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That's great to hear! I will be releasing more videos about the story of Astoria.

@@19thCenturyCampfire LOL

Thank you. I hope you find more to enjoy on the channel.

Well spoken, my friend. And thank you for watching. I hope you find many more to enjoy.

And a new wife every few years or so.😆

@@19thCenturyCampfire Yes, from Sweden. Ya

Thanks. I hope you find more on the channel to enjoy.

Thank you. I am curious...had you ever heard of Astoria before seeing this video?

@@19thCenturyCampfire No.

​​@@19thCenturyCampfireThere's a replica of a fur/trading fort in Portland or Vancouver, and then there's Fort Astoria (Lewis & Clark's winter quarters) there in Astoria. Maybe I'm wrong about Fort Astoria being the location of the expedition's winter quarters. Haven't been to these sites for 20 years.

@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 That's interesting. I'd love to visit. It is my understanding that Astoria was started many years after the Lewis and Clark expedition, but it could have been started in an area near where their party passed through.

@@southwife Well I hope to do more videos on the founding of the outpost.

Many thanks! Keeping to once a week at the moment. I hope you continue enjoy. I've got lots more to come!

There is a story of a medicine man coming soon.

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Very cool! Any good stories handed down?

@@19thCenturyCampfire When I tell it, I'm not sure folks will believe all my old west connections. The great grandfather that helped drive herds of cattle from TX to CO was Kit Carson's nephew who worked on his Kits ranch(s) until Kit died in 1868. He also was an acquaintance of Kits friend Tom Tobin who killed a couple of the Espinosa gang. Back to the cattle business...the 2.5 mil acre ranch was the JJ owned by the Jones brothers, Stephen Fuqua, Peyton, James, and William. They fought for the south in the Civil War and were implicated in the murder of a Union sympathizer after the war. They were acquitted (along with their bro in-law my 2nd gr gf) and immediately afterwards left TX to start the ranch in CO (1869). They were a wild bunch and were involved in at least one other murder. They sold the ranch in 1885 to Scottish investors who operated it until WWI. Stephen Fuqua Jones was the brains apparently and started another ranch in KS that is now part of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. www.nps.gov/tapr/learn/historyculture/stephen-f-and-louisa-jones-family-history.htm. Reportedly James Michener used the jones brothers for characters in his novel Centennial. My sources are Pioneer Parade by Maurine Nelson Bradshaw (a cousin) a great book on the JJ Ranch by Frances B Keck (another cousin) and there is an online searchable version of FW Cragin's Early Far West Notebook(s) which are interviews of early CO & NM settlers in the early 1900s. One last one...one uncle Tom (Spears) Wood was married to Kit Carson's daughter Estella and was in the Las Animas bar when Clay Allison killed sheriff Charley Fabors.

@@douglasw9624 Very interesting stories! I'm checking out that Far West Notebook already.

@@19thCenturyCampfire Great....good stuff in it. My one ancestor is John Carson...he was interviewed but didn't have a lot to say. I was surprised they got him to say as much as he did...his obit said he was "reticent to speak of the old days"

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy. I enjoy making these even just for myself. There is a lot of gems out there I hope for more people to hear.

Thank you very much. I hope you continue to enjoy. I am keeping to a one video a week schedule at the moment. I hope for people to read more of the writings of this time period as a result of this channel.

Thanks!