FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.

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Ep 31 Sidonia Schwarz Pt 3: Hired Hands👨🏻‍🌾Hay Harvest🌾Honest Liars

2026-08-0135:15

Send us Fan Mail Winter has finally loosened its grip on the Bear River Valley—but grief has not. After months away, Samuel Emelle returns to a homestead forever changed by the death of his young son. For Sidonia Schwarz, spring brings no escape from sorrow. There are fields to plant, animals to tend, a daughter to raise, and a bumper crop of hay that cannot wait for a grieving heart. Then, in the summer of 1896, three heavily armed young cowboys ride onto Sidonia’s Wyoming homestead looking ...

Ep 30 Sidonia Schwarz pt 2: Motherhood👩🏻‍🍼Homesteading👩🏻‍🌾 and Grief🪦

2026-07-0629:04

Send us Fan Mail The frontier was never meant to be easy. After leaving the refinement of Prussia, the drawing rooms of England, and the bustling streets of Chicago, Sidonia Schwarz and Samuel Emelle begin building a life on a remote homestead along the Wyoming-Idaho border. There, amid endless skies and unforgiving winters, Sidonia discovers that survival demands more than education, grace, and determination. A devastating family tragedy will test every lesson she has ever learned. Based on ...

Ep 29 Sidonia Schwarz, Part I: The Girl From Prussia 🧳

2026-06-1131:51

Send us Fan Mail A Prussian girl leaves behind family, title, and certainty in search of a future. Raised among languages, scripture, and strict expectations, Sidonia Schwarz journeys from East Prussia to England, from England to America, and ultimately toward the Wyoming frontier. Along the way she meets a Swiss watchmaker, discovers a taste for adventure, and begins a life that will someday make her one of the most remarkable women of the American West. Before she became a western legend, s...

Ep 28-Mary Chamberlain Pt 2:💰High Pay, No Glory🫣 & a Rollaway Saloon🍺 in Fried Onion, AZ🌵

2025-08-0129:14

Send us Fan Mail The all-woman town council of Kanab, Utah, wasn’t just a quirky footnote in frontier history—they were a civic force with apron strings and iron wills. In this second half of their story, the ordinances keep coming, but marshals keep quitting. So the women place a help-wanted ad for a man with “spine, humor, and no fear of mothers.” But not every tale from their tenure is quite so grounded… We investigate the myth of the “Rollaway Saloon”—a bar-on-logs said to have dodged pro...

Ep 27 - Mary Chamberlain Pt 1: 🗳️Election Meddling, 👗Modest Skirts & Repo Cattle🐮

2025-07-0132:35

Send us Fan Mail In the dusty crossroads town of Kanab, Utah, the year was 1911—and democracy was about to get a surprise makeover. What began as a satirical prank by frustrated young men turned into the most unexpected political shake-up in frontier history: the election of an all-woman town council. Part one of this dramatized two-part episode sets the stage with a cast of formidable frontier women, flustered cowboys, tormented marshals, and cattle in the crosshairs. We unpack the fiery ele...

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FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.