I grew up in pueblo myself, I now live west of pueblo. So I'm about 36 Miles away and man how I miss the small town I grew up in, it's not the same place it once was😔

@@MattManProductions It's changed a bit, but it's not a whole lot different at the same time. I spend a fair bit of time there for work and see someone I know virtually every time I'm there. It's kind of nice, actually. It's home.

@@anonosaurus4517 it's been a while since I've been to pueblo,I just hear a lot of things bad about the town now a days. So I don't really miss it 🤷‍♂️

@@MattManProductions Eh, it's Pueblo. I think it has the problems it's always had, and I think they've been made worse by the legalization of MJ. I don't think you can be permissive about drugs and also have poor education, poverty, lack of job opportunities, and have a healthy city. Having said that, it's still a friendly city, and many of the staples of what's made it what it is are still alive and well. I was there on Tuesday and had a slopper and schooner of Coors Light at Coors Tavern. It doesn't get more classically "Pueblo" than that.

I also live in pueblo

things like this are so neat

@Librocubicularist the path that took him here LED you to the path that brought you here. That is pretty cool

I'm a carpenter and out boxes of nails came from there

Wow, 4 MOA recipients! Pueblo must be a special place.

What about the Government Printing Office? Is it still there?

@@billd.iniowa2263 I doubt if Pueblo has 4 MOA per capita (person). It probably has 4 MOA overall.

@@billd.iniowa2263 President Dwight D. Eisenhower upon presenting Raymond G. “Jerry” Murphy with his Medal in 1953 commented, “What is it…something in the water out there in Pueblo? All you guys turn out to be heroes!” In 1993 Colorado Representative Scott McInnis had read into the Congressional Record information about Pueblo and it’s recipients of the Medal of Honor. He cited at that time that it was the only city to have this record of four living recipients from the same hometown. Following that declaration in the Congressional Record, the Pueblo City Council adopted the “Home of Heroes” theme.

They did- stayed until water was at their feet

My mother worked at Mountain Bell for 40 plus years in pueblo. But she born in pueblo just before the flood. Happened!!

My dad grew up on Goat Hill.

Have any links to this.

@@parker6334 KZfaq deletes direct links from what I hear, but if you type into google KRDO news and the title of the article which is: "Historians discover unmarked mass grave in Pueblo dating back to early 20th century" it should come up for you!

Yes HC is awesome. I love when we get to see them. It softens the blow of the sad history for me. 💜

Cats are demons and must be dealt with accordingly.

The cat is letting us know that the history guy is a man of good character

History Cat was trying to escape there at the end.

Get him/her all hyped up on catnip, then do the show.

The whole Ark valley down to the state line can get scary after a big rain! The ark flattens and widens as it goes east and it's also sandy and shallow. When a lot of rain comes down, it goes up!

I was thinking the same thing!

@@richardheinen1126 Me too!

I actually wrote and ordered one, as a kid. Why not, it was free! Horribly disappointing. Writing to NASA as a kid and asking for free stuff yielded WAY better envelopes, full of swag.

As a child in the 80s I called and ordered magazines from every state that offered them.

And now I can't unhear it.

Some pronounce "R-Kansas" river, depending on proximity to Kansas. 😀

I live in Ar'Kansas' City but call it the Arkansas River😁

Howdy Neighbor! Rivers up!

I've guess I need to define the term, "leven." It is an old term used to explain that flooding water had reached the top of the levy. Even with the levy. I have no idea when or what country I picked it up.

All of the previous existing infrastructure of the mound builder was demolished in 1866 and caused all these problems.

Rats...I do like Palisade peaches.

@@ex-navyspook Yeah, might not get many of those this year. I heard there weren't any last year either, I think it was a late freeze.

Pueblo is a hole. Geographical is.

Amen to that!

@Mr. Petrie: Yes Sir, that happened. I live in Pueblo and heard the blast (though I didn’t know what had occurred at that time), and later saw a huge, black smoke and ash “cloud” rising for hours. And I’m about 2.5 miles from the mill- an indication of how powerful the blast was. Unfortunately, Evraz, through stupidity, lack of awareness or just terrible PR subsequently claimed in a press release that no Evraz employees were injured or seriously injured, when in fact several employees were badly hurt and one, a severe burn victim, had to be transported to a Denver, Colorado burn unit by helicopter. The company blew its response and I only hope that man will recover. Long road in front of him. As an aside, Evraz is a Russian-owned company. Another Pueblo disaster. Mishaps at the small portion of the mill still operating are common, even today.

8 people injured, 3 critical.

Wow! I've driven by it several times. Hope the critical patients pull through.

Yes , the Evraz Group is actually a Russian owned business.

THAT was the noise?!

Do you remember the name of the old man that who told you the story? I live on the northside not too far from Mineral Palace Park...I have an Ancestry account, and I love looking up folks and seeing where they lived, what they did, etc. There is also a great website called the "Colorado Historic Newspaper Archives" with many of the old CO newspapers scanned in, and you can search all manner of fascinating things with key words, names, and dates.

Yup, and that's why I don't have a home along a canyon wall. The Big Thompson flood still haunts me. My family and I were up a side canyon when the flood came. We got out but barely.

Yeah, 2013 was crazy, all the way out to Frederick 40 minutes east of Boulder was flooded. I had to use my dirt bike to get around.

2013 was nuts. I remember listening to the weather wonk on News 4 talking about the amount of water which had fallen on the Boulder Valley (I think the storm dumped...19 inches there...14 out in Centennial where I lived), and it was estimated to be measured in billions of gallons. First time I remember my son's school being canceled as a result of rain.

@@ex-navyspook i remember the picture from 1000’ up the mile wide river flowing out of boulder

I remember watching the television news the night of the Big Thompson flood. Bob Palmer reported on a large rainstorm and a wall of water that moved down the Poudre Valley. They didn't have very many details until the next morning.

Pueblo rarely gets rain, not sure what you are hearing about potential flooding down here. When it rains its for 5 minutes lol.

I remember stumbling upon this channel back when it only had like 30K subs, it’s great to see a quality channel grow!

Been watching about a year but just subscribed; one of the few worth watching. I salute you sir, you make history personable and fun to observe!

Good quality content is hard to find. THG is all about quality.

Ethan, "1 million subs" is a number that would easily fly under the radar; but would it fly under the sonar?🤔

Another one knocked out of the park.

Or (for those under 50) Dr Claw. I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, GADGET!

@@HM2SGT 🤣🤣👍👍👍

ThatDamnedYankee, hahahahaha! The cat does give the Dr. No character away.

Literally the first thing that went through my mind

Blofeld with a wig...

Bravo!

@@raydunakin Pueblo sucks. It's Colorado's murder capital and you might get ambushed in a drive by shooting.

Those are tree roaches, and they live outside, which is why you typically don't see them indoors.

As an ex Grand County, Colorado resident, and a fan of it's history, there's a story involving a Mountain Ute band and a posse, as well as a July 4, 1883 gunfight in Grand Lake, Colorado that left seven dead or missing, presumed dead, including the County Sheriff and three County Commissioners. Colorado history is so rich because it's foundation is so recent. I am sure that every Colorado mountain community has a local history worth remembering and more, dramatized. It would take much effort to make the fiction more dramatic that the reality. The name "Sunnyside Mine" rings a bell. The story sounds like urban legend, but that doesn't mean it's not based at least in part on an actual incident. As I think about it, a union organizer's story perhaps. "Yet as one brave man was willing to risk his life to save others, you must be willing to risk no more but a little of your time to hear what I have to say, that is solidarity, for only together, not as individuals, can we protect ourselves from the Big Bad Management that forces miners to risk life, limb and health for the sake of the luxury of a few."

Funny you should mention. A friend recently told me of this accident and i did some reading on it.

@@andywomack3414 As a fellow former Grand County resident, if I remember correctly, that gunfight was over whether Hot Sulphur Springs or Grand Lake would be the county seat. With the Grand Lake delegation mostly, if not completely, wiped out, Hot Sulphur won by default.

​@@ChrisCaramia We probably read the same book, "Island in the Rockies" Everyone involved either died or went missing, never to be seen again. I have visited the grave sites of the three commissioners who died.

Same

If I had to give that heartbreaking presentation, I would have needed a service animal in my lap!

Whether any of the cats appear in a video is completely up to the cat.

+1. I used to really like THG. Now that I know he's a cat guy, I LOVE THG!! ;-)

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel and don’t forget everything in that room belongs to the cat, including you.

Love your cat. Our Minerva looked a lot like your cat....smartest cat ever.

The two Pueblo papers at the time were temporarily put out of commission, and could only print single page broadsheet “extras.” Papers in area communities, I think, took up the slack.

We have three cats. This one is Pookie, and he is the most friendly cat in world. Although, truth be told, I think he was mainly begging for treats...

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel cats let you live in THEIR house, do they not?

A sacrifice that History Guy happily obliged.

Earl Grey enjoyed seeing his twin at work.

All cats are demons and must be fed to the dogs.

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@@TattedIrishxxx Pueblo sucks plain and simple. Pueblo is Colorado's murder capital.

My Father lived there for many years. I have spent many a fond moment in Pueblo. Some great restaurants down on the riverwalk.

There used to be a replica horse on Union Avenue for I believe it was Mac's Saddalry at the time.

Yes! Frazier is the name! He and his wife made nationally famous, quality saddles. Their home still stands today on the historic northside of Pueblo at the southwest corner of 22nd and Elizabeth St. It is the beefiest, most gorgeous craftsman style bungalow-mansion I have ever seen (and I am an old house nerd)! The house had sinks in most of the rooms as the saddle making process involves making sure the hands don't get skin oils onto the leather. I was also told that he incorporated large springs that were big versions of what were use in wagons etc into the house foundation so the foundation would better be able to handle shifting in the soil etc. It is a gorgeous house.

@@generalripper1964 The ORIGINAL horse that sat in Frazier's store that was washed away in the flood then found mostly intact in a tree after the flood still exists and you can see it at the Pueblo Heritage Museum near the Pueblo Train Depot. The horse was made from paper mache then a special coating and painted, and the darn thing made it through being soaked and washed away in the flood then recovered. I remember the manager of the museum telling us all the details one day when we went to visit the museum. I am a Denver, Co native that moved to Pueblo in 2017.

​@@jercasgav Thank you for the information.

It is the desert

It is a desert. The ground is hard as concrete and water doesn't soak into it very fast so sudden rainstorms like that will cause massive flash floods.

He wanted to be held

The cat is CEO of the history guy inc. 😂

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I would have needed a service animal in my lap if I had to give that heartbreaking presentation.

@@chainweaver3361 CEO fits- he does seem to run the place, yet do no apparent work.

the history guy is officially a cat petting supervillian

Buried? Or can you see it from Google earth

@@ScarrednCharred it's not buried

The clock doesn’t work, and never did. Some friends ribbed me about it the other day, so I moved the hands.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel, sure it works! At least twice a day it tells the correct time! ;)

@@ELCADAROSA yep, even a broken clock will be have the right time twice a day!

Lots of those high water markers in the St Louis area as well. It seems a ubiquitous way to remember history

Yes! I have been shown high water marks from the 1951 flood(s) in Kansas by my parents and others.

They are all over Florence, Italy from the 1966 flood.

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My father lived in Pueblo for many years- I have spent a good deal of time there. Do you know which cemetery?

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I had no idea you’ve visited my little town, Pueblo! Thank you for doing this story. The mass grave might be in the first cemetery in Pueblo, The Pioneer Cemetery or The Roselawn Cemetery.

Some of those old cemeteries have had historical societies document their histories. And that is such a wonderful look into our past. One I can think of is a little country cemetery along highway 99 in between the towns of Wapello and Oakville, Iowa in Louisa County. There are mass graves there from two historic happenings. One grave was a ship load of captured Confederate soldiers being moved to Arsenal Island when disease took most everyone on the ship. The cemetery is not far from the Mississippi, so was convenient for disposal of the dead quickly. Another grave was the dead from a small town that was destroyed by a flood on the Iowa River which was just a few miles south of the cemetery. These dead now lay in the very beautiful and quiet Iowa countryside. Seems fitting for the hell they lost their lives to. Decided to check my sources, and went back through my photos of my trip. The cemetery is the Mallory Cemetery and was established in the 1830's. The town destroyed was named Burris City, and the mass grave was the victims of a plague following the disastrous flood of 1859. The deaths came so quickly and so many that the mass burial was necessary. The plaque went on to say that a portion of the mass grave site was reportedly used for the burial of Confederate prisoners of war who died while being transported to the federal prison at Rock Island. To the south of the mass grave is a beautiful view of the Iowa River Valley. A very beautiful view to console those who come to remember those who rest here.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel THG: Probably Roselawn, just east of the city limits. The local newspaper just had an article about a research group that had begun ground radar/imaging about possible mass burial sites in the cemetery. Possibly from the flood, or from the Spanish Flu. Have many recollections from long deceased family members regarding the flood. Another cemetery probably would be the Pioneers' Cemetery on the north side of town

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel It's definitely Roselawn. Colorado Matters on CPR just recently had a segment about this.

Puddy cat photo bombing THG. LOL

History guy takes his own life in his hands there ... or paws I guess ... that cat looks _angry_ ...

@@russcrawford3310It's a corporate hostile take over of "The History Guy" by puddy cat.

@@russcrawford3310 Nah. Just bored.

Where's my chain mail! I want to hold the cat😼😂

frog strangler

My mother called them turd floaters. 🙄 Yeah

Gully washers are something experienced during the monsoon season in the Southwest … what can happen along the Front Range of Colorado is a greater event, while both severe and life threatening, the scale and measure are not the same … having experienced both several times!!

@@cheddar2648 - I'd always heard "toad strangler" since most toads are not big fans of water whereas frogs are...