The Wild West Extravaganza

On June 25th, 1876, George Armstrong Custer rode into battle for the last time. He and his troops faced an overwhelming force of Lakota and Cheyenne along the banks of the Little Bighorn, and before t...

13 Dec 202329min

“All around, the Indians began jumping up, running forward, dodging down, jumping up again, down again, all the time going toward the soldiers. Right away, all of the white men went crazy. Instead of ...

6 Dec 202354min

“It’s just as easy to make big money as little money. In my profession, a hundred dollars is just chicken feed. We think in thousands, not tens. Experience has taught me that it is as easy to separate...

29 Nov 202352min

This is Part 2 and the final installment in the series on Harry Tracy. In the previous episode we discussed Tracy's early life, his various scrapes with the law, and his dramatic prison escape. On tod...

22 Nov 202344min

In the summer of 1881, Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett. The lawman had been on the hunt ever since Billy broke out of jail in Lincoln and finally caught up to the bandit at Ol...

17 Nov 20234h 24min

Considered by some to be the last of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, Harry Tracy blasted his way out of prison in the summer of 1902. What followed was one of the most desperate man hunts in all of U.S. h...

15 Nov 202342min

Make no mistake about it, the exploits of escaped slave-turned-lawman Bass Reeves are legendary.  Described in the papers of his day as a holy terror and one of the greatest manhunters to ever grace I...

8 Nov 202350min

Make no mistake about it, the exploits of escaped slave-turned-lawman Bass Reeves are legendary.  Described in the papers of his day as a holy terror and one of the greatest manhunters to ever grace I...

1 Nov 202337min