10 Ancient Cities Cowboys Stumbled Into in the American West

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  @Princess_Celestia_ · 4 days ago

  The "question nobody has answered" has been answered since I was a little kid. The Anasazi civilization collapsed as a result of multiple different factors hitting all at once. Drought caused food and water shortages, this led to infighting and cannibalism between villages over the scant resources. Eventually these people scattered, breaking apart into a number of Pueblo tribes that still exist to this day.

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  @magic8ball1982 · 4 days ago (edited)

  You should do a video or two on Western folklore. There's a crapload of it - the jackalope, La Llorona, Coyote de la Muerte, Bigfoot, Hell Dogs of Eldorado Canyon, the ghost of Armbruster Pike, Paul Bunyan, etc.

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  @Princess_Celestia_ · 4 days ago

  Richard Weatherall wasn't exactly self taught, he was trained in the most modern archeology of that time by Swedish scholar and explorer Gustaf Nordenskiöld who came to Weatherall's ranch to excavate the ruins of Mesa Verde, abandoning his world tour to do so. Academia at that time had 0 interest in the ruins of the four corners, believing them to be made up like El Dorado or the 7 cities of Gold that bankrupted Coronado. That is the biggest tragedy, Archeologists in America just didn't care. And to be fair, most of these ruins had been discovered by mountain men years prior who carved their names and dates on the rock at these ruins. The Navajo didn't respect these ruined, they feared them. According to Navajo oral tradition, these ruins where cities of evil, built by evil beings, inhabited by the spirits of those evil beings, and at the more accessible sites, the Navajo destroyed the left behind pottery and grinding stones and any other left behind possessions so these being would have no reason to return.

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  @boatdock · 3 days ago

  A Ute Indian had already alerted Wetherill of the existence and location of Cliff Palace. Once again, newcomers to an area claiming they "discovered" well know ancient ruins. This type of glossed over historical information that creates false narratives to the actual events.

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  @badmoonrising7012 · 1 day ago

  PLEASE, if you're going to do these videos , get the pronunciation of the places and people correct! I know you are probably using some sort of AI speech but for god's sake, GET THE PRONUNCIATIONS CORRECT!!!