How do you think you would fare in the Wild West?

Are we just going to ignore they had the coolest names back then???

"Fast is fine, but accurate is final. You need to learn to be slow in a hurry." Wyatt Earp

"You dont hire a saint to catch a sinner"

My Great Grandfather Frederick Sweet was the only Surgeon in the late 1800’s in Tombstone/Bisbee. There were a lot of mining and shooting injuries. He was there from about 1875-1905.

Being a sheriff must’ve been cool because you got to have a mustache

“God damn O’driscolls” - Arthur Morgan

We are thieves in a world that dont want us no more -Arthur Morgan

"Be loyal to what matters." Arthur Morgan

you just don't see moustaches like that anymore.

"I'm Dirty Dan" -Spongebob

Have any of you seen Gavin? I’m helping a fella out he’s been looking for almost 8 years

"In this world, there are two kinds of men. Men with loaded guns, and men who dig. You dig."

“VENGEANCE IS AN IDIOT’S GAME Arthur Morgan

I’m going to go play RED DEAD now lol

One of my favorite quotes/scenes in the western genre. " look at that!" " yep steady as a rock" " Yeah but I shoot with this hand..."

I find it so cool that tombstone was legitimately real and so were the Earps and Doc Holiday. My day is complete

Pretty sure "land lubber" is a pirate insult not a wild west term

It's hard to tell the difference between the Law and the Outlaws in those days. They all dressed alike

My great grandfather was a U.S. marshal in S.E. Okla. and Texas. My grandfather who was born in 1880 and passed in 1976 at 96yrs. of age had a lot of stories of his father's exploits. My great grandfather said men did what ever they had to do to make a living and some would cross from being a law officer to outlaw frequently. My father was able to get many of his stories down on paper before the death of my grandfather. One story I remember my grandfather telling was of a sheriff who lost the election and was replaced by another man. The ex-sheriff took up with some outlaws and shot the man who had replaced him as sheriff. My great grandfather was charged with tracking the bunch down and dealing out justice. They tracked the group to two dug outs in the side of a hill. It was decided that since it was almost dark they would watch the dug outs and approach them in the morning. Once daylight came and they could see they realized there had been a disturbance at the dug outs. Upon closer inspection they found there was no horses in the corral. They carefully approached the mouths of the dug outs and found one empty. The man they were chasing had been shot and was lieing dead in the other dugout. Not long after some Texas Rangers rode up and said that about an hour before my ggrandfather and his group got there they rode up and a gun battle started. After a short time the men in the dug outs made a break and got on their horses and fled south. The Rangers followed but eventually lost their tracks on the Rocky ground and had returned to see if they had doubled back. The only one killed in the gun battle was the ex- sheriff who had ran to the front of the dug out and then back. This whole time he was bent over because the dugout was not tall enough to stand in. After a shot when he turned to go back to the safety of the back of the dug out he was hit. The bullet was a large caliber 45-70 and went right up his rectum and out the top of his head (what head was left). There are a lot of other stories that I was left. To be a law man in those days wasn't anything like Hollywood portrays. They lived a very rough, dangerous, lonely life.

In my County, the Sheriff's Mounted Posse is still enacted often for search and rescue missions, which is really cool

''my donkey don't like your laughing'' -- Clint Eastwood

Back in the days, a guy with a mustache is either dangerous or seriously dangerous and respectable. Now they are in our local sex offender group gatherings

No one: Thumbnail: SLOWY press R2 to fill the meter. The more full the meter, the longer you get to aim.

It's a shame that to this very day Sheriff Woody still has a snake in his boot. 🐍🏴‍☠️

I learn more here than in school

Ah yes, the most cowboy insult in the history of insults, "Landlubber"

"I'm your huckleberry" -Doc Holliday which basically translates to come at me bro

“Smells like updyke in here.” “What’s updyke?” “WHAT’D YOU CALL ME??”

My favorite Wild West quote “well dip my balls in sweet cream and dangle me in a kitchen full of kittens”, allegedly uttered by John Wesley Hardin 😀

"We’re Thieves, In A World That Don’t Want Us No More" ARTHUR MORGAN

“I have a PLAN” - Dutch van der Linde

Ok brother it’s been 2yrs since you’ve made this video but I just finished, Yellowstone, 1883 and Deadwood, so I needed something to watch to withdraw my addictions. I had absolutely no idea that Frederick Douglass was a US marshal. Absolutely fantastic videos! Hope you don’t stop making them. And thank you Weird History!!!! You’re awesome bruv!

Three-legged dog walked into a saloon. Bartender asks can I help you? He says yeah I'm looking for the man that shot my paw

Loved that you led with "Support Your Local Sheriff". One of my favorite western movies with too many good lines to only give one.

“Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”

I finished RDR 2, so yeah. I would have no problems in the Wild West.

Honestly, I grew up and into adulthood never caring much for the setting of the American West.......then a little production came to my attention : Deadwood. Now it's a topic I've learned much about since, I'm grateful that something sparked my interest and for quality channels like this for adding to my understanding in delightfully witty and entertaining ways 👍🍻

"Get three coffins ready ... My mistake: four coffins"

Every one of your videos is absolutely fantastic!! Please keep 'em coming, they're great entertainment!

Can't wait for these guys to get million subs, they deserve that!

I'm your huckleberry

"Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave"

Here in Canada, we had a different system for policing our west, in response to a massacre of local natives in the Cypress Hills by American whiskey traders, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald passed the Mounted Police Act, creating the North-West Mounted Police, a paramilitary force, under direct federal control, to police the Northwest Territories (which at the time included all of modern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Nunavut, and the north of Ontario and Québec), the force was armed and trained as cavalry, many of the officers and men had previously served in the British Army, or the Canadian Militia, the Mounted Police kept the peace between the natives, the settlers, and the Métis (mostly), shut down the illegal liquor trade, and handled a score of other duties in the prairies and Canada's north, these duties included (but were not limited to) census taking, tax collection, customs control, enforcing the prohibition laws in effect in the Northwest Territories and it's successor provinces at the time, serving as bailiffs for local courts, guarding prisoners (who were held in Mounted Police Barracks, since dedicated jails didn't exist there yet), and occasionally, and carrying out executions, most notably, the hanging of Métis rebel leader Louis Riel for Treason in 1885. The NWMP was renamed to the "Royal Northwest Mounted Police" due to many of it's members leaving the force to fight for Queen and Country in South Africa during the Second Boer War, they then went on to help form the South African Constabulary, a force based off the Mounted Police, meant for service in the former Boer republics. During WW1, the Mounted Police, along with Canada's other federal police force, the Dominion Police, were used to maintain national security (the Dominion Police in eastern Canada, and the Mounted Police in western Canada), they patrolled the borders, arrested spies, controlled unrest, and of course, as with all police forces in the western world at this time, they suppressed strikes and labour uprisings, also during this time, the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan formed their own Provincial Police, to take over general police duties in rural areas (they would be disbanded during the Great Depression as a cost saving measure by their provincial governments, with their duties being transferred back to the federal police). In 1920, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police was merged with the Dominion Police to form the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the which remains in existence to this day.

Weird History once shot a historical fallacy just to watch it die.

Why did you include Fredrick Douglass in the part talking about lawmen heading west @4:57?

I would like to see a Weird History episode on Henry Plummer and his "Innocents" posse --- that sounds like some kind of story!

...an old fishing buddy of mine, R.I.P., was a retired Chief of Police here in Canada. He got offered a job as a constable after WW2, when they noticed how well he could handle and talk-down all the drunken sailors at the hotel bar he tended in our port town, after he got released from the Provost Corps...

"Boah!" Best quote from the wild west

You tell em I’m coming...and hell’s coming with me!!!

These videos are informative and entertaining! I'd like to see one done on the legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona.

"Who you calling pinhead?" - Patrick Star

"I had a goddamn plan!"

"Get out of Dodge" (Marshal Matt Dillon as U.S. Marshal of Dodge City in Gunsmoke)

“I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." JBB

My grandfather was a Kansas Marshall. I wish I could have known him, and heard his stories.

"I'm your blueberry." - Doctor Erp

Just to live a normal life Said Wyatt Earp. There’s no normal life, Wyatt. There’s just life said Doc Holiday.

You tell him I'm comin'....and Hell's comin' with me is my favorite west quote of all time

“Get me three caskets,” (2 mins later) “Make that four.”

Love the channel. Reaching one million subscribers. Have a blessed Thanksgiving.

I would love to hear about the Texas rangers someday!

Thank you for your videos and hard work making them.

"YOU'RE ALRIGHT BOAH"

Killing an unarmed sheriff is self-defence.... there are things that never change.

“There’s a snake in my boot!” - Woody

Weird History. These Videos you guys are making ARE VERY INTERESTING. THANKS.👍🏼

A+ video! Fascinating history of the job of being a sheriff!

"Dying ain't much of a living, boy.

So rambo's snake was inspired by that "rattlesnake" guy

A+ video! LOVE IT! What a fascinating and unique topic and video!

Fun Fact.. just got this video recommendation after watching "the good the bad and the ugly" on Netflix. Thanks Big Brothers...so nice to know you care!!!

That may be the first time I've ever heard Virginia City Nevada mentioned by anyone who didn't live near there.

"This town aint big enuff for both of us sheriff. " "Right you are i will just pack my bags and go.say so long to ms.kitty for me" pardner"

I like the narration. Its relaxing, you are like hearing a radio in wild west.

That Logan tale hit me right in the heartstrings.

Great video! The history of the Wild West is so glamorized. I’ll bet it was lonely to live out in the west during those days.

Stay historical, stay weird

Thank you for the entertaining videos! Sometimes it's nice to learn and laugh😂🌛

"You Dont Look Tough" *~ Arthur Morgan*

“Get to fighting or get away, the shootings commenced!” Wyatt Earp to ike Clanton

One of my favorites, "you ain't worth a pinch of shit".

Straight up the coolest time period of all time. I live in new mexico and there’s quite a few neat wild west artifacts you can find around, like old long-abandoned buildings like hotels or saloons and Billy the Kid’s grave

love your channel its amazing

it seems to me that unfortunately a lot of sheriffs were corrupt

"Go ahead draw that smoke wagon I 'll make a canoe out of your head" Wyat Erp

Damn you just reminded me, they need to bring the show Deadwood back!! That show was awesome!!

4:09 Doesn't restrict firearm possession, only discharging in the city, which nearly all cities have.

Love your channel so much 💜wish I had this as a kid

I've read a lot that due to how life was in the old west and how it was hard to make money so a lot of Marshals or Sheriffs rode the line between outlaw and lawman. Some would go outlaw for a while and then turn lawman and vice versa. Also watch Bonanza they show a lot about Sheriff's deputizing posses. Another fact is that Sheriff Joe Arpao still had a Sheriff's posse within the last 10 years.

Why is Fredrick Douglass' photo here?

Hey got any history class for your Caribbean fans? Sending love from Jamaica. Keep up the good work 👌👍

"There are two types of people in this world, the ones who dig, and the ones with loaded guns. You dig" - Blondie (Clint Eastwood) From the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

My favorite phrase is,, u alright boy'' by the legendary bandit Arthur morgan

pretty sure that 'lily livered land lover' is a pirate's diss....

Most of these guys with their epic mustache & side part haircuts look just like the hipsters in my local coffee shop.

I really like his voice! It’s calm, but not boring. I enjoy history, but when I’m listening to something in the person has the wrong voice for it it kills it for me

Masterful presentation!

got the notification at work and immediately dropped everything

Town: turn in your gunz at the hotel Me: mosies on somewhere else