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Judging by the sheer number of recent westerns I've been finding on streaming services lately, I'd say that there have probably been more westerns made over the last five-to-ten years than there were during any time after about 1980. These are mainly low-budget indie productions, but the major studios haven't exactly been flooding us with classics in any genre lately.
True. Some are pretty rough, but I've enjoyed a lot of the indie ones.
@@ArizonaGhostridersreally what needs to happen is these modern western writers need to dive into the public domain. Grab some old cowboy pulps and scan the stories for a real go-getter or two, and adapt some of those old, often highly original short stories into motion pictures.
@@bar-1studios Good idea
Here in Japan the 'western' tab on netflix and disney+ has been redefined to mean 'non Japanese' and any search for clint or wayne brings up nothing.
The great actors are gone. You'll have to step up my friend.
Yup, as a kid in the 50's I'd watch westerns all the time. Couldn't get enough of 'em. Now, as an old man living in the woods of East Texas, I watch 'em all the time on DVD, or on my phone from the many offered to view. Nothing beats a good western!😁
Right
I watched True Grit with my Grandpa when I was four years. We bonded over the Hateful Eight, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid and Tombstone. I even showed these movies to the younger generation, such as my cousin and my second cousin.
Cool!
Just think, Santee, one day there will be cowboys running around in space with 3 eyed cows and drinking in a space saloon.
Watch Firefly you’ll love it 👍
Right?
They’ll never truly die. We get a lot of NeoWesterners like Yellowstone or shows like the Mandalorian that are basically just westerners in space.
Yep
I've recently been watching heaps of the old westerns on KZhead, so many for free.
I wouldn't consider those real westerns. With a few exceptions, the real westerns stopped being produced by the end of the 80's.
@@CaesarGB which is why I used the term NeoWestern.
Don't forget about Firefly! That 1 season Sci-Fi, tv show, was a space western themed Epic! One of my favorites!
Thanks Santee. I do love my Westerns. They have always inspired me and made me love being a Westerner, having been born in the West! I was one of the fortunate ones who grew up watching westerns on TV. I do feel fortunate. After all, the shows I watched as a kid were what has inspired my collecting of old guns, or at least replicas of these older firearms. And, lest I forget, loving the desert scenes and mountains, because it's were I grew up. Thanks Again Santee.
You are most welcome, Ralph
Born in 1961. I grew up with “Bonanza” and “The High Chaparral”! The sweetest memories of my childhood!!! Thanks for that post! Keep up the good work! ❤️🇺🇸
Glad you enjoyed it
My Great Grandmother used to never miss an episode of the Lone Ranger on the radio. My mother said very one had to be quiet when it came on. As a child I loved watching the Lone Ranger on the old black and white tv. I also loved watching The Rifleman. I just finished watching The Young Riders series and really enjoyed it.
It's a good series.
Some of the coolest and most beautiful firearms are from that era. Although I watched "The Lone Ranger" every Saturday morning as a kid, I never REALLY got into Westerns until I found your channel. I'm officially hooked on both the films and guns of the Old West. Another great episode Santee!
That is so cool, Richard!
I loved The Lone Ranger as a kid!
As a small child in the late 1950s to early 1960s, I was jealous of my older brother and sister who could stay up to watch TV after 8 pm. I remember hearing the theme music for westerns like Wagon Train when I was supposed to be asleep. They actually used orchestras for western theme music back then, and I I still think this music is lovely. I loved reruns of The Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy, and later Bonanza.
Great memories!
I am glad that the internet has helped wrest control of some of the great TV shows of yesterday from the cold hands of Big Western. Thanks for the video, Santee!
Well said!
This is a perfect reminder of the shows some of us grew up on, or knew about. Thanks, Santee... They'll never die out completely. A BIG Hollywood star would help do the trick. 🤠👏🏻🤗
Yep
Guilty! I was one of those kids that grew up on TV westerns in the 50's. I grew up on a little horse farm, so it was fun watching these shows with my dad and grandfather, who were real cowboys. They would always laugh and point out things that did not happen in real life the way they were portrayed. My grandpa often stated he always wanted one of them 16 shot six shooters. Haha. Thanks for another walk down memory lane.
HAHA!
Growing up in the sixths and sevenths I think I watched every Western there was. They still are my favorite movies. The Duke was my childhood hero and reckon he still is ! Thanks Santee for keeping the Westerns around. Keep up the good work partner! You are appreciated Sir.🤠🇺🇲
Some of my favorite sayings come from the Duke like "No man alive likes to be called high smelling and low down." and "I put my hand on no man and I allow no man to put his hand on me."
@@tomjackson4374 that's right pilgrim. 🤠
Much appreciated.
It was my late grandparents that got me into westerns. And I'm still full into it. Then your guys' videos on history from it increased my love of the Old West.
Thank You!
Easiest amd most enjoyable job assignment I've ever had. "Keep watching Westerns." 👍🤠
Good!!
Another great episode, Santee! I agree about westerns. We do need more. Maybe folks like yourself and those who made the 12 westerns in 12 months will help make a big return of westerns.
I hope so.
My grandfather is the one that got me into westerns and military History. I wanna thank yall arizona ghost riders. Because yall helped me take the step to get into the reenacting world and soon I will be making my first old west kit.
That is so terrific! Congrats!
Love it, Santee! Thanks for the small cameo at 3:16, let’s hope for many more westerns to come!
You're welcome.
The Old West group I work with partners with a local excursion railroad during the summer. From what I hear from the train crews is that our Old West Train is their biggest money maker. We average about 200 passengers per train. The only one that comes close is their "Polar Express". Basically, Cowboys are more popular than Santa Claus! 🤠
Yeah, the Polar Express rights are owned my employer. Glad you are getting big crowds!
another awesome job , I've been watching westerns since I was a kid, still watching them just about every day. thank you again
You're very welcome.
Those where the days. A handful of channels like yours have inspired me to try to do my part to keep them alive. I like doing videos of all types of guns but doing western style videos are my favorite to do. Good video santee keep them coming buddy
Thank You, A.R.
Thank you so much Santee: I still really enjoy the old westerns. They will never leave my love for westerns. PS. I checked on Amazon yesterday and they have your video. I an asking for one for Christmas. Can't wait to watch. Have a great weekend. :)
Thank You!
When I was a kid. One of my favorite TV Westerns was "Lawman" with John Russell. I even had a "Lawman" lunch box.
So neat!
my dad was a kid in the prime of when westerns were popular. he grew up watching bonanza and all those other shows from that era. i first got into westerns when i played the first red dead redemption about 13 years ago. and i just loved the genre. and after i played the game i was watching so many westerns. i always thought if video games were as advanced as they are now back in the 1950s or 60s. there would be hundreds of red dead games by now.
Yes, there would.
Thanks for sharing , I'm 62 years old and still enjoy them.
Thank You!
Damn, Santee! You have really NAILED it with the attire. Everything we missed in the mid-period westerns: historical accuracy, careful curation, impeccable taste. I've said this before, but still. Kudos.
Thank You!
"You would do it for Randolph Scott!" Speaking of westerns, THE VALLEY OF GWANJI was a wild one..I have a picture of me when I was 3 years old in 1956 with my cowboy hat and six-shooter..I still love Westerns...
So cool!!!
Excellent episode Santee! I always love a good western! Grew up on them. Glad there is a resurgence. Have a great weekend! Cheers!
Thank You!
A dedicated video on sci-fi westerns (movies, TV and video games) would be a welcome addition
ok
Excellent subject! I think its interesting how the western movie evolved. Many western prior to the 1950s were comedies and / or musicals. The hero in an idealic story eventually ran its course and gave way to the revisionist western which could be very interesting in it's own right. Some westerns today could be described as cinical in nature, IMO with dark endings. I like the classic western the best even if its not realistic.
Yeah, we should do a video on the evolution of westerns!
I grew up watching westerns. My favorite cap pistol was the Mattel Shooten-Shell which shot plastic bullets. Sure wish I had one of them today. They were great cap guns.
Yeah, you can probably find one on eBay
A while back I was in the hospital. I was telling a young nurse a story about Wyatt Earp. At the end she asked, "Who"s Wyatt Earp?"
OUCH
I was working retail a few years back, and ringing up a customer and noticed the name Earp on his credit card. Of course I asked him about it (he was a distant cousin), and he said that not many people recognize it. I'm wondering if it's a bit regional. I'm an Okie who mostly grew up in California, but I'm living in Georgia now. Old West stuff in general doesn't seem to be on people's radar quite so much here.
I am building a Western Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Your videos have been a lot of help with research and new equivalents to what's in the game.
Good
Oddly, even though growing up through the ‘50’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s I didn’t really get into westerns until I got my first percussion revolver in 1980. This was also when I grew very interested in history. I watched some with my dad through the ‘60’s, but never really caught on until later. Great episode, Santee!!!
Thank You!
Thank the Lord, we can still watch them. I love the old Western T.V. channels!
Me too!
I miss the good ol westerns. Glad they’re on the way back. Another awesome episode, Santee!
Thank You!
Thank you very much. Have a beautiful and blessed weekend.
You as well.
I love the old westerns! I take the time at home to watch a few..thanks for sharing this Santee! Take care and stay safe! God bless!🙏✝️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You're welcome.
I grew up on westerns. John Wayne might as well been a member of my family. If there was a John Wayne movie on, I can promise you we'd watch it. My brother and I probably watched The Cowboys a 1000 times growimng up. I always imagined myself as the little kid with the giant gun. 🤣🙂
Cool!
I was raised on westerns and spent my summers on the family ranch. Which reminds me. Going watch 'The assassination of Jesse James" this afternoon. One of my favorites.
Great film
Some people call me Leroy the Space Cowboy, just me, my rifle and my Pygmy pony ricin’ the galactic range.
Yep!
Thank you for the accurate history of our National Favorite Story. I recognized many of the clips fondly. Academic researches on the western frontier is surprising. English speculators financed much of big ranching. The labor pool tending cattle was pretty evenly divided between newly freed Negroes, Mexican trained vaqueros, and unskilled white immigrants from "Back East". They soon learned to pretty much get along with rach other. Towns were built by freed former slaves called "Freetowns" and very quietly a Southern Arizona hand built Freetown yet exists created by a unique black cowboy Edward Keeylovko. I had the privilege of spending time with and photographing him. There few Hispanic cowboy movies. The only one I know is The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. Entertaining. There are more Black cowboy movies. One I recently obtained is The Outlaw Johnny Black. It is a very entertaining mix of traditional American plot with some Spaghetti Western bits, homages to Billy Jack, Terence Hill, Jacky Chan, Mel Brooks, and many others which escaped me. Good gun play and old style bar brawls all new versions. The stunt work was also novel and well executed. Plenty of drama, comic bits and self-aware satire. A very unique offering.
Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing the rest.
I’ll be doing my part! Can’t wait to see your part! Thank you for this!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸
Thank You!
The first Western I ever watched all the way through was Silverado and it has stuck with me and given me a lifelong need to defend my homestead from masked bandits.
OK!
Good evening Arizona Ghost Riders. I always look forward to seeing your videos. I cannot wait for the next one. Ted from Texas
Thanks 👍
my mom watched Gunsmoke and Bonanza with her grandmother, and my dad was raised mostly by the cowboy shows during his youth. I know he watched the Lone Ranger, He got a VHS tape when we got a VCR player with episodes of the Lone Ranger on it and told me that he watched it as a kid. I grew up watching Walker, Texas Ranger every Saturday (which I think counts as a Western.)
It does count. Awesome!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks.
Every time I ride my motorcycle. I always feels like I riding horse. In the weekend every one like to hang out in the cafe or departmemtstore but I love to relax in the paddy field, in the wind under the blue sky . By love from Thailand, Thai 21st century cowboy.
Right on
Thanks Santee for another video! I've always loved westerns ever since I was a kid. Even girls can love westerns! 🤠
You bet!
I remember that Chevy debuted the Camaro's first commercial on Bonanza, the car came up out of a volcano, that was a cool commercial. Used to get a mixed Saturday morning of cartoons, Sci-fi & Westerns, the Lone Ranger, Annie Oakley, Rin-Tin-Tin & Sgt Preston of the Mounties, Rex Allen, we only got 3 channels but each channel had a western on it. Have a good 'un Santee, and thanks for another great Saturday Morning.
Much appreciated!
I love rewatching have gun will travel, found it at goodwill for a buck the entire series on DVD, westerns are the best genre of show hands down
Good!
Interesting you mentioned video games because Mortal Kombat X has one cowboy character named Erron Black, who lives in this fantasy land as a cowboy. That sparked my interest in westerns and, well, I've consumed dozens of western shows, books and tv shows in the last 6 six years because of that. It's great!
Yep good ole erron black I wish they would of or could of at least. Taken the time and got his guns and clothes period correct
Nice
The western isnt dead, it's just in a cultural lull. As you said, Santee, people love a hero- and I would argue, NEED their true heroes back... They've just been victimized lately by a hollywood that's gotten "too big for it's britches." Once "there's a new sheriff in town," the same thing that happened in the 80s will happen again: People will want movies with ACTUAL heroes- who "dispense much needed justice" and "win in the end." Hang in there!
Yup
I keep telling people westerns need to make a comeback. That’s about the only movie I’d got to a theater to see nowadays.
They are too much a part of our culture to go away completely.
I remember running from school to do my chores and sat in front of TV and see "The Rifleman."
CooL!
Awsome vidio sir keep us up to date on new ones thank you
Thanks! Will do!
Giday Santee on yu. A nuther great video. Keep up the good work . And I will be watching for your next weekend video 🤠❤
Thanks 👍
I loved Lash Larue and the Lone Ranger. But then again I am old. But I do miss all the western shows
CooL!
That symbol of good fortune on the back of that man’s vest will surely age well
Yes
Great video 😊 Merry Christmas az ghostriders
Thanks! You too!
My favorite modern Western? Old Henry.
Definitely a good one.
Here in San Antonio we're pretty lucky. As long as you got an antenna, 24 hour westerns. One channel plays nothing else. Another shows them a good chunk of the day. And a third often has movies at night.
yeah
I would have to say my all-time favorite western is The Outlaw Joesy Wales. Second is Pale Rider. Sometimes I get in the mood for The Unforgiven. Thanks for today's subject. Stay safe out there, and take it easy man.
Good choices!
Alabama hills and the museum in Lone Pine California keep the spirit going. Both great places to visit.😊
Thanks!
Great video Santee !! Outstanding my friend
Thank You!
I’m really enjoying the new series on Bass Reeves. Recognizing an amazing law man was long overdue.
Absolutely.
Star Wars was a Western that took place in a Galaxy Far Far Away in the future and in space.
yeah
When you feel like you’re living in a Wild West movie, it’s everywhere!
Yep
Thanks Santee. My kids love John Wayne movies. Side note, my Grandfather, along with several others, opened Buckskin Joe's in Colorado all those many years ago.
Very cool!
Right now the best Westerns have been tv shows. 1883, 1923, and Lawman Bass Reeves have been very popular amongst viewers.
Great!
Besides Clint Eastwood All the actor's I grow up watching and liking has all passed away and went to that big silver screen in the sky.! So most westerns just aren't the same anymore. Sure there's been afew that I enjoyed watching and rewatching But we all can't live forever just on the TV or movie screens thank you as always great job on video and content.
Thank You!
Westerns have always entertained me and inspired me. You were spot on here about Western culture still being of the culture. Libs have tried to mock Westerns and even make their own 'Westerns' but they really hate the America that Western cinema and pulp fiction represent.
They can hate it if they want. People are still making westerns and that ain't gonna change.
In Star Wars the Clone Wars, there is a bounty hunter named "Cad Bane" who looks remarkably like Lee Van Cleef's western characters. So even Star Wars had Western inspiration.
Absolutely.
Great video as always Santee. I still enjoy watching Westerns as well as Reading them too. JT
Thank You!
👍👍👍 I go back a lot of times and watch a lot of the old westerns 😎☕
Good!
Great episode, Santee! Long live the Western!
Thanks! You too!
I love western movies, I'm glad to see more being made.
Yes!
So glad to see westerns coming back
Yay
As much as traditional westerns had fallen out of the mainstream in the 70s, I've always found it interesting how many sci-fi films were really thinly adapted westerns. Take away the spaceships and lightsabers and Star Wars was pretty much a western story.
It is.
Even the great space opera/saga was heavily influenced by Western films. May the Force be with ya Santee.
Thank You!
I wonder how many of those westerns will be on the big screen next year? I stream like every one else but my favorite way to see a movie is in the local theater.
I agree!
Glenn Ford doesn't get enough respect as some of the others. Glad you added him in at the end.
Ford was a great western actor imo.
He was terrific.
Great video as always! Red Dead 2 definitely made me care about the West. I have a wife from Eastern Europe and I can't wait to take her through New Mexico and Arizona, to her this is a thing of myth, like castles are to us
She will certainly love it. Gotta hit the Grand Canyon or Monument Valley on that trip.
My old man 92 watches them constantly. I got sucked into Audie Murphy and Hopalong Cassidy. Nice when the good guy has morals.
Yep!
Thanks for helping to keep the Old West alive! I think the book A Legend Untold by C. Brent Jones would make a great Western movie! 😂
Yep
I'm doing my part in keeping the genre alive by trying to write a western myself on my off time.
Yeehaw!
I will never stop watching westerns. One of my absolute favorite genres since I was a kid. - okay, I suppose I will stop watching eventually. When I am dead, dead, dead. May God have mercy on my soul.
HA!
We need more westerns
yes
Hallelujah brother!! 🤠
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Great video, Santee, but you failed to mention perhaps the greatest Western ever: Deadwood!
Good series
You doin a larrupin fine job of larpin the westerns. 😂 Much appreciated. I also subscribe to "A Word on Westerns". Thanks for sharing.
Thank You! Yeah, they are great.
Must admit, I do like to watch. What's it like being internet famous, Santee? 🤠
HA!
I've read that Star Wars was just another Western, projected on a futuristic Sci-Fi background...and I agree that basically, it is. Westerns will never die.
True!
My maternal aunt still watches westerns, I've recently myself started reading The Gunsmith and Lady Gunsmith (the second one ties into the first one with the main characters of both knowing each other, the main character of The Gunsmith having trained The Lady Gunsmith), they are kinda...pulpy if you get my drift on what kind of stuff you'll find in them but they are good series. Heck The Gunsmith is sitting currently at 433 (!) volumes...and I've only got 2...one was a gift and I bought the first for myself just recently....I need a LOOOOT of space for them lol. The theme park thing? Oh yeah that brings back memories...I got some old beta max camcorder tapes of my times at Ghost Town in the Sky. It was a western theme park built on top of Buck Mountain in North Carolina...a good day trip theme park for me and my mother who adored westerns. It's been abandoned for years and the place is currently going under a lawsuit to determine ownership of the property on Buck Mountain is going on right now though there are people that want to reopen the park....I miss that place and hope one day it'll be back. My mom and I used to watch an American Gladiators style show called Wild West Showdown in the early 90's...2 years ago some amazing person uploaded the entire series onto KZhead on the channel "Hosts at Home"...I honestly thought I'd NEVER see that show again as this was in the age before companies thought to put shows like that in bundles for people to buy and watch later after it's out of production. An old cartoon show I used to watch called "Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa" is getting a reboot from what I understand...it was a show about a wild west town on a mesa populated by anthropomorphic animals, specifically a lot of cows (though some and some horses were STILL normal so they had cattle drives with...cows herding cows.) what did the "C.O.W" stand for? "Code Of the West" a set of rules the heroes lived by...which the leader made up as he went along sometimes but always a good...man? at heart. The heroes were Marshall Moo Montana, who was the leader, The Dakota Dude, and The Cowlorado Kid...lot a pun names. They got around the "Guns can't shoot bullets" rules of the time by having the guns shoot themed items...like Marshall Moo Montana's gun shot sheriff stars. Word is The Nacelle Company is looking to reboot the series along with an all new toy line...as of August 11th this year, that's what they plan to do so maybe next year I'll get to see the show again, hope they do a good job.
Appreciate the comment.
I love your channel! I watch it all the way from Brazil(!!) We can relate to westerners, we have at least 3 different "cowboy cultures" here... so yeah you're international my man 😂
Love that! Thank You!
One of the KZheadrs I follow is doing his own western comic that I decided to pre-ordered.
Great!
Great Show !
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Im a huge fan of the old Lee Van cleef westerns, loved sabata
CooL!
See, I always liked Westerns and WWII movies. Red Dead got me back into video games!
Cool!
I was in the generation that missed out kn westerns, but I didn’t. My dad and grandpa both liked John Wayne and Roy Rogers.
Good!!!