Outlaws of Kansas came in all shapes, sizes, colors, and genders. Many outlaws started as lawmen and found low pay; many needed second jobs to survive. As a result, it was not unusual for outlaws to put on a badge, nor for admired lawmen to stray across the line and thus considerably raise their standard of living. Even today, since their stories first hit early American tabloids, Kansas's most notorious nineteenth-century outlaws have long been glorified as daring robbers and swashbuckling killers. Yet, in many ways, their narratives have been shaped in dime-store novels to fit the frontier exemplars of rugged identity and pioneering nature. By most conventions, Kansans love an underdog who stands against perceived tyranny. As a result, Kansans might overlook the crimes of the Outlaws and see only the romance of the rebel. Join Wild West Podcast as we delve into the lives of famous Kansas Outlaws. 

Wild West Podcast presents a new series entitled Buffalo Days. The series is about outfits of buffalo runners who traveled in and out of the Arkansas River Valley from 1870 to 1874 and is a collection of individual stories of how men became legends of their experiences, founded at times by luck but mostly on survival skills.

These stories of personal legends were established out of solid character and the will to endure, making them unique to American lore. Here are the hunters such as Charles Rath, Josiah Wright Mooar, Jim White, Thomas Nixon, HooDoo Brown, Bill Tilghman, Bat Masterson, and Billy Dixon. Click here to join the new series Buffalo Days. 

Join us for the Luke McGlue stories a Halloween treat for all our listeners. The Luke McGlue stories are founded upon a fictitious character but are based on true accounts. These are the stories of a mischief-maker by the name of Luke McGlue. The characters in these stories transcend the perceptiveness of their personality, the way the character might have perceived the realization of his times.
In the mid-1800s, the people of Dodge had a fictitious person, someone they could blame for all sorts of mayhem. His name was Luke McGlue. He was credited with many devious deeds. These wily deeds were concocted out of the antic minds of the first settlers of Dodge City. They were frontiersmen, doctors, lawyers, fraternity members, and gangsters. These Machiavellian actions aimed to lay down the severe conditions whereby an outsider became a group member – known as the Dodge City Gang.
Many of the gang members would pull a prank and then pass it off to another individual or a fictitious person named Luke McGlue. These are some of the stories of the mischief-makers of Dodge City, which take place from 1872 to 1880, a time when Dodge City Kansas was full of pranksters. Join us now as we take you back to the legends of the old west and the tall tales of the pranksters of Dodge City.