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This is a podcast of the people, places, and things of the American West. Think cowboys and Indians, bison and cactus, national parks and ghost towns, Mormons and prospectors, nukes and aliens, Tombstone, the Anasazi, Route 66, and everything in between. I’ll dive deep into historical people and events and the cultures and policies that helped shape this area of the American frontier world that’s left so many of the rest of the planet in envy of the mythic American Southwest.
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This episode opens with an outline of Aaron Burr and his Conspiracy to form a new Empire. I then continue the adventure of Zeb as he travels from Presidio Carrizal through the interior of New Spain (Mexico), through Texas, and finally back to the US. There are many adventures and intrigue along the way.
I close the episode with the fate of the main cast: the men Pike was forced to leave behind, Wilkinson, Doc Robinson, and Pike. I also talk about the adventure’s lasting impact.
This is Part Three of a Four Part Series over the Explorer and Spy Zebulon Montgomery Pike.
In this episode, Pike and his men get escorted from their stockade on the Conejo River down to Santa Fe where they meet the governor. Along the way they stop at many a pueblo and town which Pike describes in detail. From Santa Fe, the group rendezvous with Robinson before heading to Old Mexico. There’s intrigue, political discussions, Apaches, and more as they travel on the Royal Road.
In this episode, Pike and his men leave the Pawnee village and traipse through the Great Plains until they reach the Arkansas River where Lt. Wilkinson and a few other soldiers will take canoes down to Louisiana. Meanwhile, Pike will reach the Mexican (Rocky) Mountains where he will attempt to climb Pike’s Peak before finding the headwaters of the Arkansas and Platte Rivers. But as winter settles in and his men’s strength weakens, he fatefully decides to cross the Sangre de Cristos in an attempt to find the “Red River”. We know though, that he was headed for the the Rio del Norte (Rio Grande) the entire time in an effort to get captured by the Spanish and escorted through New Mexico and New Spain.
In this episode I cover the rising tensions between the United States and Spain after Jefferson’s acquisition of the Louisiana Territory which nearly brought us to war with the Catholic Kingdom.
Zebulon Montgomery Pike is selected by the Governor of Upper Louisiana Territory, US General, and Spanish spy James Wilkinson to explore the Great Plains & find the headwaters of the Arkansas River. This mission is a ruse though, and the real plan was for Zeb to get captured by the Spanish and be given a tour of the province of New Spain before being escorted back to Louisiana.
This episode covers the first leg of this journey as Pike and his men escort Osage Indians from St. Louis to their lands in Kansas via various rivers. Pike will then head north towards the Pawnee where high tensions between the White and the Red man almost reach a deadly crescendo.
New Interview Episode is out! Bandy and I talk about his awesome novella Rumorosa, a must read. We also discuss the American Southwest in writings and art. We talk about Apaches, California, the Vietnam War, Cormac McCarthy, King of Dogs, our glorious Public Lands and how we must protect them, the Civil War in the Southwest, and everyone’s favorite topic: Man Corn.
Rambo & I discuss his new book Hollywood Samizdat, a collection of stories from his time in Hollywood. We also discuss fly fishing, the decline of LA & the business, the managerial elite, winter sports, New Mexico and the Mountain West, Mormons, helicopter rides, movies, rock climbing, and more.
The incredible author George R Matthews and I discuss his most recent book over Billy the Kid. He clears up some things, corrects some of my series, and we have a great conversation.
This is the eleventh and final episode over Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War.
In this Episode, Billy travels from Mesilla to Lincoln before being put up in the Lincoln County House’s Jail. He’s not there long though, before he makes his most famous jailbreak. After returning to Fort Sumner, Billy is eventually hunted down by Pat Garrett yet again.
I finish the episode with the rest of Pat Garrett’s life, as well as the remaining living participants of the story I’ve told thus far.
Stay tuned for my interview with author George R Matthews who wrote the greatest book over Billy and the war that has yet been published.
This is the tenth episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in New Mexico.
In this episode, Billy the Kid, Billy Wilson, Rudabaugh, and Tom Pickett are taken from Stinking Springs to Fort Sumner before heading to Las Vegas and then to Santa Fe. There is a tense moment on the train platform in Las Vegas. The men are interviewed by various newspapers. The Governor still ignores Billy & his pardon as the men sit in the Santa Fe jail. Finally, Billy’s taken to Mesilla to sit in the corrupt Judge Bristol’s court.
I end the episode with the court hearing, the verdict, and the sealing of Billy the Kid’s fate.
This is the ninth episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in the 1870s in New Mexico.
I open the episode with Pat Garrett’s life and background before catching up to the story of Billy the Kid. A Secret Service agent is sent at the behest of Dolan and the House to New Mexico to investigate Billy’s new friends and the noose around our hero’s neck tightens.
Billy does ultimately break bad when he murders a man in cold blood which results in two ex-Regulators dying, and eventually, Billy getting arrested by Pat Garrett.
This is the eighth episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in the 1870s in New Mexico.
In this episode, what’s left of the Regulators get in a shootout with the Apache as they attempt to steal horses which will result in the death of an Indian Agent, although, not at the hands of the Regulators. The Regulators eventually flee Lincoln for Fort Sumner and elsewhere. And they do so just in the nick of time as Lincoln County once again erupts into chaos from Selman’s Scouts.
Also in this episode, a new Governor arrives in New Mexico with the intent of quelling the unrest in the nation’s largest county. Billy buries the hatchet with the House mere moments before an egregious murder which forces Billy to flee yet again. Court comes back into session. Promises will be broken. Billy flees yet again. And Billy kills a drifter in self defense.
It’s a packed and frustrating episode. If things had gone as planned, Billy the Kid would have probably been writing his own dime novels or tell all books at a ripe old age.
This is the seventh episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in the 1870s in New Mexico.
This episode is the culmination of the troubles in Lincoln County which results in the Five Day War also known as The Big Kill. McSween & the Regulators return to Lincoln Town to occupy it while Peppin & his deputies are away. Upon the laws return, Peppin summons Dudley & the Army who turn the tables against the Regulators with their Howitzer, Gatling Gun, and Troopers which results in death and destruction.
This is the sixth episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in the 1870s in New Mexico.
In this episode the tables are turned against McSween and the Regulators even after their decisive victory in court. The Governor gives more illegal proclamations, the Regulators lose their badges, the army pursues them, skirmishes occur, the Ring tightens its grip on Lincoln County, and the House goes all out against our heroes.
This is the fifth episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in the 1870s in New Mexico.
In this episode I go over the long and storied history of Regulators before and after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and how the name made it out to the rugged men of the American Southwest.
I then recount the sporadic violence that culminates in the assassination of the corrupt Sheriff Brady in the street of Lincoln. Shortly afterwards, the Regulators hunt down one of Tunstall’s killers in a scene later known as the Fight at Blazers Mill which sees the leader of the Regulators killed.
The episode ends with a legal battle at the District Court of Lincoln County where things do not go as one would imagine.
Author Andrew Edwards & I discuss his incredible novel King of Dogs: Life is the Training Ground for Death. We also discuss writing, our literary influences, the American Southwest, The Pacific Northwest, hunting, a little history, his future novels, the Old Glory Club, and more.
This is the fourth episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in the 1870s in New Mexico.
In this episode, I discuss the violent history of Lincoln County since its establishment after the Civil War. I then return to the story where we see the future Regulators, including Billy the Kid, gain badges and hunt down Tunstall’s killers. But immediately, Billy the Kid gets arrested by the corrupt Sheriff Brady. After being released, the future Regulators posse up yet again and successfully apprehend a few of the murderers, which leads to the killing of three men. The Governor and the military eventually get involved at the behest of the Santa Fe Ring and the McSween faction’s back gets put up against the wall.
In this episode I discuss Lincoln the town, Billy the Kid again, the growing feud, crooked Sheriff Brady, the Boys, McSween, and Tunstall. There is legal wrangling, posses formed, and the murder that starts the fire.
This is the second episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in the 1870s in New Mexico.
This episode introduces Tunstall, Brewer, & McSween as well as Murphy, Dolan, & Riley of the “The House.” The episode opens with a theft of horses that will soon propel the town and county of Lincoln into war.
Billy the Kid plays only a minor role in this episode but his actions firmly place him on the side of the future Regulators.
This is the first episode of eleven that will discuss Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War that took place in the 1870s in New Mexico. It will be an in-depth look into the myth and legend of Henry McCarty who became one of the country’s most feared outlaws. Obviously I will correct a lot of inaccuracies and exaggerated stories about the young outlaw who I grew to truly like and sympathize with… right up until I couldn’t.
This episode will explore his early life and his family’s move from Indiana to Kansas and finally to New Mexico. Henry McCarty will get into some trouble in Silver City before heading west to Arizona. It’s in those rough and tumble deserts where the Kid will steal his first horse and have his first kill.
Colonel Charles Askins lived the life of a Wild West Desperado with one foot on either side of the law as if he’d been born in the 19th instead of the 20th Century. He shot his first man at 12 as he was growing up in western Oklahoma but his adventure only started there. Askins was a National Forest Ranger, he had scrapes with Apaches, he was a Border Patrol Agent along the Rio Grande, he was a champion shooter, a soldier in North Africa & Europe during WWII, and he may have been the first man on the planet to kill with a .44 Magnum while he was in Vietnam. Karl Dahl, a good friend and an incredibly smart man, dives into the true life of one of the last Wild West men to have ever lived.
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