The Shootout at Hide Park
There are two things you just don’t discuss in a beer joint: politics and religion. The reason being these topics tend to be a bit divisive. You add alcohol to the mix and things could get downright u...
16 Mar 202234min
BONUS - Obscure History | The Lawless Horrel Brothers
In a remote corner of Oregon’s northeastern territory exists a mysterious and foreboding village. This is the legend of Sammyville. Listen and subscribe to Obscure History wherever you get your podca...
9 Mar 202222min
La Matanza - The Slaughter
The 1919 Texas Ranger Investigation - and the Canales Hearing that followed - shed light on misconduct and atrocities committed by one of the most legendary branches of law enforcement between the yea...
3 Mar 202240min
Britt Johnson & the Searchers
In October of 1864 Britton Johnson’s son was murdered and his wife and two surviving children were taken captive by a Kiowa War Party. Not willing to just sit back and hope for the best, Britt took ma...
17 Feb 202258min
The Arrest of Annie Oakley
August 1903. The famous Annie Oakley is arrested in Chicago for theft, a crime committed in order to obtain money to fuel her cocaine habit. And what a headline that made. America’s original sweethear...
2 Feb 202224min
Kit Carson's Failure
In 1849 a trader named James White decided to break from his wagon train and push on ahead with just his family and a few men. The outcome was about as bad as anything you could imagine; the men were ...
19 Jan 202222min
Big Alice & the Battle of the Bordellos
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, ain’t that what they say? But what happens when it’s also a woman doing the scorning? And what happens if that hell is just El Paso, Texas? One helluva girl fig...
5 Jan 202229min
Big Nose George | Wyoming Bandit
George Parrot - aka Big Nose George – was a basic run-of-the-mill road agent. Trains, stagecoaches, general stores – they were all fair game for Big Nose and the boys. Sometimes he was successful and ...
3 Jan 202227min
