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Welcome to Wild West podcast where fact and legend merge. The Wild West Podcast presents the true accounts of individuals, who settled in a town 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 now as we take you back in history, to the legends of the Wild West.
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Battle of Cimarron
One of the last of the county-seat wars was that of Cimarron vs. Ingalls. The stories of the different county-seat wars that marked the history of the development of western Kansas, differed each from the other, but there was one point of resemblance common to them all. All of them were distinguished by a disregard of honor and a willingness on the part of both parties to the contest to violate about every civil and moral law in order to win. The county-seat war in Gray County did not differ in that respect from the others, but it had wider ramifications and elements of almost romance that distinguished it from all the rest.
A New Bully in Town: The Emanuel Dubbs Story
This is a true story based on the book “Pioneer Days in the Southwest” written by Michael King and narrated by Brad Smalley. The story is a personal account of Emanuel Dubbs of his Personal Reminiscences of the Pioneer days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879; a thrilling description of buffalo hunting, Indian fighting and massacres, cowboy life and home building. The story begins in 1871 as Dubbs and his wife arrive in Newton Kansas only to find themselves among the roughest characters known to the American West.
A Sports Mans Paradise: The Billy Dixon Story
THE BUFFALO HUNTERS 1872
From the Swarms Comes the Beast of Civilization: The Story of Richard Dodge
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
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A Speculated Turn of Mind
George W. "Hoodoo" Brown
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At the age of eighteen, George Brown volunteered for service in the Union Army and served with the 3rd Regiment of Missouri Volunteers. Following his discharge as an army scout, he went west to Denver where he took up buffalo hunting to supply army posts with meat. Brown then started killing Buffalo for hides on the Kansas plains north of the Arkansas River.
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“A Speculative Turn of Mind” written by Mike King and narrated by Brad Smalley is a true historical account of two hunters in August of 1872 following a large herd of buffalo from Fort Wallace into the Arkansas River Valley. During their travel Prairie Dog Marrow tells a humorous story on how he got his name. Further down the trail Hoodoo Brown meets up with George Hover who persuades him to go into the saloon business. The story ends in one of the first gunfights in Dodge City between a gambler by the name of Moorehouse and Charlie Langford.
A Sportsman’s Paradise: The Story of Billy Dixon
Billy Dixon
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Situated in the southwest quarter of Kansas, comprised an unclaimed region whose only settlement denoted a handful of soldiers providing protection for wagon trains. With Indian hostilities continuing into 1870 the fort remained a man made fixture on a vast empty landscape. Given the site's location, vast buffalo ranges, adjoining trail and approaching the southernmost point of the Santa Fe line provided a measure of commercial promise for this region.
