Dr. History's Tales of the Old West

Lola Montez and Lotta Crabtree danced and sang during the gold rush in California. They entertained thousands of lonely miners who showered them with gold nuggets and coins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Black Jack Ketchum's ghost, a headless horseman and a legless horseman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Millions in buried and lost treasure. Six short stories of gold never found and where you can go look. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce were losing their homeland. Two of the battles that took place along their attempted escape to Canada was the White Bird Battle and the Battle of the Big Hole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charles Bolton, a gentleman, robbed over two dozen stagecoaches without firing a single shot. He left poetry signed, "Black Bart". He was also a model prisoner in San Quentin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He was the most wanted man in several states and Canada. He spent nearly half his life in prison, escaping several times. Each time he was released from prison he continued his life of crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Military doctors developed new methods for removing arrow heads. These brave men performed surgery by candlelight while dodging arrows and bullets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Indians and Army both used tactics that sometimes favored the Indians, other times the Army. The Indians just wanted to preserve their way of life. The government wanted the land and all Indians on reservations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The man who killed the man who killed Jesse James. Ed Kelly killed Bob Ford who killed Jesse James. So who killed Ed Kelly and why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Train robbers didn't count on Sheriff Bucky O'Nelll and posse to chase them so far. Four states, several weeks and $8000 later he brought them in for trial. He also served with the "Rough Riders" in Cuba. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He was elected to represent all free-roaming Sioux and defeated the best army in the world at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He was brave, wise, generous, and a legend among his people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The War of 1812 was our "2nd" battle for Independence. Fort McHenry was where Francis Scott Key witnessed bombing that inspired our National Anthem. Also, how our flag got the name, "Old Glory". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill started the gold rush. Millions in gold were discovered, not just in California, but Colorado, Montana, and most of the western states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Organized in 1823, they had a questionable reputation, but survived off and on for many years. Re organized for good in 1935, they are the elite in law enforcement and respected around the world. Hollywood's portrayal of gunmen is not accurate, here you will read of famous and little known men who shaped the old west, some for good and others not so good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There was competition between fur trappers, until it came to fighting Indians. Struck in the head and with two arrows in his back, Jim Bridger survived the battle, but carried an arrow head in his back for three years. He was one of the greatest explorers and trappers, a legend in his own time. One of the most important scouts and guides in the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lone travelers in the old west faced many dangers, some simply vanished and were never seen or heard from again. Dinner at the Bender's Inn could prove to be your last meal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eleanora Dumont was a successful gambler and parlor owner. Not so lucky in love nor was her late husband. Her unusual hair growth earned her the name, "Madam Moustache" Note: Recording error for the first part of this podacast. Women in the old west could be heroines, robbers or killers, they were legends larger than life and were sometimes hung. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jefferson "Soapy" Smith was slick, selling $5 bars of soap, a fake telegraph office, and a desire to be the first thief in Alaska. A very proper gentleman while robbing miners, but in the end justice was served. The Klondike lured thousands in search of gold, so how did we get Alaska? The Chilkoot Trail and Skagway is part of the story, but there are many more than these. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Young Andy Adams first cattle drive with 3200 head, from Mexico to Montana in six months. Of all the dangers on the trail the stampede could be the deadliest. The third week out a horse stumbled, and the stampede was on. Other dangers included indians, wild cattle, flooded river crossings, quick sand, lack of water and feed, wild horses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum was a bank robber, killer, gang leader who hooked up with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch for a short time. He wanted to make history by robbing a train by himself. He lost his head in the end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mountain man, trapper, Hugh Glass was attacked by a grizzly bear. Abandoned, left for dead, revenge drove him to survive to kill Jim Bridger. Part of Bridger's life he would like to forget. Bridger was legend, a scout, guide, explorer, one of the most important men in shaping the old west. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Folk medicine dates back centuries and has passed on for generations. On the frontier, the family doctor was the housewife, or grandma, or neighbor. The homestead mother was the key to health in the old west. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A wagon train was traveling from Missouri in 1861 on the Oregon Trail. In Idaho they took the California trail when disaster struck. Later, another smaller wagon train was also attacked with a much better outcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

They wanted to make history by robbing two banks at the same time. When the dust settled there were four citizens dead and four robbers dead. Listen to their story and find out what they did wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He became famous for 30 seconds at the Gunfight at the OK corral. But what happened in his later years. He traveled all over the west trying different business ventures that usually didn't work. This is his story of his Alaskan business dealings, his fortune and misfortune in the gold fields. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mose Burris was an American Indian stickball champion, Marshall, and sharpshooter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some inventions have never been improved, the canoe, the moccasin, the snowshoe, the tepee and the bow and arrow. Did they use poisoned arrows or practice for battle? Did they use a lasso? And what happened when they began getting guns? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He was born on the Missouri with the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sent to school by Clark, taken in by a German Prince, he studied and traveled 6 years in Europe. A trapper, mountain man, guide, trader, and interpreter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 9 year old indian boy taken from his family by Geronimo. Tried by fire, walking on embers, he became a blood brother. He lived his life as an Apache warrior and rode with Geronimo. He eventually returned to his family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He trained bears and traveled with P.T. Barnum. The tame weren't so tame, as his body was covered with scars when things went wrong. The mountain man, miner, showman and museum owner's life was made into a movie many years later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A small group of mountain men were trapped by a band of Blackfeet indians. It looked like the end, as they were outnumbered. An old Iroquois trapper decided he was going out in style. A very unusual charge was made by this man that saved the day. Russell was a true mountain man, trapper and explorer in the Northwest. One of the best accounts of a fur trapper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

San Francisco to Kansas, Ben Holladay had to save his Overland Express. His government contract was on the line. The only thing to save it was to make the fastest run across the county in his stagecoach. Did he make it? Listen to see! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stick ball, hoop and pole, rock football, underwater volleyball, swimming and running, spears that might accidentally take out your opponent. Games were fierce and could mean death or slavery to the loser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices