Just a few miles from where our regular Bill O’Neal lives, back in 1870 Maurice Barrymore (the great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore) was shot in a gunfight. Bill tells us all about it.
In the late 1800’s Fort Union, just north of Las Vegas, New Mexico, was the supply fort on the Santa Fe Trail for that whole section of the Southwest. Dakota talks to Chief of Interpretation, Frank Torres about this fort.
Fort Union, NM - past
Fort Union, NM - present
We're also talking to a couple of friends, Michael DuCharme and Jay Redfeather, from a venue that we've been watching develop over the last few years. It's Wild West Junction in Williams, Arizona.
Dakota standing in front of a false front office of
Chronicle of the Old West at Wild West Junction in Williams, AZ.
This week we were able to work in a couple of songs (one by Juni Fisher and one by Vint & Mathilda) as well as a Living the Code story by Dakota.
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September 17 - 23
While in South Dakota we went to a unique event outside of Wall called “The Artist’s Ride.” This week’s show takes place there.
We start with conversations with the “Boys from Illinois,” a group of mountain men re-enactors. Then we move to a group of men from Kansas who have the ability to dress in all styles of characters from the 1800’s and look the part.
We’re privileged to spend the second half of the show talking to Beverly Hawk a Lakota Indian. Beverly tells us about what it was like to be an Indian woman in the late 1800’s.
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September 10 - 16
This week’s show takes place in South Dakota and Kansas. We’ll start things off with a conversation with saddle maker and cowboy Jerry Croft.
Then we’ll visit an 1800’s Indian buffalo jump. A buffalo jump is a place where the Indians herded buffalo off a cliff to get food for the winter.
The Excavation Unit at the Vore Buffalo Jump
During the second half of the show we’ll be giving Jim MacGregor a phone call to talk about a Kansas family by the name of the Benders. The Benders were mass murderers.
People from all over the region gathered at the Bender property as a search for bodies was carried out. This Harper's Weekly sketch was made from a photo by a local photographer.
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September 3 - 9
This week we’re going to spend the hour visiting museums in South Dakota.
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August 27 - September 2
This week’s show takes place in Medora, North Dakota. Medora is known as the location of Theodore Roosevelt’s two Bad Lands ranches. It’s also where the Marquis de Mores attempted to send processed beef back east.
Marquis de Mores
Marquis de Mores Chateau
We talk to locals about Theodore Roosevelt’s and the Marquis’ experience in Medora.
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