Fun fact: Finnish military still uses the lanterns shown at 2:44 as interior lighting in tents. They're honestly pretty handy, especially in camping environments where you don't have electricity and can do without very bright lighting. Thanks for the good video!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yes, they are pretty popular here in the states for camping, too.

I found your channel via Red Dead 2, and I’m really glad I did. You guys are hilarious. Red Dead 2 and your channel has really sparked an interest in learning more about the old west. Thank you guys for making such amazing content.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

You are welcome. Thanks for watching!

I just love how you can make such an entertaining video about a simple subject like lighting. Great work once again Santee!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly, it was about to be just oil lamps...but there just isn't enough for me to talk at length about.

@chrispopkie4934

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArizonaGhostriders p9pp9p89pop8popopop8op8o88££££7*7oo6y66yy66yyy69ppppppppppp 6 9 9 6689899996*77999€*££))))))))*

Another great vid to wake up to on a Saturday morning! As usual, I learned a lot. At first, I thought it said Frontier Lightning. LOL

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HA! Well, thank ya. That would be a shocking topic.

@JEDiTV

5 жыл бұрын

That’s what I thought it said too. Need more coffee. ☕️ 🤠

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@JEDiTV Maybe it does...I made the thumbnail in the dark.

@timberwolf5883

5 жыл бұрын

Dustin Winegar same

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@timberwolf5883 OK, I checked. Did it right. Y'all just need more coffee.

You're making awesome videos keep up the good work

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Truly appreciate this channel, Santee & the fellas, you do an excellent job, especially the dang hilarious old photo animations like I always say they’ve got that monty python vibe

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Love making those.

@TrevJericho

5 жыл бұрын

Arizona Ghostriders honestly they crack me up every time, one of these days I’ll come across the pond and come see you fellas

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@TrevJericho We'll be here!

I keep an oil lamp right by my gun bench both for emergency lighting and to "smoke up" any parts I may need to fit together. You do a fantastic job of educating and entertaining!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

Love the editing in the videos

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I see I'm not the only person in AZ awake at 4AM. Another awesome video, Santee and company!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

enlightening

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HA!

Greetings from Ireland. Great video. Our house was one of the first in our area to be built already wired for electricity in 1964. A neighbour built his house 10 years earlier in 1954, it was piped for gas lights.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Nice info and history, Bernard!

@alvinsanchez967

5 жыл бұрын

My house was originally built before central heating and electricity. It has the remains of three chimneys and was piped for gas light. Over the decades I was told by different professionals my gas light pipes are a dead system with only some left over gas in the lines. I found out otherwise around a decade and a half ago. A local handyman was working on a ceiling fan at a 2nd floor bedroom had uncapped the pipe igniting the gas. I work at night and work up to the screaming from my bedroom at the 3rd floor. I went down stairs in a daze and seen the contractor waving his hat at the flames yelling for help. I looking at a long flame jet and realized that it is under pressure from a live line and not left over gas from a dead line. I had installed fire extinguishers at every hallway floor, the kitchen, basement and such. In a mental daze rather than grabbing the 2nd floor hallway extinguisher that was a few feet away I retrieved the kitchen extinguisher on the 1st floor. After reading the instructions on how to use the extinguisher I had turned out the fire. After capping the gas line and inspecting the system we determine it is live and the gas light pipe are used for the kitchen gas range and basement gas water heater. Contractors in their mistake over the ages have used the so called dead gas line as an electrical ground and anchor points for electric lighting. Me and the handyman was busy for the next few days correcting the dangerous mistakes.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@alvinsanchez967 Wow...that is some story, Alvin. I'm guessing you aren't the only one who has been in that predicament! Still, scary as heck, eh"

@bernardflood8289

5 жыл бұрын

@@alvinsanchez967 Wow.... That's an awesome story, good luck with the old system.

Bet they had Great night vision 👍🏻🤠

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HA! Maybe.

This is so cool, showing how much technology has evolved.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hey Santee, great episode! I used to use an oil table lamp in the hunting cabin. It wasn’t bright but it kept ya from tripping over the furniture! One the chores that kids had in the old days was cleaning the soot from the glass globes. 27k subscribers! Holy saddle horn!!!!! Great job!!!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Great history there, Dan! Thanks for watching.

Great video. Lamps and lighting are intetesting as humans need them. It is amazing how dim interior lighting was.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

They must have all gone blind.

For us being without electricity for any length of time is difficult but in those days minimal lighting was a norm. Great video my friend 👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😉😉😉😉

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

I bet everyone had bad eyesight.

Interesting as always

@pastorflaps6819

5 жыл бұрын

Just to add did you know the her in England people had light party's where the new magical device was turned on for the first time we used to know how to party

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@pastorflaps6819 Interesting info! Thanks for sharing.

I received Red Dead 2 as a Christmas present from the kids and I'm loving it. It's great to see that Rockstar have done a decent amount of research into the times and put what they can into the game. I'm so glad to have found your channel to fill in the blanks on what life was like back then, I'm from England so this isn't a subject that we were ever taught about. So thanks for the education partners!!!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Yessir. By the way, find the town of Laredo in your neck of the woods and get your Old West on! www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/american-wild-west-re-enactment-10753052

@davidkennedy1077

5 жыл бұрын

@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks for the information. I've even seen this place on Red Dwarf (a sci fi comedy show) When I was a kid in the Cub Scouts, I used to love the western recreations we used to visit so I'm gonna have to give this place a visit (it's not even that far from me!) I just watched your episode that featured the Scottish western town (bit too far to visit though) and I'm binge watching all of your vids to completely immerse myself in the cowboy life. You've got a truly wonderful channel guys!!!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidkennedy1077 Much appreciated!!

Thanks Santee ! Very illuminating , you really shed some light on the subject this time . You're an enlightened individual for sure . Few people making videos about the Old West can hold a candle to you . Maybe you've lit a fire under some hind ends . I don't want to start any kind of flame war , but I think you're the greatest torchbearer of western lore on KZread. I hope your channel shines for many moons and doesn't become a candle in the wind or just another flash in the pan . Your videos are a beacon in the night for those who wish to see the light about western life .

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

WOW! You hit them all...well done. I'm amazed and thankful.

@victorwaddell6530

5 жыл бұрын

@@ArizonaGhostriders I was burning the midnight oil when I saw your video and responded .

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@victorwaddell6530 Yowza!

Great video Santee. Seems like every monsoon we get to play 19th century lighting at least once.

On March 31,1880 Wabash, Indiana became the first electrically lit city in the world. Four 3000 candlepower carbon-arc lamps were placed on the courthouse and were used to illuminate the town. The lamps were in use until 1888. I know. It's Hoosier History, but it fits!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Well, I was born in Lafayette! Those Arc Lights were all manufactured in Fort Wayne, I believe.

@hacksaw434

5 жыл бұрын

I knew there was something I liked about you Santee! A fellow Hoosier just like Johnny Ringo. I live in the little gas boom town of Albany, IN about 10 miles from Muncie and I believe you're right about those lights being made in Ft. Wayne.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@hacksaw434 Double checked and yes, Fort Wayne Electric made 'em. My father was mayor of South Bend in the early 1950's. Family was in Indiana going back to the early 1800's!

@hacksaw434

5 жыл бұрын

History buff, leather worker and a Hoosier! I'm beginning to think you and I were separated at birth!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@hacksaw434 Could be! My brother still lives in Bloomington. Sister went to school at Ball State. You live in a great place!

I certainly appreciate you guys taking the time I have to say that was quite interesting thank you My grandfather was an old Street lighter it's how he met my grandmother she would sit on the front step and wait for him to come by And it's kind of crazy iam doing the same thing today around the capital Beltway LOL But most of all I have to remind myself I can't watch videos this early in the morning and you made me laugh so hard it hurts and I'm a bit under the weather so it really hurts thank you sir lol

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

That is cool family history, Bud man. Thanks!

Now that's what I call a quality content! Love it!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

I do believe this is my favorite KZread channel. Hmmm. Yup.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I really love the old green glass lanterns and bulbs.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

They are pretty cool, eh?

Santee, you are the best and shedding light on the old west. Your videos are always entertaining and educational.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Big Al!

The “you light up my life moment”... 😆 And, you know what? I learned something today! Sitting here sipping my morning cup and along comes the info about the “Moon Tower”. Who knew? (Well, I mean, besides you!). Thanks Santee!! - 🤠 Jed

@DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW

5 жыл бұрын

First time for me 2 Hi Jed 🍻🤠

Santee, this video was truly enlightening!

Love the info in these vids. It makes you reflect on the inventions that made life easier in 'yesteryear', that we take for granted today. Oh... I recognize that Saloon, and have been 'lit' there a couple times.😊

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching.

I was born in 85 but very rural WV and where my family farm is we didnt have access to electricity until the late 90s. When we finally got access it was great no more lanterns. The house was built by my great how ever many Grandpa is 1848 so we had to wire it. One blasted outlet per room. You could have a lamp and something else and that was it. Still today my kids tell me I'm crazy because I never have lights burning in the house. Way to bright.

Just rediscovered this video! This information helps alot in understandin how much lighting exist/ was available in the old west

@ArizonaGhostriders

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

Thanks for another great video!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

Well done 👍 again Santee and team This helps me understand why in the western movies I watched as a kid in the early 60’s one lamp could light up a whole room! (Yeah , I know a studio stage with lighting,but hey, I was 10 what did I know?) See you down the trail !🤠

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@evocati6523

2 жыл бұрын

the Aladdin lamps were equivalent to about a 60 Watt bulb, which is fairly bright especially once your eyes adjust

Another classic keep it up guys

Great video Santee, it realy *brightened* my Day! I'm sorry for that joke...

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HA!

We always used kerosene lanterns while coon hunting, instead of brighter gas lanterns, because the softer kerosene light helped preserve night vision. My best memories of my Dad was him holding a kerosene lantern at 1 am in a woods or cornfield. Thanks for reminding me! (And I swear I didn't know about this video when I blamed Bill for the Colt factory fire.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

That is a really cool memory! Thanks for sharing.

It's not the Chicago fire. It is the peshtigo fire! I grew up there. 💪👍

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

Different fires. Yours was more devastating, though.

Absolutely illuminating! It certainly brought many things to light. I enjoyed the bright bunch around the table too. Ok....that's enough

Love it! Down at the museum, we have some old gas lamps that are eventually going to be refitted with safety valves so they can be hooked up and used again.

Great stuff Santee !

I love history. Anytime I see your videos in the sub box, I need to watch it ASAP! Thank you 👌🏼

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear it. Thanks!

I always look forward to your videos. The subject matter and information is really interesting. Your narrative is entertaining and well done! Thank you, sir.

Great work everyone! I always learn something new ... very informative and creative fun 😊👏

Hey Santee This was a real illuminating video! It really shed some light on this topic! I’m always looking forward to break time at work since your videos always brighten my work shift when I’m going through dark times. I always find them enlightening!

@ArizonaGhostriders

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA!! Glad you don't have dim outlook on them.

@Bentron88

3 жыл бұрын

Arizona Ghostriders Yep! Absolutely love them!

Awesome video my friends!

Just subscribed last Tuesday, watched every video you have made since, keep up the good work, these are some of the best videos ive seen

Very interesting, pretty cool

That was a very Enlightening video. Great channel Santee

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Douglas.

Great Video!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Enjoyed. Thanks

Loved the skit at 2:04 lol! “What the hell is a light bulb?” Definitely earned a new subscriber, please don’t quit makin videos. Also interested in seeing y’all in action in person.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HA! Thanks. We're still going here!

3:26 alternative title: Bill Brazelton confirms that smoking does indeed kill.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HA! Yessss.

Great stuff, mate

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

More great information thank you! 🤠🌵

@ArizonaGhostriders

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Brilliant

Love the vid. This was very enlightening.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HA!

Another great video guys 🤠🤠🤠

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Good video santee. I was thinking a video on Pinkertons would be timely since Pinkerton is now suing Rockstar over negative portrayal. Would be good for you to show us how they were.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

So I understand.

@ksvba9670

2 жыл бұрын

It would be a ridiculous to sue them for portraying them as they were over 100 years ago

Yeah intresting as always! 😀

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks Santee, you've enlightened me..

HELLO SANTEE THANK YOU FOR FRONTIER LIGHTING

@ArizonaGhostriders

3 жыл бұрын

Any time!

2:50 I got one of those! We found it in the attic at my grandparents house, no one really knows where it came from and it looks really old.

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

Cool!

Awesome video and great work :)

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I do a lot of shopping at the local Amish harness & fabric stores, where gas lighting is still used. It makes for rather a cozy atmosphere. ...Well, when it's not the heat of summer. ':P Thanks for the video guys! :)

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Much appreciated.

Just a little more tech: The chimney also provided draft upwards (as the flame burned, the air heats and then flows upward, drawing in fresh air from below), which make the flame burn hotter, brighter and whiter (but seldom actually white) without burning more oil. They only helped distribute the light if they were frosted. Plus, they needed to be cleaned regularly, of they would turn black from carbon deposits from the soot from the burning oil, which nobody liked doing because the soot (called 'carbon black', and is so black it's still used in black ink today) sticks to everything.

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

Wild West Tech!

That was just very enlightening

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm a bright fella.

Fun times!!! turned out great brother good work.

@DARINBAGGSGUNOUTLAW

5 жыл бұрын

Nice work BATJAC 👍🍻🤠

While some people blame Mrs O'Leary's cow for the great Chicago fire of 1871, it was pretty well known at the time that anarchists were setting fires. Historically, towns in the old west were often made of wood and tents. Until they were built of bricks, they often burned. Electricity came to the towns first, often in the form of their own electrical power plants. It was only much later that electrical service came to the farms and ranches. I knew a turkey farmer in the 1960's who inspected his turkeys at night with a common kerosene lantern. It was said that where the wire loop rested on his arm, he had calluses.

@ArizonaGhostriders

3 жыл бұрын

So...it wasn't Bill Brazelton?? Phew.

This stuff is so interesting and fun

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Yay!

Very interesting Sir

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

When we used to go camping, our nightly entertainment was watching dad light the Coleman kerosene lantern. It took him about 1/2 hour to get it going with lots of cursing and frustration on his part. It didn't burn liquid kerosene but burned it as a gas after the liquid was pressurised. I never knew how it worked I'm only guessing here. One day it got knocked over and was ruined and we didn't go camping anymore.

@ArizonaGhostriders

Жыл бұрын

Oh no!

Inherited an old Dietz lantern my grandparents used to milk the cows and perform other chores after dark. Still use it during power outages. It and candles. *26K, growing by the thousands per week. Going to hit that critical mass any minute now!

Great video, thank you! :-)

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Party at the moontower!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Turn it on, it's dark outside. I"ll never find it!

Wow. I always figured that when the sun went down, not much happened in the old West. Lamps make sense. Compared to the LED lights I have through put the house, folks really were "in the dark", so to speak.

Fun video.

@ArizonaGhostriders

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Funny and informative!

Hey Santee! You rock brother!! keep up the good work and great info. I always seem to learn a lil something new! :-) 😎

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, RH!

Egypt Forever! 🇪🇬🦅🐪

Thats such an awesome video. I was wondering how they lite things back then. LOL.

Sometimes I wish I could subscribe multiple times to this channel... Loving the content! Keep it up! :)

@ArizonaGhostriders

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

Smithfield’s saloon in valentine is pretty dark at night to so I think rockstar did a pretty good job with the oil lamps

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

yup!

The light tower in san jose is now in the historical park! I've seen it. Alo g with a recreation of a western town

@ArizonaGhostriders

3 жыл бұрын

Nice! I appreciate the info

Great video. I am glad I found you on reddit

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!

This is Duke Quick I would like to know if the old Town Tucson is closed thank you for all the great work on keeping the west alive

@ArizonaGhostriders

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is. It still has securtiy gaurds and gets maintained, so perhaps when COVID is "better" it will re-open.

Very enlightening! Thanks for sharing! Party at the moon tower - line from the movie Dazed and Confused.

Hey Santee, the tower in San Jose is still around at the San Jose history museum. My gang and I used to rob the bank near there. LOL.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HAH! Great. Hope to see it one day.

New subscriber here. Started watching your content on Red Dead and fell in love with everything. I’d love to see a video on the a Pinkerton Detective Agency and the role the played in the frontier. Keep up the great work!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Our local museum has a number of Roman artefacts including oil lamps of various shapes and sizes. One is in the shape of a human foot with the wick in the ankle.

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

Hence where we get the word "footlights". Naw...I'm kidding.

@bigblue6917

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArizonaGhostriders Like it.😊 My joke was you rush into someone house and announce you have arrived hot foot from Rome

@ArizonaGhostriders

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigblue6917 HAHA!

1:20 what the hells a lightbulb 😂 that had me dying

Good job you guys are really bright know what I mean 😉

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Hey santee, do a video on military in the old west awesome video!!!!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

On the list, thanks.

Did you know that the side posts of those rail/outdoor lanterns are hollow and feed gas collected from the top back to the flame? There were two kinds, a cold and a hot returns. One collected from the top, and the other more directly from the bottom. This increased the brightness slightly, and also reduced the amount of exhaust, making them better for indoor use......and now you know.🙂

@ArizonaGhostriders

3 жыл бұрын

LOL! Yeah we do. Thanks.

I return suport, thank you Arizona!

another amazing video loved this i couldnt go without electricity now but if i never knew about electricity then i probably could lol

Hi Santee. Stumbled across one of your videos on Red Dead Redemption 2. Got to say it was great. I am watching your other videos and learning a lot about the old west and laughing while I’m doing it. Great job. I actually love in San Jose and didn’t know there was a “Moon Light.” Going to look it up and see if it’s still there. Great job. Definitely going to subscribe to your channel!

@edgarvazquez7615

5 жыл бұрын

*live

One that kept candles relevant on the frontier, is that you could put a candle or two in your saddle bags or pack and have light on the trail. Try that with a kerosene lantern.

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

Yet a kerosene lantern wouldn't blow out. in the first breeze...

We had ranches and other areas that didn’t get electricity until the 1960s in Montana.

@ArizonaGhostriders

2 жыл бұрын

AND running water, I understand.

@dennishein2812

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArizonaGhostriders true. Still got a lot of people using cisterns.

I have a kerosene lamp with a blue glass. After a lot of research i found out it was used during WW2 for "Verdunklung"!

@ArizonaGhostriders

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting piece of history there.

Great video, Santee 😊👍🏻 Bill, be careful! Don't use anything that can make the gas explode 🚬💥 Keep an eye on him, Santee 👀 Btw. Jim Carrey 😂😂 LOL 😂😂

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

HA! Thanks.

@alvinsanchez967

5 жыл бұрын

Santee and the gang can be a fire hazard sitting together like that after having some beans. Put some spinach cheese dip, guacamole dip along with the bean dip for Superbowl. More roughage!

@ArizonaGhostriders

5 жыл бұрын

@@alvinsanchez967 OK! LOL

@fritzholm3345

5 жыл бұрын

@@alvinsanchez967 Don't know why, but somehow I think that the avocado 🥑 dip would be the most effective... 🤣🤣 LOL 😂😂 😊