The Wild West Extravaganza

August 1903. The famous Annie Oakley is arrested in Chicago for theft, a crime committed in order to obtain money to fuel her cocaine habit. And what a headline that made. America’s original sweetheart, the tiny sharpshooter who once entertained kings and queens, now reduced to petty thievery. Wasn’t long before newspapers throughout the country began to report on this fall from grace. Enter in William Randolph Hearst, son of mining tycoon George Hearst, who ruled a media empire and had his eye on the white house. There was no story too sensational or salacious for him to print, the truth be damned. What happened when the darling of the Wild West Show goes to war with one of the most powerful men in the country? A man with very deep pockets and an army of Pinkertons? Did Annie Oakley even have a chance at clearing her name? Find out on this girl power episode of The Wild West Extravaganza! Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Obscure History | William Randolph Hearst’s Bloody Legacy https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vBSujGzkf6eXytfTwIjgp Texas History Lessons https://www.texashistorylessons.com/ Annie Oakley vs Hearst https://www.historynet.com/annie-oakley-vs-hearsts-worst.htm Why Annie Got Her Gun https://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/1996spring/Spring1996_CGAGE.php The Tragic Real-Life Story of Annie Oakley https://www.grunge.com/181925/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-annie-oakley/ Conversation with the Devil | Ray Wylie Hubbard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygTsN_sr4k8 Timesuck 219 | Annie Oakley https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rqHBvgvOdSdCjEiubJWFv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1849 a trader named James White decided to break from his wagon train and push on ahead with just his family and a few men. The outcome was about as bad as anything you could imagine; the men were dead, and the women taken captive. The subsequent rescue mission was led by none other than Kit Carson. But this time could the hero save the girl? Also, I rant about history! Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west: https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me: https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Tom Tobin & The Bloody Espinosas: https://www.wildwestextra.com/tobin/ Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Thunder-Carson-Conquest-American/dp/1400031109 Meat Eater Podcast | Hampton Sides: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-298-cooking-captain-cook Kit Carson’s Rescue Ride | True West Magazine: https://truewestmagazine.com/article/history-and-the-myth/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, ain’t that what they say? But what happens when it’s also a woman doing the scorning? And what happens if that hell is just El Paso, Texas? One helluva girl fight, that’s what! Join me as we take a look at Old West madam Fat Alice Abbot and the fight she got into with rival brothel owner, Etta Clark. This episode has a little bit of everything. Listener discretion advised! Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west: https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me: https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest What’s a “pubic arch”?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_arch Clash of the Mad Madams | True West Magazine: https://truewestmagazine.com/clash-of-the-mad-madams/ Big Nose George: https://www.wildwestextra.com/big-nose-george-wyoming-bandit/ The Battle of Beecher Island: https://www.wildwestextra.com/40-the-battle-of-beecher-island/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Parrot - aka Big Nose George – was a basic run-of-the-mill road agent. Trains, stagecoaches, general stores – they were all fair game for Big Nose and the boys. Sometimes he was successful and sometimes he wasn’t, but he was always down to try. Unfortunately for George the long arm of the law eventually caught up with the man; permanently and prematurely ending his outlaw career. And that’s only HALF the story! How many times did George have a noose placed around his neck before it finally stuck? What happens when a couple of old west sawbones get their hands on a criminal cadaver? And what’s all this have to do with nipple shoes? Find out on this Farrah Fawcett inspired episode of The Wild West Extravaganza! Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west: https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me: https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Who Were Those Masked Men? | Texas Observer: https://www.texasobserver.org/2552-who-were-those-masked-men/ A Grisly Frontier Tale | WyoHistory: https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/big-nose-george-grisly-frontier-tale The Grisly Tale of Big Nose George | Notes From the Frontier: https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/the-grisly-tale-of-big-nose-george Does Nose Size Matter? | BioMedCentral: https://bacandrology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12610-021-00121-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Clyman is a name that pops up consistently in all the books I’ve read on mountain men and fur trappers, but I never really dived into the guy until now. Veteran of the War of 1812, General Ashley’s 1824 Expedition, AND the Black Hawk War, as well as friend and contemporary to guys like Jedediah Smith, Broken Hand Fitzpatrick, Hugh Glass, and Jim Bridger. From the shinning mountains to the great plains to the high desert, from the wild and woolly days till the twilight of the west, Jim Clyman was THERE! And he most definitely had his fair share of close encounters of the historical kind! Donner Party ring a bell? LISTEN TO THE END FOR AN IMPORTANT UPDATE! Check out my website for more true tales from the wild west! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Contact me!!! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Subscribe or follow The Wild West Extravaganza WHEREVER you consumer audio! https://www.wildwestextra.com/follow/ Listen to my friends at Obscure History and Texas History Lessons!!!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7gpVCWNeSxwDpZGWdEMvsl https://www.texashistorylessons.com/ Journal of a Mountain Man by Win Blevins https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Mountain-Man-Clymans-Adventures/dp/069220380X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=jim+clyman&qid=1634536857&sr=8-2 How the Donner Party was Doomed by a Disastrous Shortcut https://www.history.com/news/donner-party-route-cannibalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's just no denying that Texas produced its fair share of stone-cold killers in the latter part of the 19th century. Men like John Wesley Hardin, King Fisher, Clay Allison, and of course the notorious Deacon Jim Miller. And then there’s Bill Longley, considered by some to be one of the deadliest gunmen of the west. A tall brooding shootist credited with 32 kills once described as the worst man in Texas. “I still alone tread the living land destitute of friends but damn the world and every sons of a bitch that don’t like me for I am a wolf, and it is my night to howl.” – Bill Longley Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Contact me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Listen to The Wild West Extravaganza WHEREVER you consume audio! https://www.wildwestextra.com/follow/ Listen to Obscure History!!!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7gpVCWNeSxwDpZGWdEMvsl Listen to Texas History Lessons!!! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/ Boastful Bill Longley https://www.historynet.com/boastful-bill-longley-cold-blooded-texas-killer.htm Bad Bill Longley https://truewestmagazine.com/bad-bill-longley-2/ Bill Longley DNA https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mistaken-myth-of-wild-bill/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the summer of 1877 Chief Joseph and the peaceful Nez Perce went to war with the U.S. Government in a running fight that spanned four states and 1,170 miles. Who was Chief Joseph? Why’d Buffalo Bill call him “the greatest Indian ever produced?” And why did the Nez Perce go to war? I’ve been looking forward to this episode for a long time so without further ado, let’s dive into Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War! Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Contact me! [email protected] https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Listen to The Wild West Extravaganza WHEREVER you consumer audio! https://www.wildwestextra.com/follow/ Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce by Kent Nerburn https://www.amazon.com/Chief-Joseph-Flight-Nez-Perce/dp/B07D8CNG6K/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=kent+nerburn&qid=1626877161&sr=8-6 Nez Perce War Battle Map https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nez_Perce_War_battle_map-1877.jpg Nez Perce War Timeline – University of Lethbridge https://www.ulethbridge.ca/lib/digitized_collections/ourheritage/index_page_stuff/Following_Trails/Chief_Joseph/Chief_Joseph_Timeline.html Aftermath of Nez Perce War – Nps.gov https://www.nps.gov/nepe/learn/historyculture/1877-aftermath.htm NezPerce.org https://nezperce.org/ That scene from 28 Weeks Later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVnz6hlC3pQ Daytime Smoker https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/1991.258.11 The Nez Perce continue fighting for their land https://www.wallowa.com/land-returned-to-nez-perce/article_0a4ec5ee-85bc-528b-95d8-52fabd2e729b.html Liver Eating Johnson Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr-fBiIdfGA Liver Eating Johnson Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rY3HyGEeVk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discovered sometime prior to 1952 in the Florida Mountains of Southwestern New Mexico, the “Last Stand Note” - written on a piece of tobacco paper and stuffed inside an empty shell case - reads as follows: This is our last shell and about 10 Indians left so our chances look slim, but we are going to take a chance. Yours truly, Wm Bonney. Did Billy the Kid REALLY write this note? Did he ever have any close encounters with the Apache? Find out all of this and more on this newest episode of the Wild West Extravaganza! Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Contact me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Billy the Kid and the Apaches – True West Magazine https://truewestmagazine.com/article/billy-the-kid-and-the-apaches/ The Last Stand Note https://www.oldwestevents.com/highlights/2019/1/18/last-stand-note-on-cigarette-paper-signed-wm-bonney Cooke’s Canyon https://www.desertusa.com/desert-new-mexico/cookes-canyon.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Felipe Espinosa and his younger brother Vivian were feeling bloody, the bodies were sure to follow. And in the spring and summer of 1863, there was certainly no shortage of bodies. Some victims were shot at long distances while others were casualties of more close-in work with blades or axe. And most were mutilated; beheaded, disemboweled, desecrated, or otherwise molested. After several failed attempts, the U.S. Army finally hired mountain man Tom Tobin to hunt down Felipe Espinosa. Tobin had been out west since he was a 14-year-old and had a unique set of skills that made him invaluable when it came to being a manhunter. Who were the Bloody Espinosa brothers? What caused their murderous tirade? Who was Tom Tobin and was he successful? My name’s Josh and your listening to the Wild West Extravaganza! Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me!!! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Listen to my episode of Texas History Lessons!!! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/jose-canales-and-the-texas-rangers-investigation-of-1919/ The Bloody Espinosas by Adam James Jones https://adamjamesjones.com/2010/12/14/the-real-story/ Out of Vengeance or Just Plain Madness, another great article by Adam James Jones https://www.historynet.com/vengeance-plain-madness-felipe-espinosa-led-murder-spree.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a Podcast Swap, hosted by my friend Michael from the podcast Texas History Lessons! After you give this a listen make sure you check out his website for the latest episode of Texas History Lessons - hosted by yours truly - on the 1919 Texas Ranger Investigation! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/jose-canales-and-the-texas-rangers-investigation-of-1919/ Any mention of the Wild West brings up many images that books and film have ingrained in the American mind over decades. Cowboys trailing cattle up the trail. Bold Native American warriors fighting to preserve their way of life. Settlers and soldiers determined to fight back and take the land that they felt they, somehow, deserved. Surely many more can be listed but there are two that will definitely pop up. The confident gunman that had a steady hand and a sure shot that would lay his opponent or opponents in the dust and the feuding families or associations of cattlemen that resorted to bloody violence to establish their control over the use of water and land. In this episode of the Wild West Extravaganza we are taking a look at one of the steadiest and best shots of all gunmen, Commodore Perry Owens, and his role in the bloodiest range feud in American history, Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War. Don't forget to check out Texas History Lessons Podcast! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/ Check out my website for more true stories from the Wild and Woolly West! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Contact Me!!! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Support Wild West Extravaganza!!! https://www.wildwestextra.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1864 famed frontiersman Kit Carson took a force of several hundred soldiers into the heart of the Llano Estacado in an attempt to punish the Comanche for their recent raids. What followed was a bloody fight now known as the first Battle of Adobe Walls, as Carson and his men kicked the hornet’s nest and quickly found themselves outnumbered 10 to 1. This episodes got something for everyone! We’re gonna talk Kit Carson, we’re gonna talk army tactics, Billy the Kid, the Navajo, the Apache, and - of course - the Comanche. For further reading check out Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides. Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west!!! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Contact Me!!! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Support this podcast!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok - These are the names of legends. Names I think most people – even those with no interest in old west history – will find familiar. But for every one of these guys, there were a dozen others who were every bit as deadly and capable with a firearm, if not more so. Men who didn’t flinch in the face of death. Men who knew the smell of the black powder smoke and the crack of a bullet snapping past their heads; men who for whatever reason are largely lost to history. Or at the very least just not that well known. Men like Elfego Baca. The young store clerk pinned on a fake mail order badge and single-handedly took on an overwhelming force of gunmen. The over 30-hour gunfight that ensued is considered, by some, to be the most lopsided of the wild west. All at the tender age of 19! And don’t you worry your pretty little head, the rest of Elfego’s life was chock full of excitement as well, including a run-in with Pancho Vila. Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d The Life and Truth of Elfego Baca by Richard Duree - http://www.phantomranch.net/bwestern/DureeArticles/life_truth_elfego_baca_duree.htm The Legend of Elfego Baca | True West Magazine - https://truewestmagazine.com/legend-elfego-baca/ Following Elfego Baca | True West Magazine - https://truewestmagazine.com/article/following-elfego-baca/ The Frisco War | Legends of America - https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-elfegobaca/ Elfego Baca: A Very Brave Man by Dr. Joe Sweeney - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av85NzYZhms The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca | Disney TV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0BZhIraAmE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I will show you that I can kill men with as much skill and rapidity as anybody. From this time on I ask no quarter and I will give none” – these were the words spoken by Bloody Bill Anderson, shortly before he executed and scalped over twenty men. According to those who rode with Anderson he was “a desperate man and a reckless fighter, the worst devil in the bunch. Human life meant nothing to him. He could shoot a man who was on his knees begging for mercy as easy as most men kill a chicken. He feared no man alive and believed heart and soul in the southern cause.” Who was Bloody Bill Anderson? What events transpired that caused him to devote his entire life to war? A life that he once spoke of saying “If I cared for my life I would have lost it long ago. Wanting to lose it, I cannot throw it away.” Was Bill Anderson a reluctant hero caught up in the passions of civil war or just a bloodthirsty villain, using any excuse he could to terrorize the countryside? Find out all of this and more on this you gonna pull those pistols or whistle dixie episode of The Wild West Extravaganza! Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d The Tactical Genius of Bloody Bill Anderson by Sean McLachlan - https://www.historynet.com/tactical-genius-bloody-bill-anderson.htm Bloody Bill Anderson bio by Mathew C. Hullbert - https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/assets/files/pdf/ECWC TOPIC Anderson Bloody Bill Essay 2.pdf Bloody Bill: The Infamous Symbol of a Savage Time - https://www.columbiatribune.com/article/20140706/News/307069871 Paul R. Peterson’s version of the death of Bloody Bill’s father - https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-bloodybill/ Quantrillsguerillas.com - http://www.quantrillsguerrillas.com/en/articles/178-welcome-to-quantrillsguerrillas-com.html The Bush Smith rabbit hole of speculation - http://www.history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/mocwmb/arch_config.pl?md=read;id=6281 Did Bloody Bill Anderson escape the ambush and settle in Brown County, Texas? - https://www.brownwoodnews.com/2017/12/27/bloody-bill-anderson-escape-ambush-missouri-settle-brown-county/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frontiersman Hugh Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear in 1823. Left for dead, stripped of his belongs, and covered in maggots, he defied all odds and made a 250-mile journey on foot through hostile territory. But that’s only half the story. On this episode we’re going to talk pirates, we’re going to talk about mountain men and the fur trade, we’re going to talk a whole bunch about Native Americans. And - most importantly – we’re going to talk some Leonardo DiCaprio. Who was Hugh Glass? Where’d he come from? Was he born with the bark on, or did he have to work at it? How many pirate jokes can I fit into one episode? Find out all of this and more on this newest if any of this sounds familiar then you’ve been listening to this podcast for a long time edition of The Wild West Extravaganza! Check out my website for more true tales from the wild west! Contact me!!! Bonus Content Available at Patreon!!! The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 86 – The Meat Tree Part 1 The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 87 – The Meat Tree Part 2 The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 236 – Crawling Back From the Dead with Michael Punke HughGlass.org Arikara Language in The Revenant Leonardo DiCaprio and the Bear??? Who Started The Leonardo DiCaprio Bear Rumor? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sergeant Luther James Dorsey was a member of the buffalo soldiers, the all-black cavalry regiments who served on America’s frontier. From the Indian Wars to the Korean war, these men bravely – and against all odds and prejudice – cemented their legacy into the fabric of American History. Check out my website! Check out my patreon for exclusive content! Seattle Times article – Complicated and Controversial Role Buffalo Soldier Links! Buffalo Soldier Museum Conroe Community Cemetery Restoration Project Cemetery Dedication Ceremony - KPRC 2 Luther James Dorsey Bridge Dedication - CW39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the summer of 1868 Major George A. Forsyth, under orders from General Sheridan, raised a company of fifty "first-class hardy frontiersmen" to seek out and engage hostile Native Americans. These scouts soon found themselves outnumbered and surrounded by hundreds of Cheyenne warriors as they took refuge on a little sandbar in the middle of the Arikaree river. What followed is now known as the battle of Beecher Island. Check out my website for more true stories from the wild west! Subscribe to Patreon for bonus content & to support the show! Contrary - Little Big Man List of Forsyth's Scouts Excerpt from Indian Yell, by Michael Blake - True West Mag Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency by Michael Blake The Battle of Beecher Island, by George A. Forsyth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s not every day that your boss offers you a hundred and fifty dollars to murder somebody. I think we can all agree that’s not a normal occurrence. But then again, the tough kid wasn’t normal. The real story behind legendary Texas Ranger Frank Hamer's first gunfight, at the age of 16. Check out my website for more true tales from the wild west! Bonus content available on Patreon! Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer by John Boessnecker Fact Checking Highwaymen: USA Today Frank Hamer vs KKK? Washington Post article by Monica Munoz Martinez Frank Hamer's First Gunfight by Mark Boardman Houston Chronicle Article on Hamer attacking journalist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill Tilghman - the legendary lawman best known for hunting down bad guys in Indian Territory - got his start as a teenaged buffalo hunter on the Kansas frontier. After that he spent years patrolling the tough streets of Dodge City with the likes of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Charlie Bassett before moving on to Oklahoma where he did more of the same. Friends with guys like Luke Short and Doc Holliday. Rubbed shoulders with outlaws like Dave Rudabaugh and J.J. Webb, Tilghman wore many hats throughout his life. Senator, husband, father, scout, Rancher, saloon owner, movie producer, actor, and then finally – at the ripe ole age of 70 – Tilghman pinned on a badge yet again to take on the corrupt boom town of Cromwell, Oklahoma. Maybe. Or Maybe not. Join me today as we find out more about the man who - according to Teddy Roosevelt - would charge hell with a bucket. The man who Bat Masterson once said was “the best of all of us” on this newest don’t kill the messenger history is complicated and sometimes our heroes are flawed and this is probably the last ever episode OF The Wild West Extravaganza! Check out my website for more true stories from the wild west!!! Head on over to Patreon for bonus content or if you want to support the podcast!!! Texas History Lessons Podcast Bat Masterson on Bill Tilghman Was Bill Tilghman Honest? – True West Magazine How Accurate Was You Know My Name? – True West Magazine The Man Who Shot Bill Tilghman - True West Magazine The Killing Of Bill Tilghman – True West Magazine Dodge City – Book by Tom Clavin Bill Tilghman's Biography – Written by his widow, Zoe Agnes Stratton Tilghman The Trial of Wiley Lynn – Edmond Life & Leisure Wiley Lynn's Last Days - Edmond Life & Leisure Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws (1915) Oklahoma Land Rush Scene – Far and Away (1992) Great Murder Trials of the Old West – Johnny D. Boggs Shoot From The Lips – Nancy B. Samuelson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Medicine Crow was a mighty war chief amongst his people, the Crow. The Apsáalooke. The Children of the large beak bird. Joe was raised in the traditional way of the Crow and fulfilled all four requirements to become a War Chief of the Crow Nation. The last War Chief. But Joe Medicine Crow was much MUCH more. “With an education, you’re the white man’s equal. Without an education, you’re the white man’s victim” – Joe Medicine Crow Check out my website for more WILD WEST content! Celebrating 100 Years with Dr. Joe Medicine Crow Medicine Crow War Chief Story (Joe Sings) Joe Receives Medal of Freedom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ned Christie: Ruthless Cherokee outlaw or courageous hero? Murderer or innocent man? If someone had asked me a year ago who Ned Christie was, I’d have probably said he was just another Indian Territory outlaw. In the same vein as Cherokee Bill or Henry Starr. And I don’t think I’m the only person out there with this misconception. Back in the 1970’s Time Life put out a series of books on the old west. And I personally have – in my possession - a copy of the one titled Gunfighters. I’ve had it since I was a wee little lad, and it has seen better days. The pages are no longer bound, they’re all loose and out of order. A testament to the countless hours I spent flipping through its pages when I was a kid. There are a couple of pictures of Ned Christie in the book. There’s the one when he was still alive - long hair, holding a rifle in one hand, a revolver in the other, and another pistol strapped around his waist. Looking like an outlaw. And then there’s the other one, where he’s dead. Propped up against a door, lever action rifle resting in his lifeless hands. There’s not a whole lot written in the book about Ned Christie, though. He’s simply referred to as an “elusive Cherokee outlaw who roved the territory as a train robber, horse thief, and whiskey peddler. Christie had built himself a log fort high on the rim of the cliff sided canyon, and when a 16-man posse tracked him there, he showed no inclination to surrender.” That was really the extent of my knowledge when it came to Ned Christie. That and the pictures. But what if I were to tell you that almost everything that was published about Ned Christie in that Time Life book was untrue? Join me today as we look at just who the real Ned Christie was and try to separate the man from the myth on this most recent Indian Outlaw, 100% Cherokee and zero Choctaw, & nobody’s baby was a Chippewa edition of Bloody Beaver Podcast. Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero by Devon Mihesua The Real Lonesome Dove Nate Champion Glanton, John Joel by Sloan Rodgers - TSHAonline.org Excerpt From Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero - OUpress.org Ned Christie - OkHistory.org Cherokee.org The True Story of Ned Christie - OsiyoTv Family, Historians Share Ned Christie Insights - CherokeePhoenix Ned Christie as told by Great-Great-Niece - CherokeePhil Canton Indian Insane Asylum - Indianz.com Native American Stats Issues and Problems Facing Native Americans Today - Powwows.com American Indian Veterans Have Highest Record of Military Service Native American Veterans 5 Facts You May Not Know Native American Veterans Have Always Answered The Call to Serve Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the spring of 1883, a group of very dangerous men began gathering outside of Dodge City, Kansas. Men with names like Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Shotgun Collins, and Doc Holliday. Killers, all of ‘em. Men familiar with the weight of a revolver in hand and the smell of black powder smoke. They gathered to rally around one man, their compadre who had recently been forced out of town by a crooked mayor and a small army of vigilantes. That man’s name was Luke Short. A cowboy turned scout turned gambler who earned himself quiet the reputation as a man handy with the iron. What events transpired that forced Luke out of the rough cow town of Dodge City? How did he come to be friends with the likes of Wyatt Earp? How short was Luke Short, anyway? And is it true that if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it? Find out all of this and more on this newest “if your gonna get into a gunfight, make damn sure you shoot first” edition of The Wild West Extravaganza! Check out this article via the good folks at Legends Of America to see exactly what Bat Masterson wrote about Luke Short's days as a whiskey runner. Check out this Spartacus Educational collection of newspaper articles and letters regarding the Dodge City War. Listen to Texas History Lessons Podcast!!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When one thinks of the great judges of Yore, certain names stand out above the rest. Names like Judge Harold T. Stone. Judge Judith Sheindlin. Judges Wapner, Mathis, and Joe Brown. Judge Reinhold, Judge Dredd and Mike Judge all bear remembering. But towering over these colossal judicial minds stands one man, one legend so interwoven into the fabric of modern-day jurisprudence you’d be remise not to pay him homage. And that man’s name was Roy Damn Bean. That’s right - Judge Roy Bean - to be exact. The law west of the Pecos known for serving up both justice as well as tasty beverages from his courtroom/saloon known as the Jersey Lilly located in a little fart of a town in west Texas known as Langtry. All rise! Court is now in session on this newest OVERRULED edition of the Wild West Extravaganza! Visit my website for more true stories from the wild and woolly west. Check out my Patreon for bonus content or to support the podcast. Head on over to my YouTube and hit that subscribe button! Roy Bean's Hanging, an excellent article written by Marshall Trimble, that I referenced on this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"I've labored long and hard for bread, For honor, and for riches, But on my corns too long you've tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches." These are the words of Black Bart, the gentleman bandit who preferred to leave poems at the scene of the crime rather than dead bodies. Black Bart wasn’t a killer and he never really hurt anyone, except maybe for Wells Fargo, who’s stagecoaches he robbed at least 28 times throughout his career, taking thousands of dollars in the process. Black Bart would pay for his crimes by doing a stretch in California’s notorious San Quentin prison and upon his release he vanished. Or did he? Who was the mysterious Black Bart? Where’d he come from? Where did he disappear to? Why did he hate Wells Fargo so much? Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d The Case For Summerfield Is Black Bart Buried In Historic Marysville Cemetery? History Hunter's YouTube Video on Black Bart's "Grave" A TON of info on Black Bart available at BlackBart.com! Audio by Dan Ramirez. Email him at podcasteditor72@gmailcom if you or anyone you know needs help editing audio! Intro and outro music by Manuel Ibanez Arnal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices