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On December 7th, 1876, 8 strangers rode into the town of Northfield Minnesota. Shortly before noon they stopped at a local restau…
On a frigid December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman led his troops into the teeth of an estimated force of anywhere be…
In Spring of 1871 the body of a man named Jones was discovered in Drum Creek, not far from present day Cherryvale, Kansas. The de…
In the fall of 1868, John Wesley Hardin, a fugitive wanted for murder, was laying low when he got word that a group of three Unio…
John Joel Glanton, veteran of both the Texas Revolution and the Mexican American War, was survivor of Goliad, a former Texas Rang…
John Colter, known as the first mountain man, came west as a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. They braved the great Miss…
Quanah Parker, the son of a war chief and a white captive, the first and only principal chief of the Comanche Nation. And one of …
On this episode we delve into the fascinating true events and real people who helped inspire what I consider to be the greatest s…
On the night of July 14th, 1881, the infamous outlaw Billy The Kid was killed in Ft. Sumner New Mexico. Sheriff Pat Garret was qu…
Al Swearengen was the owner and proprietor of the Gem Saloon - a den of sin and vice - for over two decades in the violent boo…
Born into slavery in 1838, Bass Reeves was one of the first African American deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi Rive…