Doc Scurlock: The Thinking Man's Outlaw

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Doc Scurlock: The Thinking Man's Outlaw

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Күн бұрын

Josiah "Doc" Scurlock was a poet, philosopher, intellectual, and hardened killer long before he ever met Billy the Kid. A mysterious past in Mexico, rumors of dead men from New Orleans to Texas, a penchant for vigilantism, and several close calls with the hostile Natives all made Doc a man to be both feared and respected. However, it was the trials he would face after the Lincoln County War that made Scurlock the man his family would remember. #wildwest #history #youngguns #oldwest
Also discussed: J.J. Dolan, John Riley, Billy Campbell, John Kinney & Jesse Evans.
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@jakemcintosh3782 11 ай бұрын

I live in granbury and have most of my life. This is the first time I'm ever hearing about doc scurlock living out here.

@johnchitwood8799 Ай бұрын

@@jakemcintosh3782 I always knew he lived in Eastland, the Young Guns movie was absolutely Hollywood crap lol

@davidadams1374 Жыл бұрын

This was very well done all the way through and then you knocked it right out of the park at the end with his letter to his daughter. Thank you.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir

@beorbeorian150 7 ай бұрын

Blown away at his words at the end there.

@jeffronimo7122 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone else go "Ya!" at the right time with the intro music? Don't worry Josh, Im gonna sponsor you as soon as I start up a business and make some good money. Or maybe I wont. But I always enjoy your show.

@stewartdalton3298 Жыл бұрын

Definitely. I always look forward to hearing from Josh. Great story teller.

@deelady53 11 ай бұрын

One take away from this. We should all keep journals because in 150 years someone, or more, will wonder what "the old days" were like.

@WildWestExtravaganza 11 ай бұрын

Yep

@tsar389 Жыл бұрын

I feel like doc scurlock reminds us that even in the face of suffering, death, pain, anguish, and hate. He chose love above all else, the love for his family and his kids. The love for the men he rode with, the love for knowledge and joy. It reminds us to choose happiness and joy over suffering and depression, it's certainly hard at times but doc lost a lot of people he loved. Yet he still continued on spreading joy

@tsar389 Жыл бұрын

And to Josh: the creator and host of Wild West extravaganza. I feel like you're someone who understands how doc felt in life, from what little you've said about growing up, it sounded hard. But now you got a family and kids to care about, you realize all that struggle and hardship made you the man you are today, a loving husband and father who has a loyal fanbase. I know times get hard but you gotta remember how scurlock was.😊

@knyfefyte1107 Жыл бұрын

Billy Campbell/Campbell Soup.🤣ya got me on that one, lolz. I was already looking it up too…. 😂

@Zionist_Eternal Жыл бұрын

Well done and deserving of at least a couple coffees. And the pix in the newsletter... What a treasure! Thank you, Sir.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@thegreenman7 Жыл бұрын

I've always been interested in the real history of Josiah Doc Scurlock. Excellent episode! Thanks for sharing!!!

@stevehudson7429 Жыл бұрын

"It's like an ass whisperer only louder"😂

@rialobran Жыл бұрын

Brilliant, the mix of humour and well researched history is a niche all your own. Keep it up young (ish) man

@nojustno1216 Жыл бұрын

Just started listening to this one. I know it’ll be good, so here’s a preemptive 👍

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@roosternm6830 Ай бұрын

This channel is great. I grew up in Tularosa and now live 13 miles south in Alamogordo. These stories are so interesting. Down here in the south end of the basin we also have Oliver Lee and Eugene Rhodes. Been all over their old ranches. I was lucky enough to be employed on Whitesands Missile Range and was able to walk around Rhodes Canyon and stand in Rhodes old house. New Mexico has an amazing history even if it's mostly gunfighter, criminals and such. Lol

@WildWestExtravaganza Ай бұрын

Very cool!

@chipmusick682 Жыл бұрын

Well, you knocked another one out of the park!!! Much thanks...so entertaining!!!

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thanks Chip

@dennisellis3322 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love hearing the tales of the surrounding cast of the Regulators. Thanks for this episode and looking forward to more about them!

@brettkastner7198 Жыл бұрын

You need to read, "Anything for Billy" by McMurtry.

@thejakefromstatefarm6768 Жыл бұрын

There are good people in Alabama. I know both of them well.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

@nodescriptionavailable3842 Жыл бұрын

An assayer analyzes your ore and tells how much gold/silver per ton of rock you can likely expect, basically. However, the definition of receiver has been updated lol Another great video!

@jimconnole6328 Жыл бұрын

Great work. Your presentations get better with every episode.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@CmdrMoosicvsLounge Жыл бұрын

Thanks for another "Gem". You always save me hrs of research on the somewhat obscure figures in western history while making it entertaining. 👍✌😎

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

My pleasure

@TEXAS.N8V 3 ай бұрын

Glad I found your channel. 🎉🎉🎉

@WildWestExtravaganza 3 ай бұрын

Me too!!

@davidstanworth5543 10 ай бұрын

Found you a few weeks ago and really appreciate all your hard work.

@WildWestExtravaganza 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Welcome aboard!

@rustleshackleford1553 Жыл бұрын

A life not usually covered.

@donscottvansandt4139 2 ай бұрын

Awesome story!

@WildWestExtravaganza 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@dennistate5953 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Josh. Praying for your consulting/podcast instruction enterprise!

@brucesherfield4272 Жыл бұрын

Great job as always. Thank you Josh

@michaelleblanc7283 Жыл бұрын

As always . . . great stuff. Time and circumstance make a man & his character what is is at any moment in time. You do good work bringing this out in the personalities you introduce us to as as we all take a trip in your excellent time machine

@terrioestreich4007 Жыл бұрын

Ass whisperer, so funny!! You have a great sense of humor, thanks for sharing your gifts!!

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thank you for listening

@jackgoodner6789 Жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable. Of all the Kid associates I think Doc is the most interesting and most likable.

@brendanmcdonnell7483 Жыл бұрын

We are all dirty little Billy bastards wanting to know what happened to his brothers in arms, and you give it to us in spades in great storytelling that listen to when I'm driving, thank you.

@bsweitzer3 Ай бұрын

Every episode is just great. Love Josh's story telling. It is fucking great. I laughed so hard during the Bass Reeves wrap up.

@Lunaaiscrazy 6 ай бұрын

I swear I have watched so many videos from you and I have learned so far is you hide some good written jokes in your story’s and you explain everything in detail but you bring it back to light

@jackcahill2383 9 күн бұрын

Thank you

@WildWestExtravaganza 9 күн бұрын

You're welcome, Jake

@stevefaulkner6689 7 ай бұрын

Love your show ,no ashes dust to dust from the earth and back to it

@onemoreturn Жыл бұрын

Poor Dock. That letter to his daughter was really moving.

@SpicyTexan64 10 ай бұрын

*Doc

@NrmnLV605 Жыл бұрын

You got me buddy!! I had the person picked out alrdy with whom i was going to drop that Cambells soup knowledge on. smh. I thght i had you all figured out. Guess not. thnx! Great show. im glad he lived so long.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Ha!

@troutbumgypsy9169 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic content!!!! More plz

@solomonsimpson5217 Жыл бұрын

😅"Thomas Edison you piece of shit" that was great

@guerrillapress7343 Жыл бұрын

Tradgedy can make or break us ❤ Great channel im addicted to it🏁

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@castoresnegros Жыл бұрын

Lol! Every time I you brings a new personality to your vids you have a almost a new chapter for a different personality. Love that.

@earlclue Жыл бұрын

as usual, excellent dude..your the bestest , keep'em coming

@JayBerry-rc1hw 6 ай бұрын

Love you're shows and your humor

@WildWestExtravaganza 6 ай бұрын

Gracias

@tomcat8849 Жыл бұрын

Doc is Buried in Eastland tx, behind the veterans memorial stone at the Eastland Cemetery. Found it some years back looking for some old graves of some relative's.

@j.t.lennon177 6 ай бұрын

Thank you- I am learning about something I didn't know about.

@timsain5959 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff! Just now ran across this you tube channel. I've got lazy and old and can't see as well anymore so I don't read much I listen to this kind of stuff. Keep up the good work!

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard Tim!

@whatsthedealwithdanny3913 Жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff as always. Can you imagine how much more we would know about Billy The Kid if Doc had taken an interview , or wrote on his time during the Lincoln County War. I think we would know a great deal more, if an intellectual like Doc would have told his story in a non bragging kind of way. But maybe that would tarnish the legend some . Maybe things are as they should be. Any other way would never capture our attention the way it does. who knows. I have visited Doc's grave in Eastland Texas. I did a shot of Crown , and left the shot glass there with him. He is also from Tallapoosa County Alabama, as you said. I currently live in Tallapoosa County . Please don't hold it against me either. I spent 5 years at Fort Hood Texas . So I get why Texans love being Texans. Anyway , great stuff.

@PopePhil-IIql7pj Жыл бұрын

Josh I did barely 20 sec of an internet search and found John Reilly makes movies with Will Ferrell. Not sure why you didn’t include that nugget. 😅

@austinknowlton1783 Жыл бұрын

Lol fucker you got me with the Campbell's soup bit. I'm well versed enough in old west history that I usually know when you are joking.

@bradpolegato4545 Жыл бұрын

Lol

@hernandotorres1234 Жыл бұрын

LOL, brilliant, if any of my history teachers had had even a glimmer of your delivery maybe I wouldn't have failed history 'o' level on Parliamentary reform 1832 and Penal Reform - Elizabeth Fry, although ....

@StevenMMan Жыл бұрын

Well it's for sure and certain ol Doc Scurlock bares little resemblance to Kiefer Southerland Mountain man

@albertboggs5262 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Love your storytelling!

@WildWestExtravaganza 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@albertboggs5262 3 ай бұрын

I heard many of your tales and even got my significant other hooked. Great job my pal! Looking forward to binging on all the episodes I have heard yet. So appreciated, so thankful, so blessed! How is that little darling of yours?

@travishendrix7026 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting man. Never knew anything of him. Now I do. Many thanks.

@Ty-py7hi Жыл бұрын

I don’t know a lot about him, but I’ve always been fascinated by him I think you would be fascinated by Logan of Montana

@TheWartHawg Жыл бұрын

"An ass whisperer, only louder." Got an audible chuckle out of that.

@jayledermann7701 7 ай бұрын

Like you , I look into western events to try and find out truth even if my hero looks more....human. I would love for you to do one on Custer. I know he wasn't a cowboy per say , but I would love to hear your take on him. I have found him to be more hero than villain and more brave than reckless. Just a thought.

@WildWestExtravaganza 7 ай бұрын

Definitely doing a series on Custer in the future

@rodneybender6865 9 ай бұрын

Interesting content very well done. So Doc was a real doctor.,.. well almost 👍

@snappers_antique_firearms Жыл бұрын

Thanks for helping me stay entertained while reloading some 38 Colt

@elijahn.grisham4017 11 ай бұрын

This episode should be called everbody else but doc

@jamesnobilio6247 6 ай бұрын

Great shit

@WildWestExtravaganza 6 ай бұрын

Thank you

@Fifthsunrising Ай бұрын

Idk why but I wanted the Campbell soup thing to be true. Awesome video!

@ritamarie4453 10 ай бұрын

Assayer = A person that can identify precious metal and it's value.

@WildWestExtravaganza 10 ай бұрын

Are you sure?

@ritamarie4453 10 ай бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza Googled that. That's what I always understood growing up long long ago in a Galaxy far far away. Haha 😄 . I googled to make sure. Always willing to learn . I try to b 'deliberate', just like Wyatt

@williamemerson1799 Жыл бұрын

Good show....aside from the child loss. You and Bob Boze Bell. 👍🍻

@broderickwallis25 6 ай бұрын

And yes, i was just joshin' about the Cambells tomato soup.😅😂🤣

@BenSHammonds Жыл бұрын

blather on brother, blather on :) that about Jess Evans being from over here near the Texarkana area is also in Noble Burns book, as said he was an Evans but raised by a Davis family, and coincidentally enough in the small community here I grew up in, which is about 30 miles west of Texarkana, or T-town as we call it :P, there are both Evans and Davis families in the area, even know some from one that married into the other family lol so could be true about Jess , also BTW, there are Scurlocks on area too lol It is kinda funny that Doc once lived at Maybank TX, that is just down the road from Canton TX where Brushy Bill lived and where his parents are buried lol

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Small world!

@BenSHammonds Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza aint it, and its round too lol :P

@mistyjames810 Жыл бұрын

Good 1 as usual Josh! 👍👍👍👍🤠

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Gracias

@donc9751 Жыл бұрын

OMG LMFAO😅😅😅 at an "essayer is like an eswhisperer (ass-whisper however you want to say it) only louder"!!! You come up with some classic stuff omg!!!! Thanks for the laugh!!!

@asullivan4047 Жыл бұрын

Interesting and informative.

@scottwise4800 Жыл бұрын

I think Doc was the most interesting of all the Regulators.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

He was very interesting! Got some more interesting characters next week.

@troutbumgypsy9169 Жыл бұрын

Hey.. I’m from Alabama! It’s ok.. by all means.. hold that against me! 😂

@Jameslfgsmith 3 ай бұрын

Doc had hell a case of cauliflower ear… You know he ain’t gonna just stand there and 🩸 . He definitely skinned them smoke wagons

@silverwave2238 Жыл бұрын

Doc had all the info on Billy and the LCW he would have been a wild wests historians dream !, Pity he never did an interview or write down his biography

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

I don't think people cared. Billy's own brother lived till 1930. One reporter literally said "who cares". It's crazy how much info we lost.

@user-qh9cz5xo7jkeithkucera Ай бұрын

Found it in an encyclopedia Jesse Evans changed his name from Jesse James cause of the notoriety of the name

@DouglasRose-nf5ve 10 ай бұрын

Informative and much appreciated

@WildWestExtravaganza 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@abrahammorrison6374 7 ай бұрын

John Grisham went to University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) on a law degree. He went to courts to listen about cases.

@dannysimmons3167 Жыл бұрын

I thought you were going to say Jessie changed his name to Bob and started a restaurant chain

@allenlanphear47 Жыл бұрын

An Assayer tests minerals for identification purposes.

@xazylsclubhouse Жыл бұрын

I'm new but I have started binge watching a lot of your videos. Now I've hit that Subscribe and like button like it was hackin on me 🤠

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah!

@paddydunne774 Жыл бұрын

Josh. I only found your podcast after one the algo-rhythms chased me down and forced me into a gulch and gave me choice of going back to the beginning and episode I of the pods. Or a whipping with a lasso. Obviously i chose épisode 1. Season 1. But it just couldn’t help myself and listen to the most recent offering. Love your work. Admire your progression as a storyteller. But the way you humanise with humour makes it. Rookie question. Where is the intro/ outro music from? And is it you giving it the big Yee-Haw? Best wishes from West Cork in Ireland 🇮🇪

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Hello Paddy! No need to start from the beginning, just pick and choose sir! The intro music is something I licensed from a website called Audiojungle and yes, that's me yelling

@bubblytoes70 11 ай бұрын

Educational and hilarious.. thanks

@WildWestExtravaganza 11 ай бұрын

Thank you

@charlesbrowngodhelpmeimiss4907 Жыл бұрын

My friend. In another life

@abrahammorrison6374 Жыл бұрын

Do a video on Tom Horn.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Will do

@robertalpy 11 ай бұрын

Im impressed rhat the theosophical society accepted Scurlock. He must have submitted an original idea or written work that impressed them enough to overlook his lawmess youth. No wonder he refused interviews about his time with the kid. He had alot to lose by digging up those old stories.

@elijahn.grisham4017 11 ай бұрын

So you’re halfway thru and not a word about doc yet

@thecrankyyankee5114 4 ай бұрын

He did state near the beginning to skip to the 21 minute mark for that.

@justinmas299 3 ай бұрын

You don't listen 4 shit big mouth, might work on that

@plymouthduster225 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting video as always Josh. Just curious have you read George Coe's autobiography Frontier Fighter? I was curious about it. Doc Scurlock lived a long and interesting life sadly marked by quite a bit of tragedy also. Wonder if Charlie Bowdre's wife went with them to Texas seeing how she was Doc's sister in law.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Just parts of it

@pyrobob208 Жыл бұрын

You bloody tosser Josh! You sucked me right in with the Campbell soup story. Apart from that, g'day from Australia. Love your stories and the way you tell them - history with an occasional laugh.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

G'day mate

@mikestewart1915 Жыл бұрын

What was the one last job Doc did with BTK to get a grub stake??

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

If I'm not mistaken it was to help drive a passel of Chisum's horses to the Texas panhandle

@ericsedillo7216 Жыл бұрын

💯 Josh!

@blanchesplace 10 ай бұрын

I work at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. What was Riley date of death?

@WildWestExtravaganza 10 ай бұрын

10 Feb 1916 according to findagrave. Says he was buried at Mt Olivet cemetery in Wheat Ridge

@blanchesplace 10 ай бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza thank you.....we also have an r.w. McCarty who is supposed to be a cousin to Billy

@KeithLuttrell-fj7tu 2 күн бұрын

Billy rode with Doc, Doc was the leader after Brewer until he left after the big standoff in town.

@WildWestExtravaganza Күн бұрын

Thanks for the info

@JWheeler331 Жыл бұрын

Another wonderful episode. I usually listen on spotify but thought I would comment here and say excellent job as always.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir

@mudcatz3564 Жыл бұрын

Great entry! I gotta say tho, with ears like that, if he'd have turned the wrong way the wind would have blown him off his horse...

@keepinganopenmind8216 Ай бұрын

Many ole cowboys had colorful reputations ...due to newspapers needed good reading material to sell papers.

@garrethrathjens9991 4 ай бұрын

You have anything on Joaquin Murrieta?...

@WildWestExtravaganza 4 ай бұрын

I do.

@bluebeard6189 10 ай бұрын

God damn this is the most entertaining channel on KZfaq well except for girls trying on lingerie but you know

@WildWestExtravaganza 10 ай бұрын

Haha thanks

@dennistate5953 Жыл бұрын

Young feller ewe iz A credit to yo razin. Raze on chillern i wit cha!

@iananderson1901 Жыл бұрын

Great one. There's two kinds of people in this world you are either billy the kid and people are pulling jobs with you or you're pulling jobs with billy the damn kid

@snellsworld2648 10 ай бұрын

That guy looks like Kurt Russell.

@jacobballinger7208 Жыл бұрын

The clap... Lmfao 😆.. love your shit man

@broderickwallis25 6 ай бұрын

Historially though, in the early westerns, Cambells tomato soup w as the prefered substance used as fake blood !!!!

@WildWestExtravaganza 6 ай бұрын

@williamhurt8512 Жыл бұрын

just a question before i start, have you seen and heard the video from "chronicles of time" about wyatt earps saloon in tombestone???....... if so then pardon me for reminding, if not then check it out for some good laughs and keep some alka-seltzer handy, you might need it...............................................