The Wild West Extravaganza

War in East Texas: Regulator-Moderator War

9.4K views · 7h ago · 37:37

In April of 1841, Charles Jackson rode into Shelbyville, Texas, and killed an unarmed land swindler named Joseph Goodbread. Jackson then raised a private army, the Regulators, and Goodbread’s friends raised one of their own, the Moderators. For the next four years, the two sides ambushed each other on the roads, burned each other out, flogged men half to death, and hanged them from oak trees in front of hundreds of onlookers.

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Sixteen Scalps: The Legend of Jerry Potts

185K views · 4w ago · 33:15

Guest: Sixteen Scalps

In the fall of 1874, about three hundred men of Canada's newly formed North West Mounted Police were lost on the prairie, watching their horses die and searching for a whiskey fort they couldn't find. Their rescue came in the form of a short, bow-legged horse trader named Jerry Potts. The son of a Scottish fur trader and a Blood woman named Crooked Back, Potts lost his father to a bullet meant for someone else and was raised among traders and his mother's Blackfoot people.

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Billy the Kid's Kids: Did Billy Have Children?

77K views · 1mo ago · 15:31

In July of 1881, Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Pat Garrett in a darkened bedroom at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. He was just twenty-one years old, possibly younger, and had spent the better part of three years among the young women of Fort Sumner, earning a reputation as something of a ladies' man. That same year, rumors swirled that Paulita Maxwell, the teenage sister of the man in whose bedroom Billy died, was carrying the Kid's child.

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Slavery or States Rights? The TRUTH About the Civil War

51K views · 1mo ago · 52:17

Was the Civil War fought over slavery or states' rights? Today we’ll examine the primary sources: the secession declarations of South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas, the ordinances of the other Confederate states, Alexander Stephens's Cornerstone Speech, Jefferson Davis's own words to the Confederate Congress in 1861, and Lincoln's letters on slavery and the Union.

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Built on a Lie: Custer's Death & the Black Hills

161K views · 2mo ago · 1:31:15

Did Custer deserve to die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and did the Lakota steal the Black Hills? Join me as we dig further into the history behind the Great Sioux War of 1876. Topics include the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the Black Hills gold rush, Ulysses S. Grant's secret White House meeting, the Watkins report, the December 1875 ultimatum, and the 1980 Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Sioux Nation.

▶️ Mentioned videos: Custer's Last Stand (Part 1) · Reno Hill: Surviving Little Bighorn (Part 2)

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Sin City: Fat Alice & the Battle of the Bordellos

93K views · 2mo ago · 15:59

Guest: Sin City

In the spring of 1886, two El Paso madams went to war over a young soiled dove named Bessie Colvin. By the time the smoke cleared, one of them was shot in her privates, and the other was under arrest for attempted murder. This is the story of Alice Abbott, the six-foot-tall brothel operator known as Fat Alice, and her rival Etta Clark, better known as Etta the Grasshopper.

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The Wickedest City: A Short History of Dodge City

150K views · 3mo ago · 26:45

Dodge City, Kansas, earned its reputation as the wickedest little city in America in just a single year, back when it was a lawless buffalo camp with no sheriff, no judge, and nothing more than a hole in the ground for a jail. In the years that followed, Texas cattle replaced the buffalo and transformed Dodge into the Queen of the Cowtowns.

▶️ Mentioned videos: Billy Dixon & the 2nd Battle of Adobe Walls

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Calamity Jane: Fact vs Fiction

60K views · 3mo ago · 21:55

Guest: Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane might just be the most famous woman to ever come out of the Old West. According to the legend, she scouted for the Army, rode for the Pony Express, fought hostile natives, and married Wild Bill Hickok. The only problem is almost none of that is true. Join me as we dig into the real Martha Jane Canary.

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Everything You Know About the Wild West Is Wrong

51K views · 3mo ago · 30:34

How much of what you think you know about the Old West is actually true? In today’s compilation, we’ll dig into three of the most persistent myths in Western history. First up, frontier justice. Everybody knows they hanged horse thieves, except the legal record tells a very different story, and a lot of the West's most notorious horse thieves walked away with surprisingly light sentences.

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The Truth About Drugs in the Old West

1.7M views · 3mo ago · 17:30

This is a documentary-style look at pharmaceutical use on the American frontier. We cover the history of morphine and the hypodermic syringe, the myth of the Civil War Soldier's Disease, the real history of opium dens in mining towns like Virginia City, the first anti-opium laws in American history, and the truth behind certain movies like Tombstone and Wild Bill.

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Sheriff John Larn & the Tin Hat Brigade

32K views · 3mo ago · 17:21

John Larn had all the appearances of a respectable man. He owned a ranch, married into one of the most powerful families in Shackleford County, and was even elected as Sheriff. But behind the badge, Larn was a cold-blooded killer and cattle rustler who robbed his neighbors blind and murdered anyone who got too close to the truth. Join me today as we examine the life of John Larn.

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Reno Hill: Surviving the Little Bighorn

45K views · 4mo ago · 29:28

Guest: Reno Hill

The Battle of the Little Bighorn didn't end when George Armstrong Custer fell. Four miles to the south, the surviving seven companies of the 7th Cavalry, under Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen, were pinned down on a barren hilltop and fighting for their lives. A battle that would result in two days of thirst, sniping, desperate charges, and over two dozen Medals of Honor. We’ll also discuss Dr.

▶️ Mentioned videos: Custer's Last Stand

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Fix Bayonets! Chamberlain's Charge & Getting Mean

9.4K views · 4mo ago · 8:06

On July 2nd, 1863, a college professor from Maine named Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain found himself holding the far left flank of the entire Union Army on a rocky hill called Little Round Top. Out of ammo, out of options, and quickly running out of men, he made a decision that would echo through history: fix bayonets and charge. This is the story of that stand and why I keep it in my back pocket for the days when things are looking rough.

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Custer's Last Stand: Hero or Fool? (Full Documentary)

100K views · 4mo ago · 47:14

Guest: Custer's Last Stand

The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the most famous and most misunderstood events in American history. On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and roughly 210 men of his immediate command were wiped out along a ridge in southeastern Montana by a massive village of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho fighting under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. But how did Custer really die?

Topics: The Lakota and the Black Hills · Sand Creek and Red Cloud's War · The Black Hills Gold Rush · The 1876 Campaign Begins · The Battle Begins: Reno's Charge · Custer's Last Stand

▶️ Mentioned videos: Wooden Leg Part 1 · Wooden Leg Part 2

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Did the NYPD Prove that Brushy Bill Was Billy the Kid?

46K views · 5mo ago · 20:18

Silver City Photo Documentary Detective Furia Billy the Kid Forever West YouTube Corey Recko Watch This Next!!!!

🎬 Mentioned movies: Billy the Kid: The Silver City Photo

▶️ Mentioned videos: Silver City Photo Documentary · Detective Furia Billy the Kid

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