Send us Fan Mail In part five “The Gathering Tribes” the Indians become aware of the Adobe Walls settlement and gather under the leadership of Quanah Parker to form a war party. Quanah Parker a Comanche war chief seeks the advice of a spiritual leader by the name of Isatai who holds a Sundance. Two members of the war party gathering escape to Fort Sill to warn of a possible Indian uprising. You can purchase the book by clicking on the link Return of the Great Hunters: Tales of the Frontier. Join...
Jun 26, 2021•10 min
Send us Fan Mail In Part four “Prairie Thunder” the Buffalo Hunters from Dodge City establish a new settlement along Adobe Creek called Adobe Walles. The hunters are waiting for the big herds to arrive while Billy Dixon explores the territory for the movement of the spring buffalo herds. As the hunters are returning back to camp from a long days hunt they encounter a fierce thunderstorm. The story narrated by Brad Smalley describes how the lightning is so intense that it starts a buffalo stamped...
Jun 26, 2021•20 min
Send us Fan Mail Wild West Podcast proudly presents Utes Revenge, the First Battle of Adobe Walls in part three of Return of the Great Hunters. Forty buffalo hunters from Dodge City are camped out along the stake plains in the Texas Panhandle when George Plummer is invited to retell the story of the First Battle of Adobe Walls. In Episode Three: Utes Revenge the First Battle of Adobe Walls is retold in its entirety of the November 25, 1864 battle between the United States Army and American India...
Jun 21, 2021•32 min
Send a text Billy Dixon and a company of fifty hunters travel south on the Jones and Plummer Trail past the Cimarron River and out into Indian Territory. When the expedition reaches Adobe Walls Creek, Billy Dixon, Tyler and Masterson decide to explore an old abandoned trading post. When the three explorers reach the old trading post they discover an old Ute drawing to help them unearth the story of the Battle of the Adobe Walls. The story written by Mike King and narrated by Brad Smalley becomes...
Jun 18, 2021•13 min
Send us Fan Mail The Jones and Plummer Trail was established in the fall of 1874 when two former buffalo hunters turned merchants and freighters. These two men Charles Edward (Dirty Face) Jones and Joseph H. Plummer, established a store at the head of Wolf Creek. Jones marked the trail, and the partners' trips to and from Dodge City to deliver hides and buffalo meat and purchase goods cut ruts into the sod deep enough for others to follow. From Dodge City, the trail angled southwest, paralleling...
Jun 17, 2021•14 min
Send a text Buffalo Days, Legends of Dodge City, is about outfits of buffalo runners who traveled in and out of the Arkansas River Valley from 1870 to 1872. The book is a collection of individual stories of how men became legends of their experiences, founded at times by luck, but mostly on their skills to survive. These are the stories of personal legends established out of solid character and the will to endure, making them unique to American lore. Here are the hunters such as Charles Rath, Jo...
Jun 15, 2021•2 min
Send us Fan Mail Prepare to journey through the annals of time, as we uncover stories from the heart of the Wild West - Dodge City, Kansas. Set your ears to the stirring tales of a frontier town born out of a hunger for money, regulated by fast guns and vigilantes alike. We'll walk you through the town's humble beginnings in 1872, from a meager outpost of buffalo hunters to a notorious frontier town, marked by swift gun law and a staggering 30 violent deaths in its first year. We'll introduce yo...
Jun 05, 2021•8 min
Send a text Throughout the American West, regular troops delivered state-sanctioned violence to execute United States law and policy. To accomplish this task the US military established multiple forts to supply military troops to punish Indian plundering, drive specific tribes onto legitimate reservations, or force Indians to the treaty table. The Wild West Podcast proudly presents Military Forts, part five of Trails, Forts, Treaties, and Indian Wars. In part five narrated by Brad Smalley, a des...
Jun 02, 2021•18 min
Send us Fan Mail In May of 1872, Richard Irving Dodge takes a wagon to a high point above the Kansas plains called Pawnee Rock. The story written and produced by Mike King provides a clear description of the great southern herd coming north for the summer grass. This herd of buffalo was no less than four hundred and eighty thousand in number as they cross the Kansas plain. While on Pawnee Rock, the future commander of Fort Dodge reflects on a time when he and his men held off a massive buffalo c...
May 27, 2021•13 min
Send a text Ready to take a thrilling ride into the heart of the Wild West? We’ve got a tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat. A simple dispute over an alleged theft spiraled into a full-blown feud between Jim Masterson and AJ Peacock, altering the lives of those involved and the future of Dodge City forever. We’re bringing you the inside story, complete with the lively saloons and bustling gambling houses where these events unfolded. Our journey takes us from a tension-filled encount...
May 20, 2021•27 min
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to history as you've never heard it before! Promising tales of lawlessness and bravery, our Wild West Podcast takes you on a riveting journey to the notorious frontier town of Dodge City, Kansas. Founded on hunger for wealth, regulated by gunfighters, and straddling the law, this city was the playground of buffalo hunters and cattle drovers. As citizens grit their teeth and tolerated the violence for the promise of fortunes, law enforcement was encouraged to turn a blind...
May 16, 2021•4 min
Send a text Ham Bell of Dodge City Kansas, is a notable legend. He is recognized for his frontier spirit, and his ability to create. He was an entrepreneur; a person who was defined by his willingness to risk loss in order to improve the quality of life for others. Ham Bell had been born July 31, 1853 Hannibal Boettler Beltz in Washington County, Maryland. When he was nine, he and two siblings became orphans. Five years later, after living with an uncle, he set off on his own. Ham Bell made Dodg...
May 15, 2021•8 min
Send a text The purpose of this podcast is to tell the story of Bill Tilghman, and his Buffalo Days. Tilghman was among the first white men to locate a buffalo hunting camp on the extreme southwestern border of Barbour County, Kansas. The camp was only a few miles north of the boundary line between Kansas and the Indian Territory. An Indian uprising lasting more than a year had been put down the year previous by General Custer, and, as a natural consequence, the Indians who had taken part in the...
Apr 28, 2021•12 min
Send a text Emanuel Dubbs has an encounter with Billy Brooks. Among the many lawless characters, who in the beginning drifted into Dodge City, was Billy Brooks. Brooks was a shabby character sporting a narrow mustache with a long rounded face trimmed out with a Van Dyke goatee. Brooks roamed about the town in a dark cloth coat. He brandished two revolvers well insight of those he chose to intimidate. He wore a tall circular crowned black hat supported by a collarless linen shirt. This slipshod d...
Apr 27, 2021•7 min
Send us Fan Mail Wild West Podcast proudly presents Treaties chapter four of Trails, Forts Treaties, and Indian Wars . For the Southern Plains tribes, the Comanche, the Kiowa, the Southern Cheyenne, and the Arapahoe, there were three major peace agreements. These agreements attempted to keep Indians off the immigration and rail routes along with the cattle grazing lands in Texas and Kansas settlement areas. This is the story of those agreements leading up to the Plains Indian Wars of 1868. ALSO ...
Mar 13, 2021•11 min
Send us Fan Mail Wild West Podcast proudly presents The Battle of Beecher Island, Part II. (You can purchase the book Trails, Forts Treaties, and Indian Wars now on sale for a limited time at Amazon.com .) In part two of the Battle of Beecher Island, Jack Stilwell tells the story of how Roman Nose leads the second attack against a small force of military scouts at the Arickaree fork of the Republican River. The mission was under the command of Major Forsyth, who received information that Indians...
Mar 11, 2021•17 min
Send a text The following story is based on Volume VII of the Kansas Historical Society 1926 - 1928 collections edited by William Elsey Connelley on the Life of George W. Brown. Prepare to traverse the annals of history as we follow young Jack Stilwell, a 17-year-old scout, through the violent clashes of the Central Plains Indian Wars. Strap in as we chase down war parties with Colonel George A Forsyth and his band of Hardy Frontiersmen, crossing borders and battlefields in a thrilling rollercoa...
Feb 04, 2021•19 min
Send a text Wild West Podcast proudly presents Trail, Forts, Treaties, and Indian Wars a new book by Mike King. You can purchase the book and play the audio version through Wild West Podcast or by scanning the QR code below each chapter. Trails, Forts Treaties, and Indian Wars are based on true accounts in early Kansas history. The illustrated book offers 149 pages and is narrated by Brad Smalley. The book is now on sale for a limited time at Amazon.com . Support the show If you'd like to buy on...
Feb 02, 2021•2 min
Send a text The railways pushed westward across buffalo country and the Texas cattle drives came up from the South. The Texas cattlemen drove their cattle to the railheads in Kansas and overnight cattle towns like Abilene sprung civilization, profit, and vice out of the Kansas prairie. The following is a first-person account of George W. Brown and what it was like in western Kansas as a freighter, drover, buffalo hunter, and Indian scout. George W. Brown tells how he joins the times' growing com...
Jan 02, 2021•15 min
Send a text Ever wondered about the untamed wild of America's early expansion years? Buckle up and prepare for a thrilling journey along the historic Santa Fe Trail, the first commercial highway in America, as we follow William Beknell's footsteps. This daring trader embarked on an audacious five-month expedition, risking it all for a shot at prosperity in Mexico. His journey sparked the birth of the Santa Fe Trail, a lifeline for countless traders, pioneers, and the military alike. Today's epis...
Nov 02, 2020•27 min
Send us Fan Mail The Wild West Podcast proudly presents the third of a five-part series on the early Cheyenne Indian wars from 1857 to the Sheridan winter campaign of 1868. In part three of the series, “The Cheyenne Campaign of 1857” is the historical accounts of the first actual campaign against the Plains Indians - known as the Battle of Solomon Fork. This little-known clash with the Cheyenne Indians took place in northwest Kansas, near present-day Penokee, in Graham County, Kansas. Order Book...
Oct 25, 2020•36 min
Send a text Wild West Podcast proudly presents part two of the “Early Kansas Trails.” Kansas probably has more frontier trails than any other state, being the jumping-off point during westward expansion. In addition to the emigrant trails to the West, including the Santa Fe Trails, Smoky Hill Trail, and the Cannon Ball Stagecoach Road. Kansas also provided several military trails that connected the many Forts. One such trail was the Butterfield Overland Dispatch established in 1865. Support the ...
Sep 24, 2020•13 min
Send a text This is the true historical account of the second battle of Adobe Walls. On June 5, 1874, Hanrahan and a party of hunters departed Dodge City for Adobe Walls. The Indians on the Texas plains did not like the occupation of the hunters in the area, especially when they began killing off their buffalo for the sale of hides. The Battle of Adobe Walls fought on June 27, 1874, between the Comanche force of 700 and a group of 28 bison hunters defending the settlement. Comanche Chief Quanah ...
Sep 10, 2020•35 min
Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered what would happen when a hardened cowboy crosses paths with a notorious gang? Get ready to ride into the Wild West with Buck Laramie, the brave protagonist of the gripping story, "Killer Unmasked." Left to face Eli Harrison's gang alone, Buck puts everything on the line to protect Bob Anders. However, a shocking revelation awaits him - the infamous Killer Rollins is responsible for his brother's death. But fear not! Buck's good friend, Slim Jones, and the sheriff s...
May 09, 2020•18 min
Send us Fan Mail Ready to venture into the heart of the Wild West? Join us on an adrenaline-filled journey through the gripping adventures of Buck Laramie – the protagonist of the classic Western tale "Boot Hill Payoff." We'll take you through his high-stakes encounters with ruthless outlaws and thrilling rescues. This is a rollicking ride you won't want to miss as we explore how our hero, aided by his trustworthy buddy, Slim Jones, and a brave squadron of punchers, leverages cunning strategies ...
May 07, 2020•15 min
Send a text Get ready for a thrilling ride into the Wild West! Brace yourselves as we bring to life the riveting tale of "Bottle Up," an unsold submission by Chandler Whipple, later reimagined by the legendary Robert E. Howard. We trail Laramie, a rugged protagonist, on a daring mission; his aim - to bottle up a canyon entrance and trap a gang of outlaws. As the story unfolds, we witness Laramie's audacious tactics to take down a guard and block the tunnel. The climax? An adrenaline-pumping shoo...
May 01, 2020•11 min
Send us Fan Mail Get ready to gallop into the heart of the Wild West! Are you curious about the tale that had the October 1935 readers of Western Aces on tenterhooks? We're set to unravel the thrilling narrative of "String Him Up", where we ride alongside Laramie as he battles a mob and the machinations of outlaws in the town of San Leon. Discover the suspenseful chase scene and the unexpected saviour in the form of Judy Anders. We're deep-diving into the mystery surrounding Buck's return and hi...
Apr 30, 2020•9 min
Send us Fan Mail Imagine, a gnarled hand on a gun, a heart pounding in your chest, and a looming decision that could mean life or death. That's the harsh reality for Laramy, our protagonist in the thrilling western tale, "The Last Ride," first published in 1935. Stand by his side as he faces a deadly confrontation with a gang of outlaws, only to discover the life he's taken was an innocent youth's. This harsh revelation sends shockwaves through the storyline - a stark reminder of the bleak reper...
Apr 28, 2020•11 min
Send a text Ever wondered what happens when an old cowboy decides to play detective? Brace yourselves for a thrilling ride as we journey through the wild landscapes of the West, following the savvy cowboy, Laramie, on a daring mission in "Sidewinder Ramrod." Published in Western Aces in 1935, this riveting tale takes a dramatic twist as Laramie is captured and held at gunpoint. Who are his captors and how is our hero going to get out of this precarious situation? Stay tuned to find out! Hold you...
Apr 28, 2020•14 min
Send a text Ever wondered what it's like to walk in the dusty cowboy boots of a Wild West hero? Buckle up, partner, we're riding alongside Laramie on his relentless quest for justice. As we pull back the saloon doors on 'Trigger Debt,' an enthralling tale from the 1935 issue of Western Aces, we're thrust into a world of somber revenge, notorious gangs, and chilling revelations. From Waters' Box W ranch to the ominous hideout in the Diablos, we're navigating the rugged landscapes of the Wild West...
Apr 27, 2020•13 min
