Kit Carson | Long Walk of the Navajo (Part 5)
During the summer of 1863, the U.S. Government sent the legendary Kit Carson to reign in the Navajo. As such, the former Mountain Man adopted a scorched earth policy, burning crops and villages, restr...
11 Sep 202434min
Kit Carson | The Apache (Part 4)
Following the Mexican-American War, Kit Carson returned home and attempted to start a ranch. The former Mountain Man had been out west with the Pathfinder – John C. Fremont – for several years as they...
4 Sep 202431min
Kit Carson | Bear Flag Revolt (Part 3)
By 1845, tensions were high in the Mexican territory of California. Not only were the U.S. and Mexico on the brink of war, but even the native Hispanic Californios were looking to separate themselves ...
28 Aug 202450min
Kit Carson | Pathfinder (Part 2)
Kit Carson ventured west as a teenager, looking to escape the drudgery of civilization. And in the years to come, he’d find all the excitement a youngster could hope for in the life of a mountain man....
21 Aug 202439min
Kit Carson | Mountain Man (Part 1)
When it comes to the Old West, they don’t get much more legendary than Kit Carson. Although soft-spoken and physically small, this larger-than-life mountain man would go on – during his own life – to ...
14 Aug 202435min
John Glanton & the REAL Blood Meridian
“It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate ...
7 Aug 202459min
Dangerous Dan Tucker
Dangerous Dan Tucker would arrive in the southwest in the mid-1870s, pin on the badge of a Sheriff’s Deputy, and, in a very short amount of time, tally up a body count surpassed only by the likes of J...
31 Jul 202457min
State of the Wild West Extravaganza
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24 Jul 20246min
