Wild West Podcast
Welcome to the Wild West podcast, where fact and legend merge. We present the true accounts of individuals who settled in towns built out of hunger for money, regulated by fast guns, who walked on both sides of the law, patrolling, investing in, and regulating the brothels, saloons, and gambling houses. These are stories of the men who made the history of the Old West come alive - bringing with them the birth of legends, brought to order by a six-gun and laid to rest with their boots on. Join us as we take you back in history to the legends of the Wild West. You can support our show by subscribing to Exclusive access to premium content at Wild West Podcast + https://www.buzzsprout.com/64094/subscribe or just buy us a cup of coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/wildwestpodcast
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303 episodes
A Frontier Christmas, A Stranger’s Song, And The Night The Miners Remembered Home
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 where 300 miners live by the hour and try not to think abo...
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How The Old West Shaped American Christmas Traditions
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 pioneers forged the Christmas we recognize today, transformin...
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The Great Western Hotel Wasn’t Named For The Cattle Trail
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 for a longer arc of respectability. The surprise is in the n...
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How One Train Chose Ford, Kansas Over Ryansville
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, Kansas and turned isolation into opportunity, commerce into mome...
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Trail Of Fact And Fable
A quiet click in a digital archive set off a bigger question: how did a tidy tale about the “Western Trail” in 1873 outrun the dusty, documented truth of 1874? We follow the breadcrumb trail from a glossy magazine headline to the rail-cho...
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Setting The Record Straight On The Western Trail
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 back to 1874, when John T. Lytle cut a new path north after ...
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Experience The Night John Brown Sparked America’s Reckoning
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 of Harper’s Ferry—bridges taken in the dark, telegraph ala...
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Halloween in Dodge City 1877
Halloween in Dodge City is posted once a year during the month of October. The podcast tells the story of some of the characters who lived in Dodge City, Kansas, during the early frontier days. The story takes place on October 31, when...
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A Real-Time Radio Reenactment Of John Brown’s Raid
Step into the roar of 1859 as we stage a real-time radio reenactment of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. We don’t narrate from a safe distance; we drop you into the town as telegraph wires snap, church bells turn to alarms, and the first sh...
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Phantom On The Prairie Ditch
The prairie doesn’t forget—and it won’t let us forget either. We follow a chilling thread from a 96-mile irrigation scheme called the Eureka Canal to a vanished laborer whose story was buried in snow, silence, and someone else’s balance sheet. ...
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A Haunted Western: The Ghost Of The Prairie Ditch Promo
A storm-torn trench. A vanished name. And a legend that clings to the Cimarron plains like dust to a boot. We follow the rise and ruin of Soule’s Eureka Canal—hailed as progress, mocked as folly—and the night the sky split open and swallowed a ...
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Wild West Podcast: Halloween Ghost Stories
"Howdy, partners! Gather 'round the campfire because The Wild West Podcast is taking you on a haunting adventure this Halloween with our special episode, "Ghost Stories of...
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The Forgotten Grave Of Ed Masterson
The wind on the Kansas plains doesn’t just rattle old storefronts; it carries the names we’ve let disappear. We retrace the final patrol of City Marshal Ed Masterson, shot along Dodge City’s infamous deadline in 1878, and follow the paper-thin ...
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Promise on the Pecos
A single vow set against a hostile sky can bend the shape of history. When Charles Goodnight lashed his partner’s tin-lined casket to a wagon and steered across the Pecos, he wasn’t chasing myth—he was keeping a promise. That journey threads th...
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The Loyalty That Built the Goodnight-Loving Trail
A whispered promise in a dark adobe room turns into one of the West’s most unforgettable journeys. We open on Fort Sumner in 1867, where Oliver Loving lies dying from gangrene and Charles Goodnight—trail boss, Ranger, problem‑solver—makes a vow...
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Night Ride to Fort Sumner
A contract to feed a frontier post shouldn’t have ended at a river cave, but the Pecos has a way of bending plans. We head out with Oliver Loving and W.J. Wilson on a night-run mission to Fort Sumner that turns into a standoff against a swellin...
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Secrets Beneath the Limestone: The Haunted Legacy of Dodge City’s Home of Stone
A limestone mansion built to defy the prairie became a vessel for sorrow—and then a sanctuary. We take you inside Dodge City’s Home of Stone, from John Mueller’s audacious rise and the black walnut staircase that flaunted prosperity, to the win...
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The Sand Creek Betrayal: America's Darkest Hour on the Frontier
November 29, 1864 dawned cold on the Colorado plains as Cheyenne and Arapaho families slept peacefully under an American flag—a gift promising protection. By nightfall, over 200 Native Americans lay dead in what would become one of the most sha...
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What Lingers Behind Those Two-Foot Limestone Walls Will Chill You
Uncover the chilling mystery that lurks beneath Dodge City's storied past. While gunfighters and cattle drives typically dominate Wild West lore, a different kind of legend has quietly persisted for generations – the haunting of the Mueller Sch...
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Roundup: A Journey Through Western Poetry and Cowboy Culture
Have you ever considered that the weathered saddle in your barn might be telling stories you've never fully heard? The Wild West Podcast invites you to listen more carefully to the language of leather and silver that defines cowboy culture....
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Beyond the Narrative: Jeff Broome Challenges What We Know About Sand Creek
Gold rushes change landscapes—both physical and human. When 100,000 settlers poured into Colorado Territory following the 1858 discovery of gold, they unknowingly set in motion a chain of events that would culminate in one of America's most con...
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Bassett of the Badlands: The Fearless First Marshal of Dodge City!
Charlie Bassett may be the most important Wild West lawman you've never heard of. Before Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson became household names, they wore their first badges under his leadership in Dodge City, Kansas—a place so notoriously lawless...
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Unearthing the Language of the American Frontier: Michael King's Journey Through Cowboy Etymology
What makes a true cowboy? It goes far beyond the iconic hat and weathered expression – it lives in the worn leather of a saddle that's witnessed countless sunsets and the rhythmic jingle of spurs that speak their own language. In this c...
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The Forgotten Marshal: Ed Masterson's Eternal Patrol
Ghost stories often begin with dark and stormy nights, but Marshal Ed Masterson's begins with moonlit rails and the low, mournful groan of Santa Fe tracks. This poetic journey through time explores the tragic fate of a forgotten lawman whose re...
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A Journey Through Time: The Mueller-Schmidt House of Dodge City
Step across the threshold of the Mueller-Schmidt House and embark on a captivating journey through time. This remarkable limestone residence in Dodge City, Kansas—affectionately known as the "Home of Stone"—stands as one of America's most authe...
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