What Hygiene was like in the Wild West
Just because the wild west was filled with lots of dirt and spit all over any indoor space doesn't mean they didn't have any hygiene at all! There were many luxuries that we simply don't have in today's modern society that the wild west was able to really enjoy. Cleanliness may not have been at the top of the priority list, but boy were times simpler! Let's take a look back on wild west history and discover what hygiene was REALLY like back then!
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I miss the old West. The days when you would stick your Johnson in a wench and then scrub it with bitumen.
lol like how you included a scene from a million ways to die in the west... that dude mcfarlane had the right take on it
315K good job
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check the comments on this video. You really screwed up a few times in your historical data. Makes me wonder why you still have it up.
Dude, I am 50, and my dad used an outhouse as a kid. That wasn't a wild west thing. Outhouses were used all the way up until the 1970's in a lot of places in the USA.
And in the UK in certain areas too!
70s?
@@robertmartin5308 yes in the 1970's. Might be shocking that not everyone lived in cities. Would still be shocking how many still don't.
@@wulfhartspirit reread the comment ignorant person. I think I know country a littler better then you. You are talking about backwoods hicks with outdoor facilities.
I can guarantee that I've used an outhouse in the past 5 years at some point. A hole in the ground is just a cheap way of getting rid of waste.
This is the type of stuff I think of whenever I hear people go “the world is so shit now” like no bro it could be so much worse.
Really? Been to any democrat run city? Chicago, San Fran, LA etc
Actually there were painkillers in the Wild West. Opium and its derivative morphine were widely used in the Wild West.
This channel doesn't give a shit about facts, fact-checking, truth or corrections. Legit entertainment only videos, no facts contained herein.
And there were dentists, like Doc Holliday.
Yep. They mentioned alcohol as a cure all. But not morphine, which created addiction in all ages. Cradle to grave.
Laudanum...lots of dope sick people in the Wild West.
Oh god! Imagine the horrible ball filth. All that sweat and dirt combined with the dry desert 🌵 heat. Must of been a nightmare.
You really thought hard about this didn't you?
@@barrygoldwater2441 Ya ever spend a week in the Grand Canyon in July with no shower?
Suddenly, playing Red Dead Redemption 2 feels more like a horror survival game.
When I was a kid I stayed one night at my grandparents little wood house in the woods and they had an outhouse. Let’s just say it was an experience.
A friend had one at their cabin. They kept it cleaned ad used copious amounts of lime
@Josh Traffanstedt It was actually pretty awesome. Even that night. I rode a horse and bathe in the river and played with the kids in the forest. Petted cows and little chicks, saw the pigs and even saw how my grandmother kills a chicken. Maybe that part wasn’t that fun.
@Josh Traffanstedt Lol well I did go back a few times as a kid but I only slept over once I think. I tell you what’s not fun. Flying roaches 🙁 one of many flying insects in the woods
Did they have toilet paper or just corn cobs?
@@KeltonTitan Lucky for me they had toilet paper.
Anyone else watching this suddenly feel the need to take a shower?
Right now🏃🏾♂️
My experience with the out-house was in the UP of Michigan. I was 20 years old, I’m 78 now. As I sat on the top of a wooden hole, a snake fell on my lap, I jumped one hop a landed 2 feet away. I was scared to death lol that was one heck of an experience.
I'm 75, and living in a very old house in the 1950's with no indoor plumbing untill I was 15 when my Dad made a few additions required us to use an out house. I knew a few people who didn't even have an out house. They had to go across the road and unto a farmers corn field to take care of their personal matters.
So your telling me having an out house near your house was some kind privilege in that time?
Wow in the 50's not having a place to go would of been about as stupid as stupid gets. Who builds a place to stay and never anticipated having the need to toilet?
Episode of "Supernatural" when Sam and Dean Winchester went back to the old west, the Cowboys and Saloon "Ladies" were filthy and they all noticed and commented Sam and Dean were the cleanest men they've ever seen.
That’s freaking hilarious 😂…🤙🏻🇺🇸
Dean's reaction to the..."ladies of the night" was hilarious
You get a like just for a supernatural reference
One of absolute best episodes!! And when Dean narrowly escaped being kissed --- that was a close one!
My gramma used snuff & she kept an empty tin can next to her chair. I even had to go in the store & buy it for her. Yes, at 6/7 years old! This was back in the 60’s
Crazy things......in the early 70's i use to go to our local corner store and buy cigs for my dad and uncle....i was about 9 or 10 years old.
I started snuff at 12 and finally quit at 40. That was 19 years ago, damn how time flies. 😳
Wow 6 yr old Granny.
My Great Aunt Dora Mae used that Snuff Powder too. They still sell it on the Store Shelves in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.
@@jeridiahwatson3718 I think the powder was “sniffing snuff” and I believe you snort that like Coke. Chewing snuff you put a pinch in your lip. Loose leaf tobacco you put a wad in your cheek.
"Badges! We don't got to show you no stinking badges"!! Literally.
At least people knew what gender they were
Don't worry my friend seems you had a negative experience don't worry we won't judge 😉🤣
Chewing tobacco was to keep dust out of your mouth, keep your mouth from getting dry out on the plains, range or farm. That's where it's popularity came.
Sucking on a little stone was much cleaner, it seems to me, to keep your mouth from going dry.
No pain killers? You could buy opium and cocaine over the counter. There were even traveling "snake oil" salesmen. But you never know what might be in the bottle.
Exactly what I said !!!!
Some smaller places, couldn't get, the good stuff, as often, they went through it so fast ! Used mostly on a daily basis ! Can you imagine, no prescription needed. Maybe they had the Pony Opium Express ! lol Wouldn't doubt it. When Coke Cola first came out, it had cocaine in it. That in away truly sucks canal water, because I'm in a lot of pain from surgeries, and what not. I can't get one pain pill. But the neighbor down the road, gets 120 a month, doesn't need them and sells them for $8.00 each. I'm NOT a snitch''' But there is something wrong here. Neighbor pays $3.00 for prescription. Just dirty dog wrong, on so many levels !!! ~Peace~ ~Love your name by the way~ I had an old email, that started out as "LilacsRosesAndButtons" Lilacs being my favorite ! ~God Bless~
@@winddancer8516 it’s not right!
Wind Dancer Try Kratom for pain. I’m 67 and have been using it for 10 years with no problems.
@@winddancer8516 u are so right. Aggravating
The thing that people don’t realize about outhouses is that if you’re doing it right they don’t reek. After doing your business you put dirt or ashes on top of your mess with a scoop. Most people using these have fires basically 24/7, so ashes are used.
I didn't last 90 seconds. My stomach began to wretch!
Watch about roman hi gene. Nasty as well.
@@srcetme There's some really good leftovers in the fridge... I think I'll pass.
Dysentery?
@@johnthonig8832 Wasn't literal...
Smelly tuna brothels and stinky crotches, hehehe!!!
This took care of my snack craving 🤢
Lol
😂😂😂😂
Wild wild west
🤣🤣🤣
I know 😏 I "was" hungry 🤢
I'm new to this channel but am absolutely loving it thanks for the videos
Looks like you’d do alright if you owned a chewing tobacco company in the 1800s then
Very interesting. Thank you!🤠
You picked an interesting topics people usually don’t think about. Thank you.
Guess who learned more while watching the video than in school
Pay more attention in school and you can retain more lol
That is your own fault. Had you actually paid attention in school you would already know this stuff. You would also know which parts were completely wrong in this video.
Yes, they should offer KZhead degrees.
Shameful admission.
Im sorry but y‘all need to chill. Don’t you get jokes? Are you that emotionless?
Great video bud
"Sire, the peasants are revolting!" "You said it, they stink on ice!"
History of the World
Hey, I’m clean, I had my annual bath seven months ago....🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love Cookie Monster at 10:14. But I love your videos, thank you so much!
I’ve spent time in my life around people that had really bad B.O., it’s hard to get used to! Especially when it’s a friend, you don’t want to hurt them but it’s like, damn, you reek! So yeah I guess maybe in those days it was a normal thing to stink. And of course whiskey, when I was younger I used it a lot, it’s amazing I’m still here to talk about it. 🙏
Not just b.o. but poorly cleaned backsides,foot odor,dirty clothes. I just can’t imagine how bad people must have stank.
Imagine the hookers.
I imagine those brothels smell like a fish market
Yep!!!!°
Hehehe!!! Indeed!!
Ya gotta clean that clam
Most likely rotted tuna.
Get down on it!
They wiped their butts with corncobs??? OUCH!!!
I imagine they must have had to slip them in and out of their asses to get it fully cleansed, hehehe!!!
@@michaelshields7777 🤢 🤮
Traveling in the middle east across the desert is quite an adventure. Outhouses were holes in the floor and no doors on the houses. Floors were ankle deep in waste, at least the ones l used. The year 1981, 1982. You got to be tough, not squeamish. These were 9 hour trips in a bus. I'm glad l had the experience. It opened my eyes to how blessed we are.
This was fun. Good video 🙂
This is how tough these dudes were back in the day. Just have someone today live like that for a day, they'll cry back to mommy. Yes, like YOU!
@Mar survival? Yes. These guys were tough. Even today's men aka soyboys when out into survival situations rather than pushing forward, they buckle, whine and cry even kill themselves Then, they were tough even if given today's luxuries.
Calm down if I take you to a Mexican active town you'll 💩 yourself- Pikachu
Most of them were homosexuals
@@joesmoke9679 and you know this how?
Definitely interesting information you just got a new sub
What an appreciation I have for soap and toothpaste I have now
I’m your new subscriber, love your topics
I’m 30 and my childhood home still had an outhouse, they also very much exist now in certain places. People gotta shit and if you don’t have a sewerage system it’s far more hygienic than some other options.
It's a myth that not bathing on a regular basis is bad for you. You need a certain amount of healthy bacteria on your skin, just as you do a certain amount of healthy oils your body makes. Today in the dust free cities, you can easily go a month without taking a bath or a shower as you can in the forest where dust is at a minimum. People still do use eggs to wash their hair and it's very healthy for the hair.
Props to wild west being like 80s wrestling , a lot of dusty rhodes 👏🏻👏🏻😂😂
We're so much smarter now. We pay a dentist 1300.00 to drill, remove the nerve, and fill/cover the tooth so we can't tell if there is any infection.
I’m so thankful I was born in modern and sophisticated times
@Opal Allen what the freak are you saying?
Not sure about the "sophisticated" part????????????????????????????
the "CartWrights"were always clean.even wearing the same clothes.day after day,year after year😁
😂😂😂
Many people in the west bath regularly. This is a myth that no one bath. In areas with little to no water. Yes they bath less. Much like today. But you would know that if you were not ass deep a a big city. And even in big cities today many people don't bath daily. In long term care most the time people bath weekly.
The Cartwrights wore the same clothes in every episode because the producers wanted to save money on costumes.
Hop Sing was a dirty m'fer
They wore the same outfits over and over and it always was clean as a whistle 😂
Always knew there was an easier way to make scrambled eggs. I'll certainly give it a try!
shake em up while in the shell
Very nice!
I have wondered about this. Thank you, for answering my questions. 😰🤑
women wearing those long dresses and corsets weren't the ideal apparel to wear when you had to go to that latrine hole not hygienic at all and lack of TP made it stenchy, I don't envy those people and those days!
Always wondered this when I'm driving across the country thinking of how it was in the old times
It’s like COVID 19 but in 1800ds
This was quite interesting, We"ve come a long way baby..LOL...
It would’ve been a hilarious video if it was just a 5 second video with the words saying “there was none”
I still have a working outhouse on my Wyoming property. Its a nice one built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1940's.
just wish the narrators voice wasn’t corny because these videos are quite informative
This is exactly what I was thinking
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informative? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm huntin wabbits. 🤠
@@xmo552 dont forget to make that left turn at Albuquerque
I’m 45 and as a child. I remember visiting my grandmother during the summers break. And she had a outhouse.
Not disgusting but I think that it would be cool to do a video about how the Romans built roads that last thousands of years and almost perfectly straight dispite not having GPS
They invented road pavement, odometer and milestones for easy travelling of their troops , tax collectors and messengers.
The Roman's learned all they knew from the ancient Egyptian or Kempt
@@pyramidsarethefuture1587 Sure I know many Egyptians roads in the Sahara 🤣😂
@@pyramidsarethefuture1587 don’t forget the Greeks ( Macedonians )
Some people still drink whiskey, shit in an outhouse, bath once a week and spit on the floor..
How long have you had this problem
@@vox1003 Not as long as you have fool.. I'm sure about that.
I know of a few towns here in Tennessee that still have a law that you can not spit on the sidewalk
That Dusty Roades joke was on point lmao
I wouldn't like to live back then🤢, as much as I like to shower. It would drive me bonkers😡 if I couldn't shower or have bathroom tissue.
My kinda woman
This guy has never had a real tooth ache. Getting it yanked out would be a relief
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Man,it was horrible! Glad I didn't live at that time! God bless!
Between the narration and the pictures this was hilarious, yet serious 🤣🙄
Dusty "Roads"....... GENIUS!!!!!!
Cover the Regency era please!
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Oh man! The COVID cops would have had a heart attack in those days!
I am 72. I remember sawdust floors. Excellent! Bring them back.
I went to a pub in Sydney(Aust.) in the 70s with a sawdust floor.I had the distinct feeling it had a practical purpose.
I must have been a cowboy in my past life, lol. Doesn't sound much different to how I've had to live a couple of times. At least there was beer and whiskey to knock ya socks off at the end of the day
I too, used an outhouse as a child. I also knew of a pub with sawdust on the floor, and spittoons in the late 1960's in England (I'm English.) It was not my favorite pub. Also German beer is usually cooled. Maybe in the Oktoberfest it is warm, just because of the high turnover, but anywhere else in Germany the beer is always cooled.
Some people live like this today.
$500 fine in the 1800s?? Damn!! Edit, I Google it and it is over $10,000 in today's money.
I was born in 1970 and my family had an outhouse at our camp and for about 6 months when my mom decided to move us up there full time !!!
Life expectancy was very low back then and illness was rampant. It probably was due to lack of cleanliness and also probably food poisoning.
There is some information that is not correct. For instance they had pain killers. Laudanum and opium could be found anywhere. And women in the west knew they would have darkened skin, if you read any journals you'll know that. The long sleeves and dresses were because of social customs.
This must be true because usually they wore all white dresses...
@David Erickson the only difference is laudanum has alcohol mixed in with the opium.
Huh...now woman are paying to have darkened skin. Boy have times changed!!!
This channel is too Pro for having so little subscribers. I hope you guys keep up the good work and that the youtube algorithm gives you attention soon and not in 10 years haha. Thank you for making such good content.
Wow crazy.!.!
Im still itching a day after watching this vid.
😂😂😂
It was funky dude
The way you made the sound as if outhouses don't still exist in most parts of the United States especially if you live Rural and that's quite a normal thing you made it sound like those have been extinct for years and have not
You should do a hygiene video about England and especially London around the time of the Black Plague.....1370 i think it was if my history serves me right....i bet it was horrific to say the least....looking forward to this one...
I live in AK, My cabin still has a out house lol. Their are still a lot of out houses up here in certain areas.
It was AWESOME
"Nobody likes warm beer except the germans"... Comin' from the home of blue ribbon 😂😂
One of the, whiskey names, you referred to as "coffee varnish" ? Of the names that was used, the correct term, instead of, coffee varnish , was indeed "*Coffin Varnish*" I like your channel ~ I subscribed ~
I believe Busch was the first beer to be sent west in a train car COLD
I love these history videos
Wait a moment!! Wasn't Laudnum available back then? I would drink myself into a coma b4 going to their version of a dentist !!
Yup. Laudenuem, Cocaine, Opium, Cannabis, Morphine, and Heroin were all available, used, and abused back then. So people most definitely had a few pain killers available to them. Still, I agree with you. I dont think I'd be going to the dentist unless it was unbearable, AND I was beyond intoxicated. They could extract my tooth once I was passed out, stone cold.
On unrelated note; love your pic. Christoph Reeves will always be the true Superman, IMHO.
@@kari7403 > Very good eyes you have Kari :>)
Glad that I didn't live back then. Lord, one couldn't have a sensitive nose for sure! Loved those mattresses!
If everyone stinks, no one stinks. Lol
Imagine going into a brothel during the summer in the Mojave in1878. Wooo must have been some smell in there
Couple things here coming from a historian and archeologist and Park Ranger that centers around the "Wild West" animal fat soap also contained lye, milk, and flowers is better than the detergents based soaps today, teeth were healthier because of less sugar in diets so debunking the whole bad teeth part there because of less cavities. Most barbers were trained in dentistry, in fact "Doc" Holiday was a dentist until he contracted TB, yes there were painkiller! Opium, laudanum, canniboids, and cocaine were used. The period of the "Wild" West actually covers about 50 years post Civil War to 1910 so a lot of technology came out in this time. People also bathed as much as they could. The dust issue came about mainly during the migration of Western Expansion on the Oregon Trail. and during the seasonal planting it was not a constant. Also wearing long clothing was needed because no sunscreen or bug spray which also kept skin cancer down.... In short do some better research guys
Prosecutors lol heading west. 🤣🤣 I think he meant prospectors. But who knows maybe we had a huge need for lawyers?
😂😂😂
I thought he meant working girls
@@josephrogers8213 lol. I bet he did. It was a huge boom for working girls. I think there is a youtube about it. 😁
Using eggs, & or beer to clean, or condition your hair isn't that old of an idea. My mother used these in the 50's, & 60's. She said it worked pretty well, but today's products are better. They even mention these in old tv shows like mash.
The wild west , the hygiene was stronger than 💯 proof whiskey .. forget about it 😂
What i found interesting is like nowadays most people have a fascination with getting a suntan,i mean they could have a poor holiday but as long as they got a suntan then most people are happy.but in the wild west it was the opposite ,the paler the better.how fashions change.
Back then they were not trying to copy black people.
One reason women carried parasols around was to keep their wax makeup on their face from melting in the sun. Yuck! Makeup was like a face mask then.
Dust is still everywhere in parts of the West, especially the Desert Southwest. The wind can blow dust all over your body. The dust gets into your car and house. So the dust isn’t just something from the past.
And it’s still like that today! I never knowed such a group of non-bathers until I came west!
“Knowed”? Apparently you people from the east or wherever didn’t get past the second grade!
I’ll bet you $100 my english reading and comprehension skills are light years past yours! You must be one of the alcoholic non-bathers I referred to that seem to be so prevalent in the northwest.
@@dinosaurcomplaints2359 hey now, cool out!
Wagon trains out west like the Oregon trail ectra