Sitting Bull's Dance and Custer's Trail

This is Episode 3 of the series. This video covers the importance of Sitting Bull's Sundance and the movements of Gibbon's and Terry's columns initial movements in the spring and summer of 1876.

[@hankreus7196]

I have been enjoying your series on the Indian Wars. You bring unbiased perspectives to locations and known actions at the scene. 50 years trying to understand what took place it’s been helpful watching your videos. Most fascinated thinking of the men clinging to Reno Hill the night just after the battle, the natives celebrating in their village just below. Your narration brings an authentic quality, reflecting a true passion project. Hiring others makes it feel corporate affiliated 😊

[@raymondburtner7758]

This narrative is extremely interesting and well done. It is immensely helpful that you have included maps and actual videos of the locations and terrain where these events occurred. Congratulations on a thoughtful and accurate depiction of the story and events.

[@jeremydoctor1997]

I can't get enough of this fantastic history. You do a awesome job describing it the history etc. I think I like the narrator and gives you a break from doing everything else you do bringing us this great content! Thanks again

[@FoxyRoxy5]

Dude actually went to the places he was talking about. Now that's what I call history

[@osutwos]

Just started this series, personally I prefer your voice to the “professional “ voices

[@guytansbariva2295]

It's not a professional voice, it's all AI computer generated...by a professional voice actor who didn't even use his own voice.

[@SteveGee1986]

I have become obsessed with learning about Custer. Well done.

[@tenparab]

Honestly, I think you do pretty well with the narration.

[@robertwaid3579]

Very impressive here Data Meister. The more I view them & hear them. The more impressed I Personally am of your thoroughness, the briefness, yet very fulfilling short Clip's. You have put together on each section of the Expedition's daily n week to week, progress. Keep it up My Man. This stuff really interests Me, even Forty Five years after coming to Wyoming. Thank You so much for Sharing, this Great stuff with US. Wyoming, Robert,🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🤔🤔🐴🐎🐴👍👍🙏🙏🙏

[@telleguitreau4951]

Love this and the voiceover was perfect

[@Pixx4you]

In mid-May, the Yellowstone River is usually in full spring flood, and it is BIG & WIDE snd in all of the side channels, with lots of floating trees.

[@walterbrown9651]

I am late lol but the professional narration is cool, but your narration is tops. Always great finding your vids,very educational, dunno why I was directed to them sooner. Love the on location history. I am going back out there in 2023.

[@THINKincessantly]

Your voice is trustworthy and easy listening , it conveys your genuine nature, NO HOMO 😂save money and let your audience hear you, speak to your people man! 😂

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Please let me and the viewers know what your thoughts are on the narrators I hired for this video.

[@davidcook7887]

This a comment/ question from Guildford in England. Why do whenever you do these historical native films, do you insist in getting narrators with voices that speak deeper than Lee Marvin? People want the narrator to sound like he knows what he’s talking about, not that he has a voice deeper than Lee Marvin.

[@MilitaryHistory317]

@@davidcook7887 Hello Sir. Thank you for the feedback. I had one person email me that they thought his voice it had a "western" feel to it. It sounds like you are fine with just me doing my own narration? I despise the sound of my own voice, but that seems to be a standard human bias. Thank you again, this is all feedback, I shall capture.

[@davidcook7887]

@@MilitaryHistory317 Absolutely. You really don’t need to waste your money on a voice. You were more than fine or okay. Go for it!

[@randallcollins197]

You do a great job, no need to pay for a voice over

[@leza6288]

Dear Sir, I love you content and videos! You have a great voice. Only one slight suggestion, tuned background music down so your voice is dominant, content is amazing!! I would love to do this drive, walk at some point!!! Great work!!!!!!

[@AlpineForge9600]

Keep your money, the narrators voice is beyond annoying and as I watched earlier episodes I was very impressed with your narration

[@robertwaid3579]

To The DataMeister, You asked about the additional Narrator's need or preference too having Them. Personally I don't really care either way of them being used. I've grown quite Impressed with Your Stylings & Delivery of Your Material in the Episode's. So I say You Decide if they are necessary? Too the Episode's or Not. Keep Up the Great Work.

[@scalleewagg9746]

great narrators and fab series am hooked!

[@ironnerd8336]

Great video. I wish I had the ability and time to do a similar video series on the movements of Cornwallis, Ferguson, and Tarleton leading from pre-Kings Mountain to Yorktown. The data and locations are there, scattered all along the roads I travel every day. Cowpens was a hell of a fight. Take care and happy hunting.

[@RamonesFan201]

Nothin a drone can't handle. You should look into gettin one, Its revolutionary how people make history videos now!

[@RamonesFan201]

The whole presentation is fantastic so far! The narrators are a nice addition, But not necessary if it ends up eventually digging into the finances lol. Great Job!

[@tomleader7054]

i like the naration a lot.

[@Dave-jd9qn]

I am a Custer Buff and still learned many things from your episodes. Huzzah! for your effort. I look forward to seeing the rest. As you have asked, I have some comments. Your choice of movie clips, etc., are excellent and while not always authentic, do illustrate events and the environment. The voice actors are good quality and it breaks up the sound of your narration. One pronunciation could be looked into. The Lakota name for Whites is Wasitchu- Wah-SEE-chu, rather than Wah-see-CHU. A native speaker might clarify. I know there are technical and economic limitations to mapping, but I found your use of graphics against the photographic maps to be hard to follow. I could not always tell which movement the narrator was describing. Is there a way to animate the arrows and movements to correspond with the narration? Better are simpler the Park-Service-style maps. Again, kudos for the fine effort. I like your ground truth scenes with the selfie stick. I have a better sense of scale than with just a wide shot.

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Thank you. It totally burned my behind when Wasichus was mispronounced. Oh well, that experiment is complete. Note, that I will be using more animation going forward. I am used to the good old days of static operational graphic overlays, but it seems I need to join the 21st Century.

[@lonewulf44]

Enjoying the series, and the voice actors were okay, but to tell you the truth I think it would be just as good if you did it yourself, that would provide kind of a single voice to tie it all together. Maybe if you read bits of first-hand accounts or quotes you could use another voice to differentiate. But I think most of us are here for the video and on location observations.

[@markfox6596]

Agreed

[@dks13827]

@@markfox6596 Agreed

[@usa91787]

Great series. I've been following a lot of the Old West on a podcast but I like to see video as well. Especially to put an actual face to the names. In fiction stories imagination is fine but not non-fiction. I would rather hear just one, consistent voice instead of 2 for your story narration. Your voice breaking that up is fine. If you are ever looking for more voice over options let me know. I have training and also spent some time doing radio in Nebraska. I also have equipment so you can send a script and I can record for you. Just throwing it out there.

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Outstanding! It seems we can collaborate on something. Send me an email and let's discuss.

[@tomfinn739]

4:13 or so, Brit AI talks about the 'croww scotes ponies.' Didn't realize there was comedy included!

[@stevenrafters7817]

Very well done. Very informative . Thanks

[@yelapa999]

love your series, watched out of order. so I was surprised to hear the AI voice here. oh well

[@randomlyweirdjeff4638]

I admire Custer and his men as much as the warriors. These me met their destiny. They never ran from it, they ran to it. Men who meet their destiny should be admired. Meet who try to run from it should be dismissed. I hope to visit the battlefield again.

[@johnzajac9849]

Does 'Wakhan-tankha' mean 'white buffalo'? p.s. Like the voices of the narrators you hired.

[@MilitaryHistory317]

The Great Spirit! It is better pronounced Thanka not Tanka. That is my understanding. By the way, Wasichu is better pronounced Wah-Seee-Chew. I learned that from watching the series Deadwood!

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Thank you for the feedback. The first narrator is going to be my go-to Native American Voice. The BBC guy I am saving for my future WWII efforts.

[@johnzajac9849]

@@MilitaryHistory317 As per Capt. Benteen, there were 8 to 9 thousand warriors in the camp along the LBH River. Please look into how the warriors were able to conceal themselves from Custer as he rode down Medicine Coulee toward the river. Not able to figure that out.

[@MilitaryHistory317]

@@johnzajac9849 Well, Benteen was wildly exaggerating. I will dig further into the numbers as we get to that point!

[@johnzajac9849]

@@MilitaryHistory317 I found Major Reno's description of the fighting. He wrote that several estimates he saw ranged from 2500 to 5000 warriors.

[@robertkrump2015]

Great job

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Thank You!

[@richardduggar4665]

I heard that a beaver dam caused trouble for the troops to cross the creek

[@jmiller475]

The narrators are OK but you do just as good

[@tballstaedt7807]

Your narrations are excellent. Just sayin.

[@mikehunt-fx7sf]

Custer did not have the band with him on the Bighorn expedition, And does the narrator have to have an accent?

[@MilitaryHistory317]

The band was on the campaign but remained at the Glendive depot.

[@VladimirBabirat-fq3dk]

1876-GENERAL CUSTER-7- CAVALERIA!

[@japhfo]

With due respect to professional commentary, it sounds like an AI robot ( and is no comaprison to your own clear and lively delivery). You could better. Signed, A professional voice-over.

[@guytansbariva2295]

It is an AI generated voice. Even the better ones these days still are bad. AI in general needs to be avoided at all costs, in everything

[@vincegironda5470]

Sounds good either way. The other voice sounds like AI. Is that really a human?

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Indeed. I wish I would have just done the narration myself. It is interesting how in the past 12-18 months the quality of AI voices has improved exponentially. I had my voice cloned by AI and my kids can't even tell the difference.

[@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek]

Don’t Bother With Voice Actors.

[@dougewing1571]

The only hostiles, where the soldiers

[@blainedunlap4242]

You were doing okay, but the narrator was pretty tight.

[@oldranger649]

Your narration is fine, but then, I'm 'Merican

[@michaelhendrickson5287]

The background music ruined this video for me.

[@richardthomas7103]

Doesn’t seem right in an English accent and I’m English

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Thank you for the feedback, Richard. On a side note, yesterday I watched a three-part documentary on the Crimean War, and the English female voice was well done.

[@THINKincessantly]

My folks came over and down to Texas from Manchester and Soham down in East Anglia in 1871....so id imagine in the US there were lots of strong Irish English and German accents

[@2380Shaw]

Why the British accent? This is America. No British

[@guytansbariva2295]

Even hard core Americans will say a British voice sounds higher class and respected.

[@jaysilverheals4445]

people need to get it out of their heads that sitting bull or other chiefs "told other indians what to do" they totally ignored his stuff "do not rob the soldiers" the other indians said "sitting bull was running along with the women and children to get the hell out" another preposterous part of misinformation from history "he has great vision soldiers falling in upside down THE FACTS ARE he also said the same thing of indians falling upside down. they had just did the rosebud and powder river they KNEW they were being chased. and in the huge encampment sitting bull knowing what was coming "I will cut strips off my arms and make great predictions" "then run with the women and children" even the indians said "we simply saw him running off with the women and kids to the north" they totally ignored his "do not take items from the soldiers" because Sitting bull was older and knew the great battle that would take place but he KNEW this was an advanced civilization he and Chief John Grass said "dont defile them" that is why after the battle they went south and simply marched left over to the reservations. Crazy horse and Sitting Bull 'sweated it out for a bit" having been in relationship with sioux the one thing she kept saying was "whites need to understand NO CHIEF NOR INDIAN TOLD OTHER INDIANS WHAT TO DO"

[@irvhh143]

This was only 11 years after the American civil war. No doubt that the natives had heard of the massive battles that occurred. Only the most irrational among them could believe that they could defeat the US government.

[@DeadPixel1105]

You paid money to a 'voice actor' who wound up using an AI voice - something you could have just done yourself for free. I would have been pissed off and demanded my money back if I was you. Imagine ordering a meal from a professional chef. A meal you don't have the ability to prepare yourself. And the chef just delivers you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, something you could have just thrown together yourself. That's basically what that voice actor did to you. That voice actor ripped you off big time.

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Yup, I botched that. It was a good learning experience. Interestingly enough, I have cloned my voice and my kids can't even tell the difference on most occasions.

[@catman8670]

I’m not a fan of this silly presenter

[@williamrandall5050]

A bit more from the Indian point of view you know how it must have to be continually harassed by euroamericans stealing their land

[@mikehunt-fx7sf]

Stop your Euroamerican bull-shit ! If you do not like Americas history feel free to leave.

[@anoldmannameddave7455]

I noticed your t-shirt. We’re you a Scout or a Tanker? My son was a 19D, Scout Platoon, 1/63 AR, 1st ID, in Vilseck ,Germany, in 95-97. Deployed to Macedonia during Bosnian conflict. His LTC was David Perkins

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Awesome. I was an Armor Officer and was in Germany from 89-92. I take it that was the Dave Perkins that led the Thunder Run.

[@anoldmannameddave7455]

@@MilitaryHistory317 Yes Sir, I have my son’s ABLE SENTRY V11,, SENTINEL for PEACE, from his Macedonia deployment, signed by LTC Perkins, on my wall. My son, very sadly, took his life in 2015. By all accounts from his Scout Brothers, he was top notch. I’m proud to have that certificate and many other mementos from his service. Salutes to you, Sir. Scouts Out!