Heroines Of The Wild West You Wouldn't Want To Mess With

[@catlady6210]

I learn more here than in school.

[@nuduce123]

That's because schools don't teach, the indoctrinate.

[@JoE-kx7dw]

I use this channel to home school

[@gjdippaavvhyk]

No, that's because you are not willing to study and being lazy.

[@spikejones7450]

Yeah, propaganda sucks.

[@comettamer]

@@gjdippaavvhyk Even those who do study and work hard don't get squat out of school. Because school doesn't teach anymore. It just forces people to read and repeat facts. Facts that too often are incorrect.

[@gabrielar9611]

This was great. As a black women I loved to see them featured, but I thoroughly enjoyed all these women’s story’s. Good work. Please do stories of unknown women more often. It’s so interesting.

[@SharpieTheBlack]

I wonder how many amazing black women weren't recorded in history

[@ogungou9]

Mary field is exactly the description of my Caribbean (Martinican Creole) grandmother's mother ... On my mother side. If my grandmother herself hadn't been such a Christian believer (When she was a child she had been placed in a very strict house as a servant), she would have been the same. Because despite of that she was not that different from my great grandmother ...

[@sammerino9259]

I tot it is heroin as in the drug when I read this haha

[@kenyattaclay7666]

A lot. As a kid the only three black women that were ever taught in my school was Tubman, C.J. Walker and Rosa Parks. It wasnt until college that I started learning about authors like Zora Neal Hurston, artist like Josephine Baker, and civil rights pioneers like Ida B. Wells.

[@Morfeusm]

6789411561 exactly

[@jasonlogan5765]

Probably none

[@321DEATHPUNCH]

I appreciate this channel so much! I couldn't get myself interested in history during school because of the way they presented everything by events, unintentionally removing the ability to empathize with the people at the time. You guys really give life to the past, and allow the audience to relate and connect to these people. This makes it much more interesting and insightful for me especially. Please keep up the good work, you're making an intimidating subject more approachable and actually enjoyable.

[@SirBlackReeds]

Eh, I've seen better presentations.

[@athena8794]

Annie Oakley also sent an offer to the US president during WW1 to train a battalion of woman snipers. They turned her down.

[@strikeforce1500]

**meanwhile the Russian empire lacking forces** "WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!"

[@comettamer]

Given how the US wanted to avoid entering into the conflict, im less than surprised. It was a foolish idea to ignore her plan though.

[@brilianairlangga1408]

It would be badass

[@kiwitoothpick9351]

Aye stop smoking

[@thunderbird1921]

Wasn't that during the Spanish-American War? The US spanked Spain so badly in some areas of that conflict it only lasted about a year. One can only imagine Oakley's snipers going to work and how much uglier it would have gotten.

[@DustySprinkles]

You should do an episode on Rattlesnake Kate! She has a very interesting story! She killed over 100 rattlesnakes attacking her in the wild west while protecting her baby. She even made a dress out of the snake skins. She had many husbands (that she may or may not have killed with arsenic). She even built her own house and lived in a chicken coup while doing so.

[@Yoyomo124]

Is that the same as Kissin’ Kate from Holes? She like kissed her victims with lipstick made from rattlesnake venom in that movie.

[@DustySprinkles]

Yoyomo124 I don’t believe so.

[@youtuberyoutubingonyoutube]

Wooooa! Def want to see this!

[@lisadavenport476]

@archona54 where is your beef with this video coming from? You seem to be taking it personally

[@SisterWomen]

Theres nothing sexier than a man that champions badass women. This chanel is always generous and kind to women. It means a lot.

[@Osiris3657]

Very surprised that Calamity Jane wasn't mentioned. She's definitely one of the most famous women from the Wild West era

[@dsxa918]

We're here for 'novel' history, we are not here for stories told in many places...

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Wild West heroine turned Civil War vet. She did whatever she could to fight. Mad respect

[@MetalheadMinis]

My children and I are big fans of your channel! =) Thanks for these videos!

[@QueenCityHistory]

No Calamity Jane?? She scouted for Custer and also nursed most of the prospectors in Deadwood dying from smallpox

[@rickkinki4624]

My thought exactly.

[@cheezyrider1111]

My wood is dead

[@kflo8634]

Maybe a video on old gold rush ghost town histories? That would be sweet.

[@Down_the_Wind]

Thank you Weird History, for giving these fine ladies the shoutout they deserved!

[@BrandonJXN2]

The fact that I didn't know that Mary Fields was the first black female US postal worker speaks volumes about the lack of education in the United States and the value of this channel.

[@sammyr6911]

Brandon Jackson They intentionally do not teach these things. It’s more like miseducation than the lack of education

[@psychokinrazalon]

Because the first black female postal worker takes lesser priority than Rosa Parks. Take a guess which one is more important to teach in schools.

[@waylor3029]

@@psychokinrazalon we literally learn about all white dudes and there is never a debate on which white dude they should teach us about so why it gotta be that way for black people

[@Thoralmir]

They don't want you to know about the progress black people have made. That would conflict with their narrative that black people are perpetually powerless victims.

[@misscleo378]

Was anyone taught about the first female postal worker? I didn’t. Sadly, I didn’t learn about any of these woman in school. I learned about Annie Oakley from watching Annie Get Your Gun. I bet many of our history teachers weren’t aware of these woman either.

[@joermnyc]

Why aren’t there movies about these ladies? I’d like to know their stories in more detail.

[@imcavdb5465]

Because they were bankrobbers, thieves and outlaws..? I don't know.

[@miriambarnett2782]

If not a movie how about a book 📖

[@kyliepechler]

@@imcavdb5465 I could take the time to type out a long list of well known movies about real Wild West (male) "bank robbers, thieves and outlaws" Or you could just Google it yourself. I'll start you off with the obvious 1969 movie "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid". Then there are 11 Biographical movies about Billy the Kid and several movies based on real life (male) great rain robberies. So why do you think no one should make movies about real life Wild West females who were "bank robbers, thieves, outlaws", when with a simple Google search, it is easy to see there has been countless Hollywood movies about real life, Wild West male bank robbers, thieves and outlaws?

[@UnchainedAmerica]

Quite a few on Annie Oakley. Annie herself appeared in those early skits shooting targets.

[@stephh1149]

@@imcavdb5465 there are movies about serial killers

[@NewMessage]

Why don't we have monuments to THESE ladies?

[@davidnord1979]

because they would just tear them down anyway..

[@BotteEnTouche]

Because they were criminals.

[@timmmahhhh]

@@davidnord1979 because they weren't white male racist slaveholders.

[@wonder-bred]

Probably waiting on a man to put one up.

[@applestix3491]

@@BotteEnTouche and confederate monuments aren't of war criminals? #traitors

[@huntress1013]

There are so many bad ass ladies from the past who totally deserve epic movies they never got.

[@ImperfectRoseTira]

We need movies of these women.

[@youtuberyoutubingonyoutube]

AGREED

[@321DEATHPUNCH]

Annie, was in fact, not okay.

[@idk6533]

*calls MJ* MICHAEL I KNOW THE ANSWER

[@philiptucker7590]

Probably because there were just too many Criminals that were very smooth 😢

[@pdox23]

Loving this channel. Keep it up!

[@pamelamays4186]

I am impressed by all those ladies. There all deserve a bio pic or a TV series.

[@alanderson9711]

So many great stories that we’ve never heard before. Thanks for the fun trip and taking us along.

[@dutchepie]

Love your videos! Interesting and you teach us more than most mainstream schools would! Thank you x

[@thejudgmentalcat]

"...his Huckleberry" made me chuckle. Thank you for including women of color, as their accomplishments are often overlooked. You forgot Charley Parkhurst tho. Her story is fascinating too! Love your channel!

[@mr.personhumanson6871]

We need movies about these women

[@thunderbird1921]

Fun fact about Annie Oakley: Her biggest rival during her career was actually another female western sharpshooter, Lillian Smith. Unlike the happily married and more "ladylike" Oakley, Smith was a mouthy cocky girl less than 20 who flirted with young men who came to see her perform and repeatedly bragged she would dethrone the rifle-woman legend. When they finally faced off (in London I believe), it was hilariously one-sided. Smith performed horribly, and Oakley nailed all her shots. THAT would be a great movie! Who doesn't enjoy a jerk getting put in their place by a humble heroine?

[@KENZC62091]

Since we're on the topic of the Wild West, why not talk about Indian tribes and their different factions. It would also be interesting to talk about the last days of actual native tribes roaming the country before they were all placed into Indian territories.

[@thunderbird1921]

Heck, even before the Wild West, there are some incredible Native Americans. Take Choctaw Chief Pushmataha for example. When many tribes were uniting with Tecumseh shortly before the War of 1812, Pushmataha had succeeded in making peaceful relations with the nearby settlers and bluntly refused to join the tribal alliance. Tecumseh personally met with him and pointed to the other tribes already slaughtered, but Pushmataha boldly still refused and said that attacking the US would only bring more suffering and destruction. Furthermore, he was so determined to keep peaceful settler-native relations that he threatened Tecumseh: If he launched his war, the Choctaw and their neighbors would fight AGAINST him and side with the United States. When the War of 1812 broke out, that is exactly what happened. He and his warriors ended up fighting alongside US forces against tribal and even British forces. After the war, he again tried to keep the peace with the settlers, and in some ways succeeded until his death from illness in 1824. Pushmataha was given major honors by the federal government in Washington and even given a full artillery salute. The Choctaw tribe are among the ONLY Native American tribes to have sided with the US in war not once, but twice (they also fought alongside the colonists in the Revolutionary War).

[@zach7193]

Boy, that was interesting. Didn't know that Black women were heroines in the Wild West. I'm familiar with Annie Oakley, Cathay Williams, and Big Nose Kate. Mentioned Big Nose Kate from the History Guy. I knew about Cathay Williams from the Daily Show.

[@shellysbrewing]

Im sure there were many black men and women heroines with amazing stories to tell throughout history, unfortunately they were never recorded just because the color of their skin. Pretty fucking sad considering there are probably thousands of incredible stories that we will never know of, and about amazing people we can never learn about

[@Astroman10]

Recently subscribed and I have loved every one of the videos! I haven't found one on what it would be like to live in a King's Court. Watching shows like The Tudors and Game of Thrones, I always wondered what it would be like to be a courtier but not one that is directly connected to the royalty. Just someone important enough to be at all the parties, court hearings, etc. but not important enough to be in one of King Henry VIII's divorce schemes!

[@restock_1731]

" now that is what you call trust, or flirting." 🤣🤣

[@deekrenn9953]

Can you do some cool revolutionary war videos? Love your content so much

[@YAKlSOBA]

this channel is much more interesting and the narration is not boring compared to my history class. : (

[@louiswebtser]

Annie Oakley also met the Infamous Lakota leader Sitting Bull in Minnesota. Sitting Bull gave her the Lakota name “Little Sure Shot” and Annie used the name throughout her career.

[@Kero7th]

That was just awesome. Looking at some of these people and thinking about the time difference and how much has changed and, its all thanks to people like her. People should realize that thier individual impact can be greater than themselves.

[@itsQUINNderful]

Instead of that horrible Mulan remake, Disney should’ve made a movie about Cathay!!

[@moon_moodlet]

No not disney. Anyone but disney.

[@ahsokatano6361]

Disney would butcher that story too

[@brokenarrowranch9816]

But the chinese want Mulan.

[@thunderbird1921]

Disney would DESTROY these stories. And I'm still waiting for a movie that accurately shows Annie Oakley and her love story with Frank Butler (they were NOT heated rivals for years like "Annie Get Your Gun" suggests).

[@8u67mat]

A video on my man Herodotus would be amazing please. You guys are doing amazing work

[@comettamer]

There's a couple of badass women you could put on the next list. Charlotte Parkhurst, who changed her name to Charlie and became one of the best mule skinners in the west, never failing to complete her route on time. Elizabeth Cain Finnern, who enlisted as a nurse laundress in the Union Army, then donned a Union uniform and fought for six months beside her husband John on the battlefield.

[@smultronpojke4010]

Charley Parkhurst was a trans man. Erasure ain't cute

[@comettamer]

@@smultronpojke4010 I beg your pardon? I don't think I've heard anything that would support that idea. Most sources agree that Charlotte Parkhurst was a woman who dressed up as a man. I'm not even sure that sort of thing would have been possible in the 1800s, when Parkhurst was operating on the stage lines. If so, it would have doubtless been extremely dangerous and life threatening. Seeing as Charlie Parkhurst lived a long life, im skeptical about whether that sort of medical procedure could or would have been done.

[@smultronpojke4010]

@@comettamer you can be trans without medical transition

[@YThEHelLDiDIMakEThiS]

I wish there were Indigenous women featured here.

[@YThEHelLDiDIMakEThiS]

Did I miss something in this video?

[@danimotherofchickens479]

Sacageweah and Pocahontas's were some of the most famous women in our history to the point we learn about them in school, we don't learn about any of these women

[@utej.k.bemsel4777]

Gouyen, Lozen, Woman Chief.... There were lots of them!

[@brokenarrowranch9816]

La Malinche.

[@danniis9444]

Ohh Annie Oakley is my personal fav. Love her almost as much as I love this channel 🙂✌

[@xrpimperialcommander8695]

Amazing Narration, attention to meticulous details. SUBSCRIBED!

[@Lee-qq8uy]

This channel and THG/ the history guy are so awesome 👌 I can't get enough !!!

[@GamingMuchTerry]

Really well edited. Great video guys!

[@watchdealer11]

Where's Kissing Kate Barlow?! 😂

[@Heathershusbandbear]

Awesome video thank you weird history

[@andreitorres5503]

Omg, you made me lol with "let's see if Anne was ok" man that was gold :)

[@dguy0386]

i really enjoyed this! there are plenty of cool women from history who deserve to be mentioned and i mean mentioned accurately unlike what a new movie would do

[@derekfletcher5]

With Halloween coming it may be fun to see some history of fictional characters. Like Stephen King's Pennywise or the Wendigo.

[@aubreyjordan8308]

More on Tudor England please!! I would love to see a video on each of Henry VIII wives! I know there is one on Anne already, so a series on the the others would be awesome!

[@LunyDR]

incredibly bad ass, loved it

[@jleeblackmon5340]

"Singlehandedly fought off a pack of wolves with a shotgun and revolver & a gatling gun & dynamite & a Ar-15 & half the US army Singlehandedly"

[@AuroraBoarder1]

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) was going to save her and her husband's herd of sheep from a wolf pack by chasing them off with a pitchfork. Her cousin Lena had considerable fortitude, also. Check out this link: shawnmthrasher.blogspot.com/2015/06/by-shores-of-silver-lake-by-laura.html?m=1

[@JordanR1621]

Can you do a video about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster?

[@zz-xk7lc]

Cowpoke you showed a picture of the Beaumont hotel in Ouray CO when talking about events in California

[@MsSwitchblade13]

You just provide me with more historical information to randomly share with friends and strangers. Funny anything I do remember now I didn't learn in school.

[@6Tulips]

Awesome. Thank you for the women’s stories. 👏

[@JudgementalGoat]

I need 2 things after watching this video. For Hollywood to make a film for every single one of these girls and for weird history to do an individual series of videos for alla these women.

[@edylcnostrebor9722]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us

[@MysteryAvalanche]

Annie Oakley was such a badass! I love sharing a first name with her 💪

[@thunderbird1921]

I've never liked "Annie Get Your Gun" because of how it portrayed Oakley's relationship with Frank Butler as turbulent. In reality their "rivalry" was for only one match, they fell in love quickly afterwards (and were married 50 years). Her biggest rival was actually another female western sharpshooter, Lillian Smith (who unlike the ladylike Oakley, was a mouthy cocky girl less than 20).

[@krokodyl1927]

Big Nose Kate must’ve given Doc Holliday one hellava ride & other assorted personal services. 👍😊

[@bcbc8424]

Ummm.... Thank you! Right here! Making History 'Progressive' ! This right here is why I sub!! 💪💪🚺

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I still wonder why some in this video were called "Heroines" if they done unlawful actions?

[@weasel1822]

Oh my God. My new idol is Mary Stagecoach.

[@breakingvids4769]

fun fact the word short is longer then the word long

[@jamesage24]

The only number to have the same amount of letters as it's numerical value is four.

[@EnriqueC71]

Sadie Adler, LEGEND

[@DonutMaster110]

You should do a video about Marquis de Lafayette!!!

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

LAFAYETTE, WE HAVE ARRIVED!

[@wilberforce95]

Volbeat has a song called Pearl Hart that's pretty rad

[@rickkinki4624]

Great video, but how did you miss Martha Jane Cannary, otherwise known as Calamity Jane?

[@autisticjoeyyo]

Cowgirls were and ARE legit! Their character/personalities and skills are legit and attractive 😍💯💯 these bold women tho 👌🏾👏🏾💯💯💯

[@sarahypma9535]

You should do a video on Henrietta Lacks!!

[@jackofnone9439]

How about a video on Quantrill's raiders???

[@akankhyapanda9237]

And they say" faminism suddenly came" . People need to accept a lady as a human who can be badass not just kind

[@justincruz5692]

Why aren't these girls featured in a movie yet?

[@KOCChristian]

Cause Hollywood want keep imagine of Wild West was run by white men

[@justincruz5692]

Straight up FACTS

[@davidnord1979]

jesuit theater doesnt have time for that they wernt violent enough...

[@j_soo]

Christian Salto because it was.

[@KOCChristian]

Roe Jogan then you don’t know history, a lot cowboy and also were Mexican or black and sheriff that a lot movie base on is about Bass Reeves a black sheriff who had so many badass story. Yeah I know majority were white but a lot county’s were run weren’t all white. Like all these movies make everyone believe.

[@AuthorWASimpson]

Stagecoach Mary Fields is my favorite bad ass black woman of the Old West! I wrote a fiction book with her as the main character and I hope to get it on the market someday. I absolutely love your videos. I'm learning so much and they're perfect for my reserach.

[@philkaseyewitness6912]

I love your videos

[@maurajadian1533]

Indians are from India, Native is what you should say, just for future episodes!

[@FailingArtist]

🥱🙄

[@maurajadian1533]

@@FailingArtist 😘👹

[@andmake-qg5bi]

The real question is if we would want to mess with Texas

[@OneLostTexan]

Mess with the bull, you get the horns.

[@psychokinrazalon]

You mean Teeeexaaaas~

[@USSSfr33d0m]

Instead of stealing other male film frames. Why don't Hollywood make a movie about these strong woman.

[@aleahjodevasia]

Why don't you try lady jane grey(the 9 days queen) or Queen Zngina

[@atreem1]

Please do the beat generation!!! Your videos are awesome!!

[@zz-xk7lc]

A western tourist town:exists Billy the Kid: Allow me to introduce myself

[@zipzeolocke2]

Stagecoach Mary 1832, Cathay Williams during the Civil War, and Annie Oakley impress me the most! They were the most heroic! They could really survive in a harsh environment

[@davidnord1979]

it was della and the dealer and a dog named jake and a cat named kalamazoo...

[@loralee4848]

I love this stuff!♥️🦋

[@esthermagid7528]

Love the way you present the real history. Would love to see the weird history view of Lizzie Borden and the Salem Witch trials.

[@glassdragonmedia]

This is my new favorite video.

[@tomashize]

I've read about a few different women who disguised themselves as men and fought in the civil war. To be with their men and/or just because they wanted to fight for the cause or for the adventure. I suppose so many of the troops were very young plus the average height/size of men was less then so it was somewhat easier to pass

[@skidripinternational4024]

Great video love to learn history of the ole west

[@harmony8195]

Eleanor Dumont reminds me of this lady I took care of when I was a Cna. Same story only difference was that this was creole.

[@Sal.K--BC]

Weird that the wikipedia article on Eleanor Dumont doesn't even mention that she shot and killed Jack McKnight. Cuz I was curious if she went to jail. I did find other web sites that said she was suspected of the crime but never arrested.

[@greg7964]

You tell them I'm coming! And hells coming with me you hear! Hells coming with me!!

[@cadillacdeville5828]

He's hilarious 😂

[@billd3356]

THANK you for using the correct feminine form of "hero".

[@brandonwheaton1081]

Some of them are villian's not heroes. Mainly the bank and train robbers

[@Nuggets2798]

Quick question, I was wondering to know if you could make a video on prospectors of the Wild West?

[@zaynes5094]

There was a book I read that was actually very well done I can't remember the name of it now, but it definitely referenced several well-known lawmen, both in and around the time of gold and the California gold rush, but I am pretty sure that one of these women were the beginning inspiration for main character "The Kid", a young female Texas Ranger, set in the 1890s (at the tail-end of the "Wild West"), who has to go out on a case to solve a few murders and a kidnapping of a young girl. She eventually finds the girl and they manage to become closer and even inspires the young 13-year-old girl to do something similar when she grows up, like be a female Ranger. That was obviously a fictional story, but one that was very interesting in it's portrayal of a "Wild West" world with many characters referencing real people.

[@Mweedy420]

Stagecoach mary was a real person? I thought she was just a character on Hell on Wheels. Learn something new every day 😁

[@watchdealer11]

Was Cafe's story an inspiration to Mulan? 😎

[@callingmyspirit]

Lol I thought the same thing

[@namewitheld2568]

This was really good.

[@teejay3250]

Hands down my favorite KZbin channel. How can contribute? Patreon?

[@whatsmyname5086]

This video helped me with my writing assignment thx

[@Rachel.Parsons]

I'd love to see Weird History do a video on Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons. She was a badass!

[@195511SM]

About 10 years ago....I think it was the PBS series....'American Experience'....that did several episodes on some of the legendary figures of the old west. One of those episodes was on Annie Oakley. She was pretty awesome & way ahead of her time, in so many ways. If you get the chance, do a SEARCH for that episode.

[@annwoell6994]

What about Charley Parkhurst? She disguised herself, operated as a stagecoach driver on the East Coast and later in CA and voted as a man? She should be in this list. I love this channel!💕