Wild West Marathon #1

What is your favorite story of the wild west?

I'm a lover of the wild west watch it all day a long on tv or on Youtube I'm 92 yrs old Korea Veteran!

So nice to have someone who actually was there .And knows about those moments in time .And has been there you must have stories for years😂.

I grew up wit these stories abt all these people as told by my grandpa and my mom ..they would have loved this but my grandpa passed before 2000 and my mom in 2009 ..thanks for the vids and memories

My late wife and I bought an old house in Silver City, NM in 2002. Billy did spend a number of his teen years there, and got in with a bunch of other boys who liked to run around town pranking people. The theft that was mentioned was a bunch of sheets drying on a clothesline outside a Chinese laundry. The other boys got him to stuff the laundry under his bed but he was discovered by one of his parents. He was forced to go tell the sheriff who decided to scare Billy by locking him up in the local jail He was skinny enough to be able to shinny up the chimney and escape! The history of the property is very interesting, as it had once been the town cemetery. One of the bodies was Billy's mother, Mrs. Antrim. The man who first built the house had been looking for a good plot of land to build a new house. He rode past the cemetery and had the idea of offering to relocate the bodies to a new cemetery just outside of town, in exchange for the deed to the property. The town council agreed and that's how our house came into being. This man, a NY-born former US Army Colonel, also invested in a few gold and silver mines, ran a lumber yard, and eventually was voted into office as a Territorial Legislator, and surely knew Gov. Wallace (the film didn't mention that Wallace wrote the novel "Ben Hur"!

Old Henry is a must watch for Western and Billy The Kid fans

Love the wild west

I'm constantly amazed by the quality and creativity in your videos. You have a unique way of bringing music and images together.

My g+grandfather was a friend of Wild Bill Hickok, and Crazy Horse is my distant cousin, I am Lakota, and my grandfather, who was white, could have had his own story in these videos. He is mentioned in a couple of books, he was a cattle driver, a scout for general Crook, He was a witness to the Wounded Knee Massacre (where my other g+ great grandparents were massacred) a rancher, a law man, and a store owner. I love to watch videos about this period of American history because my ancestors definitely were in it and involved. I just want to visualize what life might have looked like for them.

Interesting and informative. Excellent reenactment scenes enabling viewers to better understand what/what the orator was describing. He made the right decision. Going to Fort Summner after escaping incarceration in Lincoln. Had he stayed 2 weeks/got well fed/well rested/ had “Old Man” maxwell give him a fresh mount/pack horse 🐎 supplies. He could have left the territory & started fresh. Lived a long healthy life.

I like the wild west ⬅️ & cowboy 🤠 history.

Billy the Kid's grave is still in Fort Sumner. It has a strong and high fence around it. The Lincoln County Courthouse, where Billy escaped from has been kept "as is" and can be seen in Lincoln New Mexico. Smokey the Bear, a bear cub found (in the 1950's) after a forest fire near Lincoln, has a museum in nearby Capitan. With that said, if you drive south out of Albuquerque, you will need to turn east on 380 in San Antonio New Mexico. Lincoln and Capitan are on this highway. You will also pass through White Sands Missile Range. Forget Area 51, this is where the real activity is. You can pull off of the road and watch the night sky for, let's say, unexplained things. Finally, Roswell, with it's UFO museum, is at the east end of 380.

A child robbed of a childhood has made himself immortal forever.

Tombstone was such a good movie

Billy the Kid story has a lot of stuff left out here. He wasn't just some bad egg who randomly turned to crime. How about the rancher that took him in? The Lincoln County War? The Fued? Territorial governor offering him a pardon to testify in court and then leaving him for dead? Lots of key components in the young man's story.

Me remembering a western movie where a old dusty rider comes out from the dessert and a car stop where the car driver ask, who are you and the rider answer, Billy The Kid. The car driver : but you died many decades ago. Billy The Kid : yeah, you know, people like to talk a lot. 😄

I always heard the name Billy the kid as just being a famous outlaw. Most recently I found d a TV series called Billy the kid and now I know the life story. Very intriguing piece of history !

I'm still living after nine decades because I'm a good guy even at The Korean War I was picked for propaganda radio broadcasting and also as disk jockey mobile broadcasting for United Nations at Seoul and Pusan 1951-53 !

Billy’s starting story sounds like the epilogue of red dead 😂 that’s wild

That all white bar that was long and narrow with seating in the back reminds me of A Clock Work Orange