How Wild Was The American Old West? The Shocking Truth Unearthed!

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• CA

  @capnsalty0200 · 11 months ago

  My grandfather went from Wisconsin to Denver in about 1913, how wild was Denver in the early 1900s?

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• DA

  @DavidWeaver-n3y2m · 8 months ago

  To put Wyatt Earps life and death into perspective he died in january 13 1929...eleven years After world war one ended and nine years before world war two

• BT

  @btetschner · 10 months ago

  Eating biscuits and sausage gravy...while watching this video!

• 63

  @63DW89A · 11 months ago

  When &quot;Wild West&quot; is mentioned, everybody thinks &quot;Cowboys&quot;, because that is the image Hollywood Westerns have portrayed for more than 100 years of movie making. In reality, the true &quot;Wild West&quot; began long before the post CIvil War &quot;Cowboy Era&quot; ever started, and was wilder and deadlier by far, than the &quot;Cowboy Era&quot; ever was. &nbsp;The true &quot;Wild West&quot; as Hollywood Westerns portrayed, where everybody was packing a sixgun because of living in a lawless area, actually began during the Califorinia Gold Rush of 1849-49, and continued before, up to, during and after the Civil War. <br><br>The new Territories acquired during the Mexican-American war, were lawless and unknown. The discovery of gold in California, caused a huge rush into a lawless new Territory, including a large criminal element lured by gold. &nbsp;Raw gold was the currency carried by every man, in a new Territory that had no court system, and no law enforcement, where a large criminal element was waiting in the shadows. By necessity, for survival, every man went armed. The little Colt Pocket revolvers, .31 Caliber, 5 shot, were extremely popular, and Colt was making the little pistols as fast as possible, but the demand was for a larger weapon, of more capability than small pocket caliber, but easily carried on the body. In late 1850, Colt introduced the 6-shot, .36 caliber &quot;Revolving Belt Pistol&quot; which rapidly became called the &quot;Navy Revolver&quot; due to the Naval Battle Scene engraved around the cylinder. The .36 Navy, was the first serious calibered repeating handgun that was of a size and weight to easily carry in a belt holster. &nbsp;The &quot;Navy Colt&quot; was in high demand in the Western Frontier mining areas, and by the late 1850&apos;s the &quot;Navy Colt&quot; was regular equipment for prospectors headed into the wild areas, and the &quot;Sixgun Packing Era&quot; of the Western Frontier began. The time of the Western &quot;Pistoleer&quot; or &quot;Pistolero&quot; &nbsp;had arrived with the 1851 Colt Navy revolver. <br><br>As the California Gold Rush began to subside in the late 1850&apos;s, prospectors moved into the new desert and Rocky Mountain areas east of the Sierra Nevada Range looking for new &quot;color&quot;. As new Gold and silver strikes caused rushes into new lawless territories, the pattern repeated: a rush of &quot;sixgun-packing&quot; prospectors into a new rich area devoid of any law enforcement or court system, closely followed by a &quot;Sixgun-packing&quot; &nbsp;criminal element. along with gamblers, prostitutes, and swindlers along with honest hard-working tradesman. &nbsp;While the &quot;fast-draw duel&quot; in the street invented by Hollywood did not actually happen, there were plenty of shooting events caused by robbery attempts, grudges, drunkenness, gambling, North/South hostilities, frustration, hatred and more. &nbsp;Due to NO law being available, as the criminal element got too troublesome, the prospectors would group into and form &quot;Vigilante Committees&quot; to hunt down and shoot, hang or banish the criminal elements. &nbsp;There are many cases of 3 or more &quot;Bandits&quot; hung in a mining camp, all at the same time to a cross beam of a new building being constructed. To attempt to bring some semblance of law and order to a new gold rush or silver strike in a remote area, Congress created Nevada Terrritory, Colorado Territory and Dakota Territory in 1861, Arizona Territory and Idaho Territory in 1863, Montana Territory in 1864, and Wyoming Territory in 1868. While Territorial status did bring a rudimentary law and court system, it was still not adequate, so Vigilante Committees continued, as did the practice of everyone packing a sixgun in the wild dangerous Western Frontier mining areas. <br><br>The Clint Eastwood film, PALE RIDER somewhat accurately portrays a mining area and town on the Western Frontier. To be more historically accurate, PALE RIDER should have had an outlaw gang terrorizing the mining area, instead of a rich tycoon trying to steal their land. &nbsp;A mining area having to hunt down, shoot, hang or banish a violent, active criminal element was the true story of practically every gold rush or silver strike on the Western Frontier, from 1848 up thru the Alaskan Gold Rush of 1898!

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• TB

  @tbflhrci2 · 11 months ago

  Lose the AI.....thumbs down

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• BT

  @btetschner · 10 months ago

  A+ video!<br>LOVE IT! Incredible video!