Luke McGlue and the Keely Cure: A Halloween Story
Send us Fan Mail Get ready for a chilling walk down memory lane as we take you on a ghostly journey through Dodge City with our mischievous...
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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 f...
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Beyond the Legend: The True History of the Frontier
Send us Fan Mail In November 2026, The Wild West Podcast will launch a new month-long series, Beyond the Legend: The True History of the Fro...
The Curse of Outlaw Yantis
Send us Fan Mail Halloween night in Spearville, Kansas, arrived with a blizzard so dense it erased the horizon and pressed the cold into the...
The Secret of the Sackett Tapes
Send us Fan Mail The script tells the chilling story of a 1958 archival discovery at Fort Hays State University, where a graduate assistant...
"The Phantom of the Prairie Ditch"
Send us Fan Mail This special Halloween episode of the Wild West Podcast, narrated by Brad Smalley, explores the dark history and haunting o...
The Cholera Ghost of Fort Dodge!
Send us Fan Mail In the summer of 1867, a terrifying cholera epidemic swept through Fort Dodge, Kansas, striking down healthy men by dusk an...
Shadows on the Deadline: The Search for Ed Masterson's Graveside
Send us Fan Mail The wind that sweeps across the Kansas plains in early April is sharp enough to peel paint from the clapboard facades of Do...
The Secret of the Stone House: Ghost Stories
Send us Fan Mail On the edge of the prairie, where the wind could strip paint from a fence post and the sun baked the grass to brittle straw...
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...
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...