Colorado Experience: Women of the Santa Fe Trail 

Thank you for honoring these courageous women. This was so very interesting and well done.

My dad was born in Trinidad Colorado. I was born in Durango. Dad was teaching on the Ute reservation at the time. I'm very proud.

I just finished a book recently about Cathay Williams and her experiences, and it was a very interesting book-I absolutely love all this kind of history😊

Excellent, and truly moving in honouring these women. Their stories need to be brought forward into the light. Equal, extraordinary and courageous women!

Absolutely love that you shared different nationalities if women!! I love all history!

Glad to hear about pioneer women.

another wonderful chapter of our early settlement history

I regard the American Indians a National Treasure.

Thanks. Interesting to know and the acknowledge of women in history.

This is such an important topic and so well done. There are some mistakes though, as there will always be as new historical documents and information comes to light which change what we thought we knew. For instance on just Cathay Williams, she was part of 4 regiments of infantry soldiers and 2 of cavalry, not one regiment of Buffalo soldiers. Also she did not die in 1892. The doctor sent to Trinidad to examine her came in 1893. Further, she was in the Woodcroft Hospital in 1896, the court systems of Leadville and Trinidad in 1897, and in the state mental hospital from 1897-1911, when she died and was buried as William Cather in a pauper's grave in Rosemont Cemetery in Pueblo. Finally, the photo thought to possibly be her is certainly not her. Several people who actually met her described her as "black as night," and very masculine-looking. The photo is obviously of a light-complected African American woman. All these corrections are supported by primary source documents found by Rebecca Atkinson, one of the researchers in this documentary, who was actually misquoted in this episode as to William's death.. See her other presentations on RU-vid to see her research and documentation. Still I applaud RMPBS and everyone involved in bringing this topic to light. About time, I say, and thank you.

I love these doccos , Colorado is on my bucket list of places to see

Fantastic!!!! Thank you for an inspirational Christmas morning gift in front of the woodstove

I loved this little documentary. You should do one on Doc. Susie! She was my hero growing up!

Fantastic documentary! Each of the women highlighted are so fascinating. We would love to meet more of them! Also, you touched on Rev Beecher as inspirational for Julia. He also inspired his relative Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is interesting how frequently Christian women supported both emancipation and women's suffrage. One of the best such stories is of Annie Kennedy Bidwell- the Washington D.C. socialite who moved to Northern California (Chico). She not only supported these causes but reached out to Native Americans and taught them. Because they trusted her, they asked her to lead a church just for them. And so, she became the first woman ordained Presbyterian minister. She deserves her own docudrama!

Very informative. Sorry we didn't always have this knowledge! Great job!

Very interesting! Thankyou.🙂

My grandmother was born in Trinidad Colorado. her mother and father came from Italy.

Tough as nails! As a student of history this was an Amazing documentary!

Great history share, thank you 👍

This is interesting, but it seems that the French have been left out. My understanding is that the French from New Orleans were trading with Santa Fe along the Santa Fe Trail before the British Americans. The French in Indiana where I am 5th generation when Indiana was New France the European male traders married Native women benefiting both cultures. It would be nice to have this French connection also included in the Santa Fe Trail History recognized.

Excellent!

There’s actually quite a few books that are collections of the experiences of women pioneers taken from their own diaries. Amazon is most useful in finding these.

Fantastic documentary, thank you!

Adobe was used by ancestral Puebloan people. Great stories, thanks much!

Fascinating. I loved this ❤

The history of America never ceases to amaze me

All the traveling people from East to West very tough Those that survived and had children passed that toughness to the next generation

Excellent 👏🏼👏🏼

The woman who has her fist on her hips and arms akimbo has a look of no nonsense on her powerful face...."That Rose had thorns!"

This was very interesting and well done. Thank you. I live in SO CO, and really appreciate knowing more about the history.

Thank you for all the women

Thank you to these woman that civilized the state and made it the wonderful place it is today

What an amazing documentary!! These women’s stories need to be taught in all schools!!

I live on the original santa fe trail 11 miles from the end in SF. Its interesting walking this area each day in and around the forest. Imagine this was the last day of travel for the travelers going to Santa Fe, ready for an in and out burger.

Pioneer women wrote diaries that are very important parts of history.

Colorado has a rich history. I am proud to be a Coloradan and the values here.

Que belleza de lugar

Susan mcguffin was the first white woman to travel from St Louis to sante Fe on the sante Fe trail.

Thank u I miss Colorado so much.

She is beautiful and strong!

Brave women

Native Americans should be a priority in our national planning. They have been treated terribly since the white man came and they deserve a better life. Young Natives are committing suicide because of their feeling of despair. At one time the Natives in my area of northern California claimed 1.6 million acres which included their hunting and fishing grounds. Today they control about 600 acres. Many of the tribes were killed to extinction. We have to save the ones who remain. They are proud people. I mean I applaud the bravery of these women and settlers but they were displacing the inhabitants. We need to think about them sometimes.

Right on

Beautiful

There are many GREAT women that's contribution has bettered peoples lives and some times their own . Lets keep RACE out of it . We have one world , one life , one race , the human race . A race of many colors , many sizes , many shapes , many feelings , much love , much caring TOO much greed , TOO much anger , TOO much hate . As I said ONLY ONE WORLD I go for LOVE .

Julia looks similar to Julia Roberts. I can’t imagine how beautiful garden of the gods and pikes peak was back then.

Read the "Diary of Sara Agnes Prine"

This would great without the woke spin on it. I have been reading books about women in history since I was a child. There is no lack of stories. And no pioneer women didn’t sit around and think about gender or roles ha ha

No birds + outdoors = CGI studio. The most beautiful birds I ever saw, were at The Alamo. And they were everywhere.

My mother was from New Mexico and Colorado. Till WW11 when her father got a job here in Fresno CA as a guard at the Japanese encampment center Where the Fresno fair grounds sit now.

0:41 the girl on the right looks badass 💯

Any Cherokee stories in Colorado?

I would like to learn about the history of mexican/hispanic men and women in the mining boom and in particular Summit County Colorado. Can you point me to documents, movies, books etc. that could assist me. Thanks for what you do!

What I find marvelous is look at their clothing that would all be hand sewn

👍. Love you gals

what happen to the "Mujeres de santa Fe" way before the English arrived? Johnny come lately.

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It’s incredible & frustrating that this valuable historical information was never revealed & taught sometime during the last 100+ years!!

6:11 OH my ROTFLMAO!

🤔🤔Big Al.

Women power

Julia holmes looks just like julia roberts!

The irony of making a documentary about women and including "Al" Melton as a commentator. As an actual woman, I find that simultaneously hilarious and offensive.

Women supporting their husbands, having lots of children, taking care of the home, teaching their children, working as a team with their husbands to create a wonderful life each doing what they do best. No rivalry at all. This beautiful lifestyle is all gone

10:00

In a nutshell: Annie Wokeley

I find stories about men boring. Women have to tolerate and overcome so much more than men do. I traveled visited the state capitol of Montana, and was impressed how many of the exhibits recognized the contributions women made to the building of the state.

Okay Julia Archibald Holmes is giving me Julia Roberts vibes! I wonder if there is any relation.

Oh brother you ppl ever heard of the book Pioneer women? Think that pretty much lays out just how things were at the time.......

M a d r i g a l é or madrigal with Junior at an angle of a capital j lowercase r

the arrogance of patriarchy = man's knowledge and experiences is all there is!

If they did why can't we can, yes I'm female and they weren't called a beach. If they were called that the person wouldn't be in the pig troft.

I wonder if anyone even knows what Sant Fe means?

I paused this video at the 15:42 minute mark, to bring attention to the female masquerading as a male through hormone therapy ( shots). To me, this is known as living a lie!

It's completely off-putting to see a woman with a beard..to most people

This would be a great video minus the “woke” bs.

It was not a convergence of cultures! It was multiple invasions of Native lands.

Interesting. The opening sounded like whining though. Stop with the victimization and tell the story.

Let's not forget the trespassing onto others lands ,history , genocide,

Race does play apart but white women did not always have recognized over another race they still don't give quality Luke Hedy Lamarr the government it's self did recognized her invention of wi fi till years later and she never made money and she and or her family tree maternal should be making that money for all rhe wifi representation is need ofi guess a women 😉

The history is interesting but the woke ideology interspersed is quite frankly insufferable.

Not sure about all the. History facts in this documentary 🤔

Some men, as children in the old days, thought women were solid from the waist down because of the long dresses.

Obviously, the color of one’s skin didn’t always make life different. Both the white woman and the black woman were given an honorable discharge from the army when it was discovered they were females, and by an all male army leadership, too! Also, there was no support given for the claim that William’s was denied her pension based on her skin color, only.

Very biased show...

Black white red brown....... keeping racism alive? Are you telling a story or complaining? Tell what the women did 🙄

The women's story is important, but the whine at the introduction is what shuts open ears always. We know that the historians of the long past centuries were men, and their books were published. Women were seen as chattel. That was factual history. So we want to know their real lived experiences without the lens of the 2010 plus warped fem lens. The actual PBS documentary is balanced.

Open your eyes. Find out how to tell males from females.

boring. It says nothing to me as a woman

sigh...I overlooked that this was by PBS. I'll take a hard pass.

min 5.00......Nice mustache.......Does....IT....speak for women rights?????

😂😂😂😂...and WHAT, is the resulting lineage? From TRUE GRIT, metamorphosed into TRUE WOKE......

Artsy and boring.

back then in different days women were fighter

Everyone knows what women contributed to the movement westward.