A Traitor Among Us: The Ill-Fated Texas Sante Fe Expedition of 1841

In this episode we read a story from "History of Texas: 1685 - 1846" by Henderson K. Yoakum about the Santa Fe expedition of 1841-1842.
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  • @RegurgiNate84
    @RegurgiNate84 Жыл бұрын

    Really loving these long reads.

  • @TrevorD2502

    @TrevorD2502

    Жыл бұрын

    I concur

  • @jadedoe9966

    @jadedoe9966

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too ❤

  • @jadedoe9966
    @jadedoe9966 Жыл бұрын

    I could listen to these all day, I LOVE history ❤ thank you so much for the great content

  • @claresseromero3576
    @claresseromero357615 күн бұрын

    Great video, as a resident from San Miguel Del Bado, I must add that the population here was beyond angry that the Texas Rebels laid claim to our lands.

  • @e.f.3207
    @e.f.32075 ай бұрын

    That was a thick one. Good job 👍 Great work Thank you, please, keep ‘em coming

  • @roderickreilly9666
    @roderickreilly9666 Жыл бұрын

    That was a stupendous clip. Enjoyed it greatly. Thanks!

  • @gregorystokes9817
    @gregorystokes9817 Жыл бұрын

    fascinating thank you for this.

  • @raynonabohrer5624
    @raynonabohrer56243 ай бұрын

    I find this history amazing. Thank you.

  • @user-qs7gx7rp7m
    @user-qs7gx7rp7m28 күн бұрын

    Great Stuff as always to be expected from you. Every account gets me doing a little dive about certain interesting events and personalities. Understand (as per Wiki) that Lewis had his appologists.

  • @johndaugherty4127
    @johndaugherty4127 Жыл бұрын

    Another excellent retelling.

  • @NewWitNip
    @NewWitNipАй бұрын

    Awesome job, thank you

  • @deadhorse1391
    @deadhorse1391 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating history that I hadn’t heard about before Those Texans sure had big eyes when it came to land. 😄

  • @marthagomez7335

    @marthagomez7335

    9 ай бұрын

    Bunch of crooks. Homeless squatters

  • @SteveSmith-zz4ih
    @SteveSmith-zz4ih Жыл бұрын

    well done on 17k subs, not long and 20k is a reality.

  • @ludwigderzanker9767
    @ludwigderzanker9767 Жыл бұрын

    Daryl Bro you made it again! McMurtry made up this exceptional events in Dead Man's Walk, Vol. 1 of Lonesome Dove... ;~) You're reading the history very well and the history is far more stunning than the really good book! I send you the best from Northern Germany. Ludwig

  • @michelbonjean9849

    @michelbonjean9849

    Жыл бұрын

    Guten abend. I watched Mc Murtry's "Dead Man's Walk" starring David Arquette, Jonny Lee Miller and Keith Carradine. A real good Western. I never read the book. Entschuldigung.

  • @ludwigderzanker9767

    @ludwigderzanker9767

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michelbonjean9849 Nichts zu entschuldigen Mr. Bonjean ! I like dead man's walk on the second place in series and I set it higher in the novel as the movie. Lonesome Dove is for sure even! God's Blessings from Northern Germany Ludwig.

  • @michelbonjean9849

    @michelbonjean9849

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ludwigderzanker9767 Sorry, i don't speak Deutsch very well, i'm Franzsose (French. I hope i made no mistake). I watched Lonesome Dove starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. Real Great show. Danny Glover was in in. Thumbs UP!👍 Texas for ever! Lots of Germans settled down to Texas (some towns sound German like Gruene, New Braunfels...) and Germans died at the Alamo. Admiral Nimitz, born in Texas, had his origins in Germany. From France with friendship

  • @ludwigderzanker9767

    @ludwigderzanker9767

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michelbonjean9849 Bonne nuit Michel! Was Duvall rooting french or flemish? He was good as a German Al Sieber in Geronimo...

  • @michelbonjean9849

    @michelbonjean9849

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ludwigderzanker9767 I don't know. But he was a real good Western actor. Gute nacht Ludwig

  • @michaelleblanc7283
    @michaelleblanc7283 Жыл бұрын

    “ A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague. ” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • @timmccaskill7340

    @timmccaskill7340

    Жыл бұрын

    Very wordy,still no answer, the scoundrel disappeared the same way he came ,quietly, he left quietly!

  • @LABoyko

    @LABoyko

    Жыл бұрын

    @Michael LeBlanc. You just described Joe Biden.

  • @Ketowski

    @Ketowski

    11 ай бұрын

    @@LABoyko “The resulting popular support permits the state the widest latitude of action of any form of government. Any dissent is branded evil, and internal political differences are not permitted.”

  • @Ketowski

    @Ketowski

    11 ай бұрын

    “…alienation of the individual under conditions of unrestrained …” Guess to what this might refer? Seems like imbalance is the root of many evils.

  • @rogerphillips1925

    @rogerphillips1925

    5 ай бұрын

    All the worlds traitors live at our exspence and are welcomed and Praised in washington

  • @William-Marshall
    @William-Marshall Жыл бұрын

    I cannot imagine why you came up with the title “ unworthy history “ it is far from being that. I enjoy the history you you present, your most excellent reading. Thank you very much.

  • @cherimolina2121

    @cherimolina2121

    Жыл бұрын

    I could speculate that it's history schools consider unworthy. Yet these tidbits of history are the real deal...not some overinflated bragging written by the winners in wars etc. It takes both sides to understand it all..imo.

  • @LABoyko

    @LABoyko

    Жыл бұрын

    @RobertdeBruce. The history is "unworthy" because it exposes Native Americans as barbaric psychopaths.

  • @WhiteStone21475
    @WhiteStone21475 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your reading.

  • @JeepWrangler1957
    @JeepWrangler1957 Жыл бұрын

    Great story

  • @darrenmcg97
    @darrenmcg97 Жыл бұрын

    Another well told story Daryl. Has this subject been televised' Death March. Charlie goodnight amongst the Texans.

  • @Marian-eh5jd
    @Marian-eh5jd Жыл бұрын

    I've always been told by family members that Harrison is one of my great grandfathers. One day, I will slow down enough to find out the truth.

  • @johngeorgegately7402
    @johngeorgegately7402 Жыл бұрын

    really good! Thank you

  • @WolfRoss
    @WolfRoss Жыл бұрын

    It is interesting to hear this from the Texas perspective after first hearing it from the New Mexico side.

  • @michaelleblanc7283
    @michaelleblanc7283 Жыл бұрын

    Can anyone help? What became of 'the traitor' Capt. William G. Lewis ? Can't seem to find out what his fate was . . .

  • @lambastepirate

    @lambastepirate

    Жыл бұрын

    Here is all I could find out, I bet he stayed in Mexico for the rest of his life!! It is said Lewis received a large reward for his part in the transaction and Armijo wrote a letter to Garcia Conde, Governor of Chihuahua, in which he said. "In consideration of the great services rendered by Captain William P. Lewis in assisting me to capture the Texans, I have given him his liberty, and his goods, and earnestly recommend him to the notice of the Central Government."

  • @michaelleblanc7283

    @michaelleblanc7283

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lambastepirate Many thanks . . .

  • @lambastepirate

    @lambastepirate

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michaelleblanc7283 You are welcome. I had wondered the same. I wish I could have found out how he died.

  • @mattmatt6572

    @mattmatt6572

    Жыл бұрын

    Later on after he lived longer then anyone thought possible he moved back to the USA and changed his name to Joe biden.

  • @louisfaust5957
    @louisfaust5957 Жыл бұрын

    Great history account.

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692Ай бұрын

    Published 1855, books I find to have greater influence of ethical authorship.

  • @TinaFivesten
    @TinaFivesten Жыл бұрын

    I'm searching for the full name of the brave Mr. Navarro (José Antonio). Isn't he very much like the current governor of Texas 🙌 even a likeness in some pictures.

  • @unworthyhistory

    @unworthyhistory

    Жыл бұрын

    I thought the same thing. He does resemble Abbott.

  • @francisebbecke2727
    @francisebbecke2727 Жыл бұрын

    Should have taken 35 north then 40 west.

  • @arailway8809
    @arailway8809 Жыл бұрын

    This story of the Texas' Santa Fe Expedition is a little loose. The Santa Fe trade was big business for the last almost 20 year from the US. There is no question that Lamar was a brave man, but in this instance, he was brave with other men's lives. Armijo saw Texas stamped on the buttons of some of the Texan's uniforms. And Armijo was never afraid to take advantage when he had superior numbers. The Texans were worn out by the time they reached New Mexico, not the last of such New Mexican endeavors. They had planned to follow the Canadian but followed the Red River. Thanks for mentioning Kendall's fine work that covered the expedition and the walk all the way to Mexico City

  • @Ketowski
    @Ketowski11 ай бұрын

    Ah, social media as propaganda machine. Equal perspectives?

  • @Golden-us3hj
    @Golden-us3hj19 күн бұрын

    In short, Santa Anna was justified in invading Texas as it was reprisal for the Texas invasion of Sante fe which had the sole design of pillage and plunder of Mexico. And the Texans, although they tried to make it seem so, had not any claim or right to Texas whatsoever, that territory had once been part of the union, but was sold for more than it was worth back to Spain for Florida, and the claims that all efforts have been made to avoid the war with Mexico and Mexico was first to commence hostilities are completely unfounded, untrue, and slanderous. And to add to this, while the war was later considered unjust and unwarranted, aggressive on our part, we still were partakers in the annexation of usurped and stolen territory from Mexico, and we are as a nation as equally guilty, obnoxious to the condemnation of history, and in the eyes of heaven by association our country in the wrongful iniquity. Had the war been recognized as unjust on our part, and all efforts made to atone for the wrongs and damages, as well as get consent from Mexico on the territory in question, and if that didn’t work return to our rightful boundary at the Oregon and Sabine River by Louisiana, nothing could be said on the termination and prosecution of the war, but in a review of the facts and history, it seems we not only instigated this great crime and unjust war but splurged in the spoils of war and conquest by gaining Texas, California and the other Mexican states and by doing so place our nation in the midst of the destructive models and regimes that too fought unjust and unwarranted wars because “they wanted room”, certainly napoleon had this sentiment, and now it is on the lips and minds of our citizens, it does not take an Irvine pool of predictions to see that if we do not stray form this path of conquest and aggrandizement, we too shall perish as righteously as the invaders and napoleons of the 16th century have!

  • @Ketowski
    @Ketowski11 ай бұрын

    “…the state achieved overwhelming popular support for its leadership. That support was not spontaneous: its genesis depended on a charismatic leader, and it was made possible only by modern developments in communication and transportation.”

  • @ghostmost2614
    @ghostmost2614Ай бұрын

    The Joe Biden Story

  • @Glory_inthe_3rd77
    @Glory_inthe_3rd77 Жыл бұрын

    How come you do that when you tell the stories like, for example, you'll say foo-oo-d and say-aee I'm not trying to be disrespectful to you or any of that and I would listen to so many more of your videos if you didn't talk so, I guess, flamboyantly? it just sounds very feminine and forced and when it's coming from a man, it makes it sound super strange and I don't know if that's you trying to animate the story or something, but you're going about it the wrong way and I encourage you to just tell the story in your own regular voice without trying to stretch those words out with that kind of flamboyant way that you're doing and again, I mean this with all due respect and I didn't look to see when this video was put out and it may be old, but if you happen to see this, I would think a whole lot more people would watch your videos and enjoy them better and be more interested in them if you would just use your regular voice and not try to stretch the words out like you do and one more time, I mean no disrespect to you, I am just telling you and maybe making you aware of it. Friendly, caring, people, I think, should help one another and if they see something wrong in the way a person is going about something and know a way that they could become even better at what they do, they should help each other, so I guess it's just some critiquing from one fella to another, with all due respect, I think you can do better man. You can do whatever you like, but please consider just using your regular voice and just telling the story.

  • @oliverkloezoff3857
    @oliverkloezoff3857 Жыл бұрын

    One sided story told by the invading texans.

  • @roderickreilly9666

    @roderickreilly9666

    Жыл бұрын

    How was it "one sided" since it was a straightforward account about an ill advised fiasco for Texas?

  • @oliverkloezoff3857

    @oliverkloezoff3857

    Жыл бұрын

    @@roderickreilly9666 listen how they vilified the Mexicans and New Mexicans (& Native Americans) and said nothing bad about the Texans characters. Listen to the adjectives and descriptions. *And* the books were written by...white Texans.

  • @mcmd2009

    @mcmd2009

    Жыл бұрын

    Boo hoo.

  • @oliverkloezoff3857

    @oliverkloezoff3857

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mcmd2009 😁 Good one. Thanks for your insightful input.

  • @roderickreilly9666

    @roderickreilly9666

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oliverkloezoff3857 I saw the ENTIRE video, and at no point did i detect what can rationally be construed as "villifying" any of the groups you mentioned.

  • @e.f.3207
    @e.f.32075 ай бұрын

    That was a thick one. Good job 👍 Great work Thank you, please, keep ‘em coming

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