A Strange Sink Spot by the Train Tracks Leads to an Unbelievable Discovery Buried for 120 Years 

wow thank you so much! i really appreciate that!!! and thank you for watching and commenting

@@BelowthePlains I appreciate your hard work and always look forward to seeing your videos when they come out!! 😊

I would also be interested in what some of the bottles typically sell for.

Their descriptions are amazing it shows everything although I agree I would love to see what these bottles typically sell for and I agree more interaction would be amazing I would love to be one of the supporters but just showing my name I would love to see some type of interaction for them to comment on some people's messages or something a simple hello this is where we are or whatever it would be nice to see you want something from us maybe you should give your public something too

@hdmom34gmail Agree to everything you said. A little more back back and forth so the audience feels more a part of the experience.

Oldest bottles I found when i was a kid, was inbetween the dunes above the beach. Easily 3 to 400 years old rum bottles.

@@Chuxgold That is amazing.

@@riverc3171 I think they've got their separate roles and Jake does the editing and interacting on the channel and Tom does the research and digging, so it's a manageable workload

Nope.

why not like they are ding an archeology dig ... hes just old trash hunting and making it seem like time team ... and failing badly

@@kaboom-zf2bl Huh?

He’s actually in some of the early videos and he prefers to be behind the camera! I think he’s the one who responds in the comments. He does a great job with the camera work and they are the perfect team! 😉

A person has to be extremely tough and cold tolerant to live in North Dakota! I thought I was used to the cold and snow, but after my first year in North Dakota, I learned a whole new level of "bitter cold" that was previously unknown to me. It's not a place for weenies and marshmallows. 🤣 Considering that electricity was in its infancy and chopping down trees for fireplace wood is super hard work, there is also a level of preparedness that is more intense than other places. I think a big part of it is wind. The wind chill temperatures in the Dakotas can be -50 even -60 in the winter. The Great Depression likely made it even harder to survive. I'm not sure of the real reason, but after living there, that would be my answer. My family lived in South Dakota around the Geddes area from 1880 to about 1940's. None of them stayed in South Dakota either. The Great Depression ended in 1939, so it kinda makes sense that life would have been unbearable at that time.

@@staylor5687 SD had three US Representatives during the 1910 homestead rush, but many proved up and sold to their neighbors who needed much larger farms to turn a profit in the dry side of the state. That brought the Reps down to 2. The Dirty Thirties brought it down to 1. West River was brutalized by FDR's people who decided the area shouldn't be farmed, after every previous administration in two decades had encouraged farming, especially Wilson imploring them to dig up every inch for the war effort, refused any relief for farmers, and when a farm was sold to the govt, killed the livestock in front of the family, dumped them into a pit and burned them, not allowing any for food, just as had been done with the Sioux and buffalo, to break morale and force them off the land. If the govt could kill one small town it could cause a cascading effect of disaster, killing many. It is now Natl Grassland, where people can run cattle. ND had its own story with corporate farms and destruction in oil booms. SD still has many family farms in East River and very little in the way of mineral resources to exploit. It also has many acres in reservations, which is a story in itself, including in regard to the illegalities of the dams (with Congress rubberstamping the Army Corps of Engineers taking treaty land and pushing people onto the least productive land in the region, including in one case land with no drinkable water so the livestock died). 1936 had both the lowest and highest temps recorded in SD, -58 and 120 (also the high in 2006). The 1880s were infamous for snow deaths, people and cattle. That was when the great cattle companies gave up. Pierre was founded then and the first winter the people were snowbound and finally stopped trying to dig out the train and tore up the tracks to burn the ties for fuel. No trees, just brush along the river. All lumber was expensively shipped in. SD was initially very hospitable to ideas of socialism, including state owned cement plant, gas works to separate gas from the water, and farm insurance. The Great Depression crushed a lot but not all of those like a bug. It was easier to get money from Washington than create it at home. I was told they used to send Democrats to Wash to get pork, and elect Republicans at home to spend it. :) A rule of thumb. Not currently, though. East river has the moisture, farms, and most of the people. The Black Hills is the only other population center. All else, including the capital, are scattered small towns. (Fort Pierre had a boom and bust history, fur trading posts, gold rush, etc with it subsiding into a small village in between.) The railroads, two battling for supremacy, created towns at every watering/refueling spot, but changes in technology made that unnecessary. ND still has passenger rail when oil companies aren't tying up the lines. SD doesn't. The interstate also decided who should live and who should die. Today it seems to be a question of connectivity.

When you go from 12-13 kids per family (my grandparents) to 4-5 (my parents) to 2 (me and my sister) the population will drop

@@brianmiller1077 Yes if you're talking about a drop that takes a few generations to complete. I think there was more involved than that. After all, birth control didn't become easily accessible until the late 1960's. Families were still large when I was very young.

well.. most of the time they would just cover it up, once it was nearly full, and dig a new hole nearby, and slide the outhouse over. this one had actually been cleaned out and re-used at least once. but to be honest, i think the ppl who threw the stuff down there, werent typically the same ppl who were cleaning them out later. there were fairly poor ppl, who would earn money by dipping (cleaning out) the pits so they could be reused. this would have been the privy for the train station, so the stuff thrown down there would have been from a variety of travelers and railway worker. but one thing ive noticed is that basically everywhere i dig, they threw bottles and pottery and metal down the outhouse pit. i think they would burn other stuff, but anything that couldnt be burned would just be thrown down the hole when it was no longer useful,. hope that was helpful. thanks for watching

@@BelowthePlains Yes, thank you that was very helpful. Considering a lot of the bottles are for alcohol or medicine, I wonder if some of it is related to wanting to “hide” what they were consuming?

haha thank you

Oooo, me to. Why did they name styles of bottles and do they still do it today? I have so many questions.😂