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One of the first Western Military forts was Fort Atkinson, north of modern-day Omaha. It was abandoned in 1827, and torn down for building supplies, but it has been rebuilt and reenactors can be seen during the summer months recreating life in the 1820's.
Yup, a bunch of 'em.
Another Fort was Fort Osage in Missouri built near the Missouri River in 1808 ordered by William Clark of Lewis and Clark. This was right after the Louisiana Purchase to show the French and Spanish that America was protecting their new lands. It was a Factory Fort for trading with the Osage and other fur trappers. When the Factory System of operation was ended by private traders, this Fort was closed/abandoned by 1827. New settlers in the area took materials from the fort's buildings to use. A lot of Fort Osage has been restored and is open to the public. The well there was dug to an original depth of 80 feet deep by hand since the Fort was built high above the Missouri River. Whiskey was used as an incentive for the men, lowered down that shaft via ropes (with buckets) to keep digging !! Also the Osage Tribe lived on a vast portion of land and were allies of the US.They are the only Tribe that never broke a Treaty with the US. However by the late 1860s the Tribe was force moved to their lands in Kansas and by 1872 they were moved to reservations in Oklahoma. Osage men were known to reach a height of six to seven feet tall. Average male setter was 5' 8" tall.
Your opening was the bomb. A real gasser. You passed along great information. Everyone got wind of the topic. You really tooted the bugle about everything of the forts and did not gaslight us. Loved the episode! Very informative. You never disappoint! Keep up the great work!
HAHA! Glad you enjoyed it. Nothing like a little fart humor!
Now this here in conjunction with the vid was a genuine knee slapper for me
😂😂😂----Pew Pew Pew!!!!!
😂😂😂too funny
Now I have to watch Blazing Saddles for the Supper Bean Scene. 😂
Thank you for keeping our history alive!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸
Thank You!
I live in Sheridan, Wyoming, and there are several forts- or remains of forts- in the area. The Fort Phil Kearny site is just up the road. That was built on the Oregon Trail to help provision and protect westward travelers. Fort Mackenzie in Sheridan is now a VA Hospital, and Fort McKinney in Buffalo is a Veterans Home (originally called the Wyoming Soldiers and Sailors Home).
Great info!
Fort Courage is the best!! Happy New Year to Mr. & Mrs. Santee and everyone at Arizona Ghostriders
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Near where I live is the only Russian fort on American soil. That would be Fort Ross, in Northern California. Also near me is Sutters Fort in Sacramento. Years ago I blacksmithed there one summer. Happiest wishes to you and Mrs Santee, as well as The rest of the team. Even Bill.
Great that you have those nearby!
Back many years ago, Ft. Craig in New Mexico was an outstanding place to get a flat tire on your car. Horseshoe nails EVERYWHERE! My uncle once found a button from a uniform that had a bullet lodged in it. There’s a back story behind it but we don’t know the story.
Interesting!
Thank you so much Santee. Hope your and your family have a Happy New Year. Thanks again. :)
You're very welcome
Santee, You have to watch out for those Ghostly Farts because they are Deadly. Awesome 2023 Old West content looking forward to a greater 2024 Old West content. You and Mrs. Pew Pew have a very blessed Happy New Year.
Thank You! 🎉
💛...been livin' just down the trail from sutter's fort...
Cool
Minnesota also has some replicas of early “forts” that were used by the fur trappers/traders. Makes history come alive and we can realize how people lived in such comparative primitive conditions. And how good we have it today!
Absolutely!
Fort Snelling is a western fort for it's time. Interestingly the surgeon was required to take weather readings 4 times a day starting in 1820. They have the longest or one of the longest continued records.
@@57WillysCJ It makes sense to assign the guy who's ostensibly the most scientifically minded to make those readings. Hard to imagine that those surgeons would understand the full implications of what they were doing and the knowledge that they were contributing to.
Fantastic as Ever !!!!!!!
Appreciated
Another awesome job y'all thank you
Our pleasure!
Happy New Year, Santee, and thank you so much for a wonderful year of Entertainment and education 🎉❤❤keep up the wonderful work
Same to you!
Great video, Santee! Very informative!
Thank You! I appreciate the clip. 🎉🎉
I love the way you use the inserted videos, clips, live characters, and audios to entertain and educate us. *Ain't noone does it better, I reckon. Happy New Year, Santee, the Mrs., and the rest of the team.👏🏻👏🏻🤠🎊
Glad you enjoy it! Happy new year.
Any idea what film they used at 2:26? I wanna see that!
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It's good to know that some of these places are still up and running. Well, still up. That's what's most important. 👍👍
Yessir
Happy New Year, Santee! Thanks for all the content in 2023. Best wishes from across the pond!🇬🇧
Thank You!
I've always loved old architecture, whether it's forts, commercial buildings, monuments, or homes. Another great video Santee! See if you can slip some beano in Bill's whiskey!
HAHA!
Yes and a Star Bucks frapachino too. LOL
One of my favorite subjects. Thanks! Happy New Year 2024 to All!
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Happy New Year Santee 🎉 Thank You for Everything You do on these Exciting and Fun Vlogs. 😊 I hope to see more Interesting Vlogs in 2024. Be Safe, Be You. 🤠
Same to you!
Hey Santee. You mentioning forts really makes me wonder what blanket and pillow forts would like in the old west, probably would be pretty itchy though. Great video as always! 😊
Yeah they would be!
😃 Good one Mrs. Santee Pew,Pew 👍
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When I was a kid, watching a colorized VHS of Drums Along the Mohawk, I had the impression that forts were always of a stockade or masonry construction. Fast forward to middle school and seeing Son of the Rising Star, and I was flabbergasted at the lack of a wall of any sort at the 7th's outpost. Went to the library and borrowed a book on frontier cavalry, and it confirmed that the open layout was commonplace on the plains. You live and you learn. Thanks for another year, Santee and gang. Hope this new one will be a great one for us all.
Yep, same thing happened to me.
Thank you for another great video 😊
You are so welcome!
Another great topic! See you guys down the trail, happy new year to you and all Ghostriders 🤠
Same to you! 🎉🎉
Thanks for another great video Santee! Wishing you and the rest of the Ghostriders a happy New Year.
Happy new year!
Me: "I'm am adult." Also me: "Ha! Kick-a-poo..."
Yeah, an unfortunate name for a tribe I always thought.
Compliments of the season dear (ex) colonists from England. Keep up the good work.
Thank You! 🎉
Another year in the books 📚 thanks for all the awesome videos 🤠 still would love one about the 1885 high/low wall rifle 🫡
If I can get my hands on one!
Living next door to Ft Sill the old post Corral, was set up for everyone to take shelter in if there was an uprising. Good factual information Santee. Thanks
That's good info.
Its alwasy fun to learn the difference between hollywood and reality. Thakns for another great video. Happy new year Santee and Mrs Santee.
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another interesting video awesome job thank you
You're welcome.
Always love going to old forts. Out here in California there is the well known Sutter's Fort, but I love going to the lesser known Fort Ross. Fort Ross was built by the Russians in 1812 and used until 1841. The Russians placed a lot of heavy guns at the fort to deter the Spanish down in San Francisco from attacking it. It was the southernmost Russian settlement in North America, and I use to think about what it took to get there back in say 1820. Traveling from Saint Petersburg or Moscow across the Urals and the length of Siberia to catch a ship to Alaska and then down the Pacific Coast to that remote outpost. It might as well had been Mars in terms of a modern equivalent.
Good extra info!
Lots of stink in the air depending on your location around here Santee! lol Great stuff. Love a fort and the stories they hold. History rules!!!!!
Thanks 👍
Great episode and Happy New Year!
Thank You!
The rangers at Fort Verde are very knowledgeable and friendly. Great place to visit.
Cool!
Love my forts
good!
Love the humour & history! Happy New Year! 🎉 🤠🍻🎉
Happy new year!
I love old buildings. I have to visit Az. To see these old.forts...
Yes, some are really cool.
Thanks for covering this topic. I find this subject neat.
Sure glad to help
Yet another interesting and Informative video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for all your hard work and happy new year Santee, to you and your posse!
Same to you!
Excellent episode Santee! I have been to Ft. Smith and Ft. Scott. Very interesting. Y'all have a Very Happy New Year! Cheers!
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Excellent subject! I visited the Fort Phil Kearny site in Wyoming and the Wagon Box Fight and Fetterman Massacre sites nearby, over 30 years ago before those sights were rebuilt/improved. I keep telling myself I'll get back there and see it again after the improvements. I think I better hurry up.😃
Great that you went to them. Yeah...you might wanna get back!
LOL, Great intro to the video, I almost sh-t a rib laughing.😅 Really loved this episode because visiting old Forks is one of my favorite things to do. Jo-Ann and I have been to Fort Laramie in Wyoming, if you folks plan on going there, plan an all day trip, there is a lot to see there. A few (but not all ) of the other Forts we have visited are: Fort Casper WY), Fort Bridger (WY) Fort Smith (MT), Fort MMacKenzie (WY) Fort Fetterman (WY) Fort Phil Kearny (WY) Old Fort Harrod (KY) , Fort Boonesborough (KY), and the list goes on and on. Like I said, I love to visit old Forts. 😂 Have a great weekend Mr. & Mrs. Santee. JT
LOL! Good. Happy 🎉🎉
As always another Great History lesson on the Old West Arizona Forts! Happy New Year Mr. and Mrs. (Pew!Pew!!) Santee!
Thank You!
Great stuff Santee and Happy New Year ! Looking forward to your 2024 videos, keep them coming 🌵🌵
Thanks! You too!
Don't forget another Arizona Fort that is still in use. The former Fort Whipple in Prescott is still in use as the Northern Arizona VA Health Care System. One of the former Officer's quarters is a museum of Fort Whipple's History.
Yes!
Good information Santee. Happy New Year to you and all the Arizona Ghostriders, pew, pew.
Thank You!
Great info, John! My mother is a Crittenden, and I saw a Fort Crittenden in Arizona, I'll have to check that out. Happy New Year, my friend! This is Mike Marsh, I saw where I was logged in using my old band channel lol thanks John!
You're very welcome.
You and the gang still suprises us, hope you had a merry Christmas and looking to see you guys in the new year.
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I’m catching this late. Mom’s in the hospital and hopefully coming home soon. It’s not her last roundup yet but at 91 ……. Great Show as always.
Hope so too. Take care.
Santee, great video and thank you for sharing. I do want to mention though that an older Fort than Fort Sill in Oklahoma is Leavenworth. Kansas Fort Leavenworth was started in 1829. It is still a military installation and it has the Command and Staff college there.
Good to know!
Happy New Year to you and Mrs Santee. Her pew pew in the intro was hilarious!🤠🇺🇲
Thank You!
ANOTHER GOOD ONE SANTEE ! MAY YOU AND YOURS HAVE A FUN BUT SAFE NEW YEARS !! ADIOS SANTEE
Thank You!
That was great. Wishing everyone a blessed and Happy New Year
Same to you!
My favorite old west fort, is Fort Courage. It was garrisoned by the toughest and bravest company of the US Cavalry, F Troop. Please tell Dan that I have been praying for him to get better. Hope you and Mrs. Santee, have a blessed New Year.
Thanks Eric, it's my favorite fort too. If they could just get that cannon fixed....
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Thank you !!!
You're welcome!
My Wife I spent a day at Fort Larame on our western vacation last summer, it was a great day. The fort is well restored.
Neat!
I love Fort Laramie...I visit there about once every year. It would be nice to hear about the stations and camps between each fort and their purpose to wagon trains and safety of the soldiers patrolling those tracks along the way.
Sure.
Not to forget Fort Davis National Historic Site in Fort Davis, Texas. I had my Tom Mix made for me in Fort Davis. It is funny how those iconic stockade forts were really more a thing back east. The winner is Bent's Fort, I think. It looks like an adobe fortress. I would really like to see more reconstructions (digital if nothing else), of some of the other adobe forts in the southwest. I didn't know about Tucson being an adobe-walled town before this. Fort Leaton State Historic Site in Presidio, Texas is not to be missed. It must be one of the best period adobe structures that has been preserved/reconstructed/maintained. Walls four feet thick. Cool inside when temperatures reach 110.
Yet another one to see
Would love to see a series of the different forts. Like Ft. Gibson in Oklahoma, which is also the oldest town in Oklahoma!
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Love your channel!
Good info. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice! Happy New Year!🎉
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Another excellent video of the old west, especially the forts… Was great to see and learn lots more than high school that were taught us and I am very happy and appreciative for this… Because you have to learn something new every day or your mind can go south without you so… Please keep up the wonderful videos and stories and history lessons that our educational systems didn’t think were important enough t share! Keep up the excellent work at a very happy New Year’s to you and your family …. Oooooorah !
Much appreciated!!! 🎉🎉🎉
I like how Fort Sill is still using many of the original buildings.
Me too
One "frontier fort" that might be interesting to learn about is Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania. I think it was built by George Washington early in his military career.
Cool. Too bad it isn't on the western frontier.
Where I live we have both stockade and open forts. In fact fort Vancouver is an example of both! It has a reconstructed Hudson Bay fort on the grounds of a now inactive army post. There are even 2 forts within my local community (3 if you count active ones) fort Stelacoom and the re constructed fort Nisqually. The first one was an army post from the 1840s to 1860s only a few original buildings remain. Fort Nisqually was a Hudson Bay trading post from the 1820s to 1850s it’s a stockade type fort with 3 original buildings and 2 rebuilt with salvaged original timbers. 2 watch towers and timber walls complete the fort.
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Another great video Santee
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome video Santee!!
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I went to basic training at Fort Sill. They have a pretty fantastic museum out there now.
Nice!
Fort Clatsop been to. Also Fort Steven's. Thanks for this! Happy New Year!!
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Great video. Happy New Years, Santee!!!!!!
Thanks!
Paranormal Phew Phew... That got a good chuckle out of my husband and I. I and my husband have a love of visiting old forts. Been to Ft Laramie (Funny story, we walked into the "Cantina/bar. I said Belly up to the bar boys (Old Debbie Reynolds line from Unsinkable Molly Brown - lived not far from us) and the bar keep came out and asked us if we wanted something to drink. We drank a root beer in the old bar (Hotter than heck that day). Been to Ft Hays, Ft Scott, KS (This is a nice old restored fort and museum, used to go every other year while visiting family in Ft Scott) Then we have a small old trading fort not far (Fort Vasquez in Platteville) The town near us had a fort, now all gone but the town still has the name (was Camp Collins, now Ft Collins) (And Ft Morgan (Nothing left of it but a marker). As a kid used to hang out at Fort Casper (we lived on the horse racing circuit). and east of that near Douglas WY Fort Fetterman named after the Fetterman massacre. Santa Fe has it's old Presidio and is a nice visit. Historic Fort Steilacoom near Seattle is a neat visit as well. Thanks for the episode, enjoyed it
You've visited a lot of cool places.
I grew up next to Fort Caspar and we visited Fort Laramie too.
Nice!
Always interesting. A shame we lost the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson. What remains has a very strong support group thru the Presidio museum. Del Tucson is interesting. From the tsuk shon, dark/changing waters. The city is thousands of years old, and i suspect was once dedicated to Old Man Coyote. Keep teaching! Viva Arizona!
Thank you. Yeah, progress really smashed a lot of that history down. However, I'm gonna guess that adobe was so old it was mainly back to rocks and clay!
Fort Vancouver by Vancouver, Washington was the Columbia Department Headquarters for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Columbia Department stretched from Southeast Alaska towards San Francisco then eastward towards the Rocky Mountains at its height of the Fur Trade roughly 1820-1845. It is also not that far from Fort Clatsop.
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Hey Santee, I really enjoyed watching this video. You always tell us something we never knew before. Thank you for all the videos you have done throughout the year and putting a little sense of humor in it. A very very happy New Year to you and Mrs Santee and your colleagues. Happy New Year everyone🎉🎉
Glad you enjoyed it! Nice of you to say, also.
Fort Niobrara in Cherry county near Valentine Nebraska adjacent to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation was quarters for various black ("Buffalo Soldiers"). John J. Pershing got the nickname "Black Jack" because of his association with the Ninth Cavalry there!!!!!
Interesting.
Fort Concho, in San Angelo Texas, is another example of a frontier fort that has had some restoration work and is now a museum.
Cool! Thanks.
Happy New Year Santee, and as always a great video...
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Another great episode Santee! Hope you and the crew have a happy New Year! Also, put a pin in "frontier farts," I think you've got a winner there.
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Boy Santee, A Great Show about Forts fer ser! But I’m ser sorry you had to endure all that paranormal ghost gas! Peeeewwwwwa! Your pal in Pennsylvania, DaveyJO
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Great video. If you're ever in Delta, Colorado, visit Fort Uncompagre (the entrance is behind the WalMart), a reproduction of a fur trading post from the 1840's.
Cool, thanks!
Very interesting. Happy New Year!
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Greetings. What I find amusing is the TV show “Gunsmoke” All those hills and mountains around Dodge, where no mountains are. LOL And those movie Army forts built with timbers out on the great grass plains. And there is not a tree in site. But… it’s on TV so it must be true! 😮
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When I visited Fort Apache in Whiteriver, AZ, I was surprized to learn there never was a wooden pallisade enclosure there. [Contrary to my Boomer ''common knowledge'' having played with the plastic wooden-looking stockade of the Marx Ft Apache play set, and seen the Duke Wayne - Hank Fonda feature ''Fort Apache'' I was certain it had a pine curtain.] What I did notice was the fort had a ring of ,,sillouettas metallicas'' -- shaped like Apaches -- at about 100 yards out from its imaginary perimeter. Constant target practice let the Locals know where the perimeter was.
Interesting!
I know there's so many forts To be mentioned . Especially forts that are still being recreated today. But you also have fort Bridger and also Sutter's fort.
Yep, you do
I’ve grown up and lived about 15 miles from Bents Fort. I’ve been there a couple of times and it’s a fascinating place to visit. It’s almost been lost a few times due to floods and wildfires.
Wow, didn't know about the floods and wildfires.
Happy New Year, Santee This was a very interesting video.
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Thanks Mr. Santee!! As usual, this video is great!! Sorry ya get sooo stinkingly treated sometimes. Happy New Year, Sir!!
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Happy New Year to y'all from Ga.
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Very interesting.
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Awesome video Santee!!! Hope yall had a merry Christmas and hope you'll have a happy new year!!!
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@@ArizonaGhostriders you're very welcome guys!!!
Happy New Year from us at Fort Whipple (Prescott, AZ)!
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Great video Santee
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I believe at one time old Tucson had a movie set called “fort reunion” that was torn down prior to the 95 fire. But I’m not for sure about that. Child hood memory
That's correct. It was basically the High Chaparral with a wall around it and was used in the Young Riders.
@@ArizonaGhostriders thank you
Fun video my friend.
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Thank you and Happy New Year. Where is my coffee
Right next to you...!
Hello Santee great video as usual. I was wondering you had ever planned or could do a video on Soliled doves as we all know they were also part of the wild west , thanks. Happy new 2024 to you and Mrs Santee.
I did one on brothels, which talked about them. I'm sure I'll do more.
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks bro I actually remember watching it now you mentioned brothels