@@bbpoltergeist WK was the end of conflict. They were not necessarily the LAST free Natives. But they were the largest group free at that point resisting assimilation.
theamericandreamdave three rifles from wounded knee sold at auction for $30,000, $55,000, and $52,500 respectively. This guy wasn’t too far off the mark with what he was asking, Rick is just trying to rip the dude off bigtime
@@theamericandreamdave no it wasn't off mark i have evidence from a source talking about these same auctions "Three rifles removed from the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre by a non-Native woman have been sold at public auction for $137,000." And the math adds up so I say the seller was correct in his pricing
@@iriemember5739 how were you being judgemental?? You said the joke wasnt funny, and it isnt. If i had a dime for how many people make those jokes and butch about the prices a pawn shop offers for priceless collectible artifacts, id be a rich man. If anything the low balled prices may help the sellers. Think about it theyre on a t.v show so the item they have gets out there to where collectors can hunt them down
@@iriemember5739 the thing is you get hurt so badly by the words on a screen that you have to tell others how bad they are for trying to be funny. You disgust me
No real appraisal...the owner was very nice and polite ...Rick at the end commentary was extremely rude...he will check around and come crawling back to me? Rude Rick...even for you!!
@@bgarrison67: ironically the Shoshone are also known as the Snake Indians. I don’t think they were the ones that first called the Lakota the Sioux, I believe it came about before the Lakota were on the Plains, but when they were further east.
Seller: Here's a tomahawk from the Little Big Horn with a piece of Custer's scalp still attached, and here's DNA analysis proving that. I'm asking $150,000 Rick: Okay, it all checks out but something like this, it's gonna sit around forever. There were also a lot of Indians there and maybe more tomahawks with pieces of his scalp are going to turn up, driving down the value. Best I can do, I'll give you $5.00 in quarters and let you play one of our slot machines in the corner.
Look, I've got a buddy, he's an English teacher, and he knows all about this stuff. I gave him a call, and he said that "Calvary" and "cavalry" are NOT the same word, and may not be used interchangeably!
I'm actually fairly impressed. I clicked on this video expecting to pick it apart but they did good research on the truth of the event. Way to go Pawn Stars lol
14 years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, many of the troops who survived were at Wounded Knee including several officers under Col. Forsythe. There was a long simmering score to settle and the top of the list was Sitting Bull who also went to the happy hunting ground this day. 38 troops were killed here but it was a massacre.
@@printolive5512: very few enlisted soldiers were still in the regiment fourteen years after Little Big Horn, but you are correct that more than a few officers were present in both engagements. A couple interesting connections... Lt. George Wallace was saved from dying with Custer in 1876 by a few words from a fellow officer. Wallace, acting engineering officer in Custer’s HQ element, saw Maj. Reno’s battalion peeling off to the left and asked Custer where they were going. Custer replied “to begin the attack.” Lt. Charles Varnum was in charge of the Indian scouts with the Seventh, and hollered at Wallace to join them, to not hang back “with the coffee-coolers.” Custer let Wallace join Varnum and thus Reno’s battalion, saving his life. Wallace, now a Captain in 1890, was killed at Wounded Knee, being shot in the head early in the fight. Blacksmith Gustave Korn also somehow survived the Little Big Horn, possibly by his runaway horse carrying him across the river and through a part of the village, away from the rest of Company I, which was wiped out. He later helped care for Comanche, the horse found on the field days later. When Korn, who was one of a few to remain in the regiment so many years later and still took care of the old horse, was killed at Wounded Knee, Comanche seemed to become despondent and died within a year. And one other little detail: the Seventh fought in three famous or infamous engagements: Washita in 1868, Little Big Horn in 1876, and Wounded Knee in 1890. In each fight, the regimental sergeant major was killed in action. Walter Kennedy in 1868 (an alias, his real name was Thomas Tibbs, as he was an ex-confederate officer), William Sharrow in 1876, and Richard Corwin in 1890.
The lakota claimed that it was a deaf warrior who did not really know why his rifle was being taken. No one knows who fired the first shot. This is what I was told during my time in the pine ridge reservation. It was a story from a grandparent of the elder who told me on the hill that the cannons were fired from.
I remember seeing an interview where Rick says the only items he doesn’t want in the shop are ones associated with bad events or people (“bad juju”, he called it). Is it possible - however unlikely - that Rick made a low offer because he didn’t want the item and wanted to save face? I know Corey did something similar with a 2004 World Series ring because it belonged to a creep.
@@silverletter4551 Him purchasing things that belonged to awful people is going to put off some people from going to his shop. That is bad for business.
I've done some research and some other rifles were been auctioned off with a starting bid of $5000. That means Rick's offer of $14,000 was actually pretty good.
Customer: 6000 dollars for the sniper that shot Martin Luther King Jr Rick: the best I can do is 10 bucks it's going to sit for a while I'm not making a lot of money
Here are the navigation charts from captain cook with his signatures. Rick: the best I can offer is $15. The outlines of the continent's are just not as accurate as Google earth.
You aren't suppose to agree. You're supposed to make fun of the low-ball offer and make a funny "call a buddy" joke. Jeez, do you even comment section bruh?
Yes indeed if he had taken a risk with the rifle at that price,, his knee wounds, would have been merely a superficial graze, unlike how his bank account would be! ....lol
Here we go again, I like watching these videos, but then you hear Rick crying about putting it in an auction.. they wouldn't be as successful as they are if they weren't good at screwing people
Great event as in huge and historical not great as in great. If that makes sense. There’s a difference between the term “great almighty” and “OMG that’s so great”.
Im not broken-english native speaker expert but I feel the difference between great history events (very important)from great taste feel of my favourite ice cup flavor
Some of these jabroni's are comical. He's got $12k invested and he comes out wanting a 500% return on his money. Not even Bernie Madoff was that greedy.
Just because you pick the rifle up off the battlefield, doesn't change the fact it was in massacre "wounded knee". So that means that rifle was 100% in "battle".
Nick Nack The expert works at a museum, not appraising items. Those are two completely different fields. His aptitude is to know the history of items not their value.
It also possibly could have been carried at Little Big Horn fourteen years earlier, though it is quite expensive to attempt to match it to recovered cartridge cases or fired bullets.