Reviving an Old West Ghost Town with Brent Underwood

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The scariest part of living in a ghost town is having to get ghost water, ghost electricity, and all the other ghost infrastructure and making sure nobody exorcises it.

I’m a professional archaeologist and I can confirm that the entire town of Cerra Gordo is a historic archaeological site. The owner should contact a ‘nearby’ community college and arrange for an ongoing archaeological field school. Great experience for students, a source of income for the owner and probably great results historically and archaeologically.

That token (coin) is how the miners would be paid. They were basically stuck working the mines because they didn’t make actual money, just “store credit”. They were basically indebted forever to the company. So when you hear that song Sixteen Tons, where he talks about being another day older and deeper in debt, and how he sold his soul to the company store, that is exactly what the song references.

I like that they specified that the glass had to be fancy 🍷 ✨

Great info guys as a a first gen Chinese American I always nice to hear about forgotten parts of Chinese American history.

You should do this more often. Go find a historical place, make food or a drink and sit down with the lical historian and discuss the history. It would be an awesome addition to the channel

The 1st picture at 1:02 looks like the start of a joke. "A horse walks into a bar...."

Random guy: Walks into bar, orders this drink. Everyone else: You ain't from round here, are ya?

One of the biggest surprises for young visitors is the smell. No plastics or synthetics, just wood, paper, metal, oil and natural fibers. It was one of the things that made visits to Sagamore Hill, Teddy Roosevelt's home, so 'different'. You really experienced the age of your surroundings with that first whiff of horse hair stuffed chairs, woolen carpets and polished wood...:glasses-purple-yellow-diamond::pride-heart-rainbow-philly:

It might be a desert, but the desert used to be a sea bed. That's an episode for Tasting Pre-History where we taste what was on the menu in the Panthalassic Ocean in the late Precambrian!

It’s a good week when Max Miller posts 2 videos in a week!

Man, Max you put out so much content I'm honestly surprised. It's always a joy to see your new videos pop up. keep up the great work my dude!

9AM cocktails, Go for it Max!

Absolutely lovely to be a fly on the wall for this conversation. It is heartwarming and encouraging to hear the way that the both of you talk about history.

I’ve seen Brent take some flack for modernizing but as someone in the architecture field with an interest in history I really applaud what he is going. This is a town that very much might have ended up lost to the sands of time without intervention or been completely changed into a modern mockery of what it was by a different owner. I think some people have a really romanticized idea of what should have been done with the town but I think Brent and the partners and volunteers are good caretakers. I think Brent has the perfect balance of respecting the history and what was while making sure to preserve it and modernize it in an affront to keep it accessible for people today and in the future. He’s basically taken adaptive re-use to the extreme, preserving what he can of what tangibly exists of the historical elements while playing off what’s no longer there in his modern rebuilds and making it usable once again. There’s a certain zeitgeist I feel he is managing to capture while making sure it’s safe, accessible, educational, and prosperous today. I love seeing how the town is coming along from a person who obviously has a lot of respect for its history while also having a vision for its future.

never i've been happier that max covered old west history. literally my biggest fav

20:00. The Original Kung Fu TV series (1972) has been often accused of racism for the casting of David Carradine in the leading role, but critics usually disregard that it was the first Western which hero was not a cowboy, and which presented the Chinese masters as cultured, admirable people. It also showed the plight of Native Americans, and discrimination against non-white inhabitants. There is one episode in which a white landowner is intent on expelling a group of Chinese miners who own their mine and work it successfully ("Sun and cloud shadow"). Many of the subjects mentioned in this conversation were first presented to the American public in that series, set in California, around 1874.

I am amazed at how the light source changes the color of this drink so much. The sunlight it looked like a pink color, the indoor shots much more amber.

I love that they preserved the town instead of erasing it. It looks like a fun place to visit.