I love the calligraphy they used on official papers and correspondence back in the day! I think it is a real shame that kids do not learn penmanship in grammar school anymore and that many kids, even those in college today, cannot even sign their names using cursive writing! It's a lost art that should definitely be revived! Thanks for another great video Santee. Hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas!
A subject near and dear to my heart. The art of the written word and the science of paper. I use disposable fountain pens for day to day use and calligraphy for special occasions on laid paper.
Dan: "Where's he going?" Other Dan: _"Hey get over here!"_ Me: *"We got a runner!!"* Sorry Santee. Couldn't resist. Thanks for the great video. In my vast fountain pen collection, I do have a steel nib attached to an Ebonite shaft from India. Though now that I think about, it might have an Ebonite feed too. Oh well, love writing with fountain pens. Happy New Year, Santee.
This was a really great episode. You folks just keep getting better and better. "Frontier" font should be a new type option, especially for a channel like AZ Ghostriders. Can't wait to see what you have in store for New Year's. Happy Holiday's.
"Wanted for cow tipping Reward: 2¢" That one cracked me up. You can still get pens and steel nibs in lots of various sizes and angles at art supply stores.
Fantastic video. I inherited my grandfather's old Fountain pens and Dip pens so I've taken to useing them every day. Even when taking notes I always use cursive. It's good fun and proven to help with memory.
Ah, I miss my Saturday morning's watching Mr. Holster, Batjac's Saturday morning radio show and finishing up with the Arizona Ghostriders. Life travels on. Santee - may you have a prosperous and blessed 2021!
Back in the west the quality of education and both spoken and written grammar outshines today's "college education" Keep up the good work! How about one on Fire safety and fire fighting in the old west?
Thanks again Santee & Co. I'm reminded of the scene in The Patriot when the newlywed bride put ink in her husband's tea . Ha Ha ! I understand that one old formula for ink was based on the secretion that squids use for defense . I'm also reminded me of the song Love Potion Number Nine , and the line ' It smelled like turpentine , it looked like India ink ' . Good film , and good song . Well , Merry Christmas ! three day weekend , and Happy New Year ! in advance .
Hi Santi Arizona Ghostriders. Merry Christmas From Kent, England. I have been watching your on youtube for a couple of years now. I am a big western nut and love your shows so keep up the great work and a happy new year.
Happy new year Santee & Co! I just got my late Christmas gift today: An Arizona Ghostriders shirt! I've been wearing it a bunch and love it already. Keep up the great videos! - From NSW, Australia
Happy 2021 Santee! And I really like that Buckskin jacket you were wearing in the video. I also liked how you slipped away from those warrant holders. Take Care!
Happy belated Christmas santee my friend hope you had a fantastic day with your family give that shirt back santee lol great upload and I want to take this chance to thank you for being such a genuine friend thumbs up buddy 👍
Thanks Sir for this educational video , it was to my liking and I appreciate very much. We were taught the American cursive writing . Can't take my eyes off your videos. Keep makin' 'em . Thank you. Love from Pune City Jai Maharashtra.
Good video Santee!! Now this is history. I see old inkwells in antique (junque) stores all the time...gonna look at them a little closer now. Merry Christmas🎄 and Happy New Year! 🎉🍾
Bill never lets me down playing his tricks lol..Enjoyed this very interesting!!! Hope you have a Happy New Year as well....Try not to get arrested lol...
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & Happy New-Year, Santee! I've always been fascinated with old documents, and hand written documents. Love the old currency, that is hand signed. Very cool stuff!🤠🍻👊
Howdy, Santee. Your Western buff here from San Juan City, Philippines. Yep, this is one Filipino boomer dude who grew up with the Lone Ranger, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill, Maverick, Wyatt Earp, Palladin and of course John Wayne. Really enjoy watching the Arizona Ghostriders series. Wish you many happy trails, Pilgrim. Favor: could you do one on the spiritual life in the Old West. Thanks, Pardner. Stay well and God bless.
I'm a Land Surveyor, so I have lots of experience with hand written deeds. My favorite was one written by a Loudon County Virginia lawyer named Noble B. Peacock, ESQ. It was written with distances expressed as chains, rods, and perches. We have one very old hand written deed in my county with distances described as bow shots. Yes the deed transferred land from a local tribe to a settler. Land Surveyors tend to be fascinated by history. Oh and I have a glass pen from the 1890's.
@Arizona Ghostriders, in the one room school houses, the chalkboards had the old letters both large & small letters across the top of the boards. I know due to one of my toys was a full size one room school house complete with everything still in it & the other was a full size 2 story log cabin. Anyhow before I learned to print I learned those cursive letters just playing. For some odd reason I always got A's in pinmenship when it came to cursive writing. Plus my teachers always said I wrote big enough that a blind person could read it. (Someone with bad eyesight not a person who couldn't see at all.) Anyhow Happy Holidays & Happy New Year's! Blessings!
My Dad had old three rolling front book shelf that I believe dated back to early 1900 maybe late 1800.lots of old books from the family.dating back to 1840sh or so.including several maguffy readers.used to teach letters and writing back during the 1800s.plus a few family Bibles with names birth/death dates. I cherish these as I love the historical and the family ties value so much. I would love to see a vid on the education system and teaching tool used back then.
luv your videos, but they are way to short...lol...awhile back I asked if you could do an episode on Hotels and their rooms. How big they were, how expensive they were etc...👍🍁🤠
My first thought on seeing the title was for my English teacher, named, interestingly enough, Miss Young, though she was anything but. She first began teaching in the 1890's when she was in her early teens. When I had her, she was in her 90's, but still teaching as though it was the turn of the century. She had a yardstick from the local hardware store, the old style ones made from a piece of 3/4 inch hardwood. And she applied it liberally, across the knuckles. Bad penmanship? Whap! Bad grammar? Whap! Not paying attention? Whap! She whipped us unruly farm boys into shape. Just out of the luck of the draw, I had her for 3 years in a row, so she had plenty of time to go to work on me! The only drawback was it later took me years of concentrated effort to be able to write anything without it sounding like a narrative from the Ken Burn's Civil War series. :) But in my adult life, it helped me tremendously to be able to write proper business letters and reports. We still had the old desks, with the fancy cast wrought iron base, hole for the inkwell, and all from when the school was first built in 1884. There were other things that a collector would treasure, pictures on the walls of the presidents placed there in the era, books, glass work, architectural details not seen since, and so forth. But of course to us kids, it was just old junk. She has long since passed away, and the building was torn down and replaced with an ugly modern brick affair decades ago. As a kid I dreaded going to her class, but looking back as an adult, she has become one of my favorite teachers over the years. So I'd say that other than making my own ink, or cutting a quill, I am all too familiar with how they wrote on the frontier! LOL
Okay, I loved the video. 👏👏Especially with the cell phone call and it calls Jake from State Farm. I have had the same problem, ask my phone to call someone and it dials something else. 😄Thank you. But this I got to add. Thank you for using the real Jake from State Farm. Just sayin and grateful. Awesome video as always!!👍
@@ArizonaGhostriders I didn't catch that. I'll have to re-watch it again. I did not know that there were other methods of writing besides the Spencerian.
In the 19th century writing was done by moving your whole arm. This was taught in our 1800 schools thru our 1890's public schools, in order to make your letters flow. It is now almost a lost art, except for a very few people....3 of my home school grandchildren can write like that. The youngest is 7 yrs old, and I taught them from what my grandfather taught me. Happy New Years to The Arizona Ghostriders.
What are you doing to get in so much trouble? I used to have a really nice set of calligraphy pens many moons ago but my writing was never as nice as some of the stuff I had seen. Another fine episode Santee!
Now I know! I've always carried a pocket knife since my grandfather gave me my first one when I turned 8. I never knew why the rounded, stubby blade was called the penknife. It was for actual quill pens. Who knew? Santee, apparently.
my penmanship is so bad that doctors cone to me to learn my secrets 🤣 and kudos to Bill for using his mischief for good: who uses a telegraph in this age? the telephone is what the cool kids use! 🤣
@@ArizonaGhostriders Hey Santee, sorry my suggestion is kinda late. But could you do a video on early automobiles and there prominence in the old west?
In regards to your warrants, we now know that they also had the "Felonious Mopery" charge in the frontier west ! ......After watching many Civil War documentaries, we also learned that soldiers from both sides had great penmanship & wrote very literate letters home. ( PS; Did you get that outfit from the Dirty Dan collection?)
As someone whose career extends into examining public records, I can tell you those old documents deeds leases etc. are indeed a work of art. It’s almost like reading a different dialect of English because of the penmanship they had back then. Most people open up those old deed books or court cases from the 1800s And just kind of give up. Because they think there’s no way they can read this. But if you take some time to examine you can understand enough to get familiar with it real quick
@@ArizonaGhostriders I like reading some of the old legal descriptions of land back them. Like Chief Wild Eagle from F Troop wrote the metes & bounds: “thence go south 00 west 1000 varas (spanish 1 ft = 2.77 ft) to the rock that looks like a bear, thence north 89 east 360 varas to the bear that looks like a rock, thence north .45 degrees east 3607 varas to the pig nut (the what?), thence south 50 degrees a good ways (what unit of measurement is that?) to the oak tree (that was cut down 80 years ago) etc etc etc.” And I have to plot all this on a modern map
Hey Shantee, I have two ideas, a video about scandinavians in the old west, for I have a person related to my grandmother who migrated to america I think in the late 1800 or early 1900. Second: Have you done a video about Bounty Hunters? I would love to learn more about them.
The State Farm Hong was hilarious. Back in the 60’s, the nuns made us use fountain pens. But the end of the day a lot of us would have blue and black ink all over our hands and brand new white shirts and pants. That ink didn’t wash out. We would use the empty ink cartridges as small pea shooters in class. We called them pistols. When Bic pens came out, we’d pull out the ink thing with our teeth, refining our pea shooters. We called those our rifles.
My mom was watching guys and dolls and that seal was singing literally a second before the actual number in the movie. Thought my headphones had an echo.
Also heard a sample from “guys and dolls” I don’t only come watch for samples I enjoy getting educated on American history as you can see I’ve learned quite a bit about the golden era
