Blood, Dust, and Defiance: The Wagon Ring of Fire
Send us Fan Mail In this gripping final episode of our Wild West Podcast series, the sun-scorched plains of the Texas Panhandle erupt into a...
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Nelson Miles's 1874 Southern Plains Campaign
Send us Fan Mail In August 1874, Colonel Nelson Miles launched an expedition from Fort Dodge into the Texas Panhandle to force hostile tribe...
Ambush on the Prairie: The German Family Tragedy and Rescue
Send us Fan Mail On September 11, 1874, the John German family was journeying westward toward Colorado along the Smoky Hill River route in K...
Beyond the Ambush: Retelling the German Family Captivity Featuring Scott Dean
Send us Fan Mail This podcast episode explores the September 11, 1874 German family ambush near Fort Wallace, Kansas, during the Red River W...
Audiobook CHAPTER 7: Life in the Lodges
Send us Fan Mail Arriving at the sprawling Cheyenne encampment amidst the horrors of their family’s murder, Catherine and Sophia are immedia...
Audiobook CHAPTER 6: The Rescue at McClellan Creek
Send us Fan Mail Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin led a ferocious, five-hour cavalry and infantry assault against a Cheyenne camp at McClellan Cr...
Audiobook CHAPTER 5 Abandoned on McClellan Creek
Send us Fan Mail In late September 1874, as General Miles’s cavalry closes in, a fleeing Cheyenne raiding party abruptly abandons young Juli...
Audiobook CHAPTER 4 Into the Staked Plains
Send us Fan Mail Following the violent destruction of their family's homestead in Kansas, the German sisters—Catherine, Sophia, Julia, and A...
Audiobook CHAPTER 3: Dawn on the Smoky Hill
Send us Fan Mail On the cold, frosty morning of September 11, 1874, the German family's journey across the windswept flats of Logan County,...
Audiobook CHAPTER 2 The Prairie Trail
Send us Fan Mail On a sweltering September afternoon in 1874, the exhausted German family trudges along the abandoned Smoky Hill stage road...
A Voice from the Kansas Frontier
Send us Fan Mail Step beyond official military dispatches to uncover the harrowing, forgotten world of the 19th-century frontier wife. In la...
Chapter One: The Shadow of the Blue Ridge
Send us Fan Mail A Legacy of Hardship and Hope In the spring of 1870, the impoverished German family—led by Civil War veteran John German an...
Echoes of the High Plains:
Send us Fan Mail Step into the brutal reality of the 1874 High Plains with the debut episode of The German Sisters: A Story of Survival, a g...
Unraveling the True Frontier: The Hidden Legacy of the Texas Longhorn
Send us Fan Mail Step into the captivating world of the American frontier, where history, grit, and surprising truths converge to reshape ev...
Five Thousand Strong: Caught in the Stampede
Send us Fan Mail Imagine standing atop Pawnee Rock in May of 1872, looking out over the vast, windswept plains of Kansas. As far as the eye...
"Whiskey, Wagons, and Warning Shots: The Birth of Buffalo City”
Send us Fan Mail Journey into the raw, untamed frontier of June 1872 with former buffalo hunter turned saloon owner George W. Brown. In this...
Buffalo Days: The Prairie Dog Business
Send us Fan Mail Step back in time to the summer of 1872 and experience the raw, untamed spirit of the American frontier. Narrated through t...
Uncover the Truth of the Trail: The Wild West Podcast Takes You Inside Dodge City’s Longhorn Legacy!
Send us Fan Mail Saddle up and tune in to this thrilling episode of the Wild West Podcast, hosted by Brad Smalley! The show shines a spotlig...
Part 6: Blood, Mud, and Wasted Hides
Send us Fan Mail In episode 6 of Buffalo Days, the narrative opens with a sudden and intense prairie storm that triggers a massive buffalo s...
Part 5: The Sharpshooter's Stand
Send us Fan Mail Before sunrise, Josiah Wright Mooar sets out with Jim White to learn the technique of buffalo hunting from a stand. Moving...