Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War: A Deputy Turned Outlaw
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Billy the Kid's famous run of violence began with a badge, not a crime. In New Mexico Territory ...
10 Okt 22min
Black Widow Spiders: The Truth About the Bite and the Cannibal Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1933 Alan Blair, a medical faculty member at the University of Alabama, held a black widow ag...
10 Okt 23min
Grizzly Bears: The Fearsome Predator That Eats 40,000 Moths a Day
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The grizzly bear carries the scientific name Ursus arctos horribilis, yet in Yellowstone this su...
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Poker Alice: The Cigar-Smoking Card Queen Who Shot It Out with Soldiers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alice Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert, known across the frontier as Poker Alice, was born in Devons...
10 Okt 22min
Tombstone, Arizona: Silver, the Earps, and the Flood That Drowned It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tombstone got its name from a warning. In 1877 Army scout Ed Schieffelin set out alone to prospe...
10 Okt 23min
Highwaymen: The Violent Truth Behind the Gentlemen of the Road
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1690 the danger of robbery in Hyde Park was so great that King William III had oil lamps stru...
10 Okt 22min
Eliot Ness: The Untouchable Who Died Broke Selling Hamburger Patties
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eliot Ness spent his last years in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, telling skeptical bar patrons that...
10 Okt 23min
Pat Garrett: Killing Billy the Kid, Then Dying Over a Herd of Goats
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pat Garrett is remembered for one gunshot in a dark bedroom, but his life ran far longer and str...
10 Okt 22min
