Old West Stories+ Lonesome Dove & Many More Episodes

🎙️ SHOW NOTES THE NIGHT TWO WESTERN LEGENDS -BAT MASTERSON AND O. HENRY- MET IN A MANHATTAN SALOON — 1904 1001 Stories From the Old West / 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries/1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales In 1904, two remarkable American figures, both exiles from the west, were living and working within just a few blocks of each other in New York City: Bat Masterson, the famed lawman of Dodge City turned sportswriter, and O. Henry, the rising literary star whose short stories captur...

🎙️ SHOW NOTES — 1001 Heroes, Legends, History & Mysteries Remembering Legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer America 250: Famous Lawmen In this episode, Jon takes listeners deep into the life and legacy of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, one of the most formidable and complex lawmen in American history. Long before he became known nationwide for tracking down Bonnie and Clyde, Hamer spent decades walking the razor’s edge between frontier justice and the rapidly modernizing world of the early 20th century....

Journey with me back to 1938 as a young couple named Mike and Leone Goulding, having invested in a trading post in Navaho Country and fallen in love with the beautiful landscape and the Navaho people who populated what we call Monument Valley Utah/Arizona today- saved their pennies and photos and took a long road trip to Hollywood to find director John Ford and convince him that their valley would be the ideal place to film his next western movie, despite there being no lodging, no restaurants, ...

By 1880 the ATS&F Railroad had laid tracks from Kansas City to California- and people and products were starting to move through the still untamed west. Food along the way, however, was a spotty proposition, and the railroad was faced with a...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries