Jim Bridger: Ashley's 100 Revealed and the Epic Legends of Hugh Glass 

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Thanks for the great video. Jim Bridger was one hell of a man. It is amazing that any of the mountain men survived at all. I've been reading stories about these men since I knew how to read in the 1950s. Your rendition is great. You depict them as they were good men with some flaws like the rest of us

Oh, loving all the western history!! Thanks

The absolute best and most entertaining western podcast/RU-vid content on the web. Always worth the listen! Thank you.

Another great episode. First time I ever heard of Jim Bridger was when I was maybe 10, I watched the movie Tomahawk starring Van Heflin as Jim Bridger. While probably not a a historical accurate film about him, that was the first time I remember hearing about him. Then of course there's the Johnny Horton song about him as well.

Fantastic. I named my son Bridger, after Jim Bridger, of course. He's now serving his country in Germany.

I'm a homesteader in Central Italy. Your channel is my best friend in my downtime. Thank you for all the work friend.

Another great one! Love the tall tales of Jim Bridger!

I love these stories! My favorite story is about Jedediah Smith.

When I was very young I trapped with my Uncle Greg. We trapped any and everything. We also snared fox, coyote and I snared rabbit. I was only 10 to 14 years of age and now I'm 57. We trapped in central N.B., Canada 🇨🇦. We caught beaver by also their food sources. They love popular trees. Actually they stashed it like squirrels stash nuts. So that is another sign of beaver. I was a lucky kid, grew up hunting, fishing, trapping, fighting, drinking, driving and many other things with my Uncle Greg. Times have changed. We caught numerous fox, raccoon, rabbit and coyote. Plus 2 bobcat and a fisher. Plus the St. John river gave up many muskrat and fish of all kinds. Salmon, bass, chain pike (or pickerel) and green eal. Now that is all done due to over fishing but mostly due to pollution. I miss these times and the men who taught me my code and morals. God bless them all.

Great episode. Thank you for the content.

For a man like Jim Bridger to end up Blind in his old age is a real pity. The last actual comment I can find of Bridger was when he had been forced by that Blindness to live with his Daughter.....They were talking about his time in The Rocky Mountains, and he looked with unseeing eyes, off into the distance and said "I'd love to see them thar just one more time", and as we all know, that was Not To Be, but I like to think he's still up "Thar" roaming his Beloved Rockies for all time.....My Admiration of Jim Bridger and Most Real Mountain Men, combined with my Sentimental Side makes me Believe that Jim Bridger earned the divine right for his spirit being able to Roam there Forever.

I grew up in Utah's Cache Valley and every year it seemed there would be a school play or song celebrating Jim Bridger and the fur traders of the region. Thanks for sharing a piece of incredible history.

Man I’ve got to tell you. I am absolutely a fan love the videos. You covered everything with fact and discussion fiction. You even source resources. Amazing keep up the good work.

Love Jim Bridger. Been a fan since I heard the song from Johnny Horton

Another great podcast. Thank you very much Josh this is one of my favorite periods of American history and I love the references to the movies such as Jeremiah Johnson and the revenant keep them coming.

Another foray into historical excellence sir!

Hey old friend alway nice to hear from you. Your one of the top story tellers in the trade. Keep it up Josh, you will always be welcome by my fire as long as it burns

Yes!!! I was getting a little worried that something happened. So glad your back!

Man….. I love your pod casts…. A ton of these remind me of the old movies I watched as a kid, now I know the facts. Thanks dude

And another awesome episode senor. Good to hear your voice, and get educated as only The Wild West Extra can.

Just found your channel 🙂 I enjoy your presentation. The Revenant was a good movie, even better book. Cheers

By God Your Name Is Josh. Annnd This Is Definitely The Wild West Extravaganza. YEEH. HAAAAR!!!!! Big thanks and just what the frontier doc ordered. A sweet cup cup of harden the hell up. 😘 Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺👍

Great content. thanks for doing these videos

These guys were hand to hand fighters all the way! With just a few shots available, the mountain made great use of the blade or bow. This episode is so great! I love hearing about these guys, especially bridger and Carson, these guys stories were so Awsome even if most was fiction! Keep trucking homie! Love your channel

Another great episode, you rule Josh! Listened to this while sanding the stock of a Winchester 73.

YeeeeHaw! Diggin on WildWestExtravaganza!

I can't wait for your videos! Great Job!!!!!!

I'm a trapper the price of pelts have been down for quite a few years for instance used to get $50 for a big Coon now you're lucky to get $5 and what people forget is fur is a renewable resource and it has to be managed otherwise some of the diseases that the animals get can be passed to humans

Great work. I look forward to the rest of the series on Jim Bridget. I have enjoyed all of your videos since I joined the ranks of your subscribers.

Horrendous food! Young man I'll have you know we British built an empire on tripe and onions, limes and strong black tea!...Where is my horsewhip? Bloody butler put it somewhere...I'll teach that cheeky Yank about food.. Hiked and camped in the Bridger Mountains near Bozeman Montana not long ago, thought of him while I was there. Great episode and great channel.

Green river knives are still great knives at great prices!! Still made in the USA. I have three. Made by what they became Dexter/Russel. You are a great story teller and have a new fans no sub.

Great video. I’m kinda want to help you out on your word “discovered”. I know we use the word as “found” or first to “come up on” but in historical context it almost always eludes to “mapping” who was the first to put it on canvas.

Good one beaver nice mention of the old hickory blades good knives

Well damn, I find myself weak in fortitude. I succumbed to temptation. I had start the mission of viewing my way from the bottom of your content list, and patiently work my to present. However the title of the the next Bridger sequel captured my attention. The words Bugs boys is a term from anyone from anywhere in years. To watch that episode I have to watch this one first. Be came aquinted with your content the other night on the bang bang boys live stream. On that night you was introduced to Duke Frazier a historian reanactor of the national park service at Fort Laramie. A quick introduction of myself is That was the Duke Frazier 40 years before. Shortly I became unsatisfied with just talking the talk, I moved on to walking the walk. At least as one could a hundred plus years removed from tribe's little lone hostels. Wasn't long before within the state of Wyoming didn't even know I had a real name. I was simply known as mountain man. Today old age played itself hairy tricks on me, and left me with memories lacking a top knot. Nope not scalped, just my really cool 1970's center parted hair got WIDER. Sumbitch! I have not made it to the ol Hugh episode yet but I generally comment often, needling in my mountain man into it.

Thank you awesome content

Oh the beaver I'd harvest when I was younger 😊 more beaver than I knew what to do with. Those were the days...

The HBC had an entire fur trading empire in place throughout most of northern North America by the time the US declared their independence. I live in northwest Canada, and there was an HBC trading post in place by 1774.

Grew up near Cody, WY and would highly recommend the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum their weapons collection is incredible and goes from the 1700's up to at least Vietnam era. They also had a great Art exhibit and dope section on the local wildlife.

You're cool man, I hope your channel takes off cause it will.

Can't wait

A name I have heard often, probably the first time because of Johnny Horton, & always thought frontiersman, but never knew any details, until your Hugh Glass episode. Also living here in Australia, I used to watch Fess Parker as Daniel Boone on tv in the 70s. Also Davey Crockett. So Daniel Boone was an actual person? Methinks we need a series on this too. Even the Rangers. Can't remember the movie's name, but starred Spencer Tracy PS. Wish I could drown in beaver!

Glad to see a new upload on this icey day in Dallas, at least I got something to do now besides look at 4 walls and yell at my cat

I live about 20 minutes from the three forks of the Missouri River or Headwaters state park

I would imagine that beaver trapping then was much the same as today. Beavers are territorial and castor mound sets and crossover sets and other simple sets of the like. Beavers are a smart animal though and after they’ve seen a companion or two caught they get trap shy especially with body grip traps, they get square shy so these days the round body grips help out not having straight lines. I do wonder if they used body grip or even snares back then. Snares can be a real killer on beavers when they’ve been pressured a lot but you better have a way to drown em most times as they can and will chew through the cable with enough time to do so. I’ve always thought about all that as I’ve listened and read stories of old time trappers.

Josh, Thanks so much for posting this latest episode! You’re awesome!

I always wondered why they couldn't pronounce the name of that college correctly. Great video.

Let's drink to old Jim Bridger yes lift your glasses high

I'm looking for Hugh Glass? IM HUGH GLASS.

Fur gets "prime", or ready, when daylight shortens so the best trapping starts in the Fall. There can be good trapping during Spring before fur goes out of prime. Long before I started bowhunting I would trap rats, mink and coon each Fall and as kids we always thought it was the cold weather that turned fur prime. This is not true because how do you explain states like Louisiana and Mississippi and the rest of the South? Waders and hip boots used to be pretty poor quality back in the 70s so getting up early and checking traps before school was always an adventure, there were a few old timers in the area that would just wear wool clothing and would wade creeks and rivers with no rubberized protection, never failed to blow my mind. But getting dunked or slipping and getting a few gallons in your chest waders was not only cold as all hell but could be dangerous depending on how close you were to deep water. Nothing but respect for these men that went West and battled not only the elements but hostile tribes in their pursuit for fur, what a wild life they lead and is definitely my favorite part about American history. Great video! Late edit: Everything Ive read says most guys trapped in pairs, they set and checked traps at night and holed up during the day when in dangerous country. Everyone skinned their own furs because if you do a bad job at skinning it reduces the value of the fur. They must have eaten a lot of beaver, no pun intended, because trapping is time consuming and you dont want to be out shooting at game while in enemy territory.

Can’t find To Be a Rebel on RU-vid. Can you give us a link?

The Universal British Recipe.....Take a hunk of something, preferably some or of Meat, place in Pot, add water and some Taters if you want to be all Fancy about it. Then Boil The Ever Loving Shite Out Of It until you are either too Hungry or too Tired to wait any longer......Bon Apetit

Daggum how time and life moves things about good work Josh

Fuck yes man, fuck yes. Love what ya do.

Johnny Horton sang Jim Bridger.

All this talk about beaver got me feeling some type of way..😂

I’m sure they ate a LOT of Beaver!!

Well done on the Rocky Mountain fur trade

@ around 9:50, davey crokett and the river pirates, i was not yet 10 years old, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.........................

Have you read about Joe Meek. He gives a little more detail about work as a trapper. I think he was with Ashley.

Why do you always have ad breaks but no ads? I understand it may not always be possible to get a sponser but then why leave the ad break in when it cold just be cut easily?

It was the same Mike Fink my ancestor he was killed up there after getting in a fight over a Blackfoot woman David Fink.

You mean to tell me, I’ve been paddling around in the wrong skin flute?

You know i really cant imagine taking on such threats as plains and the west where everything abd everyone wanted to kill you with a fricken single shot cap and ball musket and single shot pistol good lord even later when they transitioned from those flashy fire musjets ( cant remember what there called) to cap and ball cap and ball was a tas better then what they had but still time consuming to reload the lever action metal cartriges where serious game changers

I grew up reading about these guys in the 80’s. Loved the mountain men and Americas early western lore. It’s so amazing now how much I can find out now in the age of electronics compared to the same my days of computer. So much more info is available, but a lot of it is BS. This channel is Awsome, I don’t know accurate it is but it seems to strive for showing all info for and against. Great channel

So here I am and I had to stop already and fill a blank for you I speak four different native languages and study for simple phrases from all and one thing the all have in common is they reference themself as our people, the people in one variation or another. For example in the odawa/ojibwa nation the word is ashwanabee. Lose interpretation people of this land. Blackfoot, bloods, lakota, Cheyenne was the other's called them. AI us and them. Sorry just felt compelled. Onward! At that mentioned exchange, the merry mountain man was given a new name. Shiam Shaspusia, the great lier for he could out-lie the crow. Damn the money Josh you are damn entertaining and funny. Accuracy good .Something many a who could learn from. Not to name names, but the initials are, History at the OK coral. Shit that stuff is dry. Any who a tip of the hat from the ol mountain man

You should look up my great grand pappy Private Wood Saunders Texas Ranger. Or not. Just sayin it might be interesting.

Illinoistown became east st louis, Illinois.

Do one on jedediah smith ?

Good work Josh. What happened to the colorful language? Have you been saved? 😢

Heidi Fleiss made a fortune selling beaver too.

Isnt this the guy that abandoned hugh glass ??

Best Jim Bridger movie?

We all hate it when Winnebagos are raiding

Warshington is in DC.

The baddest mfer to ever ride the west.

Did you say corn pop?

So happy I found this. Need so sub on patreon

Do you put your skin flute inside her skin canoe?