Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull & the Wild West | History Traveler Episode 11
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- We made an unplanned stop outside of Denver at the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum and didn't regret it. TONS of cool stuff including the headdress of SITTING BULL!!! Lots to learn here.
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One of my uncles rode with Buffalo Bill in the Pony Express and my grandmother and aunt got to see his show when they were young. Because of that I've always had a fascination with his history. Thanks for sharing this I've been binge watching your channel.
Recently found your channel, and am bound and determined to watch each episode. This stuff is GOLD!
Awesome museum, thanks for giving us a tour! LoL, who would have thought that a person could learn history in men's restroom.
Tom Caldwell - Ha! Not sure if the women got the same education.
This is where I absorb most of my informative trivia knowledge
Hey JD, come on over to Cody, Wyoming and check out the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Museum if you want to see Buffalo Bill memorabilia. Cody also has the Irma Hotel which was owned by Bill and named after his daughter.
I would like that!
You should definitely check out the Buffalo Bill Cody center especially if you like guns. You should also check out I believe it's called Heart Mountain Japanese internment camp. Then you also have Yellowstone park not far away. The history center there is at Mammoth Hot springs.
Growing up in Evergreen we were told it was uncertain of if he was there or not, so I'm glad to know he 's here, it makes sense that he would want he broadness of the Great Plains at his grave, you get used to seeing distance in the West
Young Will Cody
Young Will Cody was born in 1846 into a middle-class family on the Iowa frontier. After moving to Kansas in the 1850s, the family was thrust into poverty by the violence that then was leading up to the Civil War. Will Cody’s father, Isaac, was a surveyor, a founder of towns, a real-estate investor and a locator of land claims. During a dispute at a political meeting, a pro-slavery sympathizer stabbed him. Isaac Cody never recovered entirely from his wounds and died three years later. Young Will, meanwhile, had to find work to help support his mother and sisters.
William F. Cody at the age of about 11 when, after the death of his father, he went to work carrying messages for Majors and Waddell in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory.
When he was just 11 years old he took a job carrying messages on horseback for the freighting firm of Majors and Russell. He rode from the company’s offices in the town of Leavenworth to the telegraph office at Fort Leavenworth, three miles away.
Majors and Russell soon became Russell, Majors and Waddell, the largest transportation company in the West, which owned stagecoaches, thousands of freight wagons and tens of thousands of horses, oxen and mules to pull them, as well as a network of stations, corrals and employees across the West. This was the company that started the Pony Express system in 1860. Because young Will had worked for them briefly when he was 11, it may not have seemed to him such a stretch later to claim he had in fact ridden for the Pony Express when he was 14.
Will Cody’s real teenage years were troubling, not thrilling. When Congress made Kansas a territory in 1854, lawmakers left it up to the people there to decide whether to allow slavery. Armed men poured in. Some supported slavery, some opposed it. Elections were often violent. For a time, “bleeding Kansas,” as it was called, had two territorial legislatures. One supported slavery, one opposed it and each claimed to be the legal, rightful lawmaking body of the territory.
During the late 1850s, Will Cody did take jobs driving horses and wagons to places as far away as Fort Laramie and Denver. During the 19 months of 1860 and 1861, when the Pony Express was a going concern, he was in school in Leavenworth. He could not have been riding back and forth across what’s now central Wyoming at the same time, on the Sweetwater Division of the Pony Express.
From WyoHistory.org.
As one can see Buffalo Bill did not ride for the Pony Express. There are school records in Leavenworth showing he was in Leavenworth Kansas when he supposedly riding in Wyoming. I did confront the Pony Express by asking if he rode for the Pony Express and they finally reluctantly confirmed there was no evidence he rode for the Pony Express. Bill was very creative in popularizing and exaggerating his early life to fit the "Buffalo Bill" legend.
Interesting I know my great uncle did ride for the Pony Express and I always assumed he might have known Buffalo Bill. He obviously didn't though thanks for this information.
Another excellent video.
The reason Buffalo Bill is buried on Lookout Mountain was financial. Bill was a great hunter and showman but not a good businessman. He made and lost several fortunes in his lifetime. When he died, Buffalo Bill was broke. The city of Denver offered to pay for his burial. Mrs. Cody had little choice but to accept Denver’s offer.
Other Buffalo Bill sites that would be good choices for future episodes would be the Buffalo Bill ranch near North Platte, Nebraska and Ft. Robinson near Crawford, Nebraska.
The best Buffalo Bill site is the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming. Talk about guns! One of the best museums in the US.
That headdress!!! A breathtaking piece of history!❤
Jemnifer Lee - 100% my favorite piece in that museum. I stood there for a long time looking at it. I even walked around for a bit and then came back to look at it again. Thanks for watching. If you’re into Native American history, I’ve got a few other videos on this channel that you might like.
@@TheHistoryUnderground I'm totally into it! Thank you so much for posting these videos because history is my favorite and I am enjoying them so much!
My Grandfather embalmed Buffalo Bill’s remains.
Return the Black Hills to the Lakota Nation!!! NATIVE INDEPENDENCE!!!
After the US returns the Black Hills to the Lakota, will the Lakota need to return it to the Cheyenne?
If you think that was good in Colorado, you definitely need to come to cody, Wyoming. The town Buffalo Bill founded. We have the Buffalo Bill historical center. It contains the largest gun collection in the world.
The artifacts of Sitting Bull are awesome. Having seen his section of the museum at Crazy Horse, he was a truly inspirational man. I feel privileged to have been able to see some of the areas that him and his tribe lived and hunted on. Some of the most beautiful land in the US was his home. The last 2 years my husband and I have vacationed in Hill City, SD. We have spent some of the best time of our marriage going to Crazy Horse, Rushmore and watching the Buffalo roam through the state park that the Needles Highway runs through. We are going back again this year but we will be staying in Spearfish instead of Hill City as I wanna really explore Deadwood, Dodge City's 1st cousin. We are also going to be stopping in Kansas to see friends so I am gonna make the hubs take me to Dodge City as well. I too, am a big fan of Wyatt Earp but having been born and raised in Arizona, that kinda goes without saying. Thank you for helping me plan my history vacation stop to Dodge City this summer.
I'm kind'a surprised that there were no photographs of Annie Oakley included in the "Wild West Show" section. I'm almost certain she toured with Buffalo Bill for a number of years.... but.... maybe I'm mistaken??? Hrmm -- I'm gonna hafta' look that up now otherwise I won't be able to sleep tonight, LOL.
LonesomeDoveCall - Let me know what you find out.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Well, as it turns out, I was correct. The following paragraph is taken from the Encyclopedia Brittanica's website:
"When she was 15 she won a shooting match in Cincinnati with Frank E. Butler, a vaudeville marksman. They were married (probably in 1876), and until 1885 they played vaudeville circuits and circuses as “Butler and Oakley” (she apparently took her professional name from a Cincinnati suburb). In April 1885, Annie Oakley, now under her husband’s management, joined “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West Show. Billed as “Miss Annie Oakley, the Peerless Lady Wing-Shot,” she was one of the show’s star attractions for 16 years, except for a brief period in 1887, when she was with the rival Pawnee Bill’s Frontier Exhibition."
Anyway, just thought I'd share that tidbit of information with y'all.
LonesomeDoveCall - Awesome! Thanks for digging that up. Always learning!
@@TheHistoryUnderground Ayuh! And your channel is AWESOME for exactly that reason. I am SO glad I found you. You've got some really interesting content here. Can't wait to watch more sooo.... keep'em coming!!!
I wouldn’t say they won the metal of honor more earned it
Completely misspoke there. Thanks for the clarification.
A historical marker above a urinal. Maybe it's just me, but that is taking multi-tasking way too far. LOL
Always learning.
Always.
Know I'm late to view this video and all of your content but you have covered a lot of American history that everyone should know. Just wondering if covering American frontiersman like crow killer, Jim bridger, hugh glass,and others?
I do some of my best learning in the bathroom 🚽 lol
Sig P365 - Ha! Let me tell you, filming that had me nervous. I was scared to death that someone was going to walk in and wonder what I was doing in the bathroom with a camera.
The History Underground I never thought 💭 about that lol but yeah I could see how that would be a issue 🤣
Love your content, Im a huge World War Two fan my Grandfather served in the Pacific and before my grandmother passed away she gave some of his bring homes Japanese silk flag flag with battle scars and a Japanese bayonet and some other stuff very cool, I also did Civil War reenactment for Company C 2nd Maryland who fought on Culps hill, pitched camp with them many times in pitzer woods very Erie there at night on the battlefield keep up the great content
Interesting! Hope to have some Pacific war content at some point.
@@TheHistoryUnderground that would great
Also well worth to see his museum in Cody, WY
One of my favorite bits of historical trivia is that Buffalo Bill's Wild West show essentially created modern combat loading, and were studied by Prussian Army officers as they traveled Europe between the Franco-Prussian War & WWI.🤓🤓
My grandfather saw Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a boy, when he came to England.
Bit late to the party, but I just happened to see this video and it has brought back fond memories from April '95 when I visited Lookout Mountain and Buffalo Bills grave together with a colleague during our 3 weeks tour through the United States. It definitely has been a highlight to visit his final resting place while one couldn't help thinking of times long gone by...always enjoy watching your videos. Greetings from Austria/Europe
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Buffalo Bill was born in Scott County Iowa. There's a homestead there with Buffalo
I'm catching up on videos of yours I haven't seen. Sometimes the unplanned stops can be some of the best! Loved the outro of what you learned in the restroom!
You need to visit North Platte Nebraska where Buffalo Bill has a ranch.
I'm catching up, but that was interesting about how rough riders got attributed to Teddy Roosevelt. The sailors attached to the TR are called rough riders as well. Thanks for all the great videos!
If your ever near LeClaire, Iowa, on highway 67 head to the homestead where he grew up. It is a beautiful home and has interesting artifacts!
Great museum!! I have been there but you have given it life once again . Western history is so wonderful 👍👍
Thanks! I really enjoyed it. Learned a lot while I was there.
Buffalo Bill was not in the Army and thus one of the few people to be awarded the Medal of Honor and not serve in the Military.
Buffalo Bill hated the term 'show'. He never used it in any advertising.
have you done on any thing on Wild Bill Hickock and have read those Dragoons would really blow a hole in someone
Very cool! Love how you can even learn interesting facts even in the bathroom lol 😄
Sitting Bull’s wife’s dress is decorated with elk ivory’s. With only two ivory’s per animal, that’s a lot of elk! Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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Never knew that buffalo bill had medal of Honor. Wow.
I was surprised about that as well.
He got it for murdering a Native America chief trying to negotiate a ceasefire
There is a Buffalo Bill museum in North Platte Nebraska too
My cousins are cody's , they still carry the name as it's survived
JD, their is a Bison farm here in Hobart Indiana that is still active
Love your channel and the many interesting places you visit. I became a subscriber today. May I suggest several other interesting spots for future episodes? The Buffalo Bill Center of the West (Guns, guns, guns), Cody, WY. The Oregon Trail Wagon Ruts, Guernsey, WY. Independence Rock, Alcova, WY.
Barry Monasmith - Thanks! Appreciate the kind words. I might actually be making it to a few of those spots this summer. Thanks for the heads up!
I love how you make us feel like we’re right there with you.
THE OLD WEST, WAS NEVER TAMED! IT'S JUST A NEW FRONTIER!
We were only about 4 years behind you. ❤
Ha! Barely missed each other. 😅
Thank you, yeah fascinating 😮
Thank you. Interesting.
What tribes traveled with him
Thank you!
You bet!
He had a ranch in Na
Awesome!!!
Thanks.
Good video, including the bathroom! Nothing on Annie Oakley?
They didn't have a whole lot there on Annie Oakley that I can remember. The little bit that I did film didn't turn out very good so I'll have to tackle her on another trip.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Thank you for the quick response. I just mentioned it because she is part of the Buffalo Bill story and her name popped up in my head. Mr. Cody had quiet a lot of celebrities back then working for him. Down the road, if you want for a story, one of my favorites is Ed McGivern from Montana if you ever get a chance. He is a personal idol...
concerned1313 - Thanks! I’ll check that out v
@@TheHistoryUnderground FYI, his book (Fast and Furious Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern) that he wrote back in 1938 is still in print.
Late o this channel so catching up and its great! I heard that he killed many more Bison than Buffalo and thus should have been called Bison Bill, is this true?
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That's amazing!!!!!
Great video loved it!
Great introductions and content!
Thanks! Appreciate that.