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- 3 weeks ago24 min
A Promise Across The Plains
Send us Fan Mail A man rides east through New Mexico with a coffin in his wagon, charcoal packed tight to fight decay, because his dying friend asked for one last mercy: don’t bury me in a foreign place. That single promise opens the door to the full, complicated life of Charles Goodnight, one of the most important names in Texas Panhandle history and a key figure of the American cattle frontier. We trace Goodnight’s rise from a hard-schooled teenager on the edge of the Brazos Bottoms to a T...
- Apr 15, 202624 min
Fanning The Hammer Is A Great Way To Lose
Send us Fan Mail The Wild West didn’t run on courage alone. It ran on nerve, repetition, and a cold understanding that “the law” often arrived as a Colt revolver, not a badge. We take you into the real world behind the legends of Old West gunfighters, using sharp stories and historical color drawn from Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal by Stuart M. Lake, plus hard-edged accounts connected to Bat Masterson and Wild Bill Hickok. We start with the famous Hickok vs Tutt gunfight in Springfield, Misso...
- Apr 13, 202617 min
A Punitive March Turns Into A Saber Charge On The Kansas Frontier
Send us Fan Mail A river can look calm and still be a trap. We drop into the Solomon River valley in 1857, where the U.S. Army launches what many consider the first true campaign against the Plains Indians in this series: the Cheyenne Campaign of 1857, better known as the Battle of Solomon Fork in northwest Kansas. The stakes are bigger than a single clash. This is the collision between a mobile Cheyenne world built on buffalo hunting, raiding, and shifting boundaries and a United States dete...
- Apr 12, 20266 min
"Jeb" Stuart's Letter About The Battle of Solomon’s Fork
Send us Fan Mail A 17-day march ends with a shock of movement on the open Plains: roughly 300 Cheyenne warriors in line of battle and the US cavalry scrambling to form up before the infantry can even arrive. That’s the doorstep of the Battle of Solomon Fork, the 1857 Cheyenne Campaign, and the third chapter in our five-part series on the early Cheyenne Indian Wars leading toward the Sheridan Winter Campaign era. We lean on a gripping primary source, a letter written from camp on Solomon’s Fo...
- Apr 10, 20263 min
A Handful Of Men Mark The Gateway West
Send us Fan Mail Mud, rain, and a riverbank so soft every step sinks, that’s where Fort Dodge begins. We rewind to April 10, 1865, and follow Captain Henry Pearce and a tired group of soldiers as they plant a military post on the Arkansas River while most of the country’s attention is fixed on the war’s end in Virginia. This is Kansas frontier history at ground level, where “progress” sounds like shovels scraping clay and feels like cold water pooling on the floor. We talk through what the e...
- Apr 9, 202613 min
The Killing Of Ed: April 9, 1878
Send us Fan Mail Dodge City doesn’t just welcome the cattle drives; it feeds on them. When the herds arrive, so do the wages, the whiskey, the gambling, and the dance halls, and the town’s “wide open” side of the tracks turns into a nightly test of nerve for anyone wearing a badge. We tell the story of one of those nights, when Deputy Marshal Ed Masterson and Assistant Marshal Nat Haywood walk their beat down Front Street and hear shots coming from the Lady Gay. What follows is a tense, step...
- Apr 9, 20269 min
What Does It Take To Turn Chaos Into Law
Send us Fan Mail A county doesn’t feel “real” until paperwork can beat chaos, and Ford County’s origin story proves it. We head back to April 5, 1873, when Kansas Governor Thomas Osborne signs the proclamation that creates Ford County and forces Dodge City to start acting like a place with a future, not just a boomtown with a rail line and a trail of grudges. We walk through why that signature matters: the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad has pushed west, money is moving in freight and...
- Apr 6, 20260 min
We’ve got some big news from the frontier!
Send us Fan Mail We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Wild West Podcast has been ranked #3 on PodRanker’s list of the Top 15 Best Western Podcasts of 2026! A huge thank you to our incredible listeners for riding along with us every week. Whether we’re diving into the legends of outlaws, the grit of the prairie, or the hidden history of the Old West, your support is what keeps our spurs jingling! If you haven't tuned in yet, now is the perfect time to head over to our campfire and...
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About 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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