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Photographer Born In 1843 Talks About the Wild West - American Homesteaders - Enhanced Audio

Life in the 1800s

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William Henry Jackson (April 4, 1843 – June 30, 1942) was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. In this interview, recorded on April 3, 1941, Mr. Jackson tells of his experiences about roaming the wild west frontier as he performed his job as a photographer and surveyor.

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Pictures were enhanced using AI optimization software. For the audio, I remastered it using noise gate, compression, loudness normalization, EQ and a Limiter.

This video is made for educational purposes for fair use under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976.

20 Comments

@Shutthefrontdoor1984 10 months ago

The references to “the 70s” knowing he means 1870s seems very surreal.

@bobkerr2755 4 years ago

Now this is what YouTube is all about, listening to a man born 179 years ago being interviewed 44 years before I was born.

@skatemusicvideos 1 year ago

This is the oldest voice most of us have ever heard.

@anonamos_ 7 months ago

Bro was playing RDR2 irl

@DeltaV3 4 years ago (edited)

Imagine if in 1843, his parents had been told that people from the year 2022 would listen to a recording of their baby boy speaking. It boggles the mind.

@OnyxQuill4583 4 years ago

Every time an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Can't remember who said that, but it's a great quote

@grisiebehr3732 4 years ago

This man fought in the civil war and lived to see both world wars. It's very likely that in his youth, he met someone who fought in the revolutionary war. That's just amazing.

@amsedan43 1 year ago

I am 83 and in 1945, when I was five, I talked to a Confederate solldier who fought at Vicksburg. Amazed that that stuck with me for this many years.

@quenxqsg1441 1 year ago

1:13 little village called los angeles? that is crazy a lot has happened

@John11121 4 years ago

This interview was done almost 100 years after this man was born, and now we're listening to the interview almost 100 years after it was conducted. It's really amazing to think about.

@jackquentin1950 4 years ago

Whenever this guy said "It was harder back in our day" everyone believed him.

@MasonBogie2-6-6t 2 months ago

He was a famed photographer among the railroad community too, and I'm pretty sure his private car on the narrow gauge in Colorado survives today. It can be seen at 0:12

@3vanis 4 years ago (edited)

I wish he had asked him if he remembered any stories his grandparents or great grandparents might have told him, those could have reached possibly into even the 1600s, crazy to think about

@c.ivanalvarez 4 years ago (edited)

When he refers to decades as the 70s, 80s, 90s but he’s referring to the 1800s! 😱

@feldwebel999 4 years ago

98 and born in the 1840's - no modern medical stuff or modern conveniences - and still lived a long life. One tough man!

@terryqokov6999 1 year ago

2:02 the idea that they referred to the 1870s as the 70s is wild to think about

@johnshaft5613 3 years ago

This video is a great example of why YouTube, or at least the concept/content of YouTube, is 100X better than nearly all television content.

@CowpokeCannoneer 4 years ago

“Before the Cowboys came in”. Imagine existing before cowboys were even a thing. And just the sheer fact this man lived through the civil war, the Wild West, the Spanish American war, world war 1, the Great Depression, and the beginning of world war 2. Wild