I am from India, but watch, read, listen and scan everything I can about the old US, especially the Old West. Your channel is one of the reasons I find American history so fascinating. Have been following for more than 2 years now! Thankyou Santee!
Thank you for this! Being raised on a cattle farm and having buggy-commuting Menonites as neighbors, I've always found the pristine streets of the average western flick a huge distraction.
Another excellent video Santee! This video reminds me of what my ancestor went though. Public toilets were piss buckets out side general store and hotel, shitter was located behind the store, and you could only used it if you were a paying customer or you might get roughed up. Most drifters didn't want to get shot using someone's shitter, so they did it between premises. Most shovelled of horse and cattle shit according to my ancestor was young men caught committing an offence. Every night the shovellers came out to clear the main street. Dead animals and humans were sent to the piggery if unclaimed, there were stripped and photograph taking and sent on there way. The smell and flies according my ancestor was so thick in the air in summer time, in those days if you were a kid without a family, you had to earn your feed. More interestingly the dog he was travelling with him was his constant companion around the store and back alleyways were most chamber pots and spit tools were emptied. But was also amazing the rats, snakes and predators that hang around at night looking for food. Anyway, well done Santee and crew.
Now that swept me off my feet. Great video brother. I know we hear in a lot of old westian films, "I'm gonna clean up this one horse town", but apparently it wasn't as prevalent as they made it sound, but hey, thanks for keeping the spirit of the old west alive...and keeping it clean.
Well you cleaned that one up nicely! hahaha! Sorry I don't get out much, haha, great episode on a little thought of subject that was always underfoot, being raised on a farm and having cleaned a stable or two.
Thank you Santee for another great episode. I think that you should do an episode to follow up this, who was the first sanitation department started in the old west. Anyway, thanks again for sharing always enjoy your your history and I've learned a lot again.
Good evening Santee I would freak out seeing a spider that big lol. Let alone it walking on my hands. Funny thing is mate is in 2022 people still can't use trash cans and still just throw it on the ground. I can imagine the smells back then especially in the more warmer months. Have a blessed week thanks for always making old history interesting in a fun way
Great job and well done. I definitely got a mega ton of inspiration for the first story in my old West novella collection series Mysteriarch Mythos anthology I’m getting ready to write soon.
In our yearly Western Camp at Sersheim/Germany we had one expecially wet two weeks. It was already raining for several weeks before we hitched our tents. And then it rained on and on.... The mud between the tents was more then ankle high and though we were on an elevated place the meadow was flooded. That was 2002. But after this experience i got the real spirit! Since then we had hot weather, bad thunderstorms with hail, snow and a sandstorm. I will never miss such an event just because of the weather!
Very cool episode. I was in Virginia City Montana yesterday. It was closed. Think Tombstone, but with a season. The weather was beautiful and we were able to look at Nevada City too. They're only 2 miles down the road. We should have hit it before Labor Day. That's when they closed. Thanks Santee.
Hey Santee, how’s about diving into tumbleweeds? You referenced to their introduction in 1873. Russian Thistle remains a scourge and a symbol of the American West. Thanx again for your excellent channel - as always!
Most would have gone for a Mad Dog Tannen face first into a wagon of road apples but you went with a Miss Purdy take instead, bold choice sir bold choice indeed.
What a dirty video! Good thing there’s folks around to clean it up lol. The way St. Louis cleaned up their streets is pretty cool! It’ll be interesting to see your footage!
Another great episode Santee, I always thought they got those woman with the long dresses ( the kind that drag on the ground behind them ) to sashay up and down the streets to clean them. Guess I was wrong. LOL Have a great weekend my friend. Can't wait to see the movie. JT
My mom grew up in Memphis in the 1920s. She said the stench, especially in the summertime, was unbearable. The street cleaners would take all the animal waste and dump it in a bayou...which eventually made that area of the city really smelly. After some time the cars replaced the horses...I seem to remember that one of Wyatt Earp's first jobs after he left Missouri was cleaning streets and putting down gravel somewhere in Kansas, guess ya gotta start somewhere.
OMG, I usually think of personal hygiene in the Old West when I think about cleanliness... YIKES, the *streets must have been worse. Thanks for this interesting, history lesson of how we went from back then, to where we are today.👏👏 I still think your, Santee, and the crew's use of *film clips are the best.👏🤠👏🎊
Very interesting, fascinating and informative video. I learned a lot about how they cleaned the streets in the old west. I’m definitely going to to be applying the methods of how old west streets were cleaned to my old West horror novella collection series Mysteriarch Mythos anthology I’m writing.
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks. In my old West horror story, there’s going to be two different networks of old tunnels beneath the entirety of the old west frontier . 👍🏼🌟😎
The movie " McCabe and Mrs. Miller " with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie seemed to do an authentic portrayal of what a town in the Pacific Northwest would have been like .
Road apples😄 Whenever I watch a western and when it's in a town where the street is just sloppy mud I always feel bad for the women because they have these long beautiful dresses and they're always getting soak in that mud. That might be something interesting for an episode how did they keep those dresses clean? Thanks for another great and interesting video. Was that you playing with that spider at the end?🐴🤠
@@ArizonaGhostriders Fantastic, and another wonderful episode. I think sometimes people forget that how "clean" a town was depended a lot on what kind of town it was. If it was a cow or mining town with less families and more people just trying to make money, it would probably be filthy. If it was a small town like many here in Texas, it probably would have been maintained a lot better.
Even today we are in a constant fight against dust and sand here in Arizona! Pretty sure my truck seats are 5 pounds heavier than standard due to the amount of dust they've accumulated in them over the years.
Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was built on the sand dunes in Western lands by the ocean. The street sweeping program provided fertilizer for landscaping...
This did bring up an interesting point. How exactly did they make the fertilizer out of the stuff? Was it like making whiskey or something else. That might be interesting subject for the people that garden.
I like the bit about the town marshal’s also collecting taxes. I still have property tax receipts on my land in Mississippi signed by the county sheriff in the 1950s.
I am so glad I discovered your videos through Amy at WT?P . You present what should be the most mundane topic in the most interesting fashion. Great video. Interesting pet. Keep Safe❤Keep Well ❤
now ya all talkin sum of my biz, since a kid. cleaned Deadwood ave apartments, rapid city ymca, BHSC, Spearfish, Mesa,Az city then last Marfa,Tx Retired custodialmark.60 years with OT.
I worked for a company that built and repaired industrial centifuges for for the food, petrochemical, metals and waste treatment industries. Primarily waste treatment. The owner had a saying. "Smells like money." There is no such thing as waste. Only resources that do not have an economic use yet.
People don't think much about the pollution problem gas powered cars and trucks solved. Car exhaust might smell a bit at times, but you never have to worry about stepping in it!
My favorite use of the filth of the streets is the Battle of Chicken Hill in Hell on Wheels. Mostly because it's two overly self important guys beating the crap out of each other whilst wallowing in literal crap.
