15 Little-Known Tales From The History Of The Old West

The history of the Old West is often viewed as a monolithic era, a time during which a few seminal events forever changed the course of history. But, as is all too often the case in history, the truth is not so simple. The old west is replete with stories of tragedy, triumph, conquest and cooperation, most of which are all but unknown today. Tonight, join History At The OK Corral as we explore 15 little-known stories from the History of The Old West.
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CHAPTERS
0:00-:040 Introduction
00:40-09:59 The Death Song Of One-Eyed Antelope
10:00-19:14 The Massacre Of The Bowstring Society
19:15-30:39 Porcupine Bear’s Revenge
30:40-40:54 The Battle Of Belly River
40:55-51:54 Sitting Bull’s First Fight
51:55-01:04:44 Crazy Horse At Little Bighorn
01:04:45-01:13:44 The Battle Of Tongue River
01:13:45-01:34:34 The Klamath Lake Massacre
01:34:35-01:50:19 The Rescue Of The Donner Party
01:50:20-01:57:49 The Mojave Massacre
01:57:50-02:22:09 The Umpqua Massacre
02:22:10-02:46:32 The Killing Of Jedediah Smith
02:46:33-03:04:04 Cold Blooded Murder In Alta California
03:04:05-03:18:59 The Bloody Benders
03:19:00-03:38:33 The Fetterman Massacre
LINKS TO SOURCES
1. “The Fighting Cheyennes” by George Grinnell. a.co/d/fiayurt
2. “Blood and Thunder” by Hampton Sides. a.co/d/9uNxuyC
3. “Jedediah Smith : No Ordinary Man” by Barton J. Harbour. a.co/d/eHRaDSe
4. “Indigenous Continent : The Epic Contest For North America” by Pekka Hamalainen. a.co/d/g1gsNpy

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Oh man, I’m so happy I found this channel. I absolutely love this stuff and it’s so hard to find the history

[@historyattheokcorral]

Welcome aboard!

[@bogota83]

Best history channel on KZbin! Hands down!

[@neepsmcfly4176]

I would agree if there was a sister station dedicated to going in depth with these "scratch the surface" stories.

[@TommyLawson-yc3ru]

Truth!!

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Shut up

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I stumbled on this Chanel as one who loves history this is amazing you paint A picture of A wonderful time and experience that is told in no less way but poetry great Chanel

[@arieschick1]

Narrator's voice is mellifluous

[@muffassa6739]

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[@jamesgroves5294]

Sitting here in NE Oklahoma, enjoying this amazing history lesson. Huge fan!! 🙏🏿🇺🇸

[@V3CT3R]

Go back to Canada us real Americans here in California

[@tato4612]

I'm moving there next year and I'll listen to this channel there too!

[@ambushedimagination1931]

Thousands of years of brutal, hardcore battle and for so much of it went on obliviously to the rest of the world. Good stuff, my man.

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Probably the best podcast channel, also when it comes to native history.

[@NLBusiness391]

Excellent as always! Thanks for all your hard work!!!

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I LOVE this channel too! If we humans are ever going to have lasting peace and justice, we need to educate ourselves on the varied cultures of the human race. Please keep up the great work! Thanks again, Adele Crowder

[@cz75shadow2]

I love this storys i tough i knew a lot of the western but only heard of a few of you storys thanks for great upload s and storys for taught

[@donc9751]

Love the background music! Also love the American history stories!!!

[@V3CT3R]

Thank you I wrote the music in the background, it was my first time so thank you

[@luanngarcia6435]

@donc Love this music. Reminds me of the dark blues that Justin Johnson plays. Wonder if it is his work....

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[@householdgambler]

Great 197 cups of coffee video for this Thursdsy at 3 am

[@denislaw8]

Really well narrated, with interesting visuals. Love the homespun storytelling style with crackling vocabulary demonstrating intelligence and passion for the subject.

[@louwhite4036]

wow, this is so interesting. thank you for your hard work with such attention to detail.

[@mrefellas4982]

Very thorough and thoughtful work - massive thanks

[@causticwit2286]

Ok. I love these videos. I had no interest in this era of history until the algorithm blessed me with this channel. Subbed and loved.

[@probjoe2215]

Hope you got ad revenue cuz I'ma watch every MINUTE OF YOUR CHANNEL

[@HollowHorn75]

As a Dog Soldier or "Hotametananeo" (Means DogMan) the first story is wrong about our name and weapon, the Crooked Lance Warriors are the warriors from our Elk Horn Scraper society, the Crooked Lance is their weapon. Each society had a different weapon, us DogSoldiers use long 6-7 foot long straight lances.

[@Mrchungus11C-OIR]

Nice morning coffee video for this Saturday morning

[@historyattheokcorral]

Perfect!

[@silverstar4289]

Sunday for me, but that is a story for another time………..

[@chuckbrueck3125]

​@@silverstar4289well played

[@ianhinz-vt9bg]

Same but Monday

[@intoleranttexan5687]

@@silverstar4289.

[@donnak6668]

Thank you for this channel! These are the best and the music is perfect!

[@ringogringo814]

Fremont bought Alcatraz Island for $300 from a Mexican goat herder. Kit Carson was also married to two different Native American women. Fremont could also be remembered as first to free the slaves in Missouri in 1861, but they where only free for a few weeks because Lincoln rescinded that by executive order.

[@robertmiller2173]

Thank you ! This reminds me a great deal about the Musket Wars here in New Zealand between the different Iwi (tribes) from the 1800 to 1842. It wasn't like the USA and Canada, here in New Zealand the victor normally ate their victims, some were lucky or unlucky to be slaves! Maori killed each other to such an extent that the number killed in these tribal wars was the same as what New Zealand lost in WW1 and WW2 combined! This why the Treaty of Waitangi saved Māori from exterminating each other by all the Tribes giving Sovereignty to the Crown.

[@GarryMules-yo9hp]

Oh,dunno bout dat!

[@socore4659]

Please do not go against the "white people are to blame for everything" narrative.

[@mickeycheeba9714]

Great content my good man, the Old West was the best era in time.

[@Fractal_blip]

Def not. It certainly is interesting

[@mickeycheeba9714]

​@Fractal_blip What makes you say that?, what time would you say is greater?

[@Fractal_blip]

@@mickeycheeba9714 the value of human life was somehow less than it is now. The old west times are certainly fascinating

[@mickeycheeba9714]

@Fractal_blip I think it's the same with a technology twist. But if we were to lose the technology then it would be the old west. Now the roaring 20's were another era that was a small difference because of cars other than that the value of life was the same to me.

[@Fractal_blip]

@@mickeycheeba9714 yeah they were certainly laying sh!t down in the 20's too.

[@manylch7964]

Great background soundtrack in addition to fascinating story telling

[@deathharpproductions3094]

Lived here my whole life near the Hundred-in-the Hand fight and NEVER heard the story of One Eyed Antelope! I would love to visit this site and offer my respects and will through further research if possible. Thank You for all your hard work on these fascinating documentaries!

[@historyattheokcorral]

Thank you for watching!

[@deathharpproductions3094]

@@historyattheokcorral Thank you for your awesome content through all of your very hard work! Huge Respect! HUGE! You also have a free place to stay should you ever want to come step on this land yourself! WE'LL EVEN FEED YA! 🏆

[@MrSpikebender]

Ok, it's sunday morning. I did wake n bake. @ 32:34 second guy from the right... tell me he is not wairing a pair of "Nike" hightops.

[@The_ZeroLine]

Only 3 hours and 40 minutes?! That’s hardly long enough to cover one bathroom break.

[@dawnpalmby5100]

Dang, i wasnt expecting over 3 hours! Thats awesome 👌

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

Excellent as always 👏👏👏

[@chrisfalcone5211]

What a great storyteller

[@historyattheokcorral]

Thank you!

[@DRAKE1323_]

Happy I found this my type of stories good stuff

[@vandango5439]

Can't get enough of this ❤

[@dogevanzandt2889]

Ty for your service

[@MattBurns10252]

Bruh 😂

[@dennisgrubbs1929]

Love that early picture of San Francisco bay also great video Thanks 👍

[@forrestburghy3726]

Indeed a nice relaxing Sat. morning & afternoon. Enjoy

[@ronald5439]

Thank you for the honest and historic telling of the past 😎

[@dylanallen8877]

Entire video gave me goosebumps

[@Jdub6580]

I'm home sick from work. For the life of me I can't figure out why, after three hours, the looping sound track hasn't even gotten old yet. That was a really good pick bro. Great content too tho, that's the real reason I'm commenting. How fascinating! Crazy how Mr. Smith, at a ripe old age of 32, was one of only two fatalities on a supposedly safe trip. Seems to me the poor guy was just trying to wrap up the final item on his bucket list before kicking back for a nice retirement during which he could enjoy the fruits of all his hard work. Fascinating.

[@mns8732]

Old Wesr history is the best.

[@danielbradmacboleniii5601]

Greetings from Apacheria in the Arizona Territories Ahe'hye'e

[@V3CT3R]

We don’t understand what you said, old redskin. We’ thinky’ not

[@breadtoasted2269]

There were some great warriors RIP

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Keep it going!!

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent drawings/Black & White pictures.Reenactments. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Had enemy tribal warriors not assisted the U.S. Calvary in seeking out the remaining tribes. They would have been afforded a better opportunity to negotiate. Agreements that would have better benefited their best interests.

[@kennethmartin8333]

Thank you for being true to the person of Kit Carson. I am an amateur historian of carson, and believe that he is unfairly portrayed as an Indian killer with no remorse in today's revisionist history.

[@terriludovicy834]

Oh I love how you all tell a story! Albeit, a sad one....😢

[@Les537]

Cool stories, bro.

[@timothyodaniell9119]

3:17..."The Dog Soldiers quickly retreated to the top of the nearest hill.." -What happened to dog soldiers never retreating regardless of how tactically inane that philosophy/oath was?

[@socore4659]

Love this for falling asleep. Some weird dreams though😂

[@walkercustoms]

Thank you

[@codenamecatatonic8894]

This is amazing & a shame not taught In depth in schools.

[@bustedloads9045]

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[@tato4612]

Best channel!

[@FrancisCard]

I wish we all just got along and their was no fighting eachother, maybe we would all still be following our traditional ways and their would be no drugs in our reserves and the world would definitely be a better place.

[@richard-cf8ce]

Right on I have to agree how to say something and you probably won't ever see this

[@oceanhome2023]

SJW ! We can’t apply the values of today to the past , life is very hard and a lot of very sad things happened !

[@arklife99]

Wasn't long after the europeans had started to wipe of the natives so america could be formed properly tho and america have wiped out most of this history themselves

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i love how the painfully endless stream of pathetic modern man ads contrast the seriousness of life in uncharted wild lands.

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Little dramatic bud out of 3 hours I got maybe 7 or 8 which I promptly skipped.

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Good video

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When are you getting to MacKenzie?

[@historyattheokcorral]

Very soon.

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Crow, black wign

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Southwest Oregon enjoying. 😊

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Southeast Oregon enjoying.

[@rockyrandall332]

Very interesting and historic events thanks for posting these However ,In your story "The Battle of Belly River .you say Saskatchewan ,Alberta .Both Saskatchewan and Alberta are provinces has to be one or the other can't be both .Its like saying Montana .North Dakota .

[@cody92697]

Enjoying from Rose Barracks

[@GoodCovfefe]

Col. Poole is my uncle

[@cody92697]

@@GoodCovfefe no way! That's cool

[@Fittafella27]

Man never ceases to amaze how brutal these days were you'll never catch me saying the indians were a peaceful people again 😳

[@omarsabeur9039]

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[@davidbingley6734]

People are People. I like that.

[@HistoricallyRomantic]

To quote the late, great Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"

[@AZ-kr6ff]

I don't know about great, but definitely late. Haha

[@AEM-le7uy]

Something tells me they weren't much of swimmers

[@AZ-kr6ff]

I don't think many American Indians swam at all.

[@mattpolinsky4234]

While important to recognize and understand the horrors committed by the Europeans and Americans to the natives it also very important to understand that it went both ways and I was not that Europeans were barbaric or the Americans were barbaric or that the natives of the many tribe were barbaric. They were all people and they were all barbaric and they all did horrible things to each other but they also did great things to each other while some may be small in comparison they still happened. What is best to do is learn from the history going forward learn the of men who fought and died whether for right or wrong cause. We should leave the past where it is but not leave it behind because all the men, women, and children involved in the conflicts and wars whether within native on native wars or native on European they are all dead and there is nothing you can do in todays world that will fix what has happened because it has already happened.

[@V3CT3R]

Legend of the one eyed snake 🐍

[@TommyLawson-yc3ru]

So whats the difference between comanchero warning J.Smith about the Comanche? They arent the same? Sorry,im a greenhorn but I absolutely love this channel! Awesome sauce!!

[@historyattheokcorral]

The Comancheros were New Mexico traders of Spanish and mixed-race descent who dealt with the Comanche.

[@historyattheokcorral]

Thanks for watching!

[@TommyLawson-yc3ru]

@@historyattheokcorral oh ok I understand now! Thank you much and stay blessed brother! Merry Christmas!

[@historyattheokcorral]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

[@johnmatthews4717]

Savage part was right

[@ilovetrump3209]

Correction, Not all of the 7th Cavalry was cut down that day, 1 lone man survived and lived with the shame of being called a coward by all that met him. FYI

[@user-gz6vm8bz6p]

Who might that man be?

[@cradd7108]

​@@user-gz6vm8bz6ponly confirmed "survivor" is Comanche, a horse belonging to Captain Myles Keogh. Not sure who this dude is talking about. There's supposedly dozens of "lone survivors" of Custer's last stand...none confirmed other than Comanche

[@AZ-kr6ff]

​@@user-gz6vm8bz6p Who was that masked man?!!

[@chuckbrueck3125]

​@@user-gz6vm8bz6pFrank Finkel (January 29, 1854 - August 28, 1930)

[@thepitpatrol]

Joseph Sims Jr

[@xx-UNKNOWN-xx]

I just don't understand how no gunshots were heard when smith was shot.

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[@sasquatch6829]

Isn’t it the difficulty on Fremont Street?

[@anniglass6142]

Are there references for these stories?

[@historyattheokcorral]

Links to sources in description.

[@shenandoahreynolds6921]

Been a dog soldier not always to that... white boy scout...

[@thepitpatrol]

The Donnor party was not to be blamed completely. Because of a malfunction of a U.S. military satellite, their GPS had taken them miles off course. This, combined with the fact that a 7-Eleven had been closed down due to high crime, led to the horrible outcome of this group.

[@luanngarcia6435]

@thepitpatrol weird fact: one of the men who survived the Donner Party tragedy ended up opening a restaurant in San Francisco.

[@thepitpatrol]

@luanngarcia6435 wow, how many stars do they have?

[@williamarmstrong4177]

“Gros Ventres” is pronounced as “Grow Vaunt” in English. French for fat or big belly.

[@healdiseasenow]

The contraries were people who were contrary to everything that means that they were backwards they walked backwards they bathe in the dirt ain't got dirty by the water. Everything they did they did backwards

[@jimboslice5693]

More 🔥 from Kittie

[@superbee-di5tp]

I was born less than 20 miles from Bainbridge, NY

[@HistoricallyRomantic]

Binghampton?

[@superbee-di5tp]

@@HistoricallyRomantic No, north of Binghamton. Small town, rural. I did live there for a while and worked between Binghamton and Endicott most of my life.

[@bc2578]

As a full blooded Flat Rock Indian, let me thank you for your work and ask you to stop calling my people "indigenous," or whatever term the liberal Whites have come up with most recently. We are proud to be Indians, and refer to ourselves as such. We also know better than to claim to be the original people of this country, as we know that if you go back in history far enough, you will find many others of other races that came before us and built civilizations that rose and fell, as all things do.

[@Markwaltonn5860]

According to the Indians, Custer was one of the first to die

[@lisamitchell7070]

I think Saulteaux is pronounced So-toe. Kainai is pronounced G-eye-n-eye.

[@fleadoggreen9062]

So did Metzger die ?

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⚔️💛⚔️

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All your videos are “auditory movies” to me, but I think this might be your magnum opus.

[@cavandavidson1185]

Could be nice but made unlistenable by the constant background guitar noodling. Who on earth thought that was a good idea?

[@historyattheokcorral]

We did.

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remember, youtube has to sell to the dumbest people - ...

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Hi

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Goodnight my internet friends!!!

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Horse soldier horse soldier

[@AtheisticAtheist]

Little know fact about the First Nations is that they didn't cross the Beiring Straits 16,500 years ago. Apparently they all were all descendants from Noahs ark. (According to Mr Ham) 🤭😂🤣😅

[@richard-cf8ce]

Maybe not all of them you have to keep an open mind

[@AtheisticAtheist]

I do living in the UK. Britain is steeped in human history from Neanderthals to the to present day. I just can't accept that certain people (who will remain unnamed) believe the planet is only 6,000 years old. It's an insult to early man's achievements.

[@richard-cf8ce]

Excellent content and the way you present it is correct. 50 year old Alaskan white man born and raised in Fairbanks. I have seen what the white man has done to the eskimos up here. Good stuff though thank you.

[@rickwyatt2109]

Buffalo bill

[@user-ej6qw8pi3z]

SASKATCHEWAN is not in ALBERTA. They are provinces, like the USA states.

[@FryingTiger]

Let's hear some savage canniblism truths!

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😊😅😅😮😅😅😮😮❤

[@garyschultz7768]

b4 hollywood got woke

[@talkinghead3169]

This channel knows a lot of facts about battles that happened 150 years ago, eh?

[@historyattheokcorral]

Correct.

[@stephenzavatski8016]

Primary sources exist.

[@aprilm.wemigwans-mezimegwa541]

Oh my Gwad misinformation in stories ? Shame on you. Not that I’m apart of that tribe or am I saying but some of the detail and even events sounds off. Sounds fiction. Oh I know about my tribe and fights with other tribe that’s not the aspect I’m highlighted. But the rest of your info sounds more like something in the movie in my experience it’s never never ever like that. I mean the Cree saying “we’re here” lol nnnoo way the rest I’ll remain open until it get more

[@historyattheokcorral]

Thats becuase you literally don't know anything about it. You are demonstrably ignorant, and yet still mustered the temerity to leave a comment. Almost admirable.