Part 5: The Sharpshooter's Stand
Send us Fan Mail Before sunrise, Josiah Wright Mooar sets out with Jim White to learn the technique of buffalo hunting from a stand. Moving six miles out, they locate a massive herd, utilizing the cov...
18 Jul 14min
Part 4: Echoes of the Saline: Buffalo Soldiers, Indian Fight and Jim White's Confession
Send us Fan Mail Part Four of Buffalo Days details the intense encounters between the U.S. Army and 400 Native Americans and a regiment of "Buffalo Soldiers"—and the resilient Indigenous warriors of t...
18 Jul 8min
Part 3: The Buffalo Rig Deal: A Bargain at Fort Hays
Send us Fan Mail Part Three of Buffalo Days details Josiah Wright Mooar's transition into the life of a buffalo hunter on the American Great Plains during the 1870s. Mooar recounts the arduous process...
18 Jul 7min
Part 2: A New Enterprise on the Western Frontier
Send us Fan Mail Josiah Wright Moore, a young New Englander who traveled to Fort Hays, Kansas, in 1870 to make his fortune, recounts his initial struggles and a pivotal meeting with an experienced buf...
16 Jul 8min
Part 1: The Shifting Plains: Buffalo and the Frontier Economy
Send us Fan Mail The Seline River Valley in Kansas was once home to immense migrating herds of shaggy buffalo that darkened the plains as far as the eye could see. These animals grazed on succulent bu...
16 Jul 5min
The Masher’s Mockery: How Luke McGlue Framed the Dodge City Lady-Killer
Send us Fan Mail This historical yarn recounts the classic frontier hazing of "Herb," a boastful Dodge City resident who claimed to be an irresistible lady-killer but instead fell hook, line, and sink...
14 Jul 15min
A Promise Across The Plains
Send us Fan Mail A man rides east through New Mexico with a coffin in his wagon, charcoal packed tight to fight decay, because his dying friend asked for one last mercy: don’t bury me in a foreign pla...
22 Apr 24min
Fanning The Hammer Is A Great Way To Lose
Send us Fan Mail The Wild West didn’t run on courage alone. It ran on nerve, repetition, and a cold understanding that “the law” often arrived as a Colt revolver, not a badge. We take you into the rea...
15 Apr 24min
