9 Unsolved Sin & Mysteries from the American Old West
9 Unsolved Sin & Mysteries from the American Old West (A ship isn’t usually something you associate with the Wild West).
???? Thank for watching! If You enjoy it, please Like and Subcribe this Chanel. ????
The American West has long been a place for cowboys, gunslingers, and hidden treasure. However, there’s been questions about the true fate of certain outlaws, along with other mysteries that have fascinated people for around a hundred years, and that have never been solved or explained by modern historians.
1. Butch Cassidy’s Death.
Born Robert LeRoy Parker in Beaver, Utah, on April 13, 1866, the bandit who assumed the alias Butch Cassidy remains an icon, of the Old West even 150 years after his birth. As with many legendary outlaws...
2. Victorio Peak Treasure.
The mystery boils down to a single question: Was Milton (Doc) Noss telling the truth, or just a tall tale?...
3. Bill Longley’s Execution.
Outlaw Wild Bill Longley twice cheated the noose, but popular Texas folklore that he got away a third time is wrong. Scientists say tests of the body in his grave show that it is, indeed, Longley....
4. Cochise’s Burial Site.
Chief Cochise, one of the great leaders of the Apache Indians, in their battles with the Anglo Americans, dies on the Chiricahua reservation in southeastern Arizona....
5. Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine.
One legendary treasure that has led many astray, and ruined many lives is the Lost Dutchman Mine, supposedly located in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix, Arizona. As with most legends...
6. Pancho Villa’s Head.
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa was born Doroteo Arango on June 5, 1878, in San Juan del Rio, Durango. Villa spent much of his youth helping out on his parents' farm....
7. Thunderbirds.
One of the West’s most fascinating cold cases involves a flying monster, a dying town and a disappearing photograph....
8. Billy the Kid’s Death.
Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico....
9. The Desert Ship.
Of all the legends about lost and found, and lost again treasures in the Southwest, there is none more mystifying than the enduring tale of a large sailing vessel which lies...
Music: Kevin Macleod
Artist:
Ideas Sunday - February 17, 2019
A lengthy summit about the abuse issue that's shaking the foundations of the Roman Catholic Church convenes this week. We'll preview what could come from this with a local religion scholar.
You've likely heard the names of several of the candidates seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The list of possible candidates is large and diverse -- and includes a number of long shots, like South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. How does this millennial mayor -- a man with no Washington experience from the most Republican-leaning state in the upper Midwest, hope to become the Democratic nominee next year?
And, if you visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., look on panel 32W, line 35. There you'll see the name James Patrick Witt. The oldest of six kids, Jim graduated in 1965 from Saint Edward High School in Lakewood. Less than four years later, on February 14, 1969, Lieutenant Witt lost his life while serving with the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Fifty years after his death, his family, former classmates, fellow marines and the girlfriend he wrote to religiously gathered to honor Jim Witt and his ultimate sacrifice.