The Bozeman Trail: A Rush to Montana's Gold

Fantastic! American history is amazing. my biggest amazement is the soldiers, and indians living all those years, passing away in 1909/1912 just amazing the life they experienced, the history made, the making of America.

Thanks for making this documentary.

A TRULY WONDERFUL AND INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Riders are always given the credit and no credit is ever given to his mount .😊

Sad Thing The Pine Rig Reservation is Still Live In 😢 POVERTY 🤬🇨🇦

Thank you for producing this excellent video. I live in England and joined the Oregon California Trails Association (OCTA) who now help preserve the trails. Incredibly sad how the lands/traditions have been greatly reduced.

The absolute damnation of America is because of their treatment of the Native - Americans, and their propensity for enslaving African - Americans.

One has to keep in mind the mindset of this time period. Not saying it was right. It wasn't. Just like Darwin's theory. I'm part American Indian, Lakota. I'm part Irish. I'm part French. I see all sides. What a MESS! Our blood is all the same color.

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I enjoy learning so much about the Native Americans,s. I know we can't be responsible for what our ancestors did. It sadens me to see what happened on both sides. If we had not broken treaties and honored them there may not have been so many deaths. Indians and settlers most likely would have gotten along for the most part. Anyone with any feelings çan see how the Indians felt about their land hunting grounds and burial grounds being invaded and taken from them. I have always said how can you say you have discovered a place where someone already lives.

It wasn't the gold rust that made people move west it was manifest destiny ee the united stat bought the land from the french in the Louisiana purchase and the idea of the land away from the crowded cities of the east with more people coming everyday after the civil war

Is this why their called. Native. Indians. Because they originally migrated from m Asia?

Native Americans were the first tragedy. White Settlers were the second. Constantly used as pawns to break Treaties. Custer was an early 911. 2 days before the attack, Custer's men asked what the 3 Indian Scouts were doing? A fellow soldier informed them they were performing a Death Ritual. They were getting ready to Die!!

Worked at the Flying Diamond Ranch in the late 70 s and we had a winter camp on the Dry Fork of the Powder River . Pretty good winter country for cows and sheep .

Just so you know, this is not a Doc about the Bozeman Trail. It's another PBS BS story about the "evil" White man. More Marxist propaganda.

For all of the great warrior’s of the Indian tribes of North American the great white man has made all of their descendent victims. Sad very sad.

Just love the self hate in narrative of the story. Yes story

Evils they were today they do the same savergery to other nations constant wars aggression usurpation and plunder death and destruction

The Indians did not really hunt buffalo , until the Spanish introduced the horse

The photographs, and artwork, original as well as contemporary were fascinating. The scenery, gorgeous! Thank you PBS.

Tip to the lady in the blue sweater: the word is creek, not "crik."

The Anglos caused so much pain......shameful!

Is it ignorance, intentional, racism, a combination of those three, or something eles

Why is it that whenever anglos give accounts of their ancestors coming to the land now named "America" , they make use of particular words such as : "Emigrants", and "Settler"?

I make this obvious inquiry because of the following factors :

Emigrants
Adhering to the historical facts, they were "emigrants" that invaded the country now call "America".
Thus, they were invading emigrants (as opposed to just "emigrants").

Settlers
They "homesteaded" on land that they knew full well was usurped from the "Native American people"
The "settlers" were willing participants in the usurption of an entire country. Thus, they were not just settlers. They were people that settled on patches of land they either stole , or had full kowladge that it was stolen (the multiple thousands of Native people...be damed)

As the British would say
We never sent you our best and brightest
Bunch of crooks and murderers carpetbaggers and snake oil salesmen who were kicked out of England

The most amazing part is how many lived into their late 80's. Better food and no pharmaceuticals...

If only they had left the Indians alone.

The expansion of the United States of America...absolutely soaked in blood!

The horses the Indians are on in the photos/paintings came from Spain. Good grief. Stop, with the endless mis-portrayals. There were NO horses in NA when the Europeans arrived.

I thought the Bozeman Trail took off at Douglas not Casper

Cavalry not Calvary, someone let that slip by.

The story of the Alder gulch discovery is quite a rich one. Forgive the pun. Alder gulch is called the richest gulch on earth and actually out produced some enrire counties in the California motherlode.
Fairweather, Edgar and co. had been captured by Crow indians and eventually released quite impovrished. Then pursued again and harassed by young braves pretty much just for fun. Those events eventually landed them on the banks of Alder creek in their desperate attempt to reach Bannock. Some of the party wandered upstream but Fairweather and edgar tried their luck on the bar on which they were camped. With Fairweather digging and edgar panning, Fairweather exclaimed, "I found a scad!" To which edgar replied, "If you got one, i got a thousand!" Thus was born the greatest gold strike the world has ever known.

AN EVIL STORY OF OCCUPATION MURDER AND SAVAGE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE TRUE OWNERS THE FIRST NATIONS

WE WHERE BRAVE, BUT WE WERE FEW.

I am not going to apologize to anyone for the history of the USA. It’s a beautiful nation, that was founded as any other successful powerful nation was. I’m sick to death of hearing about how we natives demand this and that.
Did you demand that from the other tribes when they took land from you? Or how your woman did all the work, while the men laid about doing as they pleased? No, I suspect not. Those alive today have nothing better to do than look backwards and lament something they never had. Meanwhile living in the greatest country the world has ever known. Anyone can become wealthy and make something of themselves here in America. People die trying to get here to this day. But no, you would rather maintain that self defeating victim mentality that you languish in.

Stop blaming others for your condition, the world owes you nothing. Life is what you make of it.

He keeps saying calvary 😅

Nu begrijp ik de situatie, het ondertekenen van de 'treaty' was enkel geldig zolang de bizon in situ verbleef voor het continu beleven van de Indian leefstijl die dus ophield( stijl en treaty) bij het uitmoorden door de blanken van die bizon, met opzet dus zodat de treaty niet meer geldig was, dan nog het uitmoorden van de mensen met nederzettingen in een later stadium om de finale nekslag toe te brengen aan de congenital, ik denk dat je juridisch moet focussen op -het uitmoorden van de bizon om de slag thuis te kunnen halen-, dan -treaty ongeldig en kan niet verder zetten-, dan finaal uitmoorden dat heet -genocide -zowel op de bizon als op de congenital, meer fraais kan ik er niet van maken. Overigens wie heeft die documenten van die treaty's in bezit, en welke zijn de vervalste documenten? Men is daar juridisch mee bezig, ik stel me vragen bij een genocide waar de onpartijdigheid nog is gebleven, ook in American landscape zijn er passages die gaten hebben, zo van en waar zijn die soldaten gebleven intussen, even een tribe gaan uitmoorden tussen de soep en de patatten...niet genoteerd. Gewoon logisch redeneren guys, dan gaan de gaten opvallen en de situatie wordt zo klaar als een klontje Tiense suiker. Dan is het zo dat de Black Hills en kijk op de map welke terreinen nog, terug eigendom moeten worden van de congenitals want een treaty gebaseerd op een genocide houdt geen steek. Zeg nu zelf ook als blanke dit houdt geen steek. Redeneer zorgvuldig en geef god wat god toebehoort en de keizer wat van de keizer is. Een rechtschapen magistraat kan dit vast regelen ze zijn beëdigd net zoals wij. Was dat een stelletje beurshanen zeg die Amerikaanse soldaten inclusief hun top van witte boordcriminelen.

Lies

Typical PBS

in short, shooting your way through a lot of indigenous people, and their food source - in order to shoot each other, over gold. not a proud past we boast of. when a Monantan tells you he / she is 5th generation, you have met the person responsible for reparations. anytime someocalls you an out of stater, you have an imposter. they moved here over a pile of corpses. real mericans.

I wish i couldn't have grown up in them times

...and the Yankee foundation of half truths

What a time.

I cannot believe they were okay with murdering defenseless women and children. Greed is the worst trait one can have.

All they do is take, take, take. When will they learn to give. ❤️

Ola
Lacota woman
I am a german man and a natur human.
I am proud to read your words.
I live since 2010 not in germany
I can and i would n o t life in thies "white men" country
I live in e x i l ,
Because I have lost my own fatherland and my own moutherland
But i not lost my soul , my own heart, and my own way to watanka
That is the right way of human life.
It is goog to hear from you, proud woman

Very good work

Many of our early settlers behaved liked a pestilence. Perhaps the military should have supervised the settlers behavior.

Those who had first settled the land and had managed it for centuries could have taught those haughty early settlers much. Greed and pride destroyed so much.

Perhaps there was no accountability for the invaders this side of life but "Judgement is mine; thus sayeth the Lord." There was and is a day of reckoning for every person.