was happening to me aswell. Was pissing me off
@ShadowAngel ok i have one problem why do people who watch anime have a bad.mentality
Most players I see are almost always wearing a black leather outfit. Those bounty hunter outfits are the biggest offender.
I admit being an offender. All due to popular media.
Tomorrow will be fixing that.
I wear black leather but not that pre made bounty hunter shit, I make my own
You can change the color of the bounty outfits.
I often use an outfit made of the Valdez vest, tiltham hat, black shirt, bandito pants, plain black boots, leather gloves and a black bandana (never used). But I’m really stuck between using one made that looks like Russell Crowe as Ben Wade in 3:10 to Yuma out of the black marshal coat, blue shirt, paisley vest, bandito pants, plain black boots, leather gloves, and tiltham hat or one that’s basically the same but instead uses a black shirt, red bandana, and a black leather vest (can’t remember the name)
Though what irks me the most is the ones that get gold and black metals and varnish with some bright inlay color engraving. Something about a gold double barrel I can’t stand
@@StrangerE0ns Seeing gold weapons is a big turn off. Its just tacky. Most I'll do is a blued gun with silver engraving.
Sadly, the only folks in rdo with actual cowboy outfits are the level 1-15
That's literally me. Due to the kinda limited acces to clothing, I had made my first outfit with what I had thought a cowboy would look.
I just made poor man's django
Im rank 150 and I wear actual cowboy outfits
It’s fiction bro let them be
@@Mars-eu8dz same here I’m level 131 and wear cowboy outfits and look accurate to the time
I’m so glad I found out about this channel. My dad and me love the history of the old west.
My dad and I*
@@griffinmartin3812 this isn’t a grammar test
You managed to not say “me and my dad,” but then you destroyed it all by saying “my dad and me.” You were so close
@@zrflash3479 Someone’s got to do it
Welcome to the community, Daphne! Pumped to hear that you and your dad are enjoying the vids. There's plenty of others, so be sure to explore them all.
Red dead has to come out with more accurate clothing instead cow fur hats and things
I'm with you, Dino.
@Argonaut _V yesss
I will hand it to you. You have gotten it completely accurate. My family has been involved with cattle for about 170 years, be it cowboys on drives or ranchers. And you got the look of the northern cowboys spot on in your video. I still dress that way for working on my Families Colorado/Wyoming ranch. So props to you on doing your research and getting honest, accurate information.
Thanks, Bryce! I try and dig deep, being as thorough as possible. Love that it met the standards of a legitimate rancher.
Bruh they should do a cattle rustler role. Or a cattle owner, like owning your own farm and defend it from cattle rustlers
I love that idea more then I love myself
It’s so annoying, the game feels like it’s the unloved child of rockstar, but there is so much potential
In a game where you play as an outlaw and a killer, you can't actually steal anything apart from the dumbass stranger missions
I’d love that but I feel like the map is too small at times and tbh because it’s sadly 1899 that’s kinda when stuff like that was less common due to invention of barbed wire.
Yeah, in my research for the video I came across some primary source documents talking about how the first settlers in Texas had so many wild cattle wandering around that they built their herds by bringing them in. I'd personally love to see this added to the game. For instance, locating 2 or 3 of them outside Tumbleweed and driving them up to my ranch near Emerald Station. Same with wild horses. Break em and bring em in. Of course the option to buy would be good too, but a combination of the two would be best, imo.
According to rdr2 player it’s an all black outfit with the bounty hunter eyepatch
Ha! This gave me a laugh, man. Thank you for that!
*Everything must be black to match my disturbed heart.*
Seriously though, people need to wear some other colors to help make it pop a little.
@@AbyssalPlague It's hard to mess up the color black in a game, I like all the colors in rdr2 but some less than others, black is the most consistent and also Rockstar makes black stuff look nicer
@@blushingbadge1544 I find its easier to set everything to black/white and look good then try to introduce various colors into 1 outfit and make it look good.
MP Zakhaevski I prefer black everything because it's my favorite color and because black just looks cool and fits with mostly everything.
Please do a Historically accurate native American outfit video
Bro yeh!
Rockstar hasn't added enough clothes like that
yessssss
Me and my "Tribe" (7 Man Native American Native Posse) would highly aprechiate that
@@deadgambler879 i agree, but you can help pretty well at the moment, i have 11 custom outfit slots full with outfits for diffrent climate tribes so it is possible
Hats- 5:46
Shirts- 6:40
Vests- 7:18
Pants- 7:57
Chaps- 8:42
Boots- 9:07
Bandana- 9:50
Facial Hair- 10:00
i love you
@@ElTejano467 ayo?
@@model.rotten he means like praise 😎
@@model.rotten stop being gay he ment it as praise.
@@Unnamed-Cowboy ts was 5 months ago
The vaquero in 0:36 is a "Dragón de Cuera", New Spain's mounted rangers, they served in frontier garrisons (Presidios) from México to Santa Fe. Loving this channel so far, thank you for your work ♥️
Bro your content is just breath taking how well you edit and talk about history and I love history
Mighty kind of you, Bob. Thank you!
@@ManvsHistory also I have some video ideas for you
Realism of wagons/vehicles
Realism of gangs
Realism of hanging/executing
Realism of towns
Realism of shops
Realism of poachers/poacher camps
Realism of robberies like bank or store
Also love the content
@@casonwilson2037 Thanks, man. I've been bouncing around ideas with some folks on a few of these, so I'm pretty sure a handful will happen. Can't say when exactly, but they're on the list. Appreciate the recommendations!
when you said “lonesome dove” i shot up to search my bookshelf. among all the unread books i promised myself i’d read, sure enough it was there. i guess now i HAVE to read it
Get on it, Lincoln!
I'd like to see how historically accurate the lawmen are
Those are from the Rockstar artists who make Furry belt buckles.
Were*
@@utb15281 what does that have to do with lawmen?
Wish granted
They NEED to come out with a rancher or cowboy role that would be so good!
Well the rancher would be hard as there’s limited space for ranches
@@kylermillsap8068 there’s like 5 moonshine spots tho aren’t there?
@@adamcaretta4715 honestly I didn’t remember commenting this until now💀 and I haven’t played Red Dead Online in awhile so...
i hope R* would see this .. vaqueros! cowboys! ranchers! but we get the naturalist instead 🤦🏼
For real! Collector and Naturalist roles are a joke tbh.
My Grandpa and his Dad were cowboys through and through on their ranch in western Idaho. Now from their influence, I'm that strange 23 year old that listens to old cowboy music 😄
Please do historically accurate outlaw
Lots of requests for this, Samuel! Trust me, it's on the short list, my friend!
@@ManvsHistory ❤️
hey, i made my character look like he’s from mexico, however i want to see what an accurate mexican outfit would look like, please and hopefully thank you, every video is amazing
Try a white shirt, double bandoliers with a sombrero like a mexican revolutionary, rdr has mostly cliche mariachi stuff
Me HE co
@@3rdcoasthdz what about confederate cavalry outfit?
It really depends on a lot of factors, like what area and what year of the war you’re trying to replicate.
For an early war confederate cavalry uniform, I use a yellow union cap (colored kepis were used early in the war to signify what kind of soldier you were- light blue for infantry, red for artillery, and yellow for cavalry), an unbuttoned white or light grey collared over shirt/ everyday over shirt or red/ dirty white union suit, light blue clerk pants, black preacher’s pride or cavalry boots, an agency gun belt, and a grey or tan military jacket.
For late war you’d probably keep the shirt options the same, maybe a plaid unbuttoned collared over shirt. Keep the gun belt and boots the same. Change the pants to either brown or the dirty tan clerk pants, make the military jacket tan, and use either a brown, yellow, or grey union cap. For a hat you could also use a brown or light tan military scout hat. Unfortunately there aren’t a lot of accurate-looking flat-brimmed hats you can buy. If they made the brim on the military scout hat a little wider, it would be perfect.
@@austingarrett6498 turn nation do a lemoyne raider outfit and go to hell xD
great video! I love being able to see and understand the small hints and clues that can be pulled out of those old photos of folks from that era.
The video I’ve been waiting for. Well done!
Great video! I love the facial hair styles they offer and want to eventually dive into some of their historical counterparts. Congrats on 10k!
Thank you, Zach!
everyone's talking about how every player wears black leather while I'm over here with no shoes, bald, goatee, and a poncho. So I look like a hobo cowboy
Want do you want to be when your older?
A S P A N I S H C O W M A N
"hello are you *SPANISH* ?!?"
I'm glad you agree about the waist coat, I was super disappointed to find that the materials were all strange and ended up ditching it altogether.
3:46 Sir you have informed me of history, and the fact you can throw people through windows!
Yeah, I had never done it before and was like, 'What the?.... That's going in the video!'
@@ManvsHistory how do you do it?
@@indycole396 No clue. I was just punching the guy and suddenly I grabbed him and chucked him out the window. No special button or anything. But the window was already busted, so maybe that allows it to happen?
@@ManvsHistory As far as I know, you only have to be by the window for it to happen. Just kinda aim in said direction with the movement stick and press B or something. I've smashed people through full windows before, and if I wasn't dreaming lol, even thrown one out of a 2 story window.
Another good video, you really need more subscribers because I assume you put a lot of work into these videos. Always well edited and you learn something new.
Thanks, Robbie.
This is a cooooool channel man, I subbed before the video was 3 minutes in. This fills the hole in my heart left by canceling cable and loosing Discovery Channel and History Channel.
Ha! Awesome, man! Glad you're enjoying the vids!
I've been waiting for this episode!!
Once again you nailed it. Since i started to watch your videos i started to play RDRO from different perspective. The more accurated, the more enjoyable it became to me. Many thanks for this educational video. 🤠👍
Thanks, Antonio! Appreciate that, man.
Do how to make a historically accurate gunslinger outfit
Yesssss
Love your videos man. Mixing my love of history and video games into many amazing videos. Thank you and keep making this great content.
Thanks, Mayne!
I’ve been waiting for a while now. Thank you
Thanks for this, especially touching on the facial hair because I want to try and look as historically accurate as possible after watching your videos. Great work as always!
Thanks, Pilot! Glad it helped!
I like the mysterious "thumbs down" monster...
Gets ya every time!
Currently 23 thumbs-down
@@dEnNiS_0175 Where? Like 23 total on the channel?? Like one single thumbs down on every video?? Cause there isn't 23 total people on the planet that would thumbs down MvH!
this is possibly my favourite channel on youtube, i personally find the american frontier extremely interesting. thank you for making these videos!
Thanks, buddy!
I’m so glad to see your Chanel growing man, keep up the good work :)
Thanks, Evan! Appreciate your support!
Man vs History: Lonesome Dove
Me: I understood that reference!
I feel so old.
Yeah, but it's so dang good, right?
@@ManvsHistory Yes!
@@ManvsHistory The book is much better than the miniseries, and that's saying something because the miniseries is already really good. The other three books in the series are not quite as incredible but they're still some of my favorite books of all time.
@@ShakenSpeare I'll read it for sure. Thanks!
I hope they put a cowboy Role and we could drive the steers alone or with a friend , it could be very fun and relaxing , they could pay you 13 dollars a day of work and they could make an outlaw role starter mission as stealing cattle.
I found your channel a couple of days ago and I absolutely love your content.
Thanks Kelly, welcome aboard!
Channels well put together loads of info in a easy to follow format. Not boring at at all. You don’t have a weird voice. Lots of photos and examples. Jam up. Good job.
Ha! The not having a weird voice got me. I've got a weird subtle twang though (half southern/ half Minnesotan)- I can admit that. Thanks for the compliments, Coleman. I appreciate it.
If I remember correct, to have a beard you were a "crazy" man and having mustache just made you normal
Will you do a video all about the history of the Oregon Trail?
Man honestly I enjoyed saving up enough money to actually create this outfit and the cold and rainy weather one from you other video. But I watched these videos like 3 times over because I really enjoyed the history and your commentary. Thank you
Thanks, Paul!
I've just ordered red dead and it's arriving tomorrow and I'm so excited, definitely gonna binge all of your vids to get ready
Happy binging, Colin!
@@ManvsHistory thank you sir, love your content, great quality keep it up
3:44 Jesus christ he just yeeted the man
Imagine if they made a rancher role where you could upgrade your farm and sell livestock
Im just astonished im subscribed this early I'm excited to see this channel grow i wish you the best of luck and i really enjoy your videos im yet to finish this one
Great video helped me out for dressing like a cowboy in red dead online and story mode, it even helped me on my research paper about the Wild West
Awesome! Happy to help!
@@ManvsHistory I would love to see a video about how to create a historically accurate gunslinger
So hope on day you get a big consultancy contract from RS. You make mine (and lots of others) gameplay even more fun and interesting.
Awesome comment, Bill. I hope so too. Hear that, R*? Send me that contract!
Hey, Man vs. History, I love the content! The Old West is my favorite time period, and my cousins and I grew up on ranches wanting to be cowhands and ranchers when we got older. RDR2 is currently my favorite game, and your content allows me to enjoy it even more. I do have a question for you, though. What would be a historically accurate coat for a cowboy character? I tend to have outfits for the hot, cold, and mild, so I’d appreciate a coat recommendation for the cold and mild outfits. Thanks.
Thanks buddy! I'm actually planning on making a video about this soon. Don't want to spoil it on here in the comments. If you don't want to wait, shoot me an email thebearderby@gmail.com and I'll give you some ideas.
I appreciate how much research u do for ur vids. Very underrated
Very kind of you, Shams! Appreciate that!
Your videos get better and better.
Keep it up
Thanks, man. I'm learning!
I never play Red dead online, but i love story mode, so this is my first peek into the actual content in that game mode other than hearing what people complain about here and there. I have to say I am shocked by the amount of different clothing options that are available to online players but not in the base campaign!
I wish they’d give us atleast some of those items in campaign :/
You should give online ago, I’ve been playing since the beta and I’m still having a blast. My characters a mountain man, I know it’s past there time but I’ve made a pretty good outfit for him in my opinion.
Hey Man vs. History is there anyway that I could send you a picture of my red dead outfit I want to know if it is realistic or not
Yeah, send it to me on Twitter.
Congrats on 10k subscribers man!! Well-deserved 🤠. Another awesome video!
Thank you as always, Goonie!
This is a great video, good job Man vs. History!
Thanks, Jude!
Hi there, could you please do a historically accurate female everyday outfit and female outlaw outfit video?
"female outlaw" use man clothes(pants) like sadie
@@seamuswbiggerarmalite3379 yes
Note on the horses for a historically accurate cowboy:
Alot of people don't like Morgans because of their size but they're actually the most realistic in terms of size. Western horses weren't big, cowboys had stocky and plucky little cowponies that were tough and could survive on little food (all traits typical to smaller horses).
If you want a good, historically accurate, equine partner your best bet is the Morgan, Kentucky saddler, American Paint, Mustang, or Appaloosa. Missouri fox trotters and Arabians did exist but those were for the rich and likely not suitable to the harsh conditions of a cattle drive.
Man vs. History's Horse video
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@@theinnocents4002 didn't even know this existed lol
Thanks, Innocents! Looking out for ol' MvH!
@@ManvsHistory I gotchya covered!
Gotta love this vids! Keep up the good work man!
Thanks, Ryan!
Video editing had a great improvement since you started, keep the great work, mate.
I'm figuring it out slowly, Diego, but it's coming along!
I always see other players walking around in a full suit of gold and I always wondered why you could let yourself go like that. It’s so sad.
I honestly hate when people try dressing like that and Rockstar keeps adding items like that.
@@alexzanderrodriguez4103 The clothing items are getting more and more prestigious which I honestly despise.
it looks cool lol idc about realism
Because its not a realistic roleplay game unfortunatley lol
@@ScammerTrolling it’s a game set in the Wild West and I just think it makes more sense and looks better to have more period correct clothes. On occasion I try the bounty hunter outfits but in the world they made it just doesn’t make sense. All the npc’s have more period correct clothes but when someone rides into a town with elaborate outfits with gold skulls all over it just doesn’t look good.
There are three roles that I want Rockstar to add: The Outlaw, The Rancher/Cowboy, and The Law Man.
Glad I found this channel keep up quality content
thank you sir
i love these videos you're making
Thanks, XA! Appreciate that!
Everybody gangster to the Toy Story 2 music start playing
“If you ever watch it, I definitely recommend you check it out” - Man vs. History
At first I thought, 'Ha! Wait, did I? I might have.' But I actually say 'If you haven't watched it, I definitely recommend you check it out.' The southern Iowa twang trips folks up a bit. If you re-watch it I think you'll hear it.
I just found this channel today! I am so happy!
Welcome aboard, Pearl!
Really enjoyed the content!
I’ve always been disappointed with the vest selection and I’ve always thought they never looked too accurate.
I'm with you, Alex. They're far too flashy, embellished, etc. They also make far too many out of leather. They could really use some nice basic ones that look historically accurate.
Suggestions *sometimes* help, but the design team behind the vests & clothing in general are really catering to the GTA players who want to look like pimps.
they really gotta add a open/closed option for vests and jackets, i think it'd make them pop better
@@krisskringle920 literally in every movie or western show they always have vest open
@@krisskringle920 YES. Idk if you've seen Bonnie's outfit during her stranger mission- but she has an open vest and it's so pretty. I've requested her outfit for months, but ofc I'm just one person.
Has anyone mentioned the amazing transition from the cowboy pic to your character at 0:26?
Just you, my friend!
Good vid man love your work
Thanks, buddy!
Your videos are ace man, you are making red dead online feel like a cowboy game. Thanks for that. Ps would love to see a historically accurate us solder.
Thanks, Ginga. Yeah, lots of requests for that. I'm putting it on the list of potentials.
Brilliant can’t wait to see it. Keep up the good vids man
How do you herd cows????
holy shit, the opening scene looked like it was from real life
Been waiting for something like this since the release of online thanks!
Happy to oblige.
Great video love your channel so much just creating my realistic outfit also one bit of advice would be put all the option names on screen found it a little hard to get them all the pants👍
You should do historical accuracy of red dead towns
This is on the short list. Been talking with another UA-camr about collaborating on it.
@@ManvsHistory Cool I’m looking forward to it
U should do historically accurate outlaw
Your videos are so good. You’re underrated.
Thanks, Lucas! Mighty kind of you, my friend!
Great video! Keep up the great content :)
I want a historically accurate Spaghetti Western Clint Eastwood
Idk why but i watched this entire video like 10 x
Good video, nice job tying history to doing something in game.
This is gonna help a lot with one of the character's I'm writing. Especially the details on a southern cowboy.
"I wanna be a cowboy baby"
Hook us up with a historically accurate woman-outfit next!
I’d imagine it’s just long dresses
@@dunbass7149 *Just* long dresses? There's so much variation to them! That's like saying men JUST wore vests and pants. D:
@@ShinFahima yeah but women weren’t exactly seen tne same as men
very excited to watch this video and I definitely need to get the hats from Gus they’re fire 🔥. love that raccoon hat you always wear
Hope you enjoyed it, Sergio!
i love this! thank you
Every online character: I WANT A BLACK ARABIAN PURPLE ON PINK SILK AND DIAMON PIMP HAT WITH 30 POUNDS OF METAL ON MY BOOTS AND JACKET AND GIVE ME A BAZOOKA JUST CUZ
Oo could we get a historically accurate british/upper class outfit video? My character's an immigrant and I crave more historically accurate outfits for him.
Another great video, many thanks.
Thank you, Sid!
I love this channel
keep up the good work ❤❤❤
Thanks, Duke. Will do!
Fact the Lone Ranger was based off of a black man who was a cattleman and a bounty hunter, who brought many to justice.
Upon more research this is actually a contested issue. Bass Reeves, the black deputy US Marshall is the guy you are referring to here. But John Hughes, a Texas Ranger, may also have been the inspiration. There are a lot of similarities in the successful careers of both men, but the author of 'The Lone Star Ranger,' the book the series is based on, dedicated his work to Hughes. The jury is still out.
I just wish i could live back then
love the creativity keep it coming friend..
Will do, my friend!
Great video and even greater channel
Thanks, Cole, really appreciate that!