Surprising Facts About COWBOYS

2016 ж. 11 Қыр.
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They’re the guys with the thousand yard stare. The one with six-shooters in their holsters, a broad-brim hat on their heads and enough jagged iron in their guts to break down even the toughest steak. They are the cowboys, and everyone knows they’re the coolest, calmest, most-heroic folk in America history.
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10. Most Cowboys Didn’t Carry Guns
9. They Almost Never Got in Fights
8. Many Were Ravaged by Venereal Diseases
7. Plenty Didn’t Do Any Riding Whatsoever
6. Some That Did Ride Rode Camels
5. ‘Brokeback’ Encounters Were Surprisingly Common
4. Black Cowboys Were Also Surprisingly Common
3. Outlaws Were Shameless Self-Promoters
2. The Rest of the Country Considered Them Suspicious and Dirty
1. Modern Germans Love Them
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  • Billy The Kid was also charismatic, charming, and well liked by many people. He could speak Spanish fluently and got along well with the Hispanic Americans and Mexicans of his area. In the famous stand photo of him, he was wearing and holding photographer's props and intended to look silly. The photo was a goof, just like they still do today. He actually dressed a lot better and usually wore a sombrero instead of a Stetson.

    @IronheadOfScroteus@IronheadOfScroteus7 жыл бұрын
  • The American cowboy origins are from the Mexican " vaqueros" 🤠🤠🤠

    @a.decasas5427@a.decasas54275 жыл бұрын
    • Yes correct Vaquero meaning a cowboy

      @sanjuanagasca4124@sanjuanagasca41244 жыл бұрын
    • The American cowboy uses “buckaroo” Buckaroo is a bastardize version of vaquero

      @jmmusic1899@jmmusic1899 Жыл бұрын
  • They didn't ride horses or have guns, all most every historical photo in this video shows cowboys with horses and guns, makes sense

    @walkerr8151@walkerr81516 жыл бұрын
    • He said, "significant minority" didn't ride horses. Which means a majority did. So yeah, most cowboys rode horses even by his own words. This video is pathetic.

      @punchdrunkatheist@punchdrunkatheist5 жыл бұрын
    • Didn't I see you commenting on the flat earth videos saying "makes sense"

      @GlennDavey@GlennDavey5 жыл бұрын
    • These are not historical photos, btw, they are mostly from movies. The Old West was scarce on cameras.

      @GlennDavey@GlennDavey5 жыл бұрын
    • They did ride horses and carry guns. They just weren't allowed to carry in town. They checked their guns with whoever held them while they went to saloons, blacksmiths, general stores, doctors, or hotels.. then they retrieved them when they left.

      @joshuatraffanstedt2695@joshuatraffanstedt26955 жыл бұрын
    • @@GlennDavey :- You got that right. How else would most of us recognize cowboys if they all looked like dirt poor hillbillys? He was forced to use modern images of cowboys from movies, TV, and gay cowboy ranch comercials.

      @blueeyeswhitedragon9839@blueeyeswhitedragon98395 жыл бұрын
  • One of the greatest dangers cowboys faced was drowning, and their love of novelty had many try out roller skates when they reached the western towns. Guns were rarely carried during drives because they rusted easily, got lost quicker, and trail bosses didn't need idle hands spooking cattle or shooting up things by camp sites.

    @richardmattingly7000@richardmattingly70007 жыл бұрын
  • You forgot to mention that the American cowboy of the 19th century has its origins in Mexican "vaqueros" of the 17th and 18th centuries. When Mexico lost the war against the US in the late 1840s, many Americans started moving out West and these lands used to be part of Mexico and the people of these lands already had a lifestyle that was suited to the harsh conditions of the land. The Americans had to take up this lifestyle in order to survive and this is why they took up Spanish words such as "corral", "lasso" (lazo), "ranch" (rancho), "rodeo" and even the word cowboy which is transliteration of the word "vaquero" and means "cow man".

    @alvarofavela2918@alvarofavela29187 жыл бұрын
    • It goes back further than that, the origins of the cowboy tradition come from Spain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy

      @driveman6490@driveman64907 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah. The origins of cowboys can be traced back even further. The Spaniards got it from the Moors. In Mexico there are two offshoots: The vaquero (the cowboy) and the charro.

      @carlosfernandez5833@carlosfernandez58337 жыл бұрын
    • The word "Buckaroo" comes from mispronouncing "vaquero".

      @jamesthompson7238@jamesthompson72387 жыл бұрын
    • Actually the origin was the Spanish vaqueros. The Spanish vaquero was there long before Mexico ever existed as a country. ;-)

      @modernvaquero@modernvaquero7 жыл бұрын
    • Maybe in Texas, but I am from California and in California the Spanish were roping and branding cattle before their was a Texas or a Mexico.

      @modernvaquero@modernvaquero7 жыл бұрын
  • You missed one important fact. Cowboys did not exist in the US, not even in Texas! They were trained by mexican cowboys that brought all kinds of techniques. The mexican cowboys evolved to become “charreria” which is the only Mexican national sport that still exist today

    @brujoezln@brujoezln5 жыл бұрын
    • That is not true.

      @rowdycooper63@rowdycooper634 жыл бұрын
    • Not true.

      @rowdycooper63@rowdycooper634 жыл бұрын
    • 1769 spaniards brought the first cows and horses to California, México.

      @brujoezln@brujoezln4 жыл бұрын
    • @@brujoezln and the French brought them more than 100 years before that to Louisiana for commercial profit.

      @rowdycooper63@rowdycooper634 жыл бұрын
    • Ok, then French were the ones who tought americans and originated cowboys?

      @brujoezln@brujoezln4 жыл бұрын
  • You should make a top ten facts about random youtubers that don’t know what the hell they are talking about.

    @comptonislife9046@comptonislife90464 жыл бұрын
  • Fun fact: The first ever Wilhelm Scream was from an old Western called Distant Drums. The sound effect has since been used in over 200 movies.

    @tristanmarshall2224@tristanmarshall22247 жыл бұрын
    • Wow

      @soybeanseb@soybeanseb3 жыл бұрын
  • I guess being an American I should now inform you on the day to day life of the queen of england .

    @AJH8713@AJH87134 жыл бұрын
  • A Englishman who doesn’t know a damn thing about Cowboys.

    @matthewarant7491@matthewarant74915 жыл бұрын
    • not even 1 minute: "gun control did the less people dead :-DD"

      @clammaster4@clammaster44 жыл бұрын
    • There is the internet so

      @oqvp0332@oqvp03323 жыл бұрын
    • at least he speaks proper English

      @czonczike630@czonczike6303 жыл бұрын
    • He's dealing with facts not Hollywood.

      @keithrose6931@keithrose69313 жыл бұрын
  • my grandfather on my Moms side came to America (California) from Germany around WW2 and was very disappointed to find out it wasn't like the western movies he had seen. So I knew about number one.

    @Duke00x@Duke00x7 жыл бұрын
  • Never heard so much B.S.

    @flyboy2514@flyboy25147 жыл бұрын
    • LMAO xD

      @buddahfudgge7925@buddahfudgge79255 жыл бұрын
    • Obviously you hear only what you want to hear, but don't read. Everything on this list is historically correct. History isn't a guessing game, and books (except maybe the Bible and fiction) are chock full of truths... learn some facts in books then you won't have to use profanity to try and bully your point.

      @CMFTC@CMFTC5 жыл бұрын
    • Wow, proof you can reach the age of 100 and still believe everything you see in old Westerns.

      @GlennDavey@GlennDavey5 жыл бұрын
    • @@CMFTC You idiot! .....pfft!

      @Bronco-1776@Bronco-17765 жыл бұрын
    • @@newdamage5945 They were not heros assmunch, it was just a job. Because they were mostly black, of course they have a bad image as usual.

      @flexthought7655@flexthought76554 жыл бұрын
  • someone needs to make a spoof Western skit of the bisexual black cowboy that rides a camel and hasn't ever shot a gun vs Clint Eastwood

    @UpcycleElectronics@UpcycleElectronics7 жыл бұрын
    • I've been waiting so long for Blazing Saddles 2.........this would be perfect!! Directed by the Cohen Brothers, dark comedy at it's finest.

      @driveman6490@driveman64907 жыл бұрын
    • @@driveman6490 One hump, or two?

      @sheilaclemett4353@sheilaclemett43534 жыл бұрын
    • YES

      @slamboy66@slamboy663 жыл бұрын
    • This should be a episode of DEATH BATTLE

      @nubetube2443@nubetube24433 жыл бұрын
  • I love your guys stuff but I think you got this wrong I am a modern cowboy from wyoming who's family homestead this land before it was even a territory

    @Heathershusbandbear@Heathershusbandbear5 жыл бұрын
    • American history as told by a British knowbit all. Lol

      @tufftrucker40@tufftrucker403 жыл бұрын
  • this Brit knows Pat Garrett was a lawman, not an outlaw, right?

    @hulkmeister23@hulkmeister237 жыл бұрын
    • Derek Bates

      @friscomendez8339@friscomendez83395 жыл бұрын
    • Im sure he was whatever was necessary at the moment

      @danalawrence377@danalawrence3773 жыл бұрын
  • count the amount of cowboys carrying guns in the old photos on this video alone, and then tell me about how they rarely carried weapons. sure speaks for itself I'd say.

    @alexhandel9270@alexhandel92707 жыл бұрын
  • Funny thing, Wild West gun laws are a lot like medieval English sword laws.

    @NonApplicable1983@NonApplicable19837 жыл бұрын
    • Have as many as you want between cities and tag and store in them?

      @punchdrunkatheist@punchdrunkatheist5 жыл бұрын
  • 1) I love that the history of Black cowboys was brought up. Being a Black man and someone who likes shows like The Rifleman and Bonanza, I have often felt like Black cowboys never got much representation on TV. 2) Germany having a large following of cowboy culture has its own links. Dressing as cowboys and having the affinity with 19th century Texas is rather fitting in a way. A large number of German (as well as Czech and Polish) immigrants settled in central Texas during the 19th century.

    @TheGeoScholar@TheGeoScholar5 жыл бұрын
  • as soon as I heard the voice of this guy, it was clear he had no clue about the Old West, as the comments clearly indicate. Enough said.

    @michaelpalmer3919@michaelpalmer39195 жыл бұрын
  • _It's high noon..._

    @KnuxTube@KnuxTube7 жыл бұрын
    • knew this comment would be here somewhere

      @zennim125@zennim1257 жыл бұрын
    • Lucas Melo I was disappointed no one else did it.

      @KnuxTube@KnuxTube7 жыл бұрын
    • SilverAbsol if not for you, i would, so highfive jesse.

      @zennim125@zennim1257 жыл бұрын
  • Another big one was that they originated from the Mexican Vaquero culture that was here when the meztisos lived in TEJAS “texas today”

    @Zehahahaa@Zehahahaa2 жыл бұрын
  • The Wild West went popular in Germany because of the author Karl May (1842 - 1912) who wrote fictious travel novels also about America. There he proclaimed to get friend to the Apache Chief Winnetou and lived through some adventures till Winnetou died. That novels made a huge impact on the German pop culture until today.

    @Akkordeondirigent@Akkordeondirigent5 жыл бұрын
  • the girl in red shirt in 9:48 I feel really bad for her. she didn't had anyone to dance with her lolz it was seriously awkward

    @bloompeters.1819@bloompeters.18197 жыл бұрын
  • Cowboys, gauchos, sabaneros, vaqueros, jinetes,...= hispanoamerican culture heritage

    @cuentaestudios9241@cuentaestudios92413 жыл бұрын
  • The story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a bit of an enigma. ( Sundance was given the nickname after the prison he was in ) I saw a video that both lost their lives in a shoot out in S/America when the authorities found out where they were in a cabin. Sundance died and another body was found. Was it Butch? some say that he was seen in Frisco years later. One grave was opened some years ago as it was said to be Sundance but it was the body of a German Dr. If the other body was Butch then they are both buried in the graveyard and their bodies will never be found because their are hundreds of bodies buried there. Grazie.

    @antoniocabratsia4294@antoniocabratsia42944 жыл бұрын
  • Woody Strode played a black cowboy in many films during the 50's, 60's and 70's, many of them well worth watching. Ad if I remember correctly had the starring role in more than one film.

    @gerlan1234to@gerlan1234to7 жыл бұрын
  • IT'S HIGH NOON

    @47thRONIN@47thRONIN7 жыл бұрын
    • kool-Aid Man sure

      @47thRONIN@47thRONIN7 жыл бұрын
  • I find a lot of this information extremely hard to believe.

    @LegalShield3000@LegalShield30004 жыл бұрын
    • The truth often hurts. Looking at the comments here, lots of people just aren’t able to face up to it, and act like they know everything themselves.

      @gilgamesh310@gilgamesh3103 жыл бұрын
  • Could you do a video on real life towns in the US that people can visit that are 100% still living as the old west did? That would be a great video from Simon.

    @tgaming8745@tgaming87454 жыл бұрын
  • Your definition of cowboy doesn't make much sense, you include people who never punched cattle.

    @bobturner4705@bobturner47057 жыл бұрын
  • Number 7 needs more context,There’s a difference between a ranch hand and a cowboy. Ranch hands are the ones who deal with mending the fences and cleaning the stalls. Cowboys deal with cows obviously, but they almost always have to ride horses even if the cattle aren’t in a large Plains.

    @michaelunknown1179@michaelunknown11794 жыл бұрын
  • EXCELLENT!!! I knew most of these, but it was GREAT to see this list. Again, excellent! Thank you. Peace.

    @TheLookSchmuck@TheLookSchmuck7 жыл бұрын
  • Germans like... cowboys...? Well there's something I never thought I'd hear.

    @rayanderson5797@rayanderson57977 жыл бұрын
    • And you wouldn't have heard it here either, if these guys did their research. I never crossed path with people that were even remotely into cowboy-lifestyle, as long as listening to country doesn't count. Even those are pretty rare.

      @twischta@twischta6 жыл бұрын
    • @@twischta Have you ever heard about "vaqueros"???

      @porte-majestuoso@porte-majestuoso4 жыл бұрын
    • @@porte-majestuoso Until now I hadn't but, I can't see how that changes anything about the non-existent cowboy craze in Germany... By that notion, you could say that Germany is a nation of Rugby-Enthusiasts because some big cities have Australian Pubs.

      @twischta@twischta4 жыл бұрын
    • It actually goes back to a guy called Karl May who wrote romantic and entirely fictional accounts about his exploits in the mid 19th century in the Old West as Old Shatterhand in the company of the Apache chief Winnetou. Those books were canon for about a hundred years but have fallen out of fashion in the last 30 years or so. He was a prolific writer and published some 70 books that sold by the million and a few movies were made from the stories, too.

      @xrimn9294@xrimn92943 жыл бұрын
  • The funny thing about this is the only reason these facts are "surprising" is because it goes to show that anybody will believe anything if they've seen it in enough movies.

    @candiduscorvus@candiduscorvus7 жыл бұрын
    • Also, some of these fact are blown out of proportion. Not that many cowboys were gay or had gay twist, there were a large number who didn't have any sexually transmitted diseases, prostitutes weren't as common as most people think, most cowboys did own a rifle and pistol, most horses were mixed breed mutts, there were cowboys of many races white / black / brown / yellow, and life was boring for a cowboy and they didn't even have Xbox.

      @nicholsjoshua15@nicholsjoshua157 жыл бұрын
    • Battle

      @paulmason138@paulmason1387 жыл бұрын
    • Or believe it because an 11 minute video covered it.

      @punchdrunkatheist@punchdrunkatheist5 жыл бұрын
  • Every video that beard just get a little bigger 😂... I love ur videos keep it up

    @capacitf2723@capacitf27237 жыл бұрын
    • Thanks! Will do!

      @simonwvlogs@simonwvlogs7 жыл бұрын
  • We're just gonna let a brit tell us our own history? They don't know what we do

    @nic-hol-assgrain6574@nic-hol-assgrain65745 жыл бұрын
    • @Son Of Cherve who? The Lobster backs?

      @nic-hol-assgrain6574@nic-hol-assgrain65745 жыл бұрын
  • Carol! The Ok Carol. I’m dead. 😆💀

    @danydazed4314@danydazed43145 жыл бұрын
  • 9:47 the woman in the red shirt and white hat got spurned "May I cut in? No? oh well, I'll just dance by myself."

    @Mattteus@Mattteus7 жыл бұрын
  • No credibility. In the state of Puebla Mexico there are asciendas that date back to the 1600 and there were ranching going on at that time. Texas New Mexico and California was part of mexico at that time.

    @ezequieldominguez2966@ezequieldominguez29665 жыл бұрын
  • Not only modern Germans love them. Part of their love comes from the tales from Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and Wild Bill Hicox, written by their countryman Kary May. Love those books from my youth and the Karl May festivals in which the stories were replayed in the German mountains and transmitted in the days of Black&White television.

    @agerven@agerven5 жыл бұрын
  • Completely off topic suggestion. April 1st, do a Top 10 things Simon says. Featuring "Simon Says." 1.) Blue 2.) Green 3.) Red 4.) Yellow 5.) Blue - Green 6.) Green - Yellow 7.) Yellow - Red 8.) Red - Green 9.) Blue - Red 10.) Blue - Yellow Or just a video of Simon talking to a Simon Says.

    @UpcycleElectronics@UpcycleElectronics7 жыл бұрын
  • luv your videos

    @frogfreddie2491@frogfreddie24916 жыл бұрын
  • Regarding number 7, the era of the open range ended in 1886, not 1885. The summer of 1886 was extremely hot and dry, and the winter of 1886-87 was one of the coldest winters in recorded history. In fact, Theodore Roosevelt's ranch was one of many affected, and the harsh winter convinced Roosevelt to move back east.

    @a_can_of_soda@a_can_of_soda7 жыл бұрын
    • That and a little thing known as barbed wire.

      @driveman6490@driveman64907 жыл бұрын
    • How dare you say that, you know my mother was barbed wire!

      @nicholsjoshua15@nicholsjoshua157 жыл бұрын
  • "Cattle drives or whatever" That's real professional.

    @TOBAF48@TOBAF486 жыл бұрын
  • the part about camels is half true. It didn't work out well because of the rocky terrain and because camels have soft padded feet, unlike horses

    @PhilWithCoffee@PhilWithCoffee7 жыл бұрын
    • And because camels can't....WORK CATTLE!

      @klayklemic@klayklemic7 жыл бұрын
    • Camels also had difficulty crossing water especially deep or moving water. Handlers also found them unpleasant and difficult to control.

      @glenncordova3365@glenncordova33655 жыл бұрын
  • It's actually STILL illegal here in Arizona to hunt camels 😂

    @OctJean@OctJean6 жыл бұрын
  • 9:47 the woman in red near the bottom right corner got her partner taken and was like wtf bra haha

    @Shiro-ii6nw@Shiro-ii6nw7 жыл бұрын
  • #11: They never called themselves cowboys: in the old west era, the term cowboy was usually used to refer to a cattle rustler or some other lowlife that committed crimes. They usually called themselves cowpokes, ranch hands or buckaroos.

    @chrisnemec5644@chrisnemec56447 жыл бұрын
    • He did say that.

      @essvee86@essvee867 жыл бұрын
  • I love ragtime, saloons all that stuff! I'm intrigued to learn about these times. I like why call them "cow" boys, and I never knew about the camel thing..that was interesting. Billy The Kid, don't know much about him but he sounds interesting, was he an outlaw?

    @tammie1078@tammie10787 жыл бұрын
  • Where did you get your information, cause its all wrong

    @New2Kendo@New2Kendo5 жыл бұрын
    • They got there "information" from there own heads! This whole video is horse apples

      @wyattpottorff4881@wyattpottorff48815 жыл бұрын
  • You didn't take into account the various snub nose and pocket pistols of the era. They were popular with gamblers in particular, but the 1849 pocket model Colt was the best selling pistol of the era, I wouldn't be surprised to find one in the pockets of many cowboys of the era when in town.

    @Rumblestrip@Rumblestrip5 жыл бұрын
  • Dark Knight was made in 2008, 3 years after Brokeback mountain. So obviously Heath ledger wasn't trying to prove that he doesn't need to wear clown makeup.

    @johnsyboyo@johnsyboyo5 жыл бұрын
  • You do know there's still Cowboys...

    @madelinesorensen6136@madelinesorensen61367 жыл бұрын
  • I would believe the video a lot more if they had used real pictures from the west instead of movie still from the early 1920--30. And not all their facts are true, such as they did carry guns but not for shooting people but snakes, coyotes, wolves and such as. They are also wrong about the camels. As far as being dirty, you are talking about a time when taking a bath once a month was common in the USA, England and most of Western Europe.

    @jonleedawson5486@jonleedawson54867 жыл бұрын
    • @@ToptenzNettop10 nice fallacy. Your video made the initial claims. Where's your source?

      @punchdrunkatheist@punchdrunkatheist5 жыл бұрын
  • thankyou toptenz as a resdent of texas american citizen.. thankyou for the cowboy article, leave it to a brit to make a texas feel patriotic..

    @alonzopatton9898@alonzopatton98987 жыл бұрын
  • why didn't they mention the fact that most cowboys were either shot in the back or in their sleep, shooting out in the street was extremely rare?

    @Wolfpaw754@Wolfpaw7547 жыл бұрын
  • Hey Simon, liking the beard man!

    @MikefromTexas1@MikefromTexas17 жыл бұрын
  • I would have thought Italy was obsessed with American Cowboys, considering the many Spaghetti westerns that were made.

    @macsnafu@macsnafu6 жыл бұрын
  • I wish you would do a show on Australia and it's Wild West days

    @ADGreen-es6hm@ADGreen-es6hm4 жыл бұрын
  • Everyone rode horses or mules. It was their only form of transportation. Ranches were measured in hundreds (or thousands) of square acres. The nearest supply source was many miles away. One didn’t just walk around all day. Guns were carried to protect themselves and their cattle from predators on four legs and two. Very common. The towns that enforced “gun control” were the cattle towns that catered to end of trail cowboys that were lucky enough to have law enforcement. Not all towns had effective lawmen. A more common practice would be that certain saloons and brothels would collect firearms at the door and return them to the patron upon leaving. I’d also like to see your sources on the same sex data. I’m not aware of enough primary source material to make such claims. I’m open to evidence (as well as common sense) but evidence is a necessity.

    @oudski@oudski5 жыл бұрын
  • Dodge City, Kansas. Wichita, Kansas is a city unto it's own.

    @BatchelderPatrick@BatchelderPatrick7 жыл бұрын
  • very good video + text + narration!

    @ozdergekko@ozdergekko7 жыл бұрын
  • You're right not a lot of cowboys carried guns but most of the ones who didn't died. And the west was like a movie there was an Outlaw who got shot in the head in a bar by a bartender over his drink bill of 0.25 cents.

    @alexgrooms4250@alexgrooms42505 жыл бұрын
  • Imagine saying all this to a cowboy

    @tony62197@tony621973 жыл бұрын
    • Huh I wonder....

      @isacckinney7883@isacckinney78832 жыл бұрын
  • Your misconception is people think cowboy is synonymous with gunslinger.

    @TheBarrwen@TheBarrwen5 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you. Thats really very interesting and informative. I usedto love those, "True West," magazines as a teenager. I found all that dirty grimy existence fascinating and thrilling. Mine was possibly the last generation to be nurtured on romanticism and adventure I think. I'm now 60 years old, to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.☺☺

    @winstonmiller9649@winstonmiller96496 жыл бұрын
  • Yeah, Brokeback Mountain was based on a couple of failed ranchers in Vinita, Oklahoma. They knew nothing about cattle.

    @erobinson55@erobinson557 жыл бұрын
  • you forgot to mention that all the techniques, equipment, clothing, and vocabulary among others were copied from the Mexican vaqueros

    @vaquero7x@vaquero7x7 жыл бұрын
    • Vaqueros were a product of Spain.

      @punchdrunkatheist@punchdrunkatheist5 жыл бұрын
    • Mexicans who inherited it from their Spanish ancestors.

      @glenncordova3365@glenncordova33655 жыл бұрын
    • This is incorrect its originates from SPAIN. The american cowboy is very american atleast style wise like cowboy boots (american) blue jeans (american) cowboy (american)

      @sjsndnfcckdnccc4862@sjsndnfcckdnccc48625 жыл бұрын
    • @Javier smith how whats copied?

      @sjsndnfcckdnccc4862@sjsndnfcckdnccc48625 жыл бұрын
    • Sjsndnfc Ckdnccc easy, by taking away the states (which everyone already knows) also took a part of that culture, the boots, hats, the rodeo and the teachings that Spain gave us on the ranch, and that we adapt and convert in that style and mix it With the indigenous, this is how the Vaqueros were born in the north of Mexico, the culture spread and you arrived, the cowboy culture is still current throughout northern Mexico and a clear example is the music Banda, and the fact that it is still They see a lot of people in northern Mexico, just as that culture adapted differently in western Mexico, becoming the Charra culture.

      @FM-eg7bs@FM-eg7bs5 жыл бұрын
  • Country dance fail at 9:47 bottom right, red top, white hat, nowhere to go

    @aarondunn6759@aarondunn67597 жыл бұрын
  • As much as people think it was way too scary for men to have relationships in the old west, there were surely enough brave men in that time to prove otherwise.

    @CocaineDragon@CocaineDragon5 жыл бұрын
  • #9 In fact there was an old west bar into which a short bespectacled nerdy looking guy walked. The local bully decided to pick on him. This was a mistake, but the bully did get to tell his kids he got his ass kicked by the President, Teddy Roosevelt.

    @erictaylor5462@erictaylor54627 жыл бұрын
  • Out here in Southern Idaho, it’s still cowboy country. It really hasn’t changed much, other than technology and highways everywhere. It’s still dangerous too

    @jessehawkes1298@jessehawkes12985 жыл бұрын
  • as a Texan im prude to be a cowboy

    @NestorPerez12@NestorPerez127 жыл бұрын
    • Texas❤

      @rojjna1015@rojjna10157 жыл бұрын
    • A gay cowboy ?:D

      @kleinilyas@kleinilyas7 жыл бұрын
  • broke back*encounters*, lol!!

    @alexxiswright4016@alexxiswright40167 жыл бұрын
  • Because a famous german writer Karl May, wrote a serie of books, in the early 1900's Got all the hard covers, till treasher in the silver lake. A side note, Clint never played a cowboy, always a bounty hunter or a regulator/gun for hire.

    @mackeilde9973@mackeilde99737 жыл бұрын
    • Uh, Rawhide??

      @driveman6490@driveman64907 жыл бұрын
    • Youre absolutly right, but in my defence that was a tv show. There is another 1 movie/musical he played in, but cant remember the title, it was old 1.

      @mackeilde9973@mackeilde99737 жыл бұрын
    • Mack Eilde Bronco Billy??

      @driveman6490@driveman64907 жыл бұрын
    • Paint your wagon, with Lee Marvin.

      @peterthompson4851@peterthompson48516 жыл бұрын
  • Any RDR2 Fans?

    @denbaa9966@denbaa99665 жыл бұрын
  • Most cowboys where of native american decent because they where unable to own any land you had to be a fullblooded european. Cowboys originate from mexico not from spain. The spanish owned the land but the natives worked the cattle since they new how to work the land and survive. The natives new what was edible or poisonous and they had a higher standard for hygiene than Europeans therefore they did not have outbreaks like the earopean cowboys that came after mexico lost the west. California has the most and oldest wild west history and where the word buckaroo was adopted from the spanish word vaquero. Most real outlaws where mexican (native American) that where fighting off European invaders. Look up Juaquin Murrieta,Vasquez brothers, the battle for Dominguez ranch ect.The germans where part of the mass European migration and settled in nothern mexico states like sonora,chihuahua,texas,sinaloa,california,colorado and thats where (norteñas) mexican music adopted the acordeón and polka sound

    @bunnyyt5559@bunnyyt55596 жыл бұрын
    • Mexico didn't have horses till the Spanish brought them. Mexico didn't have cattle till the Spanish brought them. Mexico didn't have ranching till Spain brought it. Mexico adopted all these things from Spain in the 1500's.

      @glenncordova3365@glenncordova33655 жыл бұрын
  • Something Something About Pirates is probably next. They've done ninjas, but no pirates. They've done knights, vikings, samurai, cowboys, if pirates aren't next they're probably gonna be last, to round out the Big List O' Stock Characters.

    @HereForTheComments@HereForTheComments7 жыл бұрын
  • Cowboys often suffered from hemorrhoids. That is why you see many of them sitting at an angle on the saddle.

    @Heavy_Distortion@Heavy_Distortion5 жыл бұрын
  • Everything this gay city boy said is not true

    @channeldelete8274@channeldelete82747 жыл бұрын
    • Channel Delete cool story Hansel

      @brianbelgard5988@brianbelgard59885 жыл бұрын
    • He mixes half truths with fabrications. Reads like a PC version of western history. Also, the fact is a great many cowboys were Hispanic and America Indian, in addition to Black and White.. "Cowboy culture" was replete with Hispanic terminology: mustang, remuda, palomino, riata, lasso, etc. The very first "cowboys" were actually vacqueros from Alta California and Tejas. Just because they turned in their shooting irons in SOME places like Dodge City was not in ANY way indicative of an absence of firearms. On the CONTRARY, the perceived need for such regulations indicated the exact opposite. The Wild West WAS, in fact afar less violent place than most modern cities overall and may in no little way be attributed to the PREVALANCE of firearms. Liberal types are continually trying to write out of existance America's gun culture. When Washington surrounded Boston and threatened to cannonade the town and British ships, the British commander there, Lord Howe, agreed to allow patriotic non-combatants to leave un-molested if Washington did not do so. One of the restrictions was they could not take weapons with them. A truly astounding arsenal of swords, muskets and other weaponry was collected by the Brits. ( See "Cradle of Violence: How Boston's Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolution" - Russel Bourne).

      @thomaszaccone3960@thomaszaccone39605 жыл бұрын
    • @Thomas Z. Of course the video contains some things that are off. It’s British made after all, cut the some slack. It is very difficult to get a lot of actual history in an 11 minute video. Most folks who didn’t grow up in the West know about the vaqueros, Native American and black cowboys. Most people think cowboys are all like John Wayne.

      @susanjamison3382@susanjamison33825 жыл бұрын
    • @@susanjamison3382 I was responding more to the individual who commented about guns and I do not believe most Americans are aware the average "cowboy" was black, Hispanic or native American. Hollywood certainly does not.

      @thomaszaccone3960@thomaszaccone39605 жыл бұрын
  • Wow, the photo of the guys in their wooly chaps is fabulous

    @sinnombre-xs9ub@sinnombre-xs9ub4 жыл бұрын
    • woolly chaps have always reminded me of Tom Hanks and Dan Akroyd in the movie Dragnet.

      @CaptainFrost32@CaptainFrost323 жыл бұрын
  • Where did you get your info ? My ancestors can be traced back to the beginning of Texas and they came from Spain and brought with them horses not camels. My family is still ranching and I’m sure my dad will get a kick out of this 😂

    @TheBlingthing70sp@TheBlingthing70sp4 жыл бұрын
  • Heath Ledger didn't put the clown makeup on until 3 years after Brokeback Mountain

    @MrStonecold590@MrStonecold5907 жыл бұрын
  • See Vaqueros, Caballos Andaluces, Roscón de Reyes, Semana Santa..... surprised? Not me, Spain was there before for 300 years

    @Souliban@Souliban3 жыл бұрын
  • I feel the term outlaw and cowboy got mixed up

    @TheMasterOfTheFrets@TheMasterOfTheFrets13 күн бұрын
  • I hope they do a video about Anglo saxons

    @jaywilliams9294@jaywilliams92947 жыл бұрын
  • i honestly thought the culture loving cowboys the most was the Japanese, not the germans huh..the more you know

    @jordanjensen6742@jordanjensen67427 жыл бұрын
  • I fall in love with Cowboys after playing sunset riders.

    @EveryoneHarmonyPeace@EveryoneHarmonyPeace3 жыл бұрын
  • Heath Ledger was the Joker after Brokeback Mountain. Facts matter

    @ryanweaver871@ryanweaver8713 жыл бұрын
  • She's not a great Carol, just an OK Carol

    @Mattteus@Mattteus7 жыл бұрын
  • I am a big fan of all Simon's videos. This is not ya'll's best work. Number One should have been the fact that the Library of Congress says that "cowboys" didn't use that term when referring to anyone in their profession. They called themselves and each other "waddies". "Cowboy" is a Hollywood invention as is the standard "Cowboy" dress of jeans and ten gallon hats. Most "Cowboy" attire came from used clothing purchases. "Cowpoke" referred to waddies who hired on to ride the railroad cattle cars to deliver the cattle for slaughter. They would, using a long pole, "poke" any cow that laid down during transit. Any cow laying down was likely to be trampled to death and thus reduce profits. I liked the bank robbery stats. Black cowboys were likely given the least desirable jobs and had to work harder and get paid less than their white counterparts. That condition was not peculiar to those who worked cattle. Gay cowboys were, much like today, no more or less common than gay men in any given society that views such behaviors as "abnormal". I think the role of firearms is generally either overemphasized as in the movies or minimized as in your video. I suspect that most killings took place from ambush as opposed to face to face on Main Street. When you say that most didn't ride a horse, I think you are confusing "waddles" with farmers.

    @SuperSojourn@SuperSojourn6 жыл бұрын
  • The Horse for many years was employed in global militaries from Egypt and Eurasian step nomads notably Huns who conquered Rome making Hunnic Empire and then years later Mongolia would conquer most of everything making Mongol Empire while Europe would use them making shock cavalry and mounted cavalry scaring opponents against Turks but it's USA who later made 7th Cavalry a legend led by George Armstrong Custer during the Native American Wars but for Camels camels were originally used by Arabs along the desert trail however 17th century India managed to combine camels with soldiers carrying swords to slice off Mughal horsemen or with gunners to snipe enemies from great distances they were called Nomadic Camel Cavalry and Nomadic Camel Gunner Cavalry.

    @joshuajwars4271@joshuajwars4271 Жыл бұрын
  • I've read a cowboy's logbook. The writer seems to have been a generally decent dude. They did carry hand guns but seldom needed to use them. I get the impression that they were mainly responsible and hard working young men who took pride in their work. Their pay was hard earned and certainly well deserved and there was no room in the team for get-rich-quick losers. The irresponsible 'Hollywood' types would never have been tolerated. One other thing: they definitely rode horses. They spent most of their lives in the saddle.

    @shellyhocking1204@shellyhocking12045 жыл бұрын
    • Oh, one other thing. They definitely rode horses!

      @shellyhocking1204@shellyhocking12045 жыл бұрын
  • This makes me wonder how much we have incorrectly understood about people in other times past. How many corrections would a real knight provide to what we present as fact, today? If understanding can become so clouded over an occupation that still exists today, how can we think we understand anything that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago? History is presented from the view point of the survivors and those bold and pretentious enough to tell a story. How much truth and fact is there in our understanding of antiquity?

    @PhinAI@PhinAI6 жыл бұрын
  • Great video Simon. How about Top 10 myths about the Roman empire.

    @Razorgeist@Razorgeist7 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah that works.

      @Razorgeist@Razorgeist7 жыл бұрын
  • Are there still wild camels in the US? If so, where??

    @helterskelter4every1@helterskelter4every17 жыл бұрын
  • Hi simon, please make a video about pirates.

    @josephstalin8423@josephstalin84237 жыл бұрын
    • +TopTenz Arrr...

      @Renzu-ZG@Renzu-ZG7 жыл бұрын
  • You also forgot to state that they usually worked at a ranch called Ram Ranch. They sure beaten that meat over there.

    @justnoone6184@justnoone61845 жыл бұрын
  • This made me want a new red dead

    @jacksonwilson4919@jacksonwilson49197 жыл бұрын
    • It's in development

      @012689@0126897 жыл бұрын
    • damn y'all had to wait 2 years

      @glockworks@glockworks5 жыл бұрын
    • it did age well though :P - those comments! IN TWO DAYS BOIS! YOUR WAIT IS OVER!

      @Jimmywinkel@Jimmywinkel5 жыл бұрын
    • half an hour...

      @AgxntOrange@AgxntOrange5 жыл бұрын
    • Wish granted.

      @mr.fridayatholidays5642@mr.fridayatholidays56425 жыл бұрын
  • I grew up in a small town in California and almost anyone who worked horses or cattle was suspicious. I was a hillbilly, so I was suspect as well

    @pattyandbustershow1031@pattyandbustershow10315 жыл бұрын
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