MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 6 | “Jim Bridger: Wars of the West”
After the loss of his trading post, Jim Bridger guides an army column to Utah Territory to confront Brigham Young and the Mormons. Bridger leads a frustrating expedition to the Yellowstone region, and...
16 Sep 36min
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 5 | “Jim Bridger: Opening The West”
When the fur trade winds down, Jim Bridger builds a trading post at a key location on the Oregon Trail in southwestern Wyoming. In addition to being linked to the Hugh Glass story, Bridger becomes lin...
9 Sep 35min
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 4 | “Jim Bridger: Into The Wild”
In 1822, eighteen-year-old Jim Bridger joins the Ashley-Henry fur company and travels up the Missouri River to trap beaver in the West. But before he learns the basics of trapping, Arikara warriors at...
2 Sep 33min
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 3 | “John Colter: Colter’s Run”
In 1808 or 1809, John Colter faces an extreme test of endurance and resilience when he is captured by Blackfoot warriors on one of the three forks of the Missouri River in present-day Montana. Afterwa...
26 Aug 33min
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 2 | “John Colter: Colter’s Hell”
John Colter’s extraordinary adventures in the West continue with a 500-mile winter trek across the Rocky Mountains, during which he becomes the first American to see the Teton Mountains and Jackson Ho...
19 Aug 33min
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 1 | “John Colter: Corps of Discovery”
John Colter, a young Kentucky frontiersman, joins the Corps of Discovery to explore the continent with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Colter initially bristles at the military structure of the ex...
12 Aug 36min
Introducing “Government That Doesn’t Suck” from Rewind Studios
Government often gets a bad rap. But each episode of the new podcast “Government That Doesn’t Suck,” hosted by Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack, tells a surprising origin story of a feature...
22 Jul 8min
REVOLUTION Ep. 3 | “Devils From Infernal Regions”
After four years of fighting, the war in the northern colonies settles into a stalemate. It rages in the southern colonies, but the American southern army suffers the worst calamities of the war. An a...
8 Jul 45min
