The Winter Cowboys Feared Most: Life on the Range in the 1880s

Subscribe:    / @thebigwhyhistory   Next video:    • How Native Americans Survived -40° Winters...   What did cowboys actually do all winter? The answer is stranger than the movies, and a lot lonelier. From grub-line riding to bunkhouse card games to the line riders' lonely winters, plus the brutal winter of 1886–87 that ended the open range and the little drawing that told the story. Narration and illustrations in this video were created with AI tools. The scenes are AI-generated illustrations and are not real photographs. CREDITS Image credits: "Waiting for a Chinook" (also known as "The Last of 5000") — Charles Marion Russell, winter 1886–87 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Music: "frozen fjords (only guitar)" — mareproduction — CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication) — Freesound — https://freesound.org/people/mareprod... (the author asks to be credited) "Sad Violin" (violin solo from the 3rd movement of Gustav Holst's St Paul's Suite, 1913; composition in the public domain) — recorded by Cunningar0807 — CC0 1.0 — Freesound — https://freesound.org/people/Cunninga... #cowboys #OldWest #history #winter