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Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday in Tombsone, was doing a Georgia accent because Doc Holliday was from Georgia, not the West.

The California native who was talking about the Concord coach did not pronounce his R's - I heard "Con-kid Coach", like he came from Massachusetts himself.

Doc Holliday was from Georgia, so he would’ve had a drawl. Rooster Cogburn was from the “Little Dixie” region of Missouri, so he probably would have also.

Still pockets in the foothills that sound like this

When America was white. 🙏 As a russian nationalist who never was to USA I feel kind of nostalgic and homesick when I see these old american one-story red-brick towns. This is real America and clearly you lost something very valuable with them. Anyway I'm reading Blood Meridian at the moment and this video is helpful. 😁

The "first" pronunciation is very Irish, still. It's still changed a bit but without the sound of the R or the sound of it has changed and blended in with the S. In fact, a lot of it is very Irish, combined with a posh English accent.

So the gist of this video is that gunslingers spoke like Curly from the Three Stooges. WHY SOITENLY

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Hard times come again no more.

Wow they sound alot more British also very well spoken especially the old lady senator sounds like a posh RP accent.

lol this dude cant stop talking about the snow

I love these, thank you. A couple times the interviewee mentioned "The Park", but they didn't mean South Park, they meant the greater Leadville area. Do you know if that park had a name?

Very interesting, thank you!

Excellent work. Paints such a strong mental image I feel like I’m there.

Glad to see another video, it's been a while 😊

My family is from Leadville. It's a really nice little town. ❤❤❤ It the highest town in the United States.👍👍👍👍

Super fascinating, thank you for keeping these stories alive!

lol the Missouri guy sounds like my wife's mamaw from west kentucky

One of the sad parts of globalization... unique mannerisms and characteristics of language forever diluded

I wonder why so few young people were recorded.

The Civil War veteran spoke exactly like the old timers spoke when I was a kid. Same pronunciation and cadence. Must be the 19th century midwest way of speaking.

3:31 I think you got your terminology wrong. A rhotic accent is an accent in which the R is always pronounced. The coil-curl merger is inherently non-rhotic or variably rhotic since the R in curl is dropped.

Thanks for the upload, and I completely agree with your words on Simon Roper, who really does a great job, trying to fill in on American dialects and some of it's origins. Thanks again ☺

Well famously Thomas Edison himself?

Based on this limited example at least it doesn't appear that chocolate was much of a thing then.

My grandparents on my mom's side are from the eastern shore in Virginia and Maryland in the 1930s. That's also a very cool accent to look up if yall are into that.

If this is accurate the most accurate wild west movie we have in terms of dialect is True Grit.

Also Southern German is different than Northern German see despite having both southern und northern German in me my accent is Southern German.

Love all this sort of thing, they sound a bit like northern English in some aspects. Also bits of West Country/ Irish mixed.

I am an Asian and I think I have heard these accent is cartoons such as Popeye the sialor man. Of course, Donald Ducj has the most special accent.

Where is your accent from?

the modern american accent is spanish much like the modern american people its been 250 years dont you think its time to move on? its time to press 2 for spanish indefinitely america should always have been a spanish speaking country

When I used to think about what people sounded like during the wild west era this wasn’t in mind a lot of the accent I hear most likely doesn’t even exist anymore it’s a interesting accent’s I’m hearing, and the farmer actually sounded a lot like the looney toon character Elmer Fudd exactly the same accent.

Sir Thank u for posting. You did what u set out to do and more. Very interesting and well done. Kudos!

Reminds me of the stereotypical grey-bearded spelunker accent personally

So basically, Moe, Larry and Curly run the gamut of accents.

I’m trying to track down court transcripts from cities in the old American West as speech samples, but I haven’t yet figured out how to find them.

You will respect my Authority lol ok cartman ancestors were from the old west

Very interesting video, thanks for making this :)

"pure force of awkwardness" What a quote lol

What I’m gathering is that joysey moved west…. South Park made an episode about this

I read that women were never allowed in saloons. Whores worked in separate establishments. Of course Hollywood had it wrong.

I recently moved to South Dakota from Texas, they all say I sound like Sam Elliot had a baby with Josh Turner.

On the topic of the two with southern sounding accents, I've heard a rough version of both of them in different parts of the south. Southern Rural Alabama and Georgia people talk about the same as the woman was shown to. Mountain people and people from around speak like how the man did.

The farmer from the Hudson Valley has a very strong Irish accent, but there's a couple of times it becomes a clear American accent at "Why I don't object" and "You don't". So perhaps he was born in Ireland and retained his Irish accent, but also picked up some of the local US accent through his time living in the US. It does raise the question of, whose accents can be counted in the definition of an Old West accent? This Irish guy and Rebecca, who has an English accent, are included in this presentation, but probably neither are native to the West and probably both born in other countries with their accents developed in other countries. So should the West accent be studied only in those who can be proven to have been born in the West, to be sure that what is being examined can be described with certainty as a West accent?

Rebecca has a full-on English accent. If you watch old British films from the 1930s, it is exactly the same accent. She said she came as young bride at the age of 18. I assume she meant arrived in the US from England at the age of 18. She doesn't seem to have picked up any of the US accent/pronunciation at all, despite having lived in the US for so many years.

I’m 56 but had big generational gaps in my family- my Italian grandmother, born in 1890, came to NYC in the early 1900s and when she learned English, she pronounced work “woik” too.

I didn’t realize these were accents. Now thinking back to my grandpa who was illegal from Canada, I see it. “You’re laval to hurt yourself doing that.” It took my decades to realize laval meant liable.

Val Kilmer listened to recordings of a man from where Doc holiday was born to produce that accent so that's a bad example.

WH Jackson sounds just like how I remember old folks from Oregon sounding when I was a kid. Parts of this still live on in the gliding 'i' in 'nine' where you can almost hear a silent -h-. Early Disney cartoons and films like from before 1965 have some of this too. It really sounds homey to me. My mother's folks lived in Montana and Utah and then the Bay Area.