The Long Road to Oregon: Sovereign Lands- The Native Peoples of the Oregon Trail
This episode of The Long Road to Oregon, we’re tracing the trail through the homelands of the sovereign nations who lived along its length—Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Shoshone, N...
18 Maj 18min
The Long Road to Oregon: Women of the Oregon Trail- Hands that carried the West
For this of The Long Road to Oregon, we’re following the women who walked the trail long before it became history. The women who delivered children between river crossings, drove wagons when tragedy s...
15 Maj 13min
The Long Road To Oregon: The Meek Cutoff
We’re launching a brand new Oregon Trail series—digging into the real stories behind the wagon ruts, the dangerous shortcuts, the lost parties, and the moments where hope and survival collided on the ...
13 Maj 12min
The Long Road to Oregon: The blue death, Cholera on the Oregon Trail
For our next episode on The Long Road to Oregon, we’re digging into one of the harshest realities emigrants faced on the trail: cholera.The sudden sickness that moved through camps without warning, to...
11 Maj 14min
The Long Road to Oregon: The great migration of 1843- The first super train
For Episode 1 of The Long Road to Oregon, we’re going back to 1843 to follow the first great wagon train west. This is the story of the families who gathered on the edge of Missouri, joined their wago...
7 Maj 14min
The Long Road to Oregon: Introduction
We’re starting something new.As we reach two years of Mysterious Pacific Northwest, we’re taking a moment to look back—at where this show began, the stories we’ve told, and how much it’s grown.And fro...
7 Maj 6min
The Infamous Files: The Sodder Children
On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire tore through the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. By morning, five children were missing. No remains were ever found. The explanations didn’t match the ...
29 Apr 58min
Gold, Guns, and Gallows: Lawless Montana
In this episode, we ride deep into the gold-laden gulches of early Montana—where law was scarce, tempers were quick, and justice was often measured in rope. From the boomtown chaos of Bannack and Virg...
29 Apr 17min
