Wild West Podcast
1) How A Kansas Post Office Sparked A Town’s Rise And Quiet Fall
Send a text A town can rise on paper before it stands in wood and stone. We follow Wilburn, a near-forgotten settlement in south central Ford County, from the bright moment it earned a federal post of...Show More
2) Railroads, Longhorns, And The Making Of Bloody Newton
Send a text Smoke curls over the Kansas plains as a newborn railhead meets a river of longhorns and the town of Newton explodes into life. We follow the ATSF’s breakneck push toward land grants, Bosto...Show More
3) Birth Of Ford County
Send a text A county can be born without a single shot fired. We travel back to February 26, 1867, when lawmakers in Topeka drew the first boundaries of Ford County and set a quiet revolution in motio...Show More
4) James H. Ford: The Soldier Behind Ford County
Send a text A county’s name hides a better story than any barroom legend. We pull back the curtain on Colonel James Hobart Ford—the Union officer whose grit, speed, and stubborn discipline shaped the ...Show More
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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