@@DaninVirgina-mg7rf You bet, fishing is good. Cold clear water makes em good eating. Striped Bass , Large Mouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Rainbow Trout. 👍 I was born in Kingman about 45 miles away. I used to go fishing in the Colorado all the time.
Indeed!! I never realized the Colorado river water was so clear and beautiful! Makes for a dazzling and stark contrast with the surrounding desert environs.
The river should carry silt that enriches the soil when the river floods. Now the silt is all trapped behind the dam and the river no longer floods. That clear water is unnatural and it reduces biodiversity.
Steve, We are all big Steve fans around my house. However, I'm afraid you missed an interesting bit of history that took place in the Needles area. In the 1820s, Jedediah Smith and his party were attacked by the Mojave as they crossed the Colorado near modern-day Needles. Ten of his men were killed and two women abducted. It's an interesting story. I hope you can cover it some time.
Cool! Check out my comment to Steve about some more of the history in that area. Even though Arizona wasn't a state at this time, it holds a wealth of information about how the U.S. grew and became the nation they we know and love now.
Yeah, I need to get back out to the Needles area, there's so much there. I thought about adding in some info about the old trails Father Garces took as well, but decided to just stick to the Arizona side mainly.
... Another fantastic Wednesday with Steve, you really have me missing my old home territory, so much so I am looking for land in southern Utah, Arizona and northern New Mexico, thanks for sharing your love of the West...
Another good one, please never stop these. These videos do so much for me. they bring me peace. i’ve hit a cross road in my life where now i got the money but don’t got the time to travel/explore.
I could imagine a fort having many men reside that it would have been difficult to attack it. But to keep the resources at the fort to feed all the men and to keep arms and ammo might have been a difficult journey. An area in which there is no reinforcements for hundreds of miles and the road to and from the fort would have been dangerous. The fact that the fort survived for so many years is truly amazing!
Commander William Hoffman seemed to be somewhat of a moron when it came to working on a peace treaty with the Mojave, his list of demands didn't do any good to help with a lasting peace deal. But, Steve, another outstanding watch of American History "The good along with the bad." Thank for your time, work, posting and all your walking.
These videos are really interesting and extremely well done. Although I'm Irish living in Ireland, for some reason these videos and the things they convey are interesting and way worth watching. Thanks a million Steve!
Love your style and delivery, Steve! And your background music is compelling without overpowering the narrative. I look forward to learning more about the real history of our country every week, the history that is all about the details that history books could not possibly hope to include. You have a way of presenting the unpleasant events of our history that drives it home with the proper amount of truth and discretion. Thank you for your fine contributions to our historical perspectives. I can vicariously experience locations that I will likely never visit in person.
Just so happens we’re going to be in that exact area tomorrow. Definitely checking out the gliffs.. not sure if the husband will go to the fort also. Thanks! A mini excursion ❤
Boggles my mind the amount of research time you must put into each of these videos. Then you create a video that is long enough to convey the fact filled story but short enough to keep it all entertaining (and your witty commentary!). You have given me many ideas for off the beaten path adventuring. Always look forward to a new installment. Thanks!
I haven't been to fort Mohave in 30 years and I live close by. Every time we went the jeep would pick up a old nail or two that were all over the place. With the temps coming back down I need to go back and take a walk. Thank You Steve for coming and checking out are little GEM on the Colorado River
Thanks, Steve. In 1968-1969 I was stationed at Fort Irwin, CA (north of Barstow). I sometimes wondered what it would have been like being stationed in the Mojave Desert during the westward conquest: camels for trucks, no air conditioning in the 120+ degree summers, howling wind much of the year, and unhappy neighbors. GO PADRES!
Thank you, I appreciate it. I only trained at Ft. Irwin once, and I can't imagine being stationed there! These old desert forts would be so much worse though. I'm always thankful to get back into the a/c.
I'm truly surprised the "better half of humanity" have yet to deem "Padres" rayciss and demand the team change their name ala Cleveland and DC. I was a huge baseball fan in the 70s and 80s, now I couldn't tell you a single players name.
Good job. I don't know how anyone can stand to be in Needles too long. Such a hot miserable place. I hung out under the bridge to cool off. I walked across that bridge every day and didn't know the gliffs were there. Thank You for showing us. I didn't have a good time in Needles. To think about living there before electricity, I'd hope the river was bigger, with trees everywhere. Anywhere there are kilns, there were forests. Kilns are everywhere, even in Death Valley and Northern Nevada. Same with Blue Diamond and Panaca. There's 3-4 just in the Salt Lake area. "The Kiln" is out there somewhere too. Love thess gliffs. There are more like this in Quartsize and Northern Nevada. "Nevada Rock Art" shows where quite a few gliff sites are.
Great Video! One of your best. I was born and grew up in Needles. A favorite book of mine which depicts life in the area around the year 1900 is Crazy Weather by Charles McNichols. It tells the story of South Boy a white youth who lives on a ranch in Mohave Valley and his best friend Havek who is a Mojave youth. A very adventurous read!
Thanks for another fascinating history lesson. What a place to be stationed in frontier days. In Phoenix they had sleeping porches and you'd wrap yourself in a wet sheet.
In '94 my unit was deploying to Okinawa for 6 months , and a buddy and I were driving back to Indiana on leave . We stopped at the Wagon Wheel for dinner, and the steak was AWESOME ! I want to go back and eat there again sometime . And as a note , on the same trip we stopped in Gallup , NM and at a truck stop ( don't remember the name ) was the best chili I have ever had ( those Navajo women know how to make some excellent chili ) ! 🍲😋
Great episode! Your videos are always so good. Here’s a story about the Mojave that you’ve probably not heard of. There was a natural lake near Ventura, Ca. Every year the Mojave would travel out to the coast to this lake to meet with the Chumash from the coast for trade and visits. When several arrived, no one was there to meet them. As at this time was the late 1700’s, they decided to go to the Chumash village. When they got there, it being a Sunday, a soldado from the presidio told them they were all at mass. He then attempted to take the items that they had brought to trade, a struggle ensued and it ended with bloodshed. Several soldados dead or wounded but many of the Mojave captured, wounded and dead. As the remainder of the party made it back to the Colorado, communications were lost as to exactly where as a party of warriors headed out for revenge. As they got near the San Bernardino Mtn range, instead of heading out to where the Palmdale, Lancaster area is today to go to Ventura, they drop down into Cajon pass and attacked several mission San Gabriel natives who were farming and ranching by San Gabriel mision. SO, a group of soldados from Presidio Santa Barbara (stationed at San Gabriel mission & Pueblo Los Ángeles) mounted horses and went charging after the Mojaves out and up the Cajon pass and across the desert on the Mojave Road after them. Three days later they aborted the chase and wearily headed back to the cajon pass to return . . . couldn’t catch them and were afraid of over stressing themselves and horses. (the Mojave Road is a popular overland trail still enjoyed by offroaders today)
"Major Lewis Armistead," whom you reference at 13:20, was mortally wounded at Gettysburg. As a Confederate general, he led a brigade in Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863.
Yes, as soon as the Civil War started he took off from San Diego to join the Confederates with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles. His uncle was also the General Armistead who commanded Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 that the National Anthem was written about.
Fantastic! you did a really good job researching this. I have been to Ft. Mohave and wounded what the story was. Other than a casino, does the tribe still have much influence in the community? Thank you
Loved the video as always. I wondered how warm the water was? The water was clear and unpolluted but looked fairly lifeless. Is that right or did vegetation, fish, etc just not show up on the camera?
I live in Mohave Valley. Bought in 2003. Never knew ANY history of the area. This is fascinating!! Thank you so much. Will take a short drive soon to see where this all is. I'm like 5 minutes from Fort Mohave. Have been to Oatman however, and that is such a fun place!!
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Great job of communicating the history of this area. This is the part I love the most about exploring old sites that were intregal parts of the building of the country. It also reminds us of the people we disenfranchised from it as well. What happened to them, could very well happen to us here in the near future. It may be happening as we speak.
I really enjoy hearing about history like this especially with Fort Mojave and the Battle at Beale's Crossing and i also enjoyed the beautiful countryside and scenery of this area of the Western US Thank You.🏜🇺🇲🏞
Well,its been20 yrs but I did just drive a car in straight from the east. Left a different route. I was there a second time with my truck. I took a loop trail through the canyon. Very nice time!
We've lived in Fort Mohave for 20+ years, this was very informational. We actually live very near the "Twins". Thank you for showing how beautiful the landscape here is! I was so surprised to see you were so close to our house! Thanx Steve! Love your channel!
Very informative and enjoyable posting Steve (PS...have you gone to Mt. Diablo CA located by Danville, Walnut Creek and Concord? I've been to[d that on a clear day surveyors reaching its peak could see Mt. Shasta in northern CA??)
I've been up Mt. Diablo many times. You'd have to get pretty lucky. The air in the SF Bay is horrible considering how many cars and people are here. Also I think you can't see it directly as I'm pretty sure the curvature of the planet plays a role in that.
Hey Steve, thanks for all your great videos and congrats on getting 188k subscribers. Please consider doing a video in the high desert in Landers of the Integratron or the World’s biggest rock or both. Thanks Steve!
Thanks, I really enjoy your videos and just subscribed! Have you ever done a post or video showing what equipment you use to film these? I think they are a cut above a lot of travel video I've seen.
Steve, since you brought up Beale and the Camel Corps, ya gotta do a video on 'Hi Jolly' - Haji Ali - and his grave in Quartzite, AZ. The man they brought from Syria to manage those camels. After the corps dissolved, he stayed ran freight out west. Those camels were supposedly released into the wild. Great story. Every time I pass through Quartzite, I stop and have a toast to Hi Jolly. I think you'd enjoy that one.
I think I saw a story not too long ago about people seeing camels running around as late as the early 1900s. It's pretty unlikely, but it would be pretty amazing if there was still a group out there somewhere.
Your videos showed up in my algorithm a couple months ago and I love them. I live in Bullhead City now. Let me know if you're in the Mohave Valley again. Take care!
This is a great video I've been living in Bullhead city for the past three years and have done a lot of exploring but haven't been to the area you showed us that's pretty cool. I watched the show about Jebediah Smith and his first encounters with the Mojave Indians when he was the first American passing through. The spot where he crossed the river is over at Rotary Park and there's a sign that was put there. And then across from the Avi casino is the old Mojave Road which I think was the Mojave Indians Road and trading route to Los Angeles it's All pretty cool I plan to take my dirtbike up that way this winter and glad that 120 heat is over! Thanks again for a great video
How about a story about Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst (1812-1879), the legendary stage driver who is buried in Watsonville, CA? Great story and lots of info available for research. Would love to see your treatment of the topic.
Thank you. I have been through this area but missed most of the interesting points that you showed. I have been to the figures in the ground and wondered why it was so high above the river. But as you said, land lower would periodically be under the river. So location makes sense. All humans wonder about the past and so this area would have been important to the River People. Thank you.
Thank you for this video! Another great geography and history lesson from the teacher. It would be interesting to study their cultural stories if any remain.
Appreciate every video you post. Thank you
Thank you.
Another great history post, keep them coming!!
Thanks, will do!
My wife is from Arizona and we used to live in San Diego, so we love to watch your sidetrack adventures across our great states! 🤠
Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Look at that beautiful clear water! Love the river! So much history around the lower Colorado. Thanks Steve for another entertaining history lesson!
I noticed that, too. It looks as if you could drink it. I was wondering about any fish in the river.
@@DaninVirgina-mg7rf You bet, fishing is good. Cold clear water makes em good eating. Striped Bass , Large Mouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Rainbow Trout. 👍 I was born in Kingman about 45 miles away. I used to go fishing in the Colorado all the time.
Indeed!! I never realized the Colorado river water was so clear and beautiful! Makes for a dazzling and stark contrast with the surrounding desert environs.
The river should carry silt that enriches the soil when the river floods. Now the silt is all trapped behind the dam and the river no longer floods. That clear water is unnatural and it reduces biodiversity.
@@denyscpoyner So interesting. I'll bet the trout was particulary tasty.
Every time you post a video on SoCal and the Imperial valley I get homesick and I haven’t lived in the valley for 50 years. Keep doing what you do.
Adventures with STEVE and Stealth camping with STEVE are my two favorite STEVEs of this life of mine. Yall really help me escape reality.
Me too..❤
Me three!
I lived in Bullhead City, a few mikes north of Fort Mohave, learned more today about Fort Mohave today than i did living there for 5 years.
Excellent drone shots, Steve! Those geoglyphs are news to me! Thanks! 😎✌️
Geoglyphs!!
Steve, We are all big Steve fans around my house. However, I'm afraid you missed an interesting bit of history that took place in the Needles area. In the 1820s, Jedediah Smith and his party were attacked by the Mojave as they crossed the Colorado near modern-day Needles. Ten of his men were killed and two women abducted. It's an interesting story. I hope you can cover it some time.
Cool! Check out my comment to Steve about some more of the history in that area. Even though Arizona wasn't a state at this time, it holds a wealth of information about how the U.S. grew and became the nation they we know and love now.
Thanks for this video! ❤
Yeah, I need to get back out to the Needles area, there's so much there. I thought about adding in some info about the old trails Father Garces took as well, but decided to just stick to the Arizona side mainly.
After that attackl, Smith walked to Los Angeles.
I thought the attack on Smith is where Ft Mojave was
... Another fantastic Wednesday with Steve, you really have me missing my old home territory, so much so I am looking for land in southern Utah, Arizona and northern New Mexico, thanks for sharing your love of the West...
Thanks Steve you bring joy to the world when we all need it. Needles is hot, but the Salton Sea area is oppressive. I'm from Phoenix, trust me.
Thanks Steve! A great little history lesson. 👍🏼👍🏼
Glad you enjoyed it
I like how clear the water is, after settling out sediments in the several lakes and reservoirs.
Another great video, Steve!
But trust me, it's icy cold!
@@angelmist4253 Yes I know! Even in mid-July, you wade to ankle depth, then knees, then just go for it! YMMV!
@@jerroldkazynski5480 but the current is very fast and strong!
@@angelmist4253 By Needles, not so much. Reservoirs are nearby.
Nice and chilly in the heat of summer
Another good one, please never stop these. These videos do so much for me. they bring me peace. i’ve hit a cross road in my life where now i got the money but don’t got the time to travel/explore.
I'm glad I can help. No plans on stopping here.
What use is the money then? Seriously
What a sad story, but it needs to be remembered.
I was born and raised in San Diego and there is so much to learn about California and the surrounding states like Nevada and Arizona. Great job.
Good stuff! A lot of really great drone footage in this one!
Thanks. I was worried it was going to get too hot for the drone. Would have been a shame for the geoglyphs for sure.
I could imagine a fort having many men reside that it would have been difficult to attack it. But to keep the resources at the fort to feed all the men and to keep arms and ammo might have been a difficult journey. An area in which there is no reinforcements for hundreds of miles and the road to and from the fort would have been dangerous. The fact that the fort survived for so many years is truly amazing!
Commander William Hoffman seemed to be somewhat of a moron when it came to working on a peace treaty with the Mojave, his list of demands didn't do any good to help with a lasting peace deal. But, Steve, another outstanding watch of American History "The good along with the bad." Thank for your time, work, posting and all your walking.
These videos are really interesting and extremely well done. Although I'm Irish living in Ireland, for some reason these videos and the things they convey are interesting and way worth watching. Thanks a million Steve!
This is an important point of the value of RUclips’s like Steve’s. I am a Californian but follow videos from Ireland, England and Germany!
Love your style and delivery, Steve! And your background music is compelling without overpowering the narrative. I look forward to learning more about the real history of our country every week, the history that is all about the details that history books could not possibly hope to include. You have a way of presenting the unpleasant events of our history that drives it home with the proper amount of truth and discretion. Thank you for your fine contributions to our historical perspectives. I can vicariously experience locations that I will likely never visit in person.
That was just excellent! Your videos are always fascinating... thank you.
You're like Huell Howser without the uncomfortable awkwardness. Enjoyed every minute. Thank you.
If Howser were also a history professor.
lol charmingly awkward ha.
@@Porsche996driver this is true.
Aww he was great!
"So - you're tellin' me"!!!!!!!!!
I live in Fort Mohave, did not know this history. Thank you.
Been in Mohave Valley for more than 20 years. Best history lesson I've learned.
Just so happens we’re going to be in that exact area tomorrow. Definitely checking out the gliffs.. not sure if the husband will go to the fort also. Thanks! A mini excursion ❤
Lived in Colorado for many years, really enjoy your videos highlighting the beauty and history of the Southwest.
Boggles my mind the amount of research time you must put into each of these videos. Then you create a video that is long enough to convey the fact filled story but short enough to keep it all entertaining (and your witty commentary!). You have given me many ideas for off the beaten path adventuring. Always look forward to a new installment. Thanks!
Another excellent episode. Also history that was never taught when I was in school. Well done.
Thank you!
I haven't been to fort Mohave in 30 years and I live close by. Every time we went the jeep would pick up a old nail or two that were all over the place. With the temps coming back down I need to go back and take a walk. Thank You Steve for coming and checking out are little GEM on the Colorado River
Hey Steve, I've always loved the way you inject history in your vids, but this one was truly special! Thanks
Thanks for covering the geoglyphs and the history lesson of Fort Mohave.
Thanks, Steve. In 1968-1969 I was stationed at Fort Irwin, CA (north of Barstow). I sometimes wondered what it would have been like being stationed in the Mojave Desert during the westward conquest: camels for trucks, no air conditioning in the 120+ degree summers, howling wind much of the year, and unhappy neighbors.
GO PADRES!
Thank you, I appreciate it. I only trained at Ft. Irwin once, and I can't imagine being stationed there! These old desert forts would be so much worse though. I'm always thankful to get back into the a/c.
Go Padres
I'm truly surprised the "better half of humanity" have yet to deem "Padres" rayciss and demand the team change their name ala Cleveland and DC. I was a huge baseball fan in the 70s and 80s, now I couldn't tell you a single players name.
Good job. I don't know how anyone can stand to be in Needles too long. Such a hot miserable place. I hung out under the bridge to cool off. I walked across that bridge every day and didn't know the gliffs were there. Thank You for showing us. I didn't have a good time in Needles. To think about living there before electricity, I'd hope the river was bigger, with trees everywhere. Anywhere there are kilns, there were forests. Kilns are everywhere, even in Death Valley and Northern Nevada. Same with Blue Diamond and Panaca. There's 3-4 just in the Salt Lake area. "The Kiln" is out there somewhere too. Love thess gliffs. There are more like this in Quartsize and Northern Nevada. "Nevada Rock Art" shows where quite a few gliff sites are.
Great Video! One of your best. I was born and grew up in Needles. A favorite book of mine which depicts life in the area around the year 1900 is Crazy Weather by Charles McNichols. It tells the story of South Boy a white youth who lives on a ranch in Mohave Valley and his best friend Havek who is a Mojave youth. A very adventurous read!
Thank you Steve for having passion for history and actually going out and filming it. You really need your own show
Thanks! Steve 🏚
You are welcome!
Thank you. The water looked nice. It was looking a little brown not too long ago.
Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for another fascinating history lesson. What a place to be stationed in frontier days. In Phoenix they had sleeping porches and you'd wrap yourself in a wet sheet.
Great visuals and really informed narrative. Thanks for providing these wonderful videos!
Thanks for the beautiful view of Nevada and Arizona
In '94 my unit was deploying to Okinawa for 6 months , and a buddy and I were driving back to Indiana on leave . We stopped at the Wagon Wheel for dinner, and the steak was AWESOME ! I want to go back and eat there again sometime . And as a note , on the same trip we stopped in Gallup , NM and at a truck stop ( don't remember the name ) was the best chili I have ever had ( those Navajo women know how to make some excellent chili ) ! 🍲😋
The Wagon Wheel is still there and open! Best food on I-40 by far! Stop there on every trip to Laughlin, Bullhead City, and Oatman
This is cool, I was born in Kingman AZ '69. I never knew about this. 👍Thanks.
I love watching this and then going to Google maps and finding where he filmed from.
Great episode! Your videos are always so good. Here’s a story about the Mojave that you’ve probably not heard of. There was a natural lake near Ventura, Ca. Every year the Mojave would travel out to the coast to this lake to meet with the Chumash from the coast for trade and visits. When several arrived, no one was there to meet them. As at this time was the late 1700’s, they decided to go to the Chumash village. When they got there, it being a Sunday, a soldado from the presidio told them they were all at mass. He then attempted to take the items that they had brought to trade, a struggle ensued and it ended with bloodshed. Several soldados dead or wounded but many of the Mojave captured, wounded and dead. As the remainder of the party made it back to the Colorado, communications were lost as to exactly where as a party of warriors headed out for revenge. As they got near the San Bernardino Mtn range, instead of heading out to where the Palmdale, Lancaster area is today to go to Ventura, they drop down into Cajon pass and attacked several mission San Gabriel natives who were farming and ranching by San Gabriel mision. SO, a group of soldados from Presidio Santa Barbara (stationed at San Gabriel mission & Pueblo Los Ángeles) mounted horses and went charging after the Mojaves out and up the Cajon pass and across the desert on the Mojave Road after them. Three days later they aborted the chase and wearily headed back to the cajon pass to return . . . couldn’t catch them and were afraid of over stressing themselves and horses.
(the Mojave Road is a popular overland trail still enjoyed by offroaders today)
"Major Lewis Armistead," whom you reference at 13:20, was mortally wounded at Gettysburg. As a Confederate general, he led a brigade in Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863.
Yes, as soon as the Civil War started he took off from San Diego to join the Confederates with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles. His uncle was also the General Armistead who commanded Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 that the National Anthem was written about.
Really great video once again Steve. Thank you!!!
Fantastic! you did a really good job researching this. I have been to Ft. Mohave and wounded what the story was. Other than a casino, does the tribe still have much influence in the community? Thank you
Excellent video ! Loaded with great information. Thanks, Steve ! Never disappointed !
Thank you for this. I lived in Bullhead City, just north of Ft. Mohave for several years and never knew about the history of the Fort Mohave.
I lived in the area for 10 years, and never knew about those geoglyphs until just now. I would have loved to have seen them. Loved this vid!
Very interesting history lesson and excellent photography.
Love your work!!! Thanks for having a “heart” for history. Especially the less known part😎👍🇺🇸
Crazy cool, thanks for letting me tag along. Steve. Your videos are always fun to watch.
Loved the video as always. I wondered how warm the water was? The water was clear and unpolluted but looked fairly lifeless. Is that right or did vegetation, fish, etc just not show up on the camera?
I live in Mohave Valley. Bought in 2003. Never knew ANY history of the area. This is fascinating!! Thank you so much. Will take a short drive soon to see where this all is. I'm like 5 minutes from Fort Mohave. Have been to Oatman however, and that is such a fun place!!
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Fascinating history and incredibly beautiful. Thanks for this awesome look at the Fort Mohave area.
Great video Steve. I am always impressed by all the research that you do in creating these videos.
Thanks again Professor!
Great job of communicating the history of this area. This is the part I love the most about exploring old sites that were intregal parts of the building of the country. It also reminds us of the people we disenfranchised from it as well. What happened to them, could very well happen to us here in the near future. It may be happening as we speak.
With help from our own treasonous government.
Loved this video. Thank you for bringing it to us.
Hey man, that was FANTASTIC! Great job 👍👍
I really enjoy hearing about history like this especially with Fort Mojave and
the Battle at Beale's Crossing and i also enjoyed the beautiful countryside
and scenery of this area of the Western US Thank You.🏜🇺🇲🏞
Thanks for the adventure and the education!
The Fort Mojave ruins I visited was farther west. Near a canyon with lots of rock art. It was a great canyon hike. Established earlier, I think.
Sorry,that was Fort Piute.
I haven't been out there but I've wanted to check it out. How was the road to get there?
Well,its been20 yrs but I did just drive a car in straight from the east. Left a different route. I was there a second time with my truck. I took a loop trail through the canyon. Very nice time!
We've lived in Fort Mohave for 20+ years, this was very informational. We actually live very near the "Twins". Thank you for showing how beautiful the landscape here is! I was so surprised to see you were so close to our house! Thanx Steve! Love your channel!
Thanks Steve. Another well researched and presented vid. I look forward to the arrival of each new one.
Thank you for taking us with you on your travels mate, wish I could have seen more of the US in my travels over there! Cheers from Tasmania.
Thanks again for such an informative video. Keep up the great work!
Thanks again Steve for another Great historic look and video!
Great video! We own land very near this location, have wondered about the history of the area.
Very informative and enjoyable posting Steve (PS...have you gone to Mt. Diablo CA located by Danville, Walnut Creek and Concord? I've been to[d that on a clear day surveyors reaching its peak could see Mt. Shasta in northern CA??)
I've been up Mt. Diablo many times. You'd have to get pretty lucky. The air in the SF Bay is horrible considering how many cars and people are here. Also I think you can't see it directly as I'm pretty sure the curvature of the planet plays a role in that.
Hey Steve, thanks for all your great videos and congrats on getting 188k subscribers. Please consider doing a video in the high desert in Landers of the Integratron or the World’s biggest rock or both. Thanks Steve!
I did a video on that not that long ago. Here you go: ruclips.net/video/M5InKdKsKFg/видео.html
@@SidetrackAdventuresThanks Steve, you rock! Keep up the great work.
That is really sad history, but the views are definitely amazing.
Those rounded rocks tell us that the river, as you stated, was once far more extensive. 👍
Thanks for taking me on this fascinating journey!
Great one, Steve!
Keep up the good work Steve. So much history here in our area on the world
Steve I learn more from your videos than I ever had in school. Thank you for all of your hard work👊
Thanks, I really enjoy your videos and just subscribed! Have you ever done a post or video showing what equipment you use to film these? I think they are a cut above a lot of travel video I've seen.
I haven't done a video like that. I'm mainly just using a GoPro and a Drone at this point.
Another phenomenal video. Thank you, Steve!
Steve, since you brought up Beale and the Camel Corps, ya gotta do a video on 'Hi Jolly' - Haji Ali - and his grave in Quartzite, AZ. The man they brought from Syria to manage those camels. After the corps dissolved, he stayed ran freight out west. Those camels were supposedly released into the wild. Great story. Every time I pass through Quartzite, I stop and have a toast to Hi Jolly. I think you'd enjoy that one.
I think I saw a story not too long ago about people seeing camels running around as late as the early 1900s. It's pretty unlikely, but it would be pretty amazing if there was still a group out there somewhere.
Great video!
Some amazing history around that area that was supported by the unending water supply from the Colorado River. Thanks for sharing the video, Steve.
This is next level. I had no idea of any of this history- thank you! Glad you didn’t tumble down the hill or have to escape from any snakes!!
Your videos showed up in my algorithm a couple months ago and I love them. I live in Bullhead City now. Let me know if you're in the Mohave Valley again. Take care!
What a tragic storyline... from their creation story and a once mighty river to their ultimate humiliation and demise.
Thank you Steve for another great, and historically very interesting, adventure!
This is a great video I've been living in Bullhead city for the past three years and have done a lot of exploring but haven't been to the area you showed us that's pretty cool. I watched the show about Jebediah Smith and his first encounters with the Mojave Indians when he was the first American passing through. The spot where he crossed the river is over at Rotary Park and there's a sign that was put there. And then across from the Avi casino is the old Mojave Road which I think was the Mojave Indians Road and trading route to Los Angeles it's All pretty cool I plan to take my dirtbike up that way this winter and glad that 120 heat is over! Thanks again for a great video
How about a story about Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst (1812-1879), the legendary stage driver who is buried in Watsonville, CA? Great story and lots of info available for research. Would love to see your treatment of the topic.
I'll look into it. I have to get back up to that area. I haven't been around there in a few years.
Really well done. Very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing…!
Awesome ! Share more of those battles we don’t learn about in school
Great video Steve!! Love your adventures!!
Excellent! Thanks, Steve
You keep improving on perfection.
We really don't get much history of our area. Thanks Steve for your interesting and informative videos!
Great, as always. The landscape reminds me of the old Western movies . Very interesting video. Thanks
Another great video! Keep em' coming!
Love your take on south west history Steve - thanks & best regards from Australia.
Thank you. I have been through this area but missed most of the interesting points that you showed.
I have been to the figures in the ground and wondered why it was so high above the river. But as you said, land lower would periodically be under the river. So location makes sense.
All humans wonder about the past and so this area would have been important to the River People.
Thank you.
Thank you for this video!
Another great geography and history lesson from the teacher. It would be interesting to study their cultural stories if any remain.