Trailblazing with Jim Bridger: Army Scouting, Utah War, and the Montana Gold Rush

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Trailblazing with Jim Bridger: Army Scouting, Utah War, and the Montana Gold Rush

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In the 1850s, Jim Bridger put his extensive knowledge of the West to use by guiding wealthy adventurers, geological surveyors, and the U.S. military. Then, in 1862, the discovery of gold in Montana sparked yet another gold rush, leading thousands of prospectors to illegally trespass on Lakota and Cheyenne land via the Bozeman trail, resulting in violence. The Army intervened and hired Bridger once again as their guide. Additionally covered in this episode is the Mountain Meadows massacre, the Utah War, and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851. #wildwest #history #western
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@everettweeks2195 Жыл бұрын

Don't sell yourself short Josh, sone of those early BB episodes are among my favorite! 💪🏻 👍🏻

@vincentjones4461 Жыл бұрын

Great video series! Very informative and you got a great way of telling the story. Always a few laughs and alot learned.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Vinnie

@andypelc6332 Жыл бұрын

I always appreciate listening to your stories. Thank you.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

I always appreciate you listening, Andy

@dannysimmons3167 Жыл бұрын

Been across the Oregon trail quite a bit. They have a marker in a rest area that tells the trip would take 3 months to that point by wagon. 45 minutes by car today

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Crazy huh?

@dannysimmons3167 Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza yep. If I’m not mistaken it’s on 30 out of Wyoming. It bypasses Utah if you’re going north west. Washington, Oregon. Or just going to Idaho without going through Salt Lake City. You take 30 at ft Bridger

@westt9030 Жыл бұрын

Excellent in the epic story continues. I'm going to have to take my headphones to work today LOL

@daviddavis7136 Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, great job

@justinsane7128 Жыл бұрын

I recently listened to Blood Meridian as a book on tape, highly recommend, still scratching my head

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

That's a good one. Based on the very real Glanton gang. The Judge was even a real person!

@danielmurphy7748 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Josh for all you do brother love this and got a few friends listening too....

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Thanks man

@dennistate5953 Жыл бұрын

PREACH BrotherMan! Fork that lift and bump that grind!

@johnnieplageman9145 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this sir!

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@corymoore2292 7 ай бұрын

This is the first time I noticed your subscribers and I expected way more! That’s a wonderful thing though, I expected more because you’re doing such an amazing job! And the fact that you’re doing such an amazing job means that many more are on the way. You have a perfect voice and reading style for this, plus this kind of channel has the potential for A LOT of subscribers. Keep it up man, you’re well on your way.

@WildWestExtravaganza 7 ай бұрын

Ah thank you!!!

@randysmith4081 Жыл бұрын

I've saw a lot of that country out west and lived in South Dakota for 3 years. I'm from Alabama. I am impressed by how tough all these folks were to settle that country. Amazing

@shanesawhutchison9255 Жыл бұрын

Theocracy? Pontificate? Holy smoke, you sure dropped some five dollar, Sunday best words in this episode! What a great episode, once again Josh. I am really enjoying this series. I can hardly wait to listen to the next episode! Cheers Josh! 🇨🇦

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Boom!

@muffinman39705 8 ай бұрын

You have the perfect voice for this. Its fu%king awesome

@WildWestExtravaganza 8 ай бұрын

Thanks man

@jonahhex8178 Жыл бұрын

Awesome series, Josh. Really enjoying it. Just read "Cole Younger by himself". Tells a very different story of the Northfield raid. The man had no love for Jessie James. Short book, maybe not completely true, but definitely worth the read.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

I need to read it

@StevenMMan Жыл бұрын

Lol Josh I have a completely relevant questions. Assuming I have a petrified bird sitting on a petrified stump singing his petrified songs somewhere near a petrified river all leaves me to wonder. A. How do you tune a petrified bird? B. Is the songs he sings hard on the ears? C. If he falls off that stump, and no one is near, does he make a sound? D. All else fails, if he works real hard can he pitch a tune on the radio? So as I leave you to ponder this philosophical wonder, I leave you with this final thought. Dang the moon ain't we havin fun now? Mountain man

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Steven you must have petrified ears

@StevenMMan Жыл бұрын

@Wild West Extravaganza lol you got a point that's what happens to an ol mountain man after years of shooting competition.. ear plugs be damn. That being said could mean a little petrified matter in between them. But it's the inner Joe Meek in me that that says to me iffin I can't laugh at myself that yet another kind petrified may over take thee. Forever electrified the mountain man

@jakeballinger314 Жыл бұрын

Kit carson.. can't wait

@ronwelch6548 Жыл бұрын

Brian Kieth tells that story on himself in the movie Moutan Man with Charles Heston.

@wingchununited Жыл бұрын

Awesome series. Each is entertaining and informative. Like many of you, I grew up reading about these characters and places. I do have a question: Josh, I've watched Jeremiah Johnson a thousand times. And read Blood Meridian a few times. Then, my wife had me read The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie. Well, as the saying goes, Good artists borrow, great artists steal. both the movie and Cormac did a fair share of sticky finger play with Mr. Guthrie's fine writing. Absolutely one of the best piece of Wild West literature out there. P.S. - May I request you do an episode on Goodnight and Loving, the original Call and Gus, a la Lonesome Dove? Keep 'em coming. Love your work. P.S.2 - how about some episodes on Colt, Browning, Winchester, Remington? the Green River knife? just in case you're looking for ideas. Cheers.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Great suggestions! I'd have to go back and read The Big Sky, it's been a lonnnnng time. Not sure if you heard my series on Liver Eating Johnson but I did discuss the two books they primarily used to base Jeremiah Johnson on. Wouldn't be surprised if some of Big Sky got borrowed. I did do an episode on Goodnight and another episode on the true stories behind Lonesome Dove but they're both only available on Patreon now. I def need to re-do them.

@plymouthduster225 Жыл бұрын

Interesting video as always Josh. Been waiting for this one. I had heard of Jim Bridger and read about him on Wikipedia but that's about all I knew on him. I was wondering if you might be interested in doing a video on Jedediah Smith? I thought you might be interested in him since he was from the mountain man era,and a trapper.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

Absolutely planning an episode on Smith soon

@stevenfrench7940 Жыл бұрын

The add placement 👌🏼😂

@dennistate5953 3 ай бұрын

I woke up growling & barking. Hell. Guess it's better than crying. Terribly bored w that shit.

@wowbagger3505 3 ай бұрын

How different things would have been if Lewis Whetzel had been hired to scout for Lewis and Clark, it almost happened!

@lusolad Жыл бұрын

Do comments get censored here?

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

By me? Almost never unless someone says something really rude to someone else. By KZfaq? Probably a lot. KZfaq automatically filters a lot of crazy comments.

@lusolad Жыл бұрын

I put up a reply to a comment on slavery and its gone.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

You'll have to blame KZfaq for that one...I didn't even see it

@lusolad Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza wow

@DeepOwl1073 Жыл бұрын

Hey Josh, have you heard of a car named Peter Lassen? There's a county, college, mountain, and national park named for him. Stories of scoundrels, and was murdered under suspicious circumstances.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

I have not but I'll look into him, thanks!

@DeepOwl1073 Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza I gotta get my glasses before I comment. A cat named Peter Lassen. Scoundel-ism and a murder by "indians" that probably weren't.

@Idahoguy10157 Жыл бұрын

The Mormon guerrillas Brigham Young sent out delayed the army expedition long enough for peace negotiations. After which the army marched thru Salt Lake City and set up Fort Douglas.

@paganlife1373 Жыл бұрын

Pass on the bump and grind.

@michaeltwowolves3055 Жыл бұрын

Mmmmm I don’t know…I don’t see nothing wrong with a little bump and grind 😂

@michaelpacnw2419 Жыл бұрын

Every single tribe those fur trappers came across, as friends or enemies.. had slaves. Slavery, horrible as it is.. has existed since the beginning of time. In Roman times many men would beg to be enslaved rather than executed on the battle field after the battle was lost. Many eventually earned their freedom. Many slaves taken by the Indians eventually had some degree of freedom.. some as wives, some as members of the tribe.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

What's your point?

@davidmurphy619 Жыл бұрын

You should do a biography of the Indian brought Brigham mule trains full of higrade gold ore cuz he thought he was an honest sort. First day I traveled through Utah and saw the cathedral we were in some small town that had left a kid to watch the whole town at the store as everyone was digging up the latest rumor. It only left everyone more jumpy more paranoid hated strangers. Pay up and move on mister.i will tell you this ...never plan a nation wide bicycle tour through Utah . Every where I went was wonderful. Utah is a living hell of complications cuz no one gives a damn. You will starve and freeze on a roadside and every pick up truck goes by eyes straight ahead...looking neither left now right ye saints...all

@Tomrainsallnight 4 ай бұрын

Young was horrible

@michaelleblanc7283 Жыл бұрын

Slavery had pros and cons for all involved. No doubt there was abuse by professional business interests who abuse everyone if they can to this very day. On the positive side, their was wide belief in the basic 10 Commandments in a society well guarded by the 'gossiping set'. Average owners of few domestic slaves provided a life-time employment, community protection and possibly the hope of a retirement home after a life time of close familiarity. A female Loyalist ancestor driven out of Stillwater NY in 1783 arrived in Canada with some 'servants' (slavery had been made illegal in 1772 - Somerset case). In the fall of 1816 - the 'Year Without a Summer', she applied for extra rations for her elderly negro servant and the womans two young orphaned children. Would like to believe they had all become family by then and the grandmother affectionately known as 'Aunty' to her Loyalist nieces and nephews.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

I gotta strongly disagree on the pros.

@michaelleblanc7283 Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza Josh, you gave me a soul searching pause for thought by the firm Disagree on all the 'pros' reply ? Many folks in modern America do what is essentially the work of slaves, long hours in a work day getting to and fro but Sunday is no longer an accepted day of rest for all but the preacher. All for low wages. The 'non-slave' must supply their own roof, food, clothes & mobility and an uncertainty of any real security. The ironic injustice is that the modern working non-slave has no real market value and his current non-slave 'owner', never having to make any gold investment in him, holds him in little regard other than a replaceable temporary convenience when the market is right . . . or so some other philosophers out there might believe if a life time of work is pondered upon.

@WildWestExtravaganza Жыл бұрын

I hear ya. It sucks having to work so hard and just barely get the necessities...no arguments from me there. But you can't compare that to slavery. Slaves can't quit or change jobs, slaves have no say if the owner wants to spend the night with their wife. Slaves have no choice period. No matter how nice a slave master might be, they still ain't free. We as humans are meant to be free. It's our God given inalienable right. Better to die free than live as a slave.

@michaelleblanc7283 Жыл бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza If we're truly free, why did they invent marriage laws that keep so many enslaved against their will ; )

@tuckerstewart5138 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelleblanc7283 you should be embarrassed by these comments. Any research into the belief and following of the “10 basic commandments” in the US South at the time would prove that. You really need to read independent books on this, I’m afraid you are huffing the copium and spewing some of the worst propaganda I’ve ever seen

@charlesm6823 3 ай бұрын

"Get your bump grind on." You lost me. I'm out.

@WildWestExtravaganza 3 ай бұрын

lol good

@charlesm6823 3 ай бұрын

@@WildWestExtravaganza Pick one affectation.

@WildWestExtravaganza 3 ай бұрын

@@charlesm6823 I did a long time ago, my own personal affectation. It’s fine if you don’t like it but there’s no need to announce your dissatisfaction or departure. It’s very simple to just stop listening. Over 500 hours of new videos are added to KZfaq each minute. I’m positive you can find an affectation more suited to your tastes elsewhere.