Crazy horse had Iberian celt bloodline in his DNA from the first Spaniard who came to north America to conquer the land they do communicate with the tribes a lot

Great video and bio!

Agree that Val Kilmer should have been one to win an Oscar for his role in Tombstone,

If Billy the Kid had gone by his born name, Henry McCarty, nobody would know or care who he was.

I sure wish that you'd do a story on Rhowdy Joe Lowe out of Newton & Wichita (Delano District), Kansas? Saloon owner, gunman, and obnoxious character of the Kansas Old West History. Keep up the Great stories, Bob!🤠

If Billy the Kid had gone by his real name, Henry McCarty, nobody would know or care who he was.

I'm a descendant of Emmett and I'm named after him. I remember hearing bits of these stories as a kid.

I remember living in Dodge City, Ks., we wre doing some Electrical work in the Fourd County Courthouse Annex building basement in Dodge City. During break time we started looking at old Court documents, and we saw quite a few signed by Wyatt Earp in he was a Lawman in Dodge.

What became of her little sister. ???

Custer was a racist , a hero for rednecks !!!!!! the indians killed him !!! YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s not a Springfield single shot rifle. It’s a muzzle-loader. Which makes everything thing you say unreliable.

Hey Bob--love your videos! I once read (heard?) that after the O.K. fight Doc returned to his room with Kate and started crying. Is this true?

Just seen another AI generated vid on this matter, and they repeated all the legends, but none of the truths.

honestly think Pat Garrett was a liar! he has been proven to many times to be wrong or flat out lied!

Really enjoyed this..... Good Job.

As much as I want Doc to have killed Ringo.............reality is leaning more that he didn't..........however..with that said......Doc would've ended him

Shit man I have been on Google Earth checking out the story, yeah I think you may be right, at any rate I love the story!!

Sounds like a little white washing. He got what he had coming.

Wow love this thanks

Great details, some of the best projects put out. Evfo

Ringo really took his own life, Might been because of his death of his father. Shot in the head, though Ringo followed the bible.

Thanks Bob!

Lead Poisoning...Right?

Why did he murder random rabbits along the road?

Dana Nicholson... best actor in the movie...

Crazy Horse refused to have his likeness captured by camera or drawing. He believed it would steal his spirit.

This is not bad, but it leaves out some key facts. Reno halted his charge for no good reason--he had very few Indians in his front but just lost his nerve. Then, Reno compounded his error by leaving the excellent defensive position of the timber. Indian sources confirm that if Reno had just stayed in the timber, the Indians would have eventually retreated because they would have been unable to mass their forces against Custer. Thus, Custer's splitting of his command would have actually worked if Reno had not left the timber. Plus, when Custer saw how large the village was, he immediately ordered Benteen, in writing, to bring his battalion to Custer's location quickly, but Benteen disobeyed this direct order.

All I know about those times came from my father my grandfather and my great grandfather .they lived in far west texas and New Mexico and they feared Geronimo till he died and always had a place with a deep tunnel that lead a long way from the house . At times my great grand father was in a posse trying to catch them the not only stole horses and cows but anything they could including a small Mexican boy from another ranch . They were ruthless to anyone they came in contact with they gave no mercy and asked for none . In fact if mercy were shown to them they lost all respect for who chose to give them mercy and they felt that whoever was showing mercy they were belittling them as a man and a Warrior. They were complicated people, but certainly people from that time did show respect to the Apaches way of war and two individual warriors who outshone the norm Geronimo was one of those warriors. I do not understand how anyone could not look back on HISTORY at the time it was happening and today and not understand that do you need and was fighting for his way of life and the people that came there to settle we’re fighting for their way of life so it was just not one-sided Apache or European. They both had a right to fight 2024 is not the same as 1854 .

One of the first book i had was by this gentleman 🙏

Your Docos are fantastic thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Never answered the question. Sounds like a politician

Splitting the force was the death blow and the arrogance and bad recon not listening to his crow scouts sealed the fate of custer

Great tale, Bob. Love your stuff. Keep up the good work.

He left two Gatling guns behind!!!

Have you ever heard of Todd George?? In reference to James Gang, Daltons, or the Youngers??

Like today, everybody lies. It is difficult for me to decide what is true about this story and what is not.

When I hear of the Daltons ,the song Doolin Daltons by the Eagles comes to mind.

Lets see your dog!

How many true men didnt make it that deserving

*Why do a bunch of dirty Lela Citsu' Wasi'chu care what Tashunko Witko looked like? He was Wankan'. He was the Tate' & the Wakíŋyaŋ. He was the Paha Sapa Wankan', they broke themselves upon..They stabbed him in the back & murdered him for it...Tunkashila protect and bless my Mitakuye Oyasin..* ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥🔥🔥

Unpleasant to listen to your poor speech habits. You wreck what good be a good story. Get some training.

Buffaloing ... or we now call Pistol Whipping LOL

It could be argued that the 7th tried to be both a cavalry force and an army force, and it failed at being either one. The natives, however, had positioned (whether intentional or not) their forces in such a way as to be an effective ground army, but they also used mobile cavalry of their own to good effect. While it's true that the cavalry method was to dismount and have a single soldier hold the horses for a short engagement, I think the US commanders felt they could do more than simply skirmish and run. They tried to line up and fight a prolonged battle. Typically, cavalry had always been used to gather intelligence and probe enemy defenses before reporting back to a main force, which would use the intel to properly deploy the larger, more powerful force. During the American civil war, you would never see a cavalry unit find an opposing army and decide to dismount and fight it out with a vastly superior enemy. Instead, the cavalry in the civil war would most often withdraw and carry information back to a commanding general and new battle plans would be devised for either attack or defense. There were no massive armies behind Custer at the Little Bighorn. And as Custer approached what he knew to be a large village, he divided his force and sent Reno to attack first. Here's where the cavalry tried to be an army. Reno's forces dismounted and created a skirmish line to fight it out. Reno was hopelessly outnumbered, and lost much of his force as they were forced to retreat back across the river to higher ground. Custer led his force across the high ground and tried to work around to attack the village from behind (a legitimate use of cavalry), but by this time the hostiles that had repelled Reno were making their way back and were able to strengthen the line against Custer's attack. The result was a counterattack that chased Custer's depleated force back up to the higher ground (near the last stand), and it was there they had to form up and be an army again. Meanwhile, Crazy Horse had successly moved a force of his own (in cavalry-like style) and came around in Custer's rear, attacking and enveloping the rapidly diminishing force. I'm not suggesting the US forces should have tried marching large armies into Montana. Such would never have worked, because natives were moving around and were quite skilled and keeping themselves away from advancing threats. The big question is why did Custer engage in a doctrine that would never have worked in the civil war he had just fought in? Custer's mindset was not to defeat the indians as much as it was to contain them. He was far more concerned about them escaping. I think Custer had little respect for the natives, and didn't consider them having the ability to fight successfully against trained soldiers. He likely felt a few hundred soldiers were more than enough to handle a larger force of natives. It was to his own peril and demise that he thought that.

Good video. Just gotta say, if somebody sold you a suit jacket, that looks like a 4 button wool sack coat, and told you it was brooks brothers, that person ripped you off. Haha

Honored to say Bob and I stopped in PIE TOWN..on our way to Lincoln...and yes it was fantastic. ❤

Will you plan on attending the 150 year anniversary in two years Bob? I was at the 148 anniversary a few weeks ago. I camped at Medicine Coulee the night before through the hipcamp app. So much reverence and respect throughout the anniversary schedule of events. I hope to go back for the 150th and maybe will see you there. As always, such a terrific video. Thanks!

Taking on board the points about Custer acting reasonably for strategy of the time, the key moment for Custer's decision making was when Reno's command collapsed. If Custer had seen or heard Reno had collapsed (surely he should have kept scouts in visual contact, possibly his biggest error...), Custers actions (noting his desperation to win a victory quickly due to financial and political issues) must have been either to make a daring action to save the day by taking hostages in the rear or flank, or drawing them away from Reno (errr..). But, if he had not seen or heard of Reno's collapse, as assumed, then progressing with his plan once he had seen the size of village was pure military folly, which should have verified in his mind his scouts earlier concerns. PLUS As soon as he passed over the deep ravines leading to the river, which subsequently provided a concealed route for the flow of Indians up the ravines behind his subsequent central positions (or left, if you discount Reno), which resulted in the encirclement of his centre, becoming trapped, losing horses and overwhelmed, and presumably he decided to stand and fight with the remnants of his fleeing centre which was now on foot. Add to that the clothes, the rifles, the long grass, the ability of the Indians as experienced hunters, their sheer numbers, and his men did not stand a chance in combat. He did not adapt strategically once he knew the opposition size and instead put his centre in a deadly position of encirclement. Had he acknowledged the size of enemy forces or heard of Renos collapse, and turned back from medicine coulee or thereabouts, and adopted a defensive posture with his forces in the rear, he would have failed to gain the personal glory he needed. Little did he know all other combined factors and putting his centre in a deadly position would result in annihilation. However, if he daringly tried to win/save the day on seeing Reno's collapse, then perhaps he can be viewed as more heroic and daring, than just foolish and arrogant, a daring throw of the dice that went wrong.

Thanks, there is so much misinformation about the whole Indian situation in that era, people of today are trying to apply today's world to yesterdays people, it doesn't fit. Mom, who died on New Years day of this year at 98 years of age had a fear of Indians from growing up just miles off the reservation, her contact with them in the early days left her with lasting fear of the people. Dad, who was born in 1910 used to tell stories of when he was a boy in North Dakota, just south of the Pretty Rock hills where the Indians lived till shortly before Grand Father bought the land from the Railroad, who had been granted the land by the government as an incentive for building their routes where the Fed wanted them. He told stories of his youth and contact with the Indians who still had villages in the Pretty Rocks. These were Sioux, they were not all good spiritual people, not the knights of the plains, but blood thirsty thieves who would steal the cattle off the farm, killed and butchered the livestock where they stood in the pastures of our old home place. They would come in the night and raid the farm, stealing tools and other objects from the garage on the home place and often would steal the very chickens out of the coupe. Many of grandfather's friends and brothers urged the removal of the thieves from the land so they could farm in peace. To this day, there are still people who live in my home town who will cuss you out should you make the trip to an Indian casino because the money goes to those damn Indians who would rather take the money from the fed then find a job like the rest of do in order to eat.

Modern interpretation of history often begins from a perspective of knowing the outcome. Judging the decisions of those who lived in that moment while knowing all the critical factors is an example of the bias we apply. Custer and his subordinates did not have this advantage. I think he is often unfairly criticized for his decision making and strategy.

Someone got suckered, Pat Garrett didn't kill the kid and even if he did there is absolutely no way of verifying it is the same gun.