A Texas River Hiding 100 Million Years of History

A Texas River Hiding 100 Million Years of History - The San Gabriel

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4 ай бұрын

A short film about an otherwise quiet, understated river in central Texas and how it has shaped and impacted everything around it for millennia.
We often like to think that we are above and beyond the effects of even small rivers in the modern age, but in reality, we are still very much at their mercy.
We have a Patreon now! These videos take a long time and we can't do this full time (yet!) so if you want to help us not only continue to make these videos but also want to see more videos uploaded more frequently, than this is the best way to help!
Want physical prints of photos from each river/landscape/video? Want to have more input on where and what we shoot next?
/ dylanbures
#texas #texashistory #georgetown #georgetowntexas #austin

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@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Hey! We have a Patreon now! These videos take a long time and we can't do this full time (yet!) so if you want to help us not only continue to make these videos but also want to see more videos uploaded more frequently, than this is the best way to help! Want physical prints of photos from each river/landscape/video? Want to have more input on where and what we shoot next? Check out the link in the description!

@MrCIA312 2 ай бұрын

You should do San Jacinto in south east texas

@user-wf9id5qq3q 2 ай бұрын

Excellent! I lived in Georgetown from 1985 to 2013, and now live in San Saba. I have floated and kayaked in both forks of the San Gabriel and hunted between it and Willis Creek and fished on Granger and Georgetown Lakes. Really enjoyed your storytelling and history of the river! Takachue Pouetsu - Land of Good Water...... Water is Life!

@colby9023 2 ай бұрын

Dylan, this video is electric! The San Gabriel is one of Central Texas' great secrets. Cheers to you for shining a light on such a lovely thing.

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Stay tuned for more!

@DylanBures 4 ай бұрын

Let me know what river or part of Texas you'd love to see next!

@joshk.4096 2 ай бұрын

Would love to see a focus on the formation of the Highland Lakes and the larger history/importance of the LCRA to the region. Love your work!

@DOOMSDAYDC4L 2 ай бұрын

Medina/Bandera has some awesome stuff

@moretoknowshow1887 2 ай бұрын

I've always said the story of the Trinity is one that deserves a deeper look.

@bonesandbells 2 ай бұрын

The Lampasas River and Stillhouse Hollow Lake would be great. Have a small place there and it's a pretty stunning view and bridge on 3481/Stillhouse Lake Rd with the lake over full now. Lots of history from marine fossils, the Gault site, Maxdale Bridge, Hanna Springs, prohibition era liquor stills that the lake was named after, and the current water pipeline to Lake Georgetown.

@TexasGuy 2 ай бұрын

@DylanBures Checkout book “Goodbye to a River” by John Graves. Tells story of Brazos river, which had a major crossing in Waco for Chisholm Trail. Fantastic history.

@androdla 2 ай бұрын

As a first generation immigration to the US, who happen to live a few minutes away from this river, I found this video very interesting. I'm a huge history nerd so thank you for this. And now I have to find those dinosaur tracks to show my kid. Well really it's me who wants to see them. Great video and great channel, you have a new sub.

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Im glad you enjoyed it! The whole area by the Dinosaur Tracks is super nice! Your kids will love it. You can search Leander Dinosaur Tracks on google or apple maps and it should show up :)

@MrSwitchloose 4 ай бұрын

Loving the longer format and the drone shots especially!

@glynhorn2559 4 ай бұрын

Awesome river that a lot of people don't pay attention too or forget. Glad someone finally showcased it.

@DylanBures 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@kellyreilly7782 2 ай бұрын

Very nice video! It really makes you realize how important it is to these rivers clean from trash and chemicals considering we are made mostly of water.

@docneuro4500 4 ай бұрын

Really nice video. Beautifully shot. I’ve soent a lot of time exploring the San Gabriel, especially the South Fork near where I have family. I think it’s one of the prettiest rivers in the state. So much history too as you documented so well in this video. Nicely done!

@DylanBures 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Amazing river and super lucky to live next to it!

@moretoknowshow1887 2 ай бұрын

Born and raised here in TX and I still find fascinating stores about it, esp. the hill country. Excellent short film!

@8arrows 23 күн бұрын

Being a descendant of Natives that helped conquer the Texas hardships, before the Spanish and whites came. I assure you there is a lot of stuff you never ever got to learn about. Please Google Tonkawa P.O.W. Camp in Oklahoma. I almost wanna cry everytime I think about that camp. My family finally got leave it in 1980. I was 7 years old. I thought the P.O.W. Had something to do with pow wows. It wasn’t until I finally got to go to a city school in my 5th grade. Did I learn what a P.O.W. Is. In the 1940s America also interned Germans there too. My dad is Pawnee, but when the Tonkawa Comanche were interned at the P.O.W. Camp they threw in Pawnee, Shawnee, Cherokee too. All of which they captured along the San Gabriel, Pedernales, and Lower Colorado Rivers. They would frequent the river routes to migrate, and trade. To them we all were the same. They didn’t care about distinguishing each prisoners’ tribes. We finally got back down here to old Tonkawa lands in 1985. and bought property. Everytime someone shows me a arrowhead they found around here. I tell them. “I probably got my first kiss from the great great great great granddaughter, of the man who made that.”

@andrewspringer3565 2 ай бұрын

My grandmother grew up on the San Gabriel. She said when she was a kid they would fill up five gallon buckets of arrowheads.

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

My grandpa grew up in the flood plains of the Guadalupe near the coast and he said the same about many of the creeks there!

@liveatthegabriel 2 ай бұрын

We love this video! Our apartment community is located close to this river so we decided to learn more about it. Great editing, Dylan. 🛶

@ahycb 2 ай бұрын

Native Texan here, very well done video. You deserve way more subscribers with this quality of content. Keep on the grind, I have no doubt you will succeed through this medium.

@monkees4beatles 2 ай бұрын

Longtime Texas river lover here...just wanted to say thank you! Everything about your vid is on-target and very well done. Exvellent!!

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@dilliam1702 11 күн бұрын

This is awesome. More videos about Texas gems!

@solidaritymedia328 4 ай бұрын

The music fits so perfectly with the cuts. Great edit!

@DylanBures 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@robeplayer370 4 ай бұрын

Amazing video dude the quality is insane for a few hundred views, subbed and notifed cant wait to see any new texas content

@DylanBures 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! More coming soon!

@heyyourlenscapson2588 2 ай бұрын

Excellent story telling!

@Katysugg 2 ай бұрын

what a magnificent article of the historical impact/effect of our Texas rivers. Your presentation style is so accessible, please continue with your research and presentation/preservation of our Texas river history.

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Your kind words mean a lot! Thank you for the encouragement 😊 stay tuned for more videos coming!

@jamaicanjuice8684 2 ай бұрын

Crazy to hear about the storied history of a place I’ve lived for most of my life. Awesome video.

@Tyler_Daniels 2 ай бұрын

Born in Taylor, moved to Georgetown and never been more than 15 miles from the San Gabriel. Thank you for doing such an amazing piece on her. I have a deep connection with every place you visited. From the camp tejas at Georgetown, to the bridge on 366 (my grandpas friend used to own that house with the big satellite dish btw) it was really great to learn some things I didn’t know, and see these places again

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you connected with the video so well! It's a beautiful river that's understated and often overlooked and I'm glad that it's getting the respect it deserves! Thank you for the kind words! Stay tuned for more!

@mhfxfxr 2 ай бұрын

Well done! Thank you for fabulous images of this river and the history it has carved into all our lives.

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)

@salvadorvelasquez1755 2 ай бұрын

the beauty of your work does great justice to this river - thank you

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Thank you for watching and the kind words!

@thoyson2562 2 ай бұрын

This was pretty cool video !

@brianc6218 2 ай бұрын

I live near this river. I can walk to the dinosaur tracks. It’s a beautiful part of central Texas. Nice video.

@andrewchristensen6295 2 ай бұрын

Liberty Hill areas...both north and south, have found some nice points over the years.

@KevinTumlinson Ай бұрын

This is very well done. I live just a couple of miles from that spot where the river runs under 183. We built a house here three years ago, and I'm only just learning about a lot of the local history and points of interest. I did know about the dinosaur tracks, but haven't yet made it to that spot (though I learned I got pretty close on a hike once). Very good work. I'm a novelist, writing mostly archaeological thrillers, so this sort of in-depth look is very interesting to me.

@roberthastings708 2 ай бұрын

This is great! Thank you. How about one on the San Marcos River? Or the rivers that join the Little River.

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

The San Marcos is definitely on the list in the near future! Thank you for watching!

@hikingwithjackieboy 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@hikingwithjackieboy 2 ай бұрын

@@DylanBures you're welcome

@huntersettlemier4759 23 күн бұрын

I have a feeling I’m going to see you on Rogan one day. Good luck brother I loved your video on Sybiosis. Incredible work they’re doing. Keep it up.

@thexoftexas4267 2 ай бұрын

9:03 According to the map, the Worley Bridge is on County Road 428.

@DavidRodriguez-hg6kq 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful river and the springs that flow into it. Unfortunately, many springs are drying out because of man's use for drinking, ranching and farming. Jacob's Well a well known spring has zero flow because of over pumping the aquifer. Many rivers are contaminated by chemicals from man even though we have laws against doing that but no one to enforce them.

@DylanBures 4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately very true. Talking about the springs, water cycle, and other environmental impacts on the watersheds is definitely one of the videos we want to make! We love our rivers and springs and we want to help educate more people about why it's important to protect them

@PalmSandsRanch 2 ай бұрын

Great production, love the quality and content. I’d like to see the Nueces River and Guadalupe River. I would also like to see one done on the History of Fort Clark Springs which has Los Moras Spring and the second largest spring fed pool in Texas. It is also the most western end of the Edwards aquifer.

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I'll make some notes! Guadalupe is especially on the list as a lot of my family roots are in South East Texas in its flood plains but the bigger rivers may have to wait a bit! Will need some more time to do those rivers and their history justice!

@DerrickPerrin Ай бұрын

This is a lot of hard work. Your video looks nice. You got the title right, Story. A lot of guessing goes into coming up with a story. Keep up the good work.

@lavendersunday8712 2 ай бұрын

Great video

@ImNotHereToArgueFacts 2 ай бұрын

Rockdale/Thorndale here Gotta get out visit some of these crossings. Grandson loves dinosaurs Grew up on San Jacinto river not too far from that famous Texas battleground site.

@danielstarr9037 14 күн бұрын

My maternal grandpa’s family grew up in Burnet since the 1800s (Tow specifically)

@danielstarr9037 14 күн бұрын

Love the vid!

@TheChrisfleury1 2 ай бұрын

Wish you would have included the Liberty hill Water discharge ruining the southfork water just a mile or so downstream of the dino tracks.

@troygarza5720 2 ай бұрын

I use to swim this as a kid and played in the dinosaur tracks.

@franciscodanconia4324 14 күн бұрын

Good video, but one criticism. There was no San Gabriel river for the dinosaurs to be attracted to when those footprints were laid down. It would have been a coastal plain of the sea that covered much of central Texas

@allenbrooks9811 15 күн бұрын

The San Gabriel was a super place back in the 60's and 70's before it was despoiled by development. I guess I sound like the old guy that I am. It was much more accessible to the public back then. I was a bit surprised that the battle of the South San Gabriel wasn't mentioned. There are historical markers on both US 183 and TX 29 relating to those events, which occurred in May of 1839. On US 183, just north of Seward's Junction (The intersection of 183 and 29) was a historical marker about the battle, but has apparently been removed? I cannot find anything about it but I am sure it was once located there. However, just east of there on TX 29, Texas Historical Marker Number 9093, tells of the scalping of Manuel Flores, a participant in that battle. It doesn't mention the fact that he was actually scalped by the Texas Rangers! It simply states: In this vicinity, Manuel Flores, an emissary of the Mexican government, with a small group of men conveying ammunition to the Indians on the Lampasas River, was surprised by Rangers under Lieutenant J. O. Rice in May, 1839, and killed."

@DylanBures 14 күн бұрын

Hey there! Thanks for watching and commenting! We usually have to omit a fair amount of stuff for the sake of time and the platform. If we included everything we wanted these would be over an hour long and while I personally would love to make hour long films, we both have full time jobs so we have to condense our shooting into single days on the weekend (usually) and then factor in the editing of all that footage too. Unfortunately that means we leave some stuff out but my hope and goal is that these videos inspire people to do their own research and investigation into both the topic of the video but also the things around them as well. Additionally, awesome people like yourself will usually chime in with tid bits and factoids that we omitted or didn't include which helps tremendously!

@RobinLynnGriffith 2 ай бұрын

New sub here ❤

@glennfoster2423 2 ай бұрын

The railroad bridge is not a truss structure. It is a combination wood bent structure plus two steel deck girder on masonarry spans.

@DsHardWoodCreations 2 ай бұрын

Great video and narration. Im also in georgetown tx. Didnt know about the dinosaur tracks. Would like to take my grandson to them. Can u give me directions to them?

@DylanBures 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes I can! Right before HWY 183 hits 29 by Liberty Hill, it crosses the south fork of the San Gabriel. You can park under the hwy there and walk about a 1000 yds up the river and find them. There should be a location on Google and Apple maps too to help! Leander Dinosaur Tracks

@DsHardWoodCreations 2 ай бұрын

@@DylanBures thank you

@BigBadJohn 19 күн бұрын

The reason so much of this history is so difficult to find has a lot to do with the way modern people think. The Comanche Trail or Old Burnet Road dates from the 1840's the road that loosely follows the route of modern day 183 was the "High Road" and this area was once know as Bagdad and there was also Tumlinson’s Blockhouse Fort along this route. Today the Tumlinson's have a swimming pool business near that location. I told you all that to get you to understand that since the funds to build that bridge were probably local and private the records aren't going to be in the usual places. Old Burnet road was there in one form of another before Texas joined the Union. If you go to a County Map from 1946 is shows the railroad near there and lists the survey owners as John B. Robinson North of the river and Chas. Cochran South of the river with a William Mancil thrown in just in case I'm off a little. These are marked as Land patents on the map and a road map from 1958 shows that Bridge to be out in between there but a road map from 1936 shows that to be Hwy 29 and it says that it was gravel through that section. So that would have been the Texas 29 bridge over the South fork of the San Gabriel. It's likely that this crossing dates to around the same time Mankins crossing does near Georgetown.

@8arrows 23 күн бұрын

Those tribes have a name. There were 16 tribes that made up Comanchero. The tribe near San Gabriel was Tonkawa. They were forcibly removed and stuck inside the Tonkawa P.O.W. Camp. In Oklahoma. I know because I was raised there. We got to leave in 1980. And we returned back to Texas. We bought land, back on old Tonkawa lands. In the 1940s the Tonkawa P.O.W. Camp interned Germans. America didn’t just intern the Japanese. Look it up for more info.

@jeremiahsummers8054 2 ай бұрын

So strange that the river hasn't worn away the Dinosaur tracks. It took the Colorado River only 6 million years to create the Grand Canyon eroding some 5000 ft in some places, yet those tracks only a few inches deep that date to over 150 million years old are still there?

@clrbrk9108 Ай бұрын

The river has eroded through many layers of sedimentary rock before exposing the tracks. We’re just fortunate to be alive during the blip in time that they are present.

@jamespatterson2002 28 күн бұрын

the river is being destroyed especially the south fork by too much development in the watershed.

@8arrows 23 күн бұрын

He oughta know that. His neighborhood is new. And his accent is a giveaway. Doesn’t sound Texan to me.

@SpicyTexan64 2 ай бұрын

*Thousands of years.

@mond000 22 күн бұрын

The world is 6000 years old. Time is short, so stop believing the lies of man, and place faith in Gods only Son, Jesus Christ.

@rexjenkinssimracing 2 ай бұрын

how can it be 100 million years, when the earth is only around 10 thousands.

@codyrhodes1344 2 ай бұрын

That's just the youngest turtle that is that age, the turtles below that are much older.

@jeremiahsummers8054 2 ай бұрын

and how can those tracks still be there when it only took 6 million years to form the Grand Canyon, if the river is 150 million years old, you're telling me it didn't erode a few inches in millions of years when the Grand Canyon eroded thousands? What type of rock is that, you'd think it would be sandstone or something that was soft at some point. This makes no sense.

@clrbrk9108 Ай бұрын

@@jeremiahsummers8054 Oh you think this is some kind of gotcha? It’s pretty obvious that the river has eroded through many, many layers of sedimentary rock over thousands of years, layers that once covered the dinosaur tracks.

@jeremiahsummers8054 Ай бұрын

@@clrbrk9108 You seem sensitive, it was just a question and an observation. You know the stuff of science. I definitely gotcha to overreact lol regardless I considered your reply and it still doesn't make sense. Nice to know you think it was a gotcha.

@carlLackey-qk8sd 2 ай бұрын

Can you explain how we have 50' per million year of erosion per "science" but you want us to believe those track are 100 million years old. What a joke!!!!