The James-Younger Gang: How Civil War Guerrillas Became Folk Heroes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On a January night in 1875, armed men surrounded a Missouri farmhouse and threw an incendiary de...
10 Okt 23min
Jack Sheppard: The Carpenter Who Broke Out of Newgate Prison
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the fall of 1724, the most secure prison in England was beaten by a five foot four carpenter ...
10 Okt 26min
J. Edgar Hoover: The Index Cards and Secret Files Behind the FBI
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!J. Edgar Hoover grew up in Washington, D.C. with a severe stutter and beat it by teaching himsel...
10 Okt 21min
Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith: Prohibition's Masters of Disguise
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A rotund, unarmed man walks into a 1920s New York speakeasy, points at a wanted poster of a fede...
10 Okt 23min
Sing Sing Prison: Marble Quarry, Electric Chair, and Redemption
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The phrase "up the river" dates to 1891 and describes a real trip: roughly 30 miles up the Hudso...
10 Okt 23min
Deadwood, South Dakota: The Illegal Gold Camp That Refused to Die
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Deadwood was never supposed to exist. The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie guaranteed the Black Hills...
10 Okt 19min
Antivenom: Why Snakebite Cures Still Come From Horses and Run Short
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!If a black mamba bites you, the treatment that saves your life is made much as it was more than ...
10 Okt 22min
Fast Draw: The Wild West Gunslinger Myth That Became a Real Sport
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The showdown at high noon, with two men waiting for a flinch above low holsters, is mostly a Hol...
10 Okt 19min
