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The Wild West Extravaganza

The Battle of Lovelock Cave

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8667 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

For centuries, the Northern Paiute have told of the Si-Te-Cah, a mysterious tribe said to have lived on tule rafts across Nevada’s Lake Humboldt. Described as fierce warriors with red hair and even cannibalistic tendencies, the Si-Te-Cah were eventually trapped and wiped out at Lovelock Cave. Skip ahead to 1911, and miners discovered thousands of artifacts and mummified remains buried deep inside the cave, including a body reportedly over six feet tall with striking red hair. Some claim this proves the Si-Te-Cah were giants, while others argue the legend grew over time from real but ordinary conflicts. Who were the Si-Te-Cah? Did they truly exist, or are they just another Wild West tall tale?   Buy Me A Coffee – https://buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Check out the website https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/   Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What if I told you there was once a tribe of giant red-headed cannibals roaming the deserts of Nevada?

0:35.6

An ancient race of people so feared and so dangerous that their

0:38.7

enemies eventually trapped them in a cave and burnt them alive. Every single man, woman, and child.

0:45.0

Sounds a little too bizarre to be true, but this story has literally been passed down for generations

0:49.6

among the northern piute. What's more, there's actual scientific evidence to back it up.

0:55.3

Mamified remains that include what appear to be a very tall man with, you guessed it, red hair.

1:01.4

And here's the crazy part. Those remains were located in the exact same cave where the

1:06.1

payute allegedly exterminated the red-headed man-eaters. So who or what were these mysterious people?

1:13.3

Were they really flesh-eaten giants or just a misunderstood tribe of outsiders?

1:17.8

Or is there something far stranger buried beneath the centuries of Paiute oral traditions?

1:23.0

Stick around and find out.

1:24.5

My name's Josh and this is the Wild West extravaganza.

1:37.0

The northern Paiute have called the Great Basin home for thousands of years,

1:41.0

roaming throughout what's now known as Eastern California, Western Nevada,

1:45.0

southeastern Oregon, and even parts of Idaho. Traditionally, they were semi-nomadic hunter

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