Doc Scurlock: The Thinking Man's Outlaw

Josiah "Doc" Scurlock was a poet, philosopher, intellectual, and hardened killer long before he ever met Billy the Kid. A mysterious past in Mexico, rumors of dead men from New Orleans to Texas, a penchant for vigilantism, and several close calls with the hostile Natives all made Doc a man to be both feared and respected. However, it was the trials he would face after the Lincoln County War that made Scurlock the man his family would remember. #wildwest #history #youngguns #oldwest
Also discussed: J.J. Dolan, John Riley, Billy Campbell, John Kinney & Jesse Evans.
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[@davidadams1374]

This was very well done all the way through and then you knocked it right out of the park at the end with his letter to his daughter. Thank you.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thank you, sir

[@knyfefyte1107]

Billy Campbell/Campbell Soup.🤣ya got me on that one, lolz. I was already looking it up too…. 😂

[@stevehudson7429]

"It's like an ass whisperer only louder"😂

[@jakemcintosh3782]

I live in granbury and have most of my life. This is the first time I'm ever hearing about doc scurlock living out here.

[@jeffronimo7122]

Does anyone else go "Ya!" at the right time with the intro music? Don't worry Josh, Im gonna sponsor you as soon as I start up a business and make some good money. Or maybe I wont. But I always enjoy your show.

[@stewartdalton3298]

Definitely. I always look forward to hearing from Josh. Great story teller.

[@beorbeorian150]

Blown away at his words at the end there.

[@thegreenman7]

I've always been interested in the real history of Josiah Doc Scurlock. Excellent episode! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@Zionist_Eternal]

Well done and deserving of at least a couple coffees. And the pix in the newsletter... What a treasure! Thank you, Sir.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thank you!

[@jackgoodner6789]

Very enjoyable. Of all the Kid associates I think Doc is the most interesting and most likable.

[@rialobran]

Brilliant, the mix of humour and well researched history is a niche all your own. Keep it up young (ish) man

[@chipmusick682]

Well, you knocked another one out of the park!!! Much thanks...so entertaining!!!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks Chip

[@tsar389]

I feel like doc scurlock reminds us that even in the face of suffering, death, pain, anguish, and hate. He chose love above all else, the love for his family and his kids. The love for the men he rode with, the love for knowledge and joy. It reminds us to choose happiness and joy over suffering and depression, it's certainly hard at times but doc lost a lot of people he loved. Yet he still continued on spreading joy

[@tsar389]

And to Josh: the creator and host of Wild West extravaganza. I feel like you're someone who understands how doc felt in life, from what little you've said about growing up, it sounded hard. But now you got a family and kids to care about, you realize all that struggle and hardship made you the man you are today, a loving husband and father who has a loyal fanbase. I know times get hard but you gotta remember how scurlock was.😊

[@dennisellis3322]

I absolutely love hearing the tales of the surrounding cast of the Regulators. Thanks for this episode and looking forward to more about them!

[@CmdrMoosicvsLounge]

Thanks for another "Gem". You always save me hrs of research on the somewhat obscure figures in western history while making it entertaining. 👍✌😎

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

My pleasure

[@nojustno1216]

Just started listening to this one. I know it’ll be good, so here’s a preemptive 👍

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks

[@donscottvansandt4139]

Awesome story!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thank you!

[@rustleshackleford1553]

A life not usually covered.

[@TEXAS.N8V]

Glad I found your channel. 🎉🎉🎉

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Me too!!

[@albertboggs5262]

Fantastic! Love your storytelling!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@albertboggs5262]

I heard many of your tales and even got my significant other hooked. Great job my pal! Looking forward to binging on all the episodes I have heard yet. So appreciated, so thankful, so blessed! How is that little darling of yours?

[@jimconnole6328]

Great work. Your presentations get better with every episode.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks

[@nodescriptionavailable3842]

An assayer analyzes your ore and tells how much gold/silver per ton of rock you can likely expect, basically. However, the definition of receiver has been updated lol Another great video!

[@davidstanworth5543]

Found you a few weeks ago and really appreciate all your hard work.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks! Welcome aboard!

[@brucesherfield4272]

Great job as always. Thank you Josh

[@dennistate5953]

Thanks Josh. Praying for your consulting/podcast instruction enterprise!

[@stevefaulkner6689]

Love your show ,no ashes dust to dust from the earth and back to it

[@michaelleblanc7283]

As always . . . great stuff. Time and circumstance make a man & his character what is is at any moment in time. You do good work bringing this out in the personalities you introduce us to as as we all take a trip in your excellent time machine

[@guerrillapress7343]

Tradgedy can make or break us ❤ Great channel im addicted to it🏁

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks!

[@Lunaaiscrazy]

I swear I have watched so many videos from you and I have learned so far is you hide some good written jokes in your story’s and you explain everything in detail but you bring it back to light

[@NrmnLV605]

You got me buddy!! I had the person picked out alrdy with whom i was going to drop that Cambells soup knowledge on. smh. I thght i had you all figured out. Guess not. thnx! Great show. im glad he lived so long.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Ha!

[@brettkastner7198]

You need to read, "Anything for Billy" by McMurtry.

[@troutbumgypsy9169]

Fantastic content!!!! More plz

[@earlclue]

as usual, excellent dude..your the bestest , keep'em coming

[@terrioestreich4007]

Ass whisperer, so funny!! You have a great sense of humor, thanks for sharing your gifts!!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thank you for listening

[@whatsthedealwithdanny3913]

Awesome stuff as always. Can you imagine how much more we would know about Billy The Kid if Doc had taken an interview , or wrote on his time during the Lincoln County War. I think we would know a great deal more, if an intellectual like Doc would have told his story in a non bragging kind of way. But maybe that would tarnish the legend some . Maybe things are as they should be. Any other way would never capture our attention the way it does. who knows. I have visited Doc's grave in Eastland Texas. I did a shot of Crown , and left the shot glass there with him. He is also from Tallapoosa County Alabama, as you said. I currently live in Tallapoosa County . Please don't hold it against me either. I spent 5 years at Fort Hood Texas . So I get why Texans love being Texans. Anyway , great stuff.

[@hernandotorres1234]

LOL, brilliant, if any of my history teachers had had even a glimmer of your delivery maybe I wouldn't have failed history 'o' level on Parliamentary reform 1832 and Penal Reform - Elizabeth Fry, although ....

[@castoresnegros]

Lol! Every time I you brings a new personality to your vids you have a almost a new chapter for a different personality. Love that.

[@JayBerry-rc1hw]

Love you're shows and your humor

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Gracias

[@jamesnobilio6247]

Great shit

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thank you

[@j.t.lennon177]

Thank you- I am learning about something I didn't know about.

[@bubblytoes70]

Educational and hilarious.. thanks

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thank you

[@rodneybender6865]

Interesting content very well done. So Doc was a real doctor.,.. well almost 👍

[@Ty-py7hi]

I don’t know a lot about him, but I’ve always been fascinated by him I think you would be fascinated by Logan of Montana

[@elijahn.grisham4017]

This episode should be called everbody else but doc

[@onemoreturn]

Poor Dock. That letter to his daughter was really moving.

[@RuminatingWizard]

*Doc

[@timsain5959]

Good stuff! Just now ran across this you tube channel. I've got lazy and old and can't see as well anymore so I don't read much I listen to this kind of stuff. Keep up the good work!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Welcome aboard Tim!

[@travishendrix7026]

Very interesting man. Never knew anything of him. Now I do. Many thanks.

[@brendanmcdonnell7483]

We are all dirty little Billy bastards wanting to know what happened to his brothers in arms, and you give it to us in spades in great storytelling that listen to when I'm driving, thank you.

[@snappers_antique_firearms]

Thanks for helping me stay entertained while reloading some 38 Colt

[@jayledermann7701]

Like you , I look into western events to try and find out truth even if my hero looks more....human. I would love for you to do one on Custer. I know he wasn't a cowboy per say , but I would love to hear your take on him. I have found him to be more hero than villain and more brave than reckless. Just a thought.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Definitely doing a series on Custer in the future

[@donc9751]

OMG LMFAO😅😅😅 at an "essayer is like an eswhisperer (ass-whisper however you want to say it) only louder"!!! You come up with some classic stuff omg!!!! Thanks for the laugh!!!

[@williamemerson1799]

Good show....aside from the child loss. You and Bob Boze Bell. 👍🍻

[@tomcat8849]

Doc is Buried in Eastland tx, behind the veterans memorial stone at the Eastland Cemetery. Found it some years back looking for some old graves of some relative's.

[@DouglasRose-nf5ve]

Informative and much appreciated

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks for watching!

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative.

[@thejakefromstatefarm6768]

There are good people in Alabama. I know both of them well.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Ha

[@mistyjames810]

Good 1 as usual Josh! 👍👍👍👍🤠

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Gracias

[@scottwise4800]

I think Doc was the most interesting of all the Regulators.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

He was very interesting! Got some more interesting characters next week.

[@TheWartHawg]

"An ass whisperer, only louder." Got an audible chuckle out of that.

[@ericsedillo7216]

💯 Josh!

[@JWheeler331]

Another wonderful episode. I usually listen on spotify but thought I would comment here and say excellent job as always.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thank you, sir

[@deelady53]

One take away from this. We should all keep journals because in 150 years someone, or more, will wonder what "the old days" were like.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Yep

[@solomonsimpson5217]

😅"Thomas Edison you piece of shit" that was great

[@troutbumgypsy9169]

Hey.. I’m from Alabama! It’s ok.. by all means.. hold that against me! 😂

[@xazylsclubhouse]

I'm new but I have started binge watching a lot of your videos. Now I've hit that Subscribe and like button like it was hackin on me 🤠

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Heck yeah!

[@silverwave2238]

Doc had all the info on Billy and the LCW he would have been a wild wests historians dream !, Pity he never did an interview or write down his biography

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

I don't think people cared. Billy's own brother lived till 1930. One reporter literally said "who cares". It's crazy how much info we lost.

[@charlesbrowngodhelpmeimiss4907]

My friend. In another life

[@broderickwallis25]

And yes, i was just joshin' about the Cambells tomato soup.😅😂🤣

[@dennistate5953]

Young feller ewe iz A credit to yo razin. Raze on chillern i wit cha!

[@PopePhil-IIql7pj]

Josh I did barely 20 sec of an internet search and found John Reilly makes movies with Will Ferrell. Not sure why you didn’t include that nugget. 😅

[@Jameslfgsmith]

Doc had hell a case of cauliflower ear… You know he ain’t gonna just stand there and 🩸 . He definitely skinned them smoke wagons

[@robertalpy]

Im impressed rhat the theosophical society accepted Scurlock. He must have submitted an original idea or written work that impressed them enough to overlook his lawmess youth. No wonder he refused interviews about his time with the kid. He had alot to lose by digging up those old stories.

[@austinknowlton1783]

Lol fucker you got me with the Campbell's soup bit. I'm well versed enough in old west history that I usually know when you are joking.

[@bradpolegato4545]

Lol

[@abrahammorrison6374]

John Grisham went to University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) on a law degree. He went to courts to listen about cases.

[@dannysimmons3167]

I thought you were going to say Jessie changed his name to Bob and started a restaurant chain

[@pyrobob208]

You bloody tosser Josh! You sucked me right in with the Campbell soup story. Apart from that, g'day from Australia. Love your stories and the way you tell them - history with an occasional laugh.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

G'day mate

[@ritamarie4453]

Assayer = A person that can identify precious metal and it's value.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Are you sure?

[@ritamarie4453]

@@WildWestExtravaganza Googled that. That's what I always understood growing up long long ago in a Galaxy far far away. Haha 😄 . I googled to make sure. Always willing to learn . I try to b 'deliberate', just like Wyatt

[@paddydunne774]

Josh. I only found your podcast after one the algo-rhythms chased me down and forced me into a gulch and gave me choice of going back to the beginning and episode I of the pods. Or a whipping with a lasso. Obviously i chose épisode 1. Season 1. But it just couldn’t help myself and listen to the most recent offering. Love your work. Admire your progression as a storyteller. But the way you humanise with humour makes it. Rookie question. Where is the intro/ outro music from? And is it you giving it the big Yee-Haw? Best wishes from West Cork in Ireland 🇮🇪

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Hello Paddy! No need to start from the beginning, just pick and choose sir! The intro music is something I licensed from a website called Audiojungle and yes, that's me yelling

[@mudcatz3564]

Great entry! I gotta say tho, with ears like that, if he'd have turned the wrong way the wind would have blown him off his horse...

[@StevenMMan]

Well it's for sure and certain ol Doc Scurlock bares little resemblance to Kiefer Southerland Mountain man

[@allenlanphear47]

An Assayer tests minerals for identification purposes.

[@plymouthduster225]

Very interesting video as always Josh. Just curious have you read George Coe's autobiography Frontier Fighter? I was curious about it. Doc Scurlock lived a long and interesting life sadly marked by quite a bit of tragedy also. Wonder if Charlie Bowdre's wife went with them to Texas seeing how she was Doc's sister in law.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Just parts of it

[@abrahammorrison6374]

Do a video on Tom Horn.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Will do

[@iananderson1901]

Great one. There's two kinds of people in this world you are either billy the kid and people are pulling jobs with you or you're pulling jobs with billy the damn kid

[@broderickwallis25]

Historially though, in the early westerns, Cambells tomato soup w as the prefered substance used as fake blood !!!!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Ha

[@BabysanBabysan]

Dang this is good stuff

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks Robert

[@bluebeard6189]

God damn this is the most entertaining channel on KZbin well except for girls trying on lingerie but you know

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Haha thanks

[@snellsworld2648]

That guy looks like Kurt Russell.

[@jacobballinger7208]

The clap... Lmfao 😆.. love your shit man

[@Ronald-wv1bz]

Hannibal of the West

[@godwarrior3403]

All wild west names are the same. I'm gonna start a country career call myself wild doc Hickok the calamity kid

[@BenSHammonds]

blather on brother, blather on :) that about Jess Evans being from over here near the Texarkana area is also in Noble Burns book, as said he was an Evans but raised by a Davis family, and coincidentally enough in the small community here I grew up in, which is about 30 miles west of Texarkana, or T-town as we call it :P, there are both Evans and Davis families in the area, even know some from one that married into the other family lol so could be true about Jess , also BTW, there are Scurlocks on area too lol It is kinda funny that Doc once lived at Maybank TX, that is just down the road from Canton TX where Brushy Bill lived and where his parents are buried lol

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Small world!

[@BenSHammonds]

@@WildWestExtravaganza aint it, and its round too lol :P

[@mikestewart1915]

What was the one last job Doc did with BTK to get a grub stake??

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

If I'm not mistaken it was to help drive a passel of Chisum's horses to the Texas panhandle

[@elijahn.grisham4017]

So you’re halfway thru and not a word about doc yet

[@thecrankyyankee5114]

He did state near the beginning to skip to the 21 minute mark for that.

[@justinmas299]

You don't listen 4 shit big mouth, might work on that

[@abrahammorrison6374]

Do a video on Butch and the Sundance Kid. The Sundance Film Festival is named after the Sundance Kid.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

I've never heard of them

[@abrahammorrison6374]

@@WildWestExtravaganza Head of the Wild Bunch.

[@garrethrathjens9991]

You have anything on Joaquin Murrieta?...

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

I do.

[@blanchesplace]

I work at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. What was Riley date of death?

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

10 Feb 1916 according to findagrave. Says he was buried at Mt Olivet cemetery in Wheat Ridge

[@blanchesplace]

@@WildWestExtravaganza thank you.....we also have an r.w. McCarty who is supposed to be a cousin to Billy

[@williamhurt8512]

just a question before i start, have you seen and heard the video from "chronicles of time" about wyatt earps saloon in tombestone???....... if so then pardon me for reminding, if not then check it out for some good laughs and keep some alka-seltzer handy, you might need it...............................................

[@abrahammorrison6374]

An assayer is a person or company that tests the pureness of gold, silver, copper, etc.

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Thanks Abraham

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@@WildWestExtravaganza We have learned from each other.

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What has 2 thumbs and just bought a WWE t-shirt? This guy!

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

Hell yeah, which one?

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@@WildWestExtravaganza Bloody Beaver Podcast. Going old school.

[@davemccormickmusic]

so.....i'm basically a lawyer lolololol

[@WildWestExtravaganza]

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