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I remember when this channel hardly had 10 thousand subscribers. And now here we are with over ten times that! Glad to see the channel has grown!
They’ve did a great job and put in hard work to grow the channel
You could say his subscribers spurred the channel growth.
Thank you!
Appreciated
Right on
You made the whole thing without saying "jingle jangle jingle"... I'm kind of impressed.
It happens!
I know when my dad (a vaquero) was killed, he had a horse saddle and a couple of quirts. Although he had his own brand registered in southern AZ at 10 yr old, his day was mostly 1930’s and 40’s. I don’t recall any spurs nor do I remember the horse or the saddle. I very much remember the quirts and can testify with experience that they do indeed HURT when slapped across the bottom side after doing something stupid.
So sorry for that loss.
I remember an old Red Skelton sketch as Deadeye where he was wearing one spur. "Hey, Deadeye, why do you only have one spur?" "Well, I figger if I get one side 'a the horse goin', the other half'll catch up."
HAHA!
He also walked.toed.out and bowlegged and used to get his spurs interlocked and stumble and fall. Never squat on your spurs .
Yes!
NEVER try to walk down stairs with your spurs on. learned this the hard way.
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have to turn foot sidewise, learned that lesson also!
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Another thing about spurs, most ranch-hands used spurs, but only while on horseback. If they were repairing fences, or working out in pastures, the spurs would come off and be hung on their saddle or put into a saddlebag, but they wouldn’t wear them while working because they would get tangled up in tall grass or weeds. And many saloon owners didn’t want them inside because they could scar up their woodwork or chairs. I grew up on a ranch and started riding horses when I was 2 years old, and only wore spurs when I rodeoed, bull rider, and they were custom made just for bull riding. But, if you train horses well enough, they don’t need spurs or quirts, so I never did.
Yeah, if you wear them enough, you find the issues with not taking them off post dismount.
Before my appaloosa passed away, that girl required me to wear spurs. I never really had to use them. The movement of my heel to make them clank was sufficient to motivate her.
Sorry for that passing, but what a great memory.
They leave tracks in our hearts.
Mr. Santee, I finally made it into one of your great videos. Tex, Joe, and m'self, Killed in the Gunfight, at the O.K. Corral!! 😊😂
Thanks again, Santee. Regarding those uncomfortable "riding" heels for standing and walking, after several recommendations I had 1/4" taken off the heel on two pair of Texas Jack boots. Doesn't seem like much but it makes a world of difference!
That works!
Yup, as a youngster, I worked on a ranch where I was mounted 50% of the time, I wore spurs. But working on the ground, no. I also rode a horse to school, as did many others. Once I got to school, they were hung on the saddle horn. If you walked into the school house with em on, the teacher's wrath was upon you!😮 And later, in the mounted unit in the PD, we wore spurs on duty, and mounted. But they came off if you were in headquarters. The chief wasn't fond of "Cowboy Cops" as he called us. 😄
Gerat story!
Hi Santee, thanks for spurring us on in our love of the old west!
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Did he earn his silver pair with this video?
@@nblankensh Yes
A lot of people probably would have worn what we call now "heritage boots", like the ones offered by Red Wing in leather. Leather boots with a heel but strongly made. I wear them every day.
Good
Dress boots were more common than low shoes. Even in the cities one could expect some poor conditions to walk through. Between mud, horse dung, and dust boots were practical footwear. Lace up dress boots were very common for me until streets were paved.
Yep. Those half boots were all the rage.
Here's a left field topic to do a video on. Rollerskating in the old west. It got popular in the 1880s and 90s. Maybe give you an excuse to suffer through all 219 minutes of Heavens Gate
Interesting, I'm curious as to what the rollerskate wheels were made from in the late 1800s.
OK!
@@buckodonnghaile4309Boxwood, I believe
I was always told if you needed spurs on a horse, you didn't know how to ride.
Some do believe that.
This was excellent. I always enjoy the fact versus fiction for the old west. I am holding out for Arizona Ghostriders the flamethrower to hit the merch store.
HAHA
Hollywood also has guns that never run out of ammo. Great video my friend.
Yes, 49 bullets without a reload!!!
the group on the carousel was both hilarious and sweet…no need for context, it was fun and funny 🤣
Yep!
Dont forget pryor to the Civil War shoes were crafted individually, by a cobler, for each person. During the war "Brogans" were mass produced to fill the demand of the large number of troops needing footwear. I imagine there were a great number in surpluss on the market after the war. Also, interestingly, they didn't make them for right or left feet. Instead they were the same shape so the user could switch them on thier feet so as to wear them out evenly. Great video really enjoyed it...
Glad you enjoyed it.
Hi Santee, thanks I got a kick out of this episode! 🤠🇺🇲
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Always noticed that, even living on a ranch as a kid we only wore spurs when riding and not always then, off the horse for any extended time or doing work on the ground they might just get put in the saddle bags
Great info.
@ArizonaGhostriders that of course was the 1970s, but cowboys have always been pretty practical
The world is getting further away from our ancestors ways. I appreciate you guys keeping it alive
Thank You!
Great topic. I was watching Gunsmoke the other day and was wondering why Marshall Dillon was wearing spurs walking around town, but then figured you never know when he’ll have to saddle up and save Miss Kitty…
Right, and he did ride out of town a lot. Festus, on the other hand...didn't really. He wore spurs all the time, too!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Festus had everything he owned on his person. Ha ha ha.
I got spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle, as I go riding merrily along
And they sing, oh, ain't you glad you're single? And that song ain't so very far from wrong
I had a mare that tended to need a lot of leg to get her moving. One day my riding instructor suggested I get a pair of blunt end spurs. i bought them and I did not even get to touch this mare's sides with them. Once I was in the saddle, she took off like a shot in the arena ! Apparently some one had used spurs on her before I owned her. It was the last time I wore those spurs...lol. She could see those spurs on my boots. She was a smart horse that would memorize my dressage test routines. All those spurs did was prove she DID have get up and go !
WOW!
The clip with folks on the merry go round was hilarious.
They were having a lot of fun.
This was so cool and informative. **I always love the EXTRAS you throw in your videos, Santee. It astounds me that you have so many interesting topics to share with us. 👏🏻🤠👏🏻🎊
Glad you enjoyed it, Rhonda!
Thank you for making this video!!
You're so welcome!
Great video Santee and I always enjoy your videos. Thank you so much.
You're welcome
Another fun stroll down Main Street
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I love the channel. I really enjoy the mix of humor and facts. I've shared your videos with friends just because they're short but entertaining.
Thank You!
Informative, fun, and just awesome Santee 10/10 as usual
Thank You!
My great grandfather worked on a ranch in Indiana during the late 1890s. My mom has a picture of him on horseback from roughly 1896 in which he appears to be wearing possibly brogan type shoes, you can actually see his socks protruding between the top of the footwear and bottom of the trouser legs. But he definitely does NOT have on spurs in the photo 🤔
I'm sure not every cowboy wore spurs. He also may hae been posing on the horse for the photo since photos were a special occasion back then.
That might be a fact. Appreciate the channel by the way. Sometimes I think I'm old, but other times I feel like I'm grateful to have a visible link to the old days that make this country wonderful.
Another excellent video!
Thank You!
Thanks again for another great video, Santee. I've a few pairs of stovepipes, but at the end of the day walking around in them gets painful. Been wearing packers a lot more. Gotta agree; the Patreon is worth it! Have a great weekend!
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Great video Santee !
Thanks!
pinstripe pattern looks mighty fine on ya Santee
Thank You!
Good morning Santee… Another interesting episode… another bit of information shared… Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it
top notch info🍻
Glad you liked it!
Great episode Santee! Have a great weekend!
Thanks! You too!
Thank you Santee for another great and very interesting video :) Love the coat :) Keep them videos comming, yeehaww.
Thank You!
Hi Santee. Thanks for the video. It was good.
Glad you liked it!
Santee, you should have included a clip of Nancy Sinatra, "These boots are made for walkin'..." Great video!
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I got that mug ! My Imported Irish Tea tastes perfect out of it ! And is envied by all at the Breakfast Table by golly 😊 Thank you Santee for spurring us on to explore Western History and keeping The Old West Alive !
You're welcome! Thanks for purchasing.
There's some really fancy spurs out there too! Cool video Santee!
Yeah...and pricey, too. Thanks, man!
Another terrific video! 🤠
Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy new year buddy be lucky and good health 👍
Thank You!
Reminded of the scene in the original True Grit movie where Le Beouf is asked to remove his spurs to spare the boarding house chairs any more rough use. He clops his big Texas fancy traps onto the table.
Oh yeah!
Yes la Beouf had really big nice fancy silver spurs with big rowells . ❤
Ha!
Great video Santee
Glad you enjoyed it, led.
THANKS
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Very awesome and interestingly informative video, i really liked and enjoyed, great job and well done keep up the great work. I kearned alot about footwear and spurs in the old west frontier and I got a ton of inspiration for the old west, 1920s and retro 70s to early- mid 2000s and video games, animation and computers inspired mythos-franchise project that im working lon writing. Im definitely going to add old west footwear and spurs to my stories and world.
Thank you very much!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks and your welcome. Today I'm getting further story inspiration from the SMG4 Animation series on KZhead and videos on super mario 64 and other video game videos.
Thank you Santee. Always enjoy. :)
My pleasure!
Thanks!
Welcome!
Back during the Urban Cowboy craze of the 80s, I remember reading in SF columnist Herb Caen's daily of a well dressed gentleman entering a restaurant with his boots and costume spurs on, clink clink clink. I don't think it had the desired effect on the other patrons that night. Nice version of "The Wreck of the Old 97" there at the end.
Thank You!
I was surprised to learn about the elastic in the slip on boots!
Yep. Suspenders, too.
A great start to a weekend is a little learning first thing in the morning from #ArizonaGhostRiders
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I recall the very first time I learned about spurs..... Kermit the Frog was wearing them with boots as he strode along. There's actually a 4 second clip of that on KZhead! 🤠🐸
I used it in my spurs video.
Hey pard Santee good video again as usual. Sometimes when I am doing re-enactment skit I wear spurs (sometimes) because when I come into town with the other rapscallion’s I just got off my horse (make believe) therefore would be wearing spurs in town, I am sure you knew that. David & I dress period everyday in Payson, I am in my stovepipe boots everyday, only thing wears heals down fast. I find my boots comfortable all day wearing. Thanks again video.
As long as you can back up why you are wearing certain clothing items, then it is good.
@@ArizonaGhostriders so true, depending on skit. I found that Justin lace up (if find) ankle boots are periodic correct for towny wear shoes.
My horse RIP Sophie, never required spurs or a whip. My riding boots have the ledge for them. I have jingle bob spurs but never need them. A great video Santee
Sorry for the loss.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Thank, you, she passed in 2020. Tbred ex race horse that was so tame kids could ride her. She was class of 1993
Good morning Arizona good Riders . Just checking in . Ted from Texas just checking in . Stay safe my friend
Thanks!!! I am doing well. You?
@@ArizonaGhostriders I am doing good for an old man. I still want to get out there to see you in Tucson. Thanks for asking
Good one
Thanks
@@ArizonaGhostriders gonna be in Arizona this October hoping to see some cool western stuff
🎶I got spurs that jingle jangle... jingle jangle.🎶
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I love these interesting and well presented looks at western history. I grew up on this history.
Awesome!
Before my wreck I wore 2 bullet casings on each one of my boots to make spur noses. I drilled holes and ran string in, worked great. I wore my boots with pride but now my back is too bad to even try thanks to the person that hit me at full speed while I was at a red light. (hurt like hell I tell ya)
Ouch! Hope it gets better.
Another great video! I always wore one of three boots/brogans. I have the tall stovepipe with knee flap for my Confederate Cavalry, I also wore the shorter artillery boots and the Jefferson Bootee/brogan. All three were war era, but still worked for Western. Depending on what I was doing, I wore the Cavalry spurs with the small rowell. I sent you a private message.
So cool. I will look for it.
The old west group I'm with does a lot on board a train. Moving around train cars with spurs on isn't the easiest thing to do. My biggest fear is stepping off the train and one of my spurs getting hung up on the steps causing me to faceplant on the concrete.
Ugh!!! Yeah, that's a concern.
@@ArizonaGhostriders thankfully it hasn't happened...yet. The secret is to walk down the train steps sideways. Still, there have been a few times that my spurs got tangled up and I appeared less than graceful!🤠
@@hacksaw434 Maybe don't wear the spurs...you can be the guy driving the getaway wagon hidden in the bushes.
@@ArizonaGhostriders not wearing spurs would be the best solution, but I'm too hard headed to stop wearing them. You know how obstinate us Hoosiers can be at times!😉
Hey Santee, I have my GGGrandfathers ledgers from his shoe making shop from 1840s to 1870s. A Fine pair of boots, in SE Pennsylvania was $5! Children’s shoes-.95! Thanks Much! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
So cool!!!
Just imagine Wyatt Earp at the OK Corral in a pair of two tone wingtip oxfords he bought from Radar O'Reilly......
That would be funny.
The new sack coat looks great on you. Great topic on footwear and spurs that always comes up and a matter of much debate with some folks, especially about spurs. Some folks say, "Well, you are wrong because they wear them in all the movies." Eh, yeah, right. 🤔🧐😊😋🤣
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Boots and spurs great video i remember in the movie rango where Johnny Depp is Rango wearing boots with spurs while face off rattlesnake Jake
yes!
One more Saturday morning history lesson that leaves a big smile on my face. Thank you Santee and Crew (Gang?Mob?). One more thought is students in history classes have to learn fifty more years of history than I did.
Our pleasure!
I have been looking for information about footwear for a while, it's hard to find! Thank you for the information.
You're welcome.
Elucidating as usual with unknown issues. I had always figured that the post Civil War cowmen wore surplus army boots for economy. Interesting to see how far back the stacked heel goes. I wonder if it was introduced via the vaqueros clothing? Fascinating topic. I remember owning a pair of alligator stacked heel boots. Looked cool but terrible to walk in. Working at KVOA TV (Ch 4) in college the weather man (Hank Hubbard) wore fancy stitched stacked heel boots cut off at the ankle like s dress shoe. Never saw the like again. Comments additions always fun and informative to read. Great variety of followers. Great channel. Thanks.
Thank you!! The stacked heel goes back to the 17th century, apparently. I didn't realize it was for stability, I thought it was for fashion.
@@ArizonaGhostriders In the mid 17th century, high heels, on both mens'' boots AND shoes, became a fashion statement. Another fad was the "military" look, boots with riding heels, spurs, and lots of lace at the boot tops
@@mikegrossberg8624 That's what I read, too.
Oh the earworm… Boots ‘n spurs…
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Another fine video, really nothing funnier than seeing people trip themselves trying to walk around with their big ol’ spurs on -lol! But I was hoping to see the t-Rex in spurs! Keep em coming !
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My living history is earlier. I made moccasins by the ton it seems. They don’t last long and you need several pair for a few days in the woods. About fifteen years ago started wearing period shoes…. Never looked back And unlike Nancy Sinatra I found out them boots ain’t made for walking
Thanks for sharing that!
I have a stack of Civil War Boots, both cavalry and infantry. I figure army surplus was available for years after the war. Really, I wear'm most of the time. BTW, the biggest trick to wearing spurs in town is descending stairs. Makes ya look like a really bad dancer.
Yes it does! LOL!
Its not well known, but in the old west, when collecting a bounty, or other proof of death was often good enough evidence if only a mans boots were brought to the authorities. That tells me a lot about the importance of foot wear in the old days.
Where did you find that info? The source of it could hae other interesting facts.
Thanks Santee for letting Rex play a cameo.
Always
Love the videos trying to get clothes some old west clothes what do you recommend friend?
Thanks! I have a list in the description field.
I didn't realize her movie's wardrobe department had done that. Hahahahaha 😂. Of course, Ken Curtis wore spurs on Gunsmoke as the Festus character for years so he could clink & clank through a scene.
LOL!
Taking them on/off is a pain. They stay on the daily work boots. Different footwear for the house and elsewhere. 👍🙂
Yes they are!
Why did I just know you were going to do the jingle, “boots’n’spurs and boots’n’spurs.”
Santee....a predictable fellow.
Talk about a spur of the moment video this was great.
HAHA!
i stll see them on the real cowboys working the ranches here in Marfa. Cool to see in the convenience store.
Yes!
Santee, Another awesome Old West content. What book would recommend to be the best on Old West true history that you have read? You and Mrs. Pew Pew have a beautiful and blessed weekend.
Oooooh. That's a tough one. Lemme think
@@ArizonaGhostriders Looking forward to your answer. Thank you very much.
I use so many depending on the topic, but if you can find the James Horan books on the west, they are very helpful. They are older, so you would want to fact check some things. As we all move through time, new info comes to light.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Thank you very much, I will checkout his books. Have a blessed week,
Spurs are a just a motivation tool lol .. especially if you ride a mule like I do .. "Spurs just make a good mule better"
You got that right!
Another great episode, Santee! -bootsnspursnbootsnspurs...-
Thank You!
Yippee yay will be no wedding bells for today
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Hey, everyone, get one of the arizona Ghost Rider hoodies there really soft. I love mine. BTW, santee good video. I love the really big spurs. I would really like some one day
Cool, thanks!
Man, you really gave that ol' myth the boot! Did you plan to do it, or was it more a spur of the moment thing?
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Not to bring up politics, but a couple of months ago, a candidate for president was wearing some cowboy boots with a heel, and unfortunately, nobody did their research about cowboy boots. Now he's not polling as well. That man was just a cowboy.
HA!
@ArizonaGhostriders I remember one of the other candidates saying something like, "I don't even where heels that are that high!" And it's funny that those particular boots are worn by real cowboy, such as Doc Holliday, or those who want to stay in the saddle. perhaps we need to elect a president who can stay in the saddle?
Ever thought of doing a review/playthrough of some classic western games and movies? Personally I’d like your take on the Mad Dog MacCree games. They’re fun and hilariously campy in all the best ways.
I will. Love the Mad Dog McCree games!
@1:38 .... "Designed for cowboy's riding on horseback" .... and Florida governors ?? Hehe, sorry, couldn't resist.
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I keep my spurs in my ariats, so when I walk they stick me like a horse and make me walk faster to get home.
HAHA!
I wonder really if it was popular for a cowboy to dig a horses glsnkd up with spurs especially on a long drive where every horse counted. I do like wearing jingle bobs for the look and the sound when I walk.
They don't dig or rake. They touch
I very seldom ride.horseback, but love wearing tall stovetop boots and spurs . There are many choices . Black spurs , silver fancy spurs with jingle Bob's and fancy spur straps with Conchos and tooling and buck stitching . Why wouldn't you wand to walk around in these and listen to the sound the make. I can hear cowboys boots coming for a mile . ( well maybe not a mile )
Lots o' choices.
Still waiting on the hats, Santee!
ok
Could you do a video showing all of your boots and such also guns perhaps
One day.
The store is good, but no matter the KZheadr it's always mugs, t-shirts and hooded jackets with a different logo. How about offering varnished metal mugs, clothes or accessories inspired by the old west? Thank's and thank you for your always interesting videos 🤠
If you can find me a KZhead friendly distributer who does that I'll jump on it. 🤠
Unfortunately, I don't know of any, but the call is now being launched for all people who read your comment 👍@@ArizonaGhostriders
@@alexikoerner8527 Cool!! Appreciated.
Kinda an odd request on this video, but would you mind covering events that are mostly known from media? Like the Johnson County War and the Glanton Gang. Might be a bit hard to make it family friendly though.
I've done that for the Clantons, but will do the Johnson County War at some point.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Thank you, what video is the Glanton Gang in?