Fix Bayonets: Colonel Chamberlain & Little Round Top
On July 2nd, 1863, a college professor from Maine named Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain found himself holding the far left flank of the entire Union Army on a rocky little hill called Little Round Top. Ou...
3 Heinä 9min
Custer's Last Stand: Hero or Fool?
The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the most famous and most misunderstood events in American history. On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and roughly 210 men of his im...
25 Kesä 51min
Billy the Kid, Brushy Bill, & the NYPD
Did the NYPD prove that Brushy Bill Roberts was Billy the Kid using forensic technology? Short answer: no. Not the NYPD, not the FBI, not the CIA, and not Interpol. No official agency has ever conduct...
4 Kesä 23min
We Hang Horse Thieves: The Truth About Frontier Justice
How many people were legally hanged for stealing horses in the Old West? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Join me today as we bust one of the most enduring myths of the American frontier. Despite what Hol...
28 Touko 18min
Print Olive: Man Burner
Imagine being wrapped alive in a freshly butchered cowhide, tied to a tree, and left to bake in the Texas sun. The old timers called it the death of skins, and according to legend, it's exactly what T...
21 Touko 26min
Richard "Two Gun" Hart (ENCORE)
Enjoy this encore presentation of Richard "Two Gun" Hart. New episodes continue next week! By the mid-1920s, Al Capone was the undisputed kingpin of Chicago and was feverishly working to expand his em...
14 Touko 52min
The Outlaw Burt Alvord: From Arizona to the Amazon
In September of 1899, Constable Burt Alvord deputized a group of his closest friends and rode out in pursuit of a gang of train robbers. The only problem is that the men he deputized were the same one...
30 Huhti 22min
Henry Newton Brown: The Lawman Who Robbed a Bank
Henry Newton Brown was an orphan from Missouri who rode with Billy the Kid during one of the bloodiest range wars in American history. He helped ambush Sheriff William Brady, fought Buckshot Roberts a...
23 Huhti 29min
