My great grandparents were given land in Northern British Columbia during the Yukon Gold Rush in the early 1890s, they were from California (They migrated there from Texas via New York City from Ireland via Wales where they were forced to leave in the late 1790s because of Black Bart Roberts, a family member who was also a scum-sucking, murderous pirate). They were also offered citizenship due to having trade skills, they helped build the town of Dawson Creek where my grandpa was born in 1928, the 13th of 13 kids. My grandpa's sister Yvonne had albums full of old pics and a few were of some of my family in the town's first saloon, it was basically plywood over an alley or alcove between two houses, food and drinks were served from a kitchen in the back of one of the buildings. There were a couple tables and chairs crammed in, a metal woodstove but no front or back walls, big enough for maybe 10 people if a couple didn't mind standing while they drank. A sign on one of the houses said you could also get a hot bath, homecooked meal and rent a room for the night for $1, which is equal to about $35 in 2024.
@edwardschmitt57105 ай бұрын
Cool Dawson's Creek was a great show!!!! Can't believe your family was like the characters on that!
@ll78685 ай бұрын
@@edwardschmitt5710 The show was set in the 1990s, my grandpa's dad was around 10-12 when the family became Canadian citizens in the mid 1890s. That would have made them my great-great grandparents, two greats, I only used one great, oops. I never watched the show but wasn't the name of the town Cliffside or something?
@beastman10835 ай бұрын
Wow! What a family history...! Super Awesome!
@ll78685 ай бұрын
@@beastman1083 Would have been nice if they discovered some gold up there. My grandpa grew up like the tv show The Waltons, he was like the Elizabeth Walton of his family but the Roberts clan had twice as many kids in a house roughly the same size as the one on tv, ran a carpentry business and had a mule the youngest kids rode to school on and they struggled financially just like the Waltons too.
@mrmj23975 ай бұрын
Sooooo... your Great Grandparents were 100 years old in 1890's then? Were given land AND were relatives of the Captn Black Bart?? WOW! Considering the life expectancy wasn't much over 50-60 yrs your story is almost unbelievable. Unless, you just made up a bunch of Irish lore that your family told you. I'd tale a closer look? A lot of families tell stories to their kids ... just sayin'
@tonyt2279 ай бұрын
I was told by a history buff that the majority of alcoholic drinks in early saloons were actually flavored drinks, sweet and fruity , shots of whiskey weren’t the only or most popular option.
@aeh51593 ай бұрын
Sarsaparilla
@adrianocollinzo57122 ай бұрын
Sunset?
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@glennso4724 күн бұрын
Sarsaparilla was a popular soft drink in the early west.
@glennso4724 күн бұрын
I used to know a guy who had a drink called Everclear that was nearly 100% alcohol. You could pour some into a dish and set a match to it and it would ignite with a blue flame similar to a gas range.
@asullivan4047 Жыл бұрын
Interesting and informative. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Special thanks to the salon owners/customers making this documentary possible
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@marvwatkins70296 ай бұрын
The guy at the table with shirtsleeves and the long beard sure does look authentic with this HUGE WRISTWATCH!
@rudraigh6 ай бұрын
Pardon me but your ignorance is showing. Wristwatches date back to the 16th century.
@alanwbelcher6 ай бұрын
Or the Mac laptop and the stereo radio on the bar.
@captainamerica65256 ай бұрын
Time Traveler!
@007ElSenor6 ай бұрын
And he was holding 6 cards, and discarded 3.
@007ElSenor6 ай бұрын
Or the chrome squared metal frame chair.
@tinaann33233 ай бұрын
I was surprised at how small Wild West saloons are. Like the bird cage for example. So small!
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@jonmacdonald534526 күн бұрын
@albertdeleon6272 So they are the ones that should be paying reparations correct? SPAIN OWES BIG MONEY...
@markoliver6305 ай бұрын
One of Our towns (Prescott AZ) bars The Palace burnt down. During the fire the patrons dragged the actual bar out of the building and across the street to the park. They set up the bar and continued to drink while the whole block burned down. Where do we now set off the towns fireworks ? Of course off of the roof of the rebuilt Palace Saloon. As soon as I learned that story I knew I was in the right place.
@footprintsofthefrontier5 ай бұрын
An incredible story! Thanks for sharing, Mark.
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@markoliver630Ай бұрын
@@albertdeleon6272 Tell that to the Apaches.
@collinator686 ай бұрын
Can you imagine waking up in a saloon on a Sunday morning back then, hung over, and you just see a bunch of old ladies and a precher looking at you with a concerned look lol.
@user-oe6wq7pu8d5 ай бұрын
Either they wouldn't set foot in the bar or they would bodily haul your hung over butter and plunk you down in the first pew to be forced to listen to a over long preaching at the top of the lungs of the entire congregation. ( and yes the exits would be barred by bodies even to the outhouse)
@NotJoe1015 ай бұрын
Still happens to me!
@ddh2o7595 ай бұрын
Kristofferson knew that feeling.
@SpicyTexan644 ай бұрын
@@user-oe6wq7pu8dthat's just complete fiction.
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@jojobaker1764 Жыл бұрын
What always gets me about Hollywood westerns is how beautiful the women are and how well kept they were in westerns .. in reality that's absolutely BS. ..
@markwolfshohl65626 ай бұрын
No shit, genius
@jojobaker17646 ай бұрын
@@markwolfshohl6562 having bad day or are you always just an A** H***
@ajg51386 ай бұрын
Nothing like a dog faced prostitute from 1887 after a few cups of gut rot whisky.
@cmbaileytstc6 ай бұрын
Well son, a movie has to use a beautiful actress to play a saloon girl, so that she’ll look as good to you as a real saloon girl looked to a cowboy who’d been out on the range for months.
@cameronolson926 ай бұрын
Bess streeter Aldrich wrote a lantern in her hand about women who went against the rough & nasty stereotype
@erictroxell7156 ай бұрын
As a history teacher i must say you did a great job. The only thing I feel you missed was explaining that everyone drank alcohol cause water was so dangerous at tge time. No big deal but i always found students were fascinated with this fact. Great job explaining the truth about the buildings as well.
@Gertieness6 ай бұрын
I guess there was also a lot of low alcohol content beer and wine back then for that reason
@erictroxell7155 ай бұрын
@@Gertieness yes indeed. At same time also very dangerous due to having no clue how much alcohol was in the drink or any of the other chemicals people exchanged in the drink to make more money
@mrmj23975 ай бұрын
Great point to mention there. Thank you, I always liked most of my history teachers. Most of em anyway, there were disagreements with some for sure! Lol The blessing and the curse of monks and friars, fermenting fruit and grain was truly a distinctive turning point and/or downfall, for many civilizations.
@NYSteve3 ай бұрын
@@erictroxell715 and how much of whatever else; i read tobacco juice was added for some 'flavor' , too (lol maybe i 'read' it here a previous time)
@jackhowland37373 ай бұрын
Throughout History the movers and shakers and decision makers were half in the bag.
@dancliffton25965 ай бұрын
i just love that you can go to one spot and get a beer, get a meal, get a room for the night, get a new job or even vote for your new mayor lmao
@davesnothereman72506 ай бұрын
I think we can all agree that hard liquor and handguns are the perfect combination.
@billolsen43606 ай бұрын
I can't aim for shit if I've been drinking.
@DennisMHenderson5 ай бұрын
Ever since dead-eye was invented, it’s been all about charming banter because it’s a given that anyone IS going to be shot at least once per sitting
@christopherwallace80005 ай бұрын
and something is mentally wrong with your way of thinking.
@NoNameNoFace-rr7li5 ай бұрын
atf should be the name of a convenience market
@stevengatti72615 ай бұрын
Still works in the US today! 😅
@pranksterguy13 ай бұрын
I've read that a reporter asked Wyatt Earp why town meetings in Tombstone seemed to be held in saloons. Wyatt replied "there weren't alot of YMCA's in Tombstone at that time".
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@jeffaltier5582 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. This was an excellent video. It was good to hear the real history instead of the fiction we see in movies.
@BlairAir5 ай бұрын
The 3 legged dog limps up to the saloon, and slams open the batwing doors, growling: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw! Thats okay. I'll show myself out.
@ChatGPT11115 ай бұрын
Was his name Tripod?
@BlairAir5 ай бұрын
@ChatGPT1111 You knew Stumpy McTripod?
@chrishall88033 ай бұрын
😂😂
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@SongJLikesАй бұрын
I love my home. I’ve worked hard to own and maintain it. …and I LOVE imagining how awesome my amenities would have been to a weary traveler in this time period… heck, to ANYONE living out west in those times. We live in a wonderful age. We need to truly begin to appreciate what we have, and start taking advantage of it in a very positive way.
@SteffiReitsch6 ай бұрын
If some dude came into one of these real places dressed up like Roy Rogers or some other 20th century tv/movie cowboy dude, he'd have been stared and laughed at unmercifully. They wouldn't know what to make of it.
@bostonrailfan24276 ай бұрын
…just like Marty McFly in Back to the Future 3 was
@OgamiItto702 ай бұрын
They might assume he was one of those fellers that's attracted to other men.
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@ewmhop Жыл бұрын
GREAT VIDEO SIR,IN THE LATE 50S SOME PARTS OF THE LITTLE SOUTHERN TOWN WHERE I GREW UP ,HAD A FEW PLACES LIKE THE LATER SALOONS IN YOUR VIDEO.THEY WERE FULL OF OLD MEN DRINKING TO TIMES LONG GONE.TAKE CARE
@Donathon-qx8kq6 ай бұрын
Trust me... here in Texas...in 2024... that's still happening... just a different generation
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@rockymountainlifeprospecti44235 ай бұрын
We have our homestead in a ghost town of Freeland CO, 9400ft in altitude,was just a simple mining town, however mining in better climate was found, we quickly faded away, except for a few of us, and we all mainly have animal rescues of sorts. We actually got the woodstove from the old saloon/general store.. thanks for the video and taking some of the Hollywood out of our history, here in the wild west, and I assure you, it definitely was rough up here and by rougher folks,alot of unmarked graves up in the mountains. All the best .
@footprintsofthefrontier5 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your story! We love hearing from folks who still live on the frontier even into the modern age. It's like living amongst fossilized memories.
@rockymountainlifeprospecti44235 ай бұрын
@@footprintsofthefrontier absolutely is, I'm surrounded by old mines dug by hand, in the craziest terrain. We are completely self sufficient with solar and wind power, back up generators of course. But you can always feel the presence at night looking across the snow valleys and the old workings, just shadows of the past. Thanks again
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@rockymountainlifeprospecti4423Ай бұрын
@albertdeleon6272 actually have a Spanish mule/horse drawn gold ore crushing wheel, one day make a video with the mules we have coming in next year.
@BamaFanUSMC Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the videos buddy, learned a lot that I didn't know or was misinformed about!! Keep up the great work
@footprintsofthefrontier Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind remarks! Stay tuned, we've got plenty more coming.
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@chadsimmons63476 ай бұрын
While digging a plumbing ditch behind where an old Missouri Saloon stood, i found pieces of burnt wood, small burlap & leather bags bags, bits of dried veggies, many bones of cattle, pigs, chickens, bear? Yes builder sent them to local university. Seems like the drinkers built a cook-fire behind the old bar.If you added a bit of groceries to the "stew-pot" you didn't leave half drunk & starving for a bite to eat.
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@WiseGuy56745 ай бұрын
HBO’s ‘Deadwood’ is a good representation. ‘The Gem Saloon’ operated by Albert Swearengen was accurately portrayed for the year of 1876.😎
@martinschulz93816 ай бұрын
Funny, Hollywood movies are never accurate history lessons, but more than any other historical movies, we all love to pick apart western movies and shows. A lot of trumped up wild west mythology also originally came from east coast authors who never set foot in the west. Good video.
@billolsen43606 ай бұрын
And the saloon girls were just cocktail waitresses saving up enough money to provide a dowry to the church so they could enter the local convent.
@Teddy319765 ай бұрын
They are not supposed to be accurate. They are supposed to be entertaining 😊
@TheBladepolisher5 ай бұрын
Really well done ! ! Very informative. Thank you.
@footprintsofthefrontier5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
The Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@albertdeleon6272Ай бұрын
@@footprintsofthefrontierThe Spanish settlers were the first in the new world America 🌎
@iamrichrocker6 ай бұрын
Josey Wales came close to depiction of a drinking establishment
@knighttuttrupriprock97336 ай бұрын
Very interesting, enjoyed that, subscribed.
@footprintsofthefrontier6 ай бұрын
We appreciate it! Welcome aboard.
@chrislong39386 ай бұрын
I've been to Bodie, California a couple of times and the saloon there is awesome! The cues are still on the pool table! I also live in Longmont, Colorado, now where we have the Dickens Opera House which was built in 1881 for (I think) the cousin of Charles Dickens. It too has an awesome bar but has been renovated many times over the years with the exception of the main structure and the bar itself. Lots of ghost stories about that place!
@charlespeterson3483 ай бұрын
Remember hurricane Charley's? It was a converted church
@chrislong39383 ай бұрын
@@charlespeterson348 The crank capital of Boulder County? It sure was...!
@robvangessel37665 ай бұрын
"Overall. exciting events." I dunno. It was the dime novels that glamorized the West starting in the 1850s. They used a few rare moments to make it all seem like they happened all the time. But my impression from reading is that saloons were mostly routine escapes for smelly cowfolk and visitors passing through. As routine as it would be today.
@zoftigbeatnik Жыл бұрын
I would never have drank the whiskey back then. Saloon owners would dilute it with turpentine or embalming fluid. That's why they called it Tarantula Juice, Rotgut or Coffin Varnish.
@user-oi6ln4eq7b6 ай бұрын
So, one would expect that the local undertaker was kept very busy? And likely had a deal with the saloon owner?
@BoatsAndHos895 ай бұрын
You woulda been too dumb to know 😂
@seanalvarez7113 Жыл бұрын
Another deep dive on the history of our nation. I enjoy your content greatly 💪
@KidFresh716 ай бұрын
Nice and informative video.
@JohnRinNoHo6 ай бұрын
@ 11:30, is that guy wearing sunglasses? @12:04, 6-year having a drink.
@theSword-5 ай бұрын
I was in a very small town once,(I won't say where), and there is still an operative old west saloon there. Un believable. It still had a wooden floor that had walking areas worn into it.
@scrapykat30285 ай бұрын
I was always surprised by how small they were!
@DBCooper825 ай бұрын
Thats what she said
@markissboi35836 ай бұрын
good documentary some like yourself put a lot time into these & it shows
@footprintsofthefrontier6 ай бұрын
Thank you! We really appreciate those sentiments.
@ARGONUAT4 ай бұрын
The ghost of Aeneas Coffey just smiles…
@paulaharrisbaca48516 ай бұрын
Little Big Man (the film) has my favorite movie saloon scenes. The book also features the original type of frontier saloon, a tent or awning with a stove and a big barrel of rotgut or fire water for the "Injuns" or indigenous peoples, also for the poorer people, and in the mining areas they had some bottled likker fer them as could pay fer it.
@kevinoconnor95484 ай бұрын
I often wonder about the troubadours and the traveling piano players that kept the music going in the saloons. I'm sure there were hundreds of unknown players with thousands of great unknown songs that were never recorded. I'm sure blues was plays before the civil war all the early music in this country the folk music and rock and blues came from the Scott Irish people.
@GA-Vic12 күн бұрын
Great video,keep up the good work!😉👍
@erickort198722 сағат бұрын
i just love it how guys belly up to the bar and order a single bottle of whisky and a shot glass
@catherineaiello7136 Жыл бұрын
Very good video. Thanks.
@kevinsysyn4487 Жыл бұрын
No bar stools. Bars are the height they are cuz they were for standing. Furniture was pretty rare on the frontier.
@tedecker37926 ай бұрын
The last time I was in a bar without bar stools was in Montana in the 1989s. It was obviously a rough place, with a row of passed out customers along one wall. I asked the bartender why there were no seats, and he said it was because patrons just threw them at each other. Another bar, this time in South Dakota, had bar stools made from large Cottonwood logs with old metal tractor seats nailed to them. Can’t throw them if you can’t pick them up!
@bostonrailfan24276 ай бұрын
@@tedecker3792both cheap and ingenious!
@billolsen43606 ай бұрын
Plus, every Saturday night, the cowboys in the saloons were breaking balsawood chairs over each others' heads!
@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid4 ай бұрын
@@tedecker3792 LOL! 😆 I got a hearty laugh outta that story.
@HighSpeedNoDrag5 ай бұрын
Outstanding presentation and Thanks.
@user-pq5hq6rd2j18 күн бұрын
Fun fact- lager was never popular in the uk pre refrigeration as it was not on tap and cooled but sat behind the bar in bottles. Considering a pub would have a fire or enough patrons to warm the room/s in winter and would be hot enough in summer this alway meant the lager would be at room temperature . Ale and beer was ok at room temperature. Also lager in uk was at about 80% alcohol volume of what it would be in its country of origin from mainland Europe. Cant remember reason.
@footprintsofthefrontier18 күн бұрын
A tidbit that definitely puts the fun in fun fact, thank you for sharing!
@tonyclifton2656 ай бұрын
drinks with names like "tanglefoot and tarantula juice" lol there is even a beer called "tanglefoot" today on tap in english pubs. pretty good it is too. i'd have been well happy with that in the old west
@philnewcomers91706 ай бұрын
jack london describes Johnny Hieneholds Last Chance Saloon in one of his books .This was on Oakland waterfront ,interesting eha! ttfn&ty
@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.5 ай бұрын
It’s still there.
@Metal-Detecting-NC6 ай бұрын
Excellent history lesson
@CharliRay5 ай бұрын
My grandparents and parents owned bars in the 50-69-79-80-90-2k0 years and I own one now there’s been 16 shootings 4 murders countless fights and stabbings robbery and my grandpa got shot and shot the man trying to rob him the man lost his life but my grandpa was never the same after he was shot in his stomach and it ruined his insides he even died of infection nearly 25 years after the shooting but his stomach required permanent care and routine surgery’s I hated seeing him suffer like that . My parents were robbed once and they just gave them the money and they left swiftly my bar is very upscale and I take precautions to prevent being robbed so you can’t just walk in my bar you have to be be dressed properly and there’s a cover charge on weekend nights I’ve never even had a fight beyond a shouting match and a punch thrown the main issue I have is dine and dashers they order expensive food and drinks and try to leave without paying . I always catch them and give them the option to pay up or go to jail.
@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul2 ай бұрын
Good post. You know what you're talking about.
@bobs1825 ай бұрын
Outlawing alcohol worked out really well. Also, we stopped drug use by outlawing it.
@charlynegezze85366 ай бұрын
Wyatt Earp died in 1925. "The Old West" isn´t so old.
@ChatGPT11115 ай бұрын
Have you been on a NYC subway lately?
@christhomas61253 ай бұрын
1929 actually
@ROOTEDINHELL9 күн бұрын
In my mind a saloon was just that spot where everything happened and where everyone wanted to be. Almost like a really popular club or something but idk I wasn’t there.
@seantlewis3766 ай бұрын
The "Wild West" wasn't actually all that wild. The impressions we have today are formed by the genre of western movies. My ancestors moved west starting in 1840, and none of them died by violence. The western saloon was more like what you'd picture as a modern day neighborhood dive bar. Violent things happened, but it wasn't every day. That impression is the influence of modern day movies, highlighting the most interesting stories to make a movie.
@FahimibnDawud4 ай бұрын
It depends on the city in question, really. There were some mining towns or cities that were absolute nightmares to live in back then. There was constant crime, murders, drunken fights, etc. It wasn't only a TV western depiction, it was very real if you do the research. That doesn't mean that the majority of towns were the same though.
@carolinebeck15735 ай бұрын
Interesting. Great video.
@carolinebeck15735 ай бұрын
My great great uncle or grandfather was a preacher who did his sermons in a saloon near Golden, Colorado before Coors was there. We still have one of the chairs. Heirloom!!!
@footprintsofthefrontier5 ай бұрын
What an incredible memento to still have in the family! Thanks for sharing, Caroline.
@alexmckenna11716 ай бұрын
Lips that touch liquor !! Love that picture. It came from "Little Me" i think...
@49ers4everrr2 күн бұрын
Enjoyed the video
@TrulyUnfortunate6 ай бұрын
Those pioneers would shit themselves if they saw what a shot of whisky costs these days.
@user-oi6ln4eq7b6 ай бұрын
Ah, but you're paying for a product that won't instantly blind you, unlike the raw "whisky" supplied by the pioneer saloons - I cannot believe some of the ingredients!
@jagpilotohio6 ай бұрын
@@longfadeit’s closer to $20 but yes, 50 cents in 1840 was a LOT of money for a drink.
@user-cg1ni7ub9i6 ай бұрын
Actually the term shot when ordering a drink 🥃 of whiskey came from the single bullet exchanged for a drink
@johanea4 ай бұрын
Lol, the ladies with the poster “Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours”. I would chose liquor over their lips zero regrets. Not really any beauties and few seem to have a foot in the grave already at time of taking the picture.
@FlorentinoRebuildingCo.56445 күн бұрын
I thought the same johanea.... Then I remembered that being on the range for months on end, on some cattle drive.....them ladies start to look pretty damn fine in my book.
@real_hello_kittyАй бұрын
very interesting. Thanks.
@bobs1825 ай бұрын
I am glad to learn why liquor was called firewater.
@Msflamingo-wl4qo5 ай бұрын
"What's your poison?" wasn't just a metaphor. 😮😂
@s.v.27966 ай бұрын
While I don't think saloons were a non-stop violence pit - your description is simply too refined for a bunch of dirty, exhausted, rough men getting drunk on rot gut. My ex was a patch holder. We would go on cross country runs with his club and others. They are the closest a modern society can be to the rough and ready men of the West. (Except of course for real mountain men ). While they might be peaceful individually, let them drink, play cards and just trade lies and well ... no taking bets on what will occur.
@jagpilotohio6 ай бұрын
You’re delusional if you think people of the old west were all like asshole bikers.
@kathybrascher19105 ай бұрын
Wow they were literally serving poison. Yum 😊
@towdjumper55 ай бұрын
Great stuff.
@0017Bulldog5 ай бұрын
This was awesome.
@user-gj3kz2gt6m5 ай бұрын
Ahahaha, found ya Lenny!
@jasonrodgers90635 ай бұрын
At 12:01- Little kid sitting at the table in the saloon... WITH A BEER!!!
@Heathershusbandbear Жыл бұрын
Good job keep it up
@lindymcdonald89455 ай бұрын
Do any of these wild West buildings still exist in America?
@beverlygoddard43073 ай бұрын
Yes
@jameskelly77826 ай бұрын
old overholt was the most popular whiskey.
@edwardschmitt57105 ай бұрын
So "Saloons" were like today's....wait for it....BARS!!!!!! Who wudda thunk it!!!!!
@Teddy319765 ай бұрын
Hollywood Westerns are not suppose to be accurate. They are suppose to be entertaining 😊
@bobzillion97185 ай бұрын
Fascinating video. Note pee trough at base of bar at 15:40. There is also one in Comstock Saloon in San Francisco. But you better not use it.
@lizlocher36126 ай бұрын
Gentle correction: turpentine is pronounced tur pen t long I me as in a time of a fork not teen n faro is pronounced pharaoh as in Egyptian pharaoh or fair o. Sorry!!
@larrydemonte22186 ай бұрын
It was a tough life.
@JungleJimIsATim4 ай бұрын
25 cents a drink! I cant imagine most people earning more than that an hour.
@fireorb2 Жыл бұрын
Dang you got a lot of videos up. KZfaq must have been dodging my subscriptions.
@MsAhmebah20006 ай бұрын
"the local saloon was always lively...."
@billolsen43606 ай бұрын
"And never nasty or obscene."
@Nate_tureboy2 күн бұрын
Can you imagine downing a glass of rot gut whiskey at desert room temp? Im guessing that was even a high dollar drink
@NewWitNipАй бұрын
Well done
@seanrhone53065 ай бұрын
From the description of the alcohol, it's surprising anyone lived after drinking at a saloon! lol
@frisk1515 ай бұрын
@7:16-ish... That was one BIG tall guy... Looks like a bunch of "Micks".. But, big boy had to have been a "black Irish" or an "Irish Traveler" like the Fury 'boys'.. Tyson, specifically.. Regardless.. When it came down to fists and fighting that way, he likely had no takers.. When it came down to guns.. Bullets don't care how big or small ye may be, lads.. Or Germans.. Nords, cowboys or Indians.. Gotta say..
@OPTIONALWATCHАй бұрын
I never believed the hollywood exageration of western life, but love watching westerns. It's funny to me how these people playing cards are dealing $100s and even $1000's of dollars like if it was nothing. Also the wanted ad posters offered an unbelievable amount of money that couldn't possibly be.
@timloisАй бұрын
13:06 the dead man's hand
@GreyMarano6 ай бұрын
Yet the real truth wouldn’t sell tickets to a movie!
@scotchy885 ай бұрын
Does Danny Gonzalez narrate this?
@Scott.Fiero19885 ай бұрын
What people tend to forget is that dangerous stuff happened in saloons. Prostitution, and poisonous alcohol to name a few.
@SoloPilot625 күн бұрын
1:26 -- "FAIR-o," not "Fahr-o" . . . 2:40 -- that's not a mining camp, it's the "end of track camp" for Chinese workers of the Central Pacific Railroad, building the Transcontinental Railroad, at near Humboldt Lake, Nevada. The second car from left (with the white door and balcony rail) was the private car, home to supervisor James Strobridge and his wife, Hannah. The one behind was his administrative office. There was no portable saloon with the CPRR, because there weren't enough white men in the work force to make one worthwhile. The Union Pacific "Hell On Wheels" camp did have saloons.
@chrisrees70545 ай бұрын
Saloons were full of saloonatics!
@lynnmacdiarmid65905 ай бұрын
Did you see when that guy picking up a card looked at the one before it picking up (-:> Greg
@stevez.68056 ай бұрын
I wish they still had spitoons on the floor. It would save them from cleaning my spit off the floor at the end of the night...
@judypasqualone38196 ай бұрын
😂
@gregwicking76883 ай бұрын
Like the star wars reference!
@user-zi8ux6fy2n3 ай бұрын
Should've hired James Earl Jones to narrate the video, hoss. You would've surpassed the million views. 🤠🥃🍺 🐎
@nicholastockey99056 ай бұрын
Pronounced Fayrow!
@gringling573 ай бұрын
Someone forgot the laptop on the bar in the opening saloon scene😮
@mpojr6 ай бұрын
did not know they wore wrist watches back then
@billolsen43606 ай бұрын
Those were the real sporty guys
@2old4allthis5 ай бұрын
Time-x travelers
@dancingdingoАй бұрын
Michael J Fox must have left it behind in Back to the Future 😂
@tatumergo39316 ай бұрын
Fire water = Agüa ardiente. A type of raw alcohol made from the residue of sugarcane process. P. S. Or of any kind of fruit and grain.
@shy404usernotfound5 ай бұрын
No it's literally not. It's whiskey made from grains. Sugarcane was not something grown in the US.
@tatumergo39315 ай бұрын
@@shy404usernotfound . Rum was one of the commodities traded by the British and the Spanish throughout the Caribbean and other parts of the world. That's what was added to the drinking water to make palatable and we get the name for grog. The residue that was left from that production is what it's used to make fire-water. Similar to grappa which is made from the grape residue in wine production. Ofcourse in lack of sugarcane, then you use corn or barley to make whiskey or scotch and from the mash residue you can get some moonshine or fire-water which is about the same as agüa-ardiente. I forgot what is called in Greece but is something very similar as well.
@tatumergo39315 ай бұрын
@@shy404usernotfound . P. S. The Greek fire water is called Ouzo, and it's made from fennel seeds, aniseed and some other stuff.
@charlespeterson3483 ай бұрын
So the first saloon out west was in what is present day Dinosaur Colorado?
@jamesgibbs79335 ай бұрын
Most of "Hollywood" westerns do a very poor job of accuracy in their depiction of the true "Old West".