No other historical figure from the 'Old West' has stirred up more controversy and eluded historians and biographers more than William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid. This young man, in his short life, has established his place in history and legend. Who was Billy the Kid? How did he become a legend? "I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.” ~ Billy the Kid’s comment to a Las Veg...
Sep 24, 2022•1 hr 27 min
It's Doc Holliday. There's no introduction needed.
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 12 min
It's Doc Holliday. There's no introduction needed.
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 51 min
Olive Oatman was an American woman celebrated in her time for her captivity and later release by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager. While traveling from Illinois to California, her family was attacked by a small group from a Native American tribe. They clubbed many to death, left her brother Lorenzo for dead, and enslaved Olive and her younger sister Mary Ann, holding them captive for one year before they traded them to the Mohave people, where they were well t...
Jul 27, 2022•41 min
Olive Oatman was an American woman celebrated in her time for her captivity and later release by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager. While traveling from Illinois to California, her family was attacked by a small group from a Native American tribe. They clubbed many to death, left her brother Lorenzo for dead, and enslaved Olive and her younger sister Mary Ann, holding them captive for one year before they traded them to the Mohave people, where they were well t...
Jun 25, 2022•40 min
Olive Oatman was an American woman celebrated in her time for her captivity and later release by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager. While traveling from Illinois to California, her family was attacked by a small group from a Native American tribe. They clubbed many to death, left her brother Lorenzo for dead, and enslaved Olive and her younger sister Mary Ann, holding them captive for one year before they traded them to the Mohave people, where they were well t...
Jun 14, 2022•33 min
William Preston Longley (aka "Wild Bill" Longley) was known for his nasty temper, racist viewpoints, and murderous ways. He was rumored to have killed at least 32 people, mostly African Americans. Born on October 6th, 1851 and died by hanging on October 11th, 1878. Listen to Bill’s short lived life and ruthless ways in a post Civil War America.
Apr 18, 2022•44 min
Justin and Matt sit down and interview Haunted Bisbee and get to hear all kinds of awesome stories!!! Joey and Zandra moved to Bisbee in 2020 spontaneously. They only knew that it only took one short visit to fall head over heels in love with the city! That love story continued and the more they loved the place, the more they wanted to share it. They learned everything they could, and realized they wanted to start a tour of their own, with Zandra’s leadership as the tour’s rocket fuel. The only ...
Mar 28, 2022•52 min
Charley Parkhurst, or also known as “One-eyed Charley” or “Six horse Charley”, was a famous stage coach driver during the gold rush of California and lived a pretty exciting life. Charley retired from stage coach driving once the railroad started cutting into the business. He then retired in California and died 15 years later on December 18, 1879. It was then discovered that Charley was in fact a female and at one time, bore one child. It was also concluded later that in 1868, she may have been ...
Feb 21, 2022•56 min
Born to slave parents in 1838 in Crawford County, Arkansas, Bass Reeves would become the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi River and one of the greatest frontier heroes in our nation’s history. Over the 35 years that Bass Reeves served as a Deputy United States Marshal, he earned his place in history by being one of the most effective lawmen in Indian Territory, bringing in more than 3,000 outlaws and helping to tame the lawless territory. Killing some 14 men during his ser...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Sundance Kid aka Harry Longabaugh, or Longbaugh, was an American outlaw. He was reputed to be the best shot and fastest gunslinger of the Wild Bunch, a group of robbers and rustlers who ranged through the Rocky Mountains and plateau desert regions of the West in the 1880s and ’90s. In 1909 the two outlaws were cornered by a Bolivian cavalry unit; Sundance was mortally wounded, and Cassidy took his own life. Other stories have Sundance surviving and returning to the United States and dying in obs...
Oct 24, 2021•55 min
Butch Cassidy, born Robert LeRoy Parker, was an American outlaw and foremost member of the Wild Bunch, a collection of bank and train robbers who ranged through the western United States in the 1880s and ’90s. By 1900, sheriff posses and Pinkerton detectives were capturing or closing in on members of the Wild Bunch. Cassidy escaped, first to New York City and then to South America in 1901. From 1902 to 1906 he owned and ran a ranch in Argentina, but thereafter they returned to outlawry. Drifting...
Sep 22, 2021•49 min
Butch Cassidy, born Robert LeRoy Parker, was an American outlaw and foremost member of the Wild Bunch, a collection of bank and train robbers who ranged through the western United States in the 1880s and ’90s. By 1900, sheriff posses and Pinkerton detectives were capturing or closing in on members of the Wild Bunch. Cassidy escaped first to New York City and then to South America in 1901. From 1902 to 1906 he owned and ran a ranch in Argentina, but thereafter they returned to outlawry. Drifting ...
Sep 15, 2021•52 min
History reports that Billy the Kid was killed in 1881. In 1950, a mysterious man known as Brushy Bill Roberts, confessed that he was the real Billy the Kid and petitioned the governor of New Mexico for a pardon for crimes committed under that name. This episode is with the author named Brett L. Hall, who wrote a research documentary book of William "Brushy Bill" Roberts' claim. It documents Roberts' story and investigates it word for word. This book is the story of Brushy Bill Roberts, and you'r...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 7 min
William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson was a notorious Confederate guerrilla leader. Anderson’s nickname was “Bloody Bill” because he murdered and butchered Union soldiers and sympathizers during the Civil War and often carried around their body parts and scalps as trophies. He is considered one of the vilest figures on either side of the war.
Sep 21, 2019•1 hr 6 min
William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson was a notorious Confederate guerrilla leader. Anderson’s nickname was “Bloody Bill” because he murdered and butchered Union soldiers and sympathizers during the Civil War and often carried around their body parts and scalps as trophies. He is considered one of the vilest figures on either side of the war.
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 15 min
One of the biggest myths of the American Old West is that of Calamity Jane. She looked and acted like a man, shot like a cowboy, drank like a fish, and exaggerated the tales of her life to any and all who would listen. Even though Jane was a real person, very few details of her life can be nailed down with certainty. Much of what is known about her early life comes from an autobiography she wrote to be sold at Old West museums as an added attraction to them, and Jane was well known for embellish...
Apr 07, 2019•1 hr 23 min
One of the biggest myths of the American Old West is that of Calamity Jane. She looked and acted like a man, shot like a cowboy, drank like a fish, and exaggerated the tales of her life to any and all who would listen. Even though Jane was a real person, very few details of her life can be nailed down with certainty. Much of what is known about her early life comes from an autobiography she wrote to be sold at Old West museums as an added attraction to them, and Jane was well known for embellish...
Mar 21, 2019•55 min
He was infamous as one of the most deadly killers in the Old West. As the son of a Methodist preacher, with a quick temper he became prone to violence at a young age, which would get him into trouble time and again. He is believed to have killed a total of 44 men over the course of his lifetime, all of them before he reached the age of 23.
Feb 23, 2019•49 min
He was infamous as one of the most deadly killers in the Old West. As the son of a Methodist preacher, with a quick temper he became prone to violence at a young age, which would get him into trouble time and again. He is believed to have killed a total of 44 men over the course of his lifetime, all of them before he reached the age of 23.
Feb 16, 2019•59 min
In this short introduction the hosts introduce themselves and discuss some of their wild west favorites and what type on stuff you can expect from the podcast.
Jan 28, 2019•22 min
