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⭐ 1001 STORIES FROM THE OLD WEST THE CHEROKEE STRIP — AND HOW THE SOONERS GOT THEIR NAME Podcast Show Notes ⭐ Episode Summary In this episode, Jon Hagadorn takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the prairies of northern Oklahoma — from the roar of modern Sooners football to the thunder of hooves on September 16, 1893, when more than 100,000 settlers charged into the Cherokee Strip in the largest land run in American history. You’ll learn how the Cherokee originally received the land, h...

1001 Stories From the Old West Show Notes – “The Taking of Matilda Lockhart” The Taking of Matilda Lockhart is an original, fully documented true story written and narrated by Jon Hagadorn for 1001 Stories From the Old West. This episode brings listeners face‑to‑face with the brutal reality of frontier life in early Texas — a world where danger was constant, survival was uncertain, and families lived on the thin edge between civilization and wilderness. The story follows the Lockhart family o...

1001 Stories From the Old West Episode Title: The Last Free Apache Show Notes This episode tells the remarkable true story of the final Apache bands who refused to surrender after Geronimo laid down his weapons in 1886 — small groups who slipped into the vast Sierra Madre of northern Mexico and continued living by the old ways long after the frontier had supposedly closed. Episode Summary When Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson Miles, the U.S. government promised fair treatment — promises t...

In chapter 7 of Francis Parkman's "Oregon Trail" , which was titled "The Buffalo", I promised this article from Teddy Roosevelt's Presidential library. Its titled "Did Theodore Roosevelt Save the Bison?"- and the answer follows. Check out www.bestof1001stories.com for all 12 of our 1001 Podcasts!

A young man attending an Eastern college has a rare opportunity to travel to Texas to check on a property investment outside of San Antonio and finds he loves the country and the lifestyle, soon planning how he will start a ranch.His parents, who sent...

Legend has it that there was one man who actually survived the massacre of Custer's company- and this is his story.

This is the true western story of a passel of Texas brothers who fought against a crooked justice system. The original story of the Marlowes became a frontier novel which served as the basis for the John Wayne film 'The Sons of Katie Elder', which...

Wyatt Earp vows to hunt down the killers of his brother Morgan.   Check ourt our new website at and enjoy over 2500 episodes from 11 1001 podcasts!

The true story of the shootout between the Earps and the Clantons in tombstone AZ-n stay tuned for PT 3 The Vendetta

In part one of Wyatt Earp, the man and the myth, we explore Earp's early life growing up in Iowa, his brothers leaving the farm to fight for the Union in 1861, his first jobs out west in California, then Cheyenne, his first marriage, the loss of his wife and child, then his troubled years after her death. Then we cover his leaving again for the west and becoming a lawman, and his work and friendship with Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and other notables of the time.

Billy Dixon's first-hand account of the attack on the Adobe Walls Trading post in the Texas Panhandle in 1874 found in chapeters 8 and 9 of 'The Life and Advwentures of Billy Dixon. Included: the story of the 27 and one woman who held off an Indian...

1001 Stories From The Old West

1001 Stories From The Old West

1001 Stories From The Old West

1001 Stories From The Old West

1001 Stories From The Old West

1001 Stories From The Old West Stories by Zane Grey

1001 Stories From The Old West

1001 Stories From The Old West Stories by Frederick Remington

1001 Stories From The Old West

1001 Stories From The Old West Andy Adams

1001 Stories From The Old West Stories by John Muir

1001 Stories From The Old West

1001 Stories From The Old West