Wild West Podcast
1) Fireside Truths In The Midnight Sun
Send us a text Cold bites, a promise binds, and a furnace roars—this is the Yukon at human scale. We start with a candid look at why facing reality beats denial, then follow the trail into Robert Serv...Show More
2) John Brown’s Gallows, A Nation’s Reckoning
Send us a text A cold morning, a fortified town, and a scaffold placed just out of earshot—Charleston, Virginia tried to choreograph John Brown’s end and, with it, the story the country would remember...Show More
3) Night The Prairie Burned
Send us a text A single word—fire—ripped through a quiet winter night and changed Dodge City forever. We travel back to late 1885 as flames burst from the Junction Saloon, raced down Front Street, and...Show More
4) A Frontier Christmas, A Stranger’s Song, And The Night The Miners Remembered Home
Send us a text A coffin rattles into a mining camp and turns out to be a piano—an unlikely miracle for a saloon that runs on cards, noise, and stubborn pride. We set the scene in a winter-struck gulch...Show More
5) How The Old West Shaped American Christmas Traditions
Send us a text Snow that bites, winds that snap, and a cabin lit by a single candle—yet the room still fills with carols and the smell of plum pudding. We journey across the Old West to uncover how pi...Show More
6) The Great Western Hotel Wasn’t Named For The Cattle Trail
Send us a text Forget the postcard version of Dodge City. We open the door to the Great Western Hotel and step into a town intent on trading dust for dignity, noise for order, and short-term profits f...Show More
7) How One Train Chose Ford, Kansas Over Ryansville
Send us a text A single whistle split the prairie air—and with it, the future of two rival towns. We revisit November 25, 1887, when the Arkansas, Kansas, and Colorado Railroad rolled into Ford, Kansa...Show More
8) Trail Of Fact And Fable
Send us a text A quiet click in a digital archive set off a bigger question: how did a tidy tale about the “Great Western Trail” in 1873 outrun the dusty, documented truth of 1874? We follow the bread...Show More
9) Setting The Record Straight On The Western Trail
Send us a text A trail’s name shouldn’t be a marketing plan, yet that’s exactly how the West’s most traveled cattle route got mislabeled. We follow the evidence from a fresh historiographical review b...Show More
10) Experience The Night John Brown Sparked America’s Reckoning
Send us a text A cold wind skims the Potomac, the town sleeps, and nineteen men step toward a federal armory believing they can change the course of a nation. We pull you inside the hour-by-hour chaos...Show More