This guy has an uncanny natural ability for doing videos he explains everything he sees and seems to have a lot of knowledge about a lot of things

Better than anything on TV. Awesome video.

I really appreciate your efforts. This these two videos were both good and and sad. I am part Dakota. My great great Grandparents were killed by the Army during the Minnesota Wars resulting in 38 Indians being hung. This war started because of one local trader, Andrew Myrick, said of the Indians’ plight, “If they are hungry, let them eat grass.” He was later found dead with his mouth stuffed with grass. Had he been doing his job and giving the Indians their supplies this would not have happened. I wish I was younger I would love to go to Skeleton Caves but I am now 72 and have an incurable lung disease that is not possible. Watching you videos is a lift for me. Keep up the good work. PS. My wife and I have been to Arizona and loved it.

the helicopter that you seen in the last video and this one is owned by SRP, witch owns and maintains the dams along the Rio Salado (the Salt River) they bring supplies, crews and equipment to the dams (cool way to get to and from work). I'm a native and have spent the last 5 decades roaming around these mountains and studying the local history, I have never heard of that cave being referred to as skeleton cave it has always been referred to as skull cave. in the video you did about the cliff dwellings you was wondering about the bottom of the door ways being protruding out a little it was designed to be closed off at night to prevent rattle snakes from entering. while you were in Superior you should have went to the old Pinal cemetery that is where Mattie Earp (Wyatt Earp wife) is buried. the first video you did you were not far from an old military camp called camp Reno on the other side of four peaks. by the way I want to thank you for caring and only leaving footprints in my backyard.

This battle/massacre was not committed on the Apache, it was Yavapai. The Apache were distinct neighbors to the east of the Yavapai. It makes more sense when explaining why Apache scouts would aid Lt Col Crook's campaign in the Yavapai War.

A truly spiritual and respectful account. This is such important history and we are fortunate to have someone like you recognize the value of sharing with others. Thank you.

Thank you for respecting the remains of the cousins left behind. Sadly this event of long ago is part of a long list, including Sand Creek, and Wounded Knee. Its always good when approaching a site like this to talk to the Spirits, tell them you come with respect to honor their memory. You did honor and remember, snd as you left, the thank you was given.. the best part of the otherwise tearful video, the 4 legged saying thank you.

My husband and I were deeply touched by your show of respect in covering over some of the remaining bone fragments. Your attention to detail of the attack and the first hand accounts brought to life a tragic time in American History. Thank you for sharing these videos.

I feel the same as you regarding the complete lack of thought and respect that some people display at such sacred sites as this! The graffiti, nut shells and can lid all serve to leave a different kind of message for the people who come there several hundred or a thousand years from now...... I am ashamed and embarrassed for the fools who have no heart. Great conclusion to a very interesting video! You treated this subject with respect and consideration that only a man such as you could. Thank you Chig, I appreciated and enjoyed this video very much.

Loved it, thanks for taking us along and being so respectful.

Brilliant, Chiggs. you're giving us all vicarious experiences most of us would never be able to undertake. Thank you so much for doing all the hard work. Love your videos, compelling viewing. Keep them coming.

I love most of your videos but these last two were the very best in my opinion. Thank you for taking us along and sharing your experiences. I was pleased but not surprised that you showed respect to the site that it deserves. Well done Chigg.

Thanks for sharing this. I'm a big fan of your videos and I lived in Arizona for a long time and this is by far, my favorite video you've made. A lot of layers and history.

beautiful but very sad video.

Sir, thank you. Thank you for fleshing out a historical moment, not only with history itself, but with geology, with the natural environment, and with emotion.

Chigg. I looked it up and the info I'm getting is that there were Yavapai, not Apache, in the cave. Apache scouts did participate in the attack, though. The holes in the Saguaro are made by Gila woodpecker looking for larvae. That said, I respect you and love your videos. This was an especially nice series and I look forward to MOAR!!!

I gave thumbs up BEFORE viewing because I KNEW it would be good! Thanks for sharing!

Both parts of this video were incredible......possibly your best ever, I really enjoyed them and the educational aspect of them as well. Thanks!

Chigg, I have really sat here glued to the video. Your obvious compassion for what took place and for the remains of the Apaches shows. You have been respectful, honest, and thorough in your narration. I appreciate that you did not try to sugar coat, or negate, the history that took place. You presented the things that both sides did, good and bad. Well done!!

Absolutely stunning! You seem to capture the thrill of the adventure and pass it on to the viewer. Great history that too few people know of. Thank you

Thanks Chigg, I love this type of history and very much appreciate you putting in the effort to bring this to us. You are one tough Hombre to endure the heat and altitude (and risk the rattlesnakes and black death) to get this video published. Three thumbs up!

Thank you for another informational video! I love your videos because you tell and show me things and places that I can never get to...

so unreal chigg. I've lived in az my entire life and never even knew there was anything like that at canyon lake. thank you for taking the time to show us an important part of history that is almost forgotten.

as a native north American I appreciate the respect you have for such places. thanks beau

Hay Chigg, Thanks for all the hard work you put into the videos. We do appreciate it.

This is one of the best videos you've ever done man. Thank you so much! Really makes everyday simple problems seem really really small. Let's us all realize the mistakes we have made, and how it's important to look back at them so that we don't repeat these mistakes..

Hello, I live in Arizona and was on KZfaq looking for abandoned ghost towns and came across your video. My husband's grand father is full APACHE and this attack makes me so sad. Indians are very strong spirited, I'm sure you could sense their energy there. Thank you for sharing!

Yes, it’s a grave site. I love the respect you have for the site and all the areas you visit. Great stuff!

Darn Beau, that was good. History and incredible views and amazing ambient quiet. Thanks!

Well sir, you show great compassion and respect.......excellent job and I respect your willingness to share your adventure. It was enlightening to say the least. Thank you!!

Thank you, Beau, for this video. It is one of the best experiences I've had watching KZfaq, ever. You are a phenomenally fortunate and remarkable person, and I am happy just knowing you have the opportunity to visit places like this (and happier still you share them with us). I feel inspired, when I have a few grey hairs myself, as well as the time and the means to travel, to go on similar adventures. Your channel remains one of the most interesting channels I'm subscribed to and I always feel that I can depend upon it for positive, uplifting and truly thought-provoking content.

WOW what an amazing story and sad history! Thanks for taking us on this adventure! Thank for being you and respectful of those long lost souls!

Thanks for the history lesson.Glad you do the research to give us the background on all your trips.

Thank you for sharing this experience. I can see that it affected you deeply. One of the most powerful images for me was the bullet holes in the cacti. It's like the spirits of the Apaches rose up through them as a witness of what transpired.

You have a great way of bring history to life. Thanks for taking us along and sharing this historical event with us.

This was one of the best! Thanks Beau! Very well done!

Very good video, it really makes you think about what happened there. Thank you for posting the video. I enjoyed watching it.

great video. I have been to that cave in the early 70's. Im glad to see that the isolation has still preserved this area

Love these videos! I'm always learning something from them! Thanks for taking us along on your adventures!

Just wanted to say that when you spoke of reading that book by firelight and struggled for a moment for the words to come, as far as I was concerned you didn't have to finish that sentence. Spiritual is the only way to describe it. I'm new to your channel, and have been binging on your videos. I've been struck by your appreciation for law, the environment, animal life, and for our long dead predecessors. Add to that an eye for interesting detail, describing not only what you saw, but why - and it all amounts to the best channel on YT for this kind of content. I'm really impressed. And I've never said that in a YT comment. Well done.

Another great video Chigg. I really enjoy these types of videos.

Such a sad story. Thank you for going there for us.

Chigg thank you so much! This was very poignant, and extremely captivating. I love history and you brought this to life. Truly my favorite series....please do Moar!

I have watched most, if not all, of Chigg's videos over the years, but this is my favorite.

How sad...I probably would've been bawling my eyes out the whole time. Thank you for taking us along and giving us some history lessons along the way.

Amazingly well told and respectful visit to a little known historic site - well done, Chig! Also, I'm putting Water Flea forward as the name of the Chig Boat. :D

Thank you so much for taking us on this journey with you. Amazing history.

THANKS !! Your videos are so well done and your kindness and respect are a Refreshing change of pace!!!

This was fascinating, I could watch this sort of stuff all day long. Beautiful landscape there too

I love in Brazil and indian people are being murdered right now here. It's horribly sad and nobody does anything about it. This is so sad.

One of your best videos Chigger, it was a pleasant watch. Thank you for the upload!

I never get tired of watching your time in this stronghold...it pulls at one's heart...

Astounding work Mr. Aqauchigger. Great series and thanks for showing us places, that many people will never have the opportunity to see for themselves. It's amazing to think of the bio-diversity of our great nation and even more astounding the diversity of all the people here. That's why this historical journey you shared with us is so important to us, as people of America. We destroyed the Native Americans way of life with our European, ethnocentric views towards them. We can never fully right the atrocities that were committed,but we can learn a lesson and remember what was lost in hopes that we never make such wrongs again.

Love these videos!! You go above and beyond for us to watch and love them all! Thank you

Easily one of the coolest youtube videos I've watched - sitting in the cave and reading the passage from the book about the battle(?) is both fascinating and chilling. Much respect.

Your documentary on the hike and the cave with its history was so well done, I can now scratch it off my bucket list after 40 years! Thanks for being so respectful and for packing that big book up the mountain...incredible. Can't wait for the next Salt River tubing season. I'm holding my breath!

Aquachigger, these series of your trip to Arizona in my opinion are as good as some of the documentaries we see on PBS. If you ever put them on a DVD I would be willing to purchase one. Like some have pointed out here this was not taught in school. If you don't mind what was the title of the book you read from? Keep up the good work and always stay safe. Delores

It is spiritual..and emotional..thanks for a heartfelt explanation on your part.respect is seldom seen today..sad too..I always enjoy..coming along for the hike!..thanks!..

Thank you Chigg for all these travel and historical videos! Really enjoying them!

both videos where fantastic! Thanks Chigger !

Brilliant,as man who's great grandad was a native this gives me the courage to do a bit of reserch.Thanks.

Chig...I grew up in Arizona for most of my life and not far from that location. Those are not bullet holes in the saguaro cactus. They're nesting holes from the cactus wren. As the hole is bored into the cactus by the wren, the cactus heals itself by creating a hardened shell almost like a hollow gourd that the wren then builds its nest in.

Amazing 2 part video. Thanks Chigg!

Wow..Thanks for taking us along for this Amazing stories...Loved it!

Such a sad, sad event. Well done Beau, you always bring history to life. It's sad that some people do not think when visiting places that they should leave nothing but their footprints. Skeleton Cave should be viewed as a very sacred place, somewhere that must be cherished to the memory of those Apache that were killed there. Btw, What is the name of the book you were reading from?

sweet been waiting all day to watch this. lol. thanks

This is probably my favorite video of yrs..thank you for yr service!!

Thank you for bringing us along on this expedition. Myself and many others thank you for the respect that you paid them.

I love the history of this video. I also respect the emotion of this video. I think it would be interesting to get a metal detector up there to just locate the shell casings, nothing more, just to locate them to see where the soldiers were firing from.

Beau, Thank you for bringing us along on your adventure. Listening to the story you read from the book makes for a sad story. Life was very, vary, different in those times. Thanks again. Steve,

I am very impressed how you respected that area. As you said, it was very spiritual and it showed in your manor and facial expression. Well done Chigg!

Great 2 part series. Thanks for taking the time to document and share. Been a fan of you and your videos for years. Cheers 👍👍

A great 2 part series on some very interesting history. Thanks for the insight and everything with this as well as the lesson. I never knew of this location or it's story until you discussed it. Also, I have to give you props for the large amount of respect you are showing this site and the remains found on site. It's a shame others do not have this mindset. Great video. Be safe out there!

YES, I agree with you 100% people should respect the land and people who lost their lives. Thank you for all that respect the lands and history we have.

I just came across your channel and I absolutely love your work and this was such great history to learn…thank you!!!

thank you Chigg for your awesome videos. They never disappoint and so interesting keeps me waiting for the next adventure . Thank you.

Another fantastic set of videos, more proof that might is not always right...

A small excerpt from the web page of the book that Chigg was reading from tells about an 8 year old Yavapai boy, captured and forced to lead soldiers to the cave, where he had to watch the battle as his family was killed and afterward he was shown the body of his grandfather: "Hoo-Moo-Thy-Ah [...], was born into Yavapai family in Arizona, just before the establishment of Ft. McDowell, built by the U.S. Government to subjugate Native American peoples. His birthplace, around 1864, was near the Four Peaks Mountains, near Tonto Basin. In his autobiography he remembered the time as of "great beauty and happiness." However, when he was about 5 years old, his life was altered forever. His mother was killed by soldiers out on a patrol. She apparently ran for her life and crawled in a rock hole. She was pulled out and shot several times. After her murder, his father became a bitter enemy of the "Hayko" (enemy) and would often go with friends to the Salt River Valley just to kill any "Hayko" they could. The young boy was left responsible for the care of his younger brother and sister. Then, when Hoo-Moo-Thy-Ah was about eight years old, he was sent by his father to accompany his uncle to Wipuk (in the Sedona country) to bring back a horse. They were surprised by a patrol and the uncle deserted him. The terrified boy hid himself in a hole in a rock while the soldiers camped nearby. It became night and he almost froze to death, in a snowstorm, wearing only a G-string. They had been camped near Four Peaks, about 7,645 elevation in the Mazatzals. When he emerged the next morning, he was captured by the soldiers, whom he considered true demons. The captors remembered his valiant but vain struggle and after he lost, he was dragged over the rocks "like a log." The capture was in the winter of 1872 and General Crook was beginning his Tonto campaign. The terrified child was taken to Captain James Burns, Six days later he was forced to lead the soldiers and Maricopa and Pima scouts to Skeleton Cave and witnessed the massacre of over 60 of his people, including his father and siblings, grandfather, uncle and aunt. He was shown the body of his grandfather, who had part of his head in a little rock hole."

Sir, the best personal historical presentation-On sight! Thanks so much.

This one of the best videos on KZfaq, I travelled to Arizona from the UK as I've always been fascinated by the history of the South West and the Apache and Navajo. Your video was a very respectfully done history lesson, thank you.

Great story Chig, and yes some people have no respect at all!!

i just loved this video thank you so mutch Beau. The helicopter that you saw yesterday was a Bell 212 and that big helicopter that you saw on this video is the Erickson S-64 Air-Crane (I just like helicopters would love to see an Apache flying overthere)

Beau, I really appreciate being to able to explore these sites where I live, through your exceptional documentaries. Being disabled, I can never see these first hand, although I live here. Thank you Sir, for letting me explore them with you.

Over the past couple of months, I have grown obsessively addicted to your channel. I feel like I know you better than any of my closest friends. This adventure into Skeleton Cave and the history lesson you gave is not what I would call a gift to humanity but more of a treasure. Beautifully done, Beau. This is among the best documentaries about anything by anyone I have ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing this. And, I'm glad you made it off the mountain. I was holding my breath a few times lol.

awesome video

The Native American spirits must still be there in the cave. Awesome video, thank you.

Thanks mate for sharing all your excellent vids & all recorded & spoken so well & thoughtfully too. I loved this one.

Dosent get better than this. Fantastic. Many thanks chigg.

Much respect for Aquachigger. Thank you for sharing this spiritual journey.

This was very informative, interesting and extremely sad! I really HATE how the native American people were treated it breaks my heart! Thank you for sharing with us!

A fantastic documentary! Thank you for taking the time and effort to share with us.

thanks chigg man been watching your videos for about a year this was great love the hikes with history safe travels and keep hiking with history

Thanks for posting this kind of stuff Beau. As a Canadian the chances of getting down there to experience this stuff first hand is effectively zero (our dollar value doesn't help matters). Keep up the good work!

This is the most FANTASTIC video you have ever posted. Most informative and so sad.

One of your best videos so far!! Thanks!

Thanks for bringing us along. It was great!

Thank you for showing your trip love the history !

Wow! Thanks so much for doing that for us. Something about history rocks my soul. Makes me want to have witnessed it myself… But of course then I probably be dead. When I was in high school I flunked history. Hated it because all they had us do was memorize dates. One day, in my early 20s, I went to Morristown museum (nj) all by myself, and got hit with what our ancestors went through so that we could be free. Suddenly history came alive for me and has been ever since. If only the teachers knew that memorizing dates was so incredibly boring and that the stories are so incredibly intriguing. They'd have had a lot more passing students! Again, this was awesome! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

These Salt River videos are just awesome! Thank you!