Wild West Podcast
Michael King/Brad Smalley
Welcome to the Wild West Podcast, winner of the 2026 Best of Western Podcast award, where fact and legend merge. We present the true accounts of individuals who settled in towns 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 as...
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Nelson Miles's 1874 Southern Plains Campaign
Send us Fan MailIn August 1874, Colonel Nelson Miles launched an expedition from Fort Dodge into the Texas Panhandle to ...
Ambush on the Prairie: The German Family Tragedy and Rescue
Send us Fan MailOn September 11, 1874, the John German family was journeying westward toward Colorado along the Smoky Hi...
Beyond the Ambush: Retelling the German Family Captivity Featuring Scott Dean
Send us Fan MailThis podcast episode explores the September 11, 1874 German family ambush near Fort Wallace, Kansas, dur...
Audiobook CHAPTER 7: Life in the Lodges
Send us Fan MailArriving at the sprawling Cheyenne encampment amidst the horrors of their family’s murder, Catherine and...
Audiobook CHAPTER 6: The Rescue at McClellan Creek
Send us Fan MailLieutenant Frank D. Baldwin led a ferocious, five-hour cavalry and infantry assault against a Cheyenne c...
Audiobook CHAPTER 5 Abandoned on McClellan Creek
Send us Fan MailIn late September 1874, as General Miles’s cavalry closes in, a fleeing Cheyenne raiding party abruptly ...
Audiobook CHAPTER 4 Into the Staked Plains
Send us Fan MailFollowing the violent destruction of their family's homestead in Kansas, the German sisters—Catherine, S...
Audiobook CHAPTER 3: Dawn on the Smoky Hill
Send us Fan MailOn the cold, frosty morning of September 11, 1874, the German family's journey across the windswept flat...
Audiobook CHAPTER 2 The Prairie Trail
Send us Fan MailOn a sweltering September afternoon in 1874, the exhausted German family trudges along the abandoned Smo...
A Voice from the Kansas Frontier
Send us Fan MailStep beyond official military dispatches to uncover the harrowing, forgotten world of the 19th-century f...
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