The Beginning and the End of the Wild West

The Beginning and the End of the Wild West
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[franks]

As long as Santee is around and keeping the West alive the West will never end. Thanks Santee and Company!

[BoyNamedSue]

My great grandfather use to tell me the story about how his family left Montana in a wagon to head to Alaska. Got as far as Seattle, when his father decided it was “to damn cold” and headed south and settled in southern Oregon. That was the late 1910s and that always felt right to me as the end.

For the beginning, part of me wants to say Lewis & Clark was the soft start but 1820 seems to be the more common answer.

[TimKoehn]

Great episode Santee! With folks like you the Old West will never end! Have a great weekend!

[SmallCaliberArmsReview]

So I guess my 1903 sewing machine can still be considered "Old West"?? The wife and I were having this same conversation last night. Very informative video Santee!

[duelist]

Hi Santee. I enjoyed the video. These are questions we’ve kicked around for a long time. People think you can compartmentalize time periods, but, really, one era slowly morphs into the next. Wyatt Earp was still around in the 1920s, and Jeff Milton’s last gunfight was in 1917. On the front end, fur trapping mountain men from the 1820s were acting as Army guides during Red Cloud’s War in the lane 1860s. So, picking a definite beginning and end is difficult. Fun to discuss though.

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The introduction of barb wire to established boundaries was a significant factor. Hence the cowboy song: "Don't fence me in"

[alexandersmall]

I reckon that the “Old West” never truly died, it lives on as an idea, as a hope of, “if things get bad, there’s a place where we can start anew, where anything is possible” and through people like yourself it still pops up in visible ways.

[EasternOutlaw]

I wish the end of the Wild West wasn’t so overlooked. After Red Dead Redemption 2 came out everybody believes the Wild West ended in 1899. Great video as always Santee

[laurajuergens]

Thank you, as always, for such a wonderful video and all the historical tidbits.

[kevinlasota]

I was born a hundred years too late. Another great video, Santee. Thanks for keeping it alive. Pew pew to the Mrs. To all the Ghost Riders, too.

[pdjdw]

You have a channel with great resource for model art. Trains, cabins, towns.
Bet it took you a lot of time to acquire all the knowledge.
Thank you for that.

[Dsdcain]

Great topic for today. Thanks for putting that together for us.
Be safe out there, and take it easy man.

[alan_whoneedstiedye]

Looking very dapper! Thanks for another great episode.

[michaelashcraft]

Born in 1951, I have been absolutely fascinated by the Old West, grew up watching Westerns thinking everything I saw was just the way it really was, but, truth really IS sometimes stranger than fiction, one of the things I learned watching Arizona Ghost riders.

[dennisatkins]

Great episode Santee! I didn’t even recognize Dirty Dan. He cleans up perty good. Nice hat Dan!😊

[LionquestFitness]

Great Movie - Ride with the Devil. Congrats to the winner!

[monstersdad]

This is why I’m up early on Saturday, thanks

[ralphperez]

Great Episode. Lot's of great info, and plenty of laughs. Thanks so much my friends!

[JimBailey]

Thank you so much Santee, Congrats Hugh. That was very interesting. Love to watch. :)

[gerardjohnson]

Saw that costume at intro and thought you might be in Pennsylvania celebrating "Groundhog Day". Thanks for the video.