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Author Bryan Burrough exhumes the gritty history of Old West gunfighters. From Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp to John Wesley Hardin and dozens more, this collection of stories proves how very violent America's nineteenth century frontier actually was, and traces the blood-soaked history of the troubled men who made it that way.
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- Ep. 08: The Truth About Wyatt Earp · 31 min · Sesong 2Join the best-selling author Bryan Burrough as he delves into the strange and humble origins of the storied frontier gunman Wyatt Earp. Thank you to our sponsor, Tecovas. Follow…
- Ep. 07: The Mystery of Ben Thompson · 41 min · Sesong 2Join author Bryan Burrough for the story of the greatest Old West gunfighter you’ve never heard of. Thank you to our sponsor, Tecovas. Follow now on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, and…
- Ep. 06: John Wesley Hardin vs Wild Bill Hickok · 36 min · Sesong 2America’s first famous gunfighter also happens to have been a titanic fraud. Join best-selling author Bryan Burrough as he dives separates the into facts from the fictions…
- Ep. 05: John Wesley Hardin: The Texas Psychopath · 35 min · Sesong 2Join best-selling author Bryan Burrough as he drills deep into the legend of John Wesley Hardin, the teenaged Texas psychopath who may have been the Old West’s deadliest…
- Ep. 04: Bloody Texas · 41 min · Sesong 2Where did all those gunfighters popping up the Old West actually come? Join best-selling author Bryan Burrough as he explores the extraordinarily violent place that gave birth to…
- Ep. 03: The First Gunfighters · 31 min · Sesong 2Join author Bryan Burrough as he delves into the little-known stories of the first notable Old West gunfighters, from the Texans who popularized the first revolvers during the…
- Ep. 02: Wait, Gunfighters Came From Where? · 27 min · Sesong 2Best-selling author Bryan Burrough explores the surprising origins of Old West gunfights in America’s deep involvement with the duel, a contest used by so many men during the…
- Ep. 01: When Gunfighters Stalked the Old West · 29 min · Sesong 2Join author Bryan Burrough as he begins telling the epic story of the Gunfighter Era, the years between 1865 and 1901, when Old West figures such as Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp…
- Introducing: Gunfighters, with Bryan Burrough · 2 min · Sesong 2Author Bryan Burrough exhumes the gritty history of Old West gunfighters. From Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp to John Wesley Hardin and dozens more, this collection of stories…
- Ep. 42: Favorite Films About the West | The American West · 1 t 6 min · Sesong 1Since the 1903 showing of The Great Train Robbery, film has steadily become our primary way to tell the stories of the American West to the larger world. More than a century’s…
- Ep. 41: Favorite Books About the West | The American West · 59 min · Sesong 1The 1538 distribution of Cabeza de Vaca’s Relacion about his shipwreck and trek across the Southwest marks the beginning of books that tell the stories of the American West to…
- Ep. 40: Becoming Natives of Place in the American West | The American West · 55 min · Sesong 1Two ideas about living in the modern West, bioregionalism and rewilding, emerged in the 1970s and early 2000s, and while neither has gone mainstream they have influenced how…
- Ep. 39: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part II | The American West · 1 t 5 min · Sesong 1When the U.S. acquired the West with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched two scientific expeditions to explore it. Lewis & Clark became…
- Ep. 38: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part I | The American West · 58 min · Sesong 1When the U.S. acquired the West with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched two scientific expeditions to explore it. Lewis & Clark became…
- Ep. 37: The Wolf Returns to the West | The American West · 1 t 0 min · Sesong 1One of the stories that will long define the American West in the modern era is the return of the wolf after a century of wholesale attempts to obliterate it. From New Mexico to…
- Ep. 36: Down the West’s Grandest Canyon | The American West · 57 min · Sesong 1With its many diverse, stupendous landscapes and public lands, the West has long been a region of bucket list adventures. A descent down the Colorado River through the Grand…
- Ep. 35: How the Endangered Species Act Saved the West and America | The American West · 56 min · Sesong 1The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is one of America’s most famous laws and contributions to world culture, yet half-a-century after its passage it has become yet another…
- Ep. 34: Big Bend and the Deserts of the West | The American West · 55 min · Sesong 1In the eyes of the world, the West’s several deserts have become defining landscapes for the modern region. But one of them, the Chihuahuan Desert, has produced the only large…
- Ep. 33: Time and Time Again: The Fascinating Evidence from Western Repeat Photography | The American West · 56 min · Sesong 1Calling on the photographic record made of the American West from 150 to 100 years ago, modern photographers have repeated many of the same scenes and found remarkable…
- Ep. 32: Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Rewilding the Plains | The American West · 58 min · Sesong 1While conservation focused national parks creation on the vertical mountains and canyons of the West, the Great Plains ended up de-buffaloed and mostly ignored. But with new…
