How to study history

Love the new "set". It really conveyed the feeling of just sitting a spell and listening to a friend for half an hour. 👍

Goodnight went to colorado. then later montana. great history.His wife helped keep bison alive on there ranch and still today they are still around few generations. If not for her probably wouldnt be any bison around in the texas area. They did affect the apache in the area though due to there ranch. They went back to live there but there was not enough bison "buffalo" to live on. History and listening are almost the most important things to learn for sure. Dont ever think you have to defend yourself friend, its your channel and you give good talks. I appreciate your talks!

Love the new backdrop! Just like sitting and chatting with a friend in the parlor… I’m just catching up now from the last stages of moving “house”. This was a great discussion on critical thinking and perspective changing our view of a subject. Although I don’t have much of a personal interest in the old west/historical reenactment, I find your content interesting and informative and it’s really nice to get some background and source material on where it’s coming from. Edit: learning how to learn is one of the most important skills a person can develop.

When reading history, I apply what was taught to me: Who is speaking, who is the audience and what is the purpose of having written it down. The "what is the purpose" may be very incisive to dissecting the truth. Is the writer selling something? Newspapers, books, etc. Or are they trying to record events?Understanding the attitudes/mindset of the recipients also illuminates understanding of what is being written. The times they're living in and the "norms" associated with these times. True study is not always easy, but it can be exceptionally rewarding! Appreciate your sharing with us. 👍

It's one thing to learn History it's another thing to apply it. Clothing from the period is a lot about fuction at times. I work as a truck driver and wear the clothing from that time everyday besides the underwear and correct boots. The functionality fits everything I've applied it to so far in summer but when winter hits the way cowboys or freight wagoniers stayed warm is where I hit a rut lol. I do cast iron cooking a dutch oven and a skillet cooking skills acquired in my short chuckwagon days. I have found myself keeping to small modern comforts in my increasingly larger goal to historical living. Appreciate the way you are doing things though and some of those things I look to apply in my life in certain situations.

My Great Great Grandpa was a pony express rider. Afterwards he bought a large ranch in Westfall Oregon. There’s a book about his crazy life you can probably find at your local library. You would probably enjoy it. The title is: Charles Becker, Pony Express Rider and Oregon Pioneer, by Marie Pinney

Good video. Like your writing exercises. I fully agree that it helps understand what the writer meant. Also helps me remember what I what I read.

Love the wall treatment.

Nice little video area you put together 👍

Those who don't study history will repeat it's mistakes ...

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I always found that listening to what people said was unreliable. I would never know if they knew what they talking about or if they were trying to be deceitful. When I read I assume both possibilities. To remove deceit, I try to corroborate the facts by infering them through indirect observation. For example, if I wanted to know the number of animals at a zoo. I would look at the amount of food being delivered and the waste being removed. Similar to what you said about the clothes worn being inferrable by the imported cloth. I wouldn't rely on a salesman to tell me what the best camping equipment is, but rather the person who camps every day.

So how did you like/dislike Power of the Dog? Seemed to be illustrating that changeover in clothing and habits/traditions.

This was a really nice video. Our knowledge of US history is derived mostly from letters, journals, and newspaper accounts... most were very subjective. Product information is sometimes available from advertisement or manufacturer leaflets. The literacy rate was pretty high in the 19th century. My question is do you journal?? And if you do, what method and tools do you use to journal? The old linen paper now is very expensive and largely replaced by wood pulp; pencil has been around for a long time. The dip or quill pen too is long lived and although the ballpen was thought of as early as 1888 was not efficient until 1938 - in other words cowboys nor anyone else used them until well into the 20th century. Other than pencil and the later fountain pen, dip pens and quills were used almost exclusively and worked well... a bit messy, but using your logic of contextual consideration Im sure users were careful and employed a few techniques to keep their pages clean. I enjoy journaling. I not only document what Im doing but what I see, hear, and feel as well. A journal is a sounding post to let me explore my thinking. I hope you journal - and I hope you one day provide us with your experiences of using historical writing tools.... How did cowboys communicate with loved ones..... Letters - telegraph - word of mouth - etc... Thanks. BTW, here is a link to the journal of a man who travelled to the colonies just before the war of independence and escaped back to England. It's a good read: https://ia600202.us.archive.org/0/items/journalofnichola00cres/journalofnichola00cres.pdf

That was neither Jacob nor Isaac neither one did that.

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