Rare Bottles Found at One of The Oldest Saloons in South Dakota

Excavating multiple saloon privies at the former site of the Cooley & Goddard Saloon in the Ghost Town of Bon Homme, South Dakota.
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[@jimmieloge575]

Y'all are 2 of the hardest working, dedicated young men I have ever seen! God Bless you with strength and good health for many, more years to come!

[@anitamorrison7466]

I love watching these videos. Just discovered your channel a month ago. My aunt and uncle called this, “kickin’ cans”, and did it for many years in the Fairbanks, AK area.

[@soonzach4017]

Thank you again for your best channel.

[@clarencebirdashaw8117]

I was stationed in north dakota at minot. No idea there were so many relics in the ground. I enjoy the fact that you can find history In outdoor privies. I really enjoy your escapades keep up the good work, Amazing, how do you find history And research Your findings. Greetings from Florida.

[@markandrews2942]

Great video. Exciting content as always

[@hummerfan9360]

As far as I know, Fletcher's Castoria was used as a laxative for children. I took it as a child, and then gave it to my daughter. It tastes soooooo good.

[@expatstacker3838]

Really glad I found your channel. The history you’re saving is incredible. Let me know if you’d consider selling a coffin whiskey bottle!

[@BelowthePlains]

ah thanks for checking it out.. well those coffin whiskeys are super common for any site between the civil war and the early 1900s.. i dont think i have any lying around, but its not uncommon that we dig a bunch of bottles and no one wants them, so we usually will take them then, but it would seriously be no problem to just give you one at cost to ship. most of them arent worth much. im positive you could go on ebay and find one for fairly cheap.. i'd be surprised if it was over $10 on there.. but yeah i will grab one next opportunity and i can just hang onto it, just hit me up in a few months again in the comment and ask me about the coffin whiskey.

[@kabal28]

Ebay is a good cheap place to start

[@lukependleton2589]

Thanks again for another great video. Keep them coming!

[@Portaltotheparanormal70]

Love watching yiu digging the old bottles I gave some early English stone bottles jugs and pots and some older bottles they really are beautuful aren't they.?,. Ps cute smile!!

[@RelicsRings]

Another great video. Love the history you share with each one.

[@anteburazin69]

Hi from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺, I'm enjoying your hobby, I watch all your adventures, not a bottle collector myself, but appreciate the history, stories and old town sites you dig up, have a friend who's done this for 50 years, I learnt a lot from his collection, and only recently got to hold a thin hand blown glass bottle from the Gold Fields here in New South Wakes , from 1860,s. Tks mate .

[@roykey3422]

That oblong piece you showed at the first is called a cold shut. They're used to join two pieces of chain together.

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

Awesome finds 👏🎉🏆

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks 👍

[@tammyaskjem9871]

Another great vid! U make history in ND interesting and exciting! Thank u!!

[@debraporch7888]

Hi Jake and Tom, Y'all had one heck of a video. I love that you guys dig every hole that you can looking for the treasure. Four holes on a day is amazing. I glad you were able to find the oldest pit. Some of that glass looked very old. A lot of the town's you went to went under, what brought them all back? Loved all the research done on this video. To me it seems that your video was done in a different format, I like how you did it this way. Or am I losing my mind lol? Keep up the good work gentlemen. Take care and be safe. ✌

[@BestSellers2122]

Nice!

[@valeriejohnson5283]

Wonderful finds on this dig! 🍺😎🍺

[@jsteelsadventureandvariety4545]

Awesome stuff guys, took lots of diggin but found some really nice stuff, many heart breakers along the way😯 the history bites were perfect👍 great job

[@idaho2ndgens240]

Awesome video! That DSG Co. might be De Steiger Glass Co. Lasalle, IL 1867-1896. Great color. Thanks for taking me along.

[@BelowthePlains]

Thanks for the info! and thanks for checking it out!

[@lynnegackstetter2779]

Love the history you tell. I tilled a garden about six years ago and every year I find more stuff.

[@nydiggersteve7047]

Great videos, keep em coming. 👍

[@jerryblum277]

That flask with the T is crazy congrats!

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

COOL dig guys!!! Thanks

[@BelowthePlains]

we really appreciate it, thanks for watching!

[@shepherd4406]

Appreciate the history and the plat maps.

[@kaolinwasher]

the clear flask is a sheaf of wheat later copy of the originals that where amber and a lot older but the dump was so cool to see, lots of old bottles and that nice squat soda, Man was that somthing

[@tomfrazier1103]

I've tried to use a probe a few times, but have never hit a legit privy. Other guys say they were around here, and even in Town (Honolulu) but so far haven't dug one. Have dug some good dump areas, and even "Rubbishy" areas probably not formal dumps from the 1860s to the 1950s or so. I am competing with the prior generations of diggers often.

[@jo6pak]

love those captions.

[@BelowthePlains]

ah thanks.. doing that little bit of research is by far the most time consuming part of editing the videos. i wasnt sure if anyone was actually going to read them, so im glad you liked it. thanks for commenting!

[@naticongored]

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[@ValerieDee123]

I can tell your from the country. You didn't flinch when they were target practicing. That Tibbys bottle was cool.

[@ericmason5226]

cool finds!

[@BelowthePlains]

thanks for watching

[@robertkreiling1746]

It would be nice to see all of your finds after they have been cleaned up !

[@patrickaussieMilartry]

In Australia I guess one good thing when looking for old artefacts is we don't tend to have basements. I'm not sure if the pre 1900s in the US simply had a timber floor or it was common back then as well to have basements. But we don't seem to dig as deep in old established town's. Interesting how the USA and Australia have some similarities in our beginnings of being from particularly English beginnings. But the USA has her independence as Australia is like Canada part of the Commonwealth. Cool show .

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Another fantastic story with a great back ground of history. Nice finds guys.

[@gretchen8027]

First like, first comment.

[@alanatolstad4824]

I'm trying to imagine how the chamber pot got broken, and then, why more haven't turned up!

[@thomaskeil1437]

From your videos, I come away, perhaps in error, that the two Dakota states experienced a failure to thrive. It is odd that a location such as a saloon would remain vacant after the structure ceased to be on the site. Business owners gave consideration where to construct their places of business, yet once that site became vacant instead of a later structures on the site, it became unused for future development of subsequent businesses.

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

I know where a dump is, way out in the boonies here in Texas. I have taken some awesome sodas and flasks on the back side there is a hill with A model and T model bodies. Seat springs, that fit both. I've pulled very old license plates and even a couple of state of Texas chauffeurs badges. Porcelain sign saying case tractor and automobiles, and an old Dodge Brothers sign

[@daftnord4957]

Do you have a link to military route maps post-civil war? I used to have a simple one that showed the route going over my family farm land near chamberlain, but can't find it anymore. My grandpa claims to know where wagon train ruts are on the land, and we've found a 70s or 80s Marines button in a field 10 years ago. If i could find the route map i'm thinking of i wanted to overlay it on modern maps and see where it lines up and start metal detecting. This summer i have a bit of a hike planned to get to Brule city, the original Brule county seat for a few years before it was changed to Chamberlain, where the railroad ended up. From what i've read, if anything there might be only foundation left as remnants. May be able to get to some of the original ~1850s forts too

[@daftnord4957]

i looked at a post map from 1879, a mail route travelled 3 times a week appears to go right over my family land. odds are it was an established trail already, maybe i misremembered a military expedition going through

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

That license plate is awesome! I love my personally found license plates much more than any mint ones I've owned. Have you found any porcelain plates?

[@stevegrantham7480]

Just wondering what you do with what find. Are they on display or do you sell.

[@musketbal]

how do you figure out where to dig?

[@bshef3424]

.....please give lil insight to the long Poker stick and how it's used.....is there an official name it's called? Thanks!

[@ISCDESIGNAustralia]

thankyou. a great video; this is not 'bottle digging'; this is methodical archaeology

[@michaeldavis8249]

Be awesome if you was able to dig in deadwood around those old saloons

[@brianmaxey3263]

How many liquor bottles have you ever dug that's had Louisville Kentucky embossed on it??

[@pattimessenger6214]

Did people buy larger bottles, and use them to refill their flask?

[@mikelattimer7909]

Are these videos from last fall?

[@marks.c4753]

Some of theses videos are years old. He just filmed them, and now he's releasing them.

[@shakascloset1700]

Sounds like someone ditched a powerful drugs bottle. They sure knew how to have a good time or die.🤣

[@BelowthePlains]

haha yeah... it was pretty wild to think of stuff that went into medicine in the victorian era.. mercury for depression, which drove people insane (abe lincoln was said to have wild mood swings in the years before his death.. he took mercury pills daily) mrs winslows soothing syrup (aka the baby killer) had cocaine in it, and was marketed to teething babys.. they were the ones who gave it the moniker, "baby killler" bc many parents gave their infants a lethal overdose of the syrup by accident and pretty much everything else was alcohol or morphine based morphine was super common in concoctions until it was replaced by a newer version of the drug, the new drug had all the pain killing ability of morphine "without becoming addicted"...... and that drug was called heroin! a much more addictive version of morphine

[@jockoharpo2622]

Why don't you ever do a clean-up on some of your really colorful bottles, pottery or chinawares like near the end of your videos?

[@michellestone1261]

Horseshoes are suppose to be good luck..