Ricky's Historical Tidbits Podcast
készítő: Ricky Mortensen
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CHOLERAFORNIA: The Gold Rush Epidemic That Emptied a City
CHOLERAFORNIA: The Gold Rush Epidemic That Emptied a City
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NorCal History show that does not bog you down with dates and names and focus' on stories. Hosted by Ricky Mortensen
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Epizódok
A legújabb 20 a(z) 50 epizódból
- CHOLERAFORNIA: The Gold Rush Epidemic That Emptied a City · 25 percIn October 1850, California celebrated statehood while cholera moved through its ports, rivers, and boomtowns. In Sacramento, the disease emptied streets, overwhelmed a makeshift…
- The Day Sacramento Shot Their Mayor · 10 percPicture Sacramento in the summer of 1850. Gold was just struck up in the hills, thousands of hopefuls were flooding in every single month, and you had managed to put up a simple…
- The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: How Two Kentucky Cousins Fooled San Francisco’s Richest Men · 16 percImagine you’re a banker in San Francisco in 1872. You survived the Gold Rush. You made good money off the Comstock silver boom. Everybody in town thinks you’re one of the…
- Shanghai Kelly: San Francisco's Most Dangerous Host · 9 percIn 1875, a San Francisco saloon owner threw a free birthday party for 100 strangers. By morning, every single one of them was unconscious, loaded into cargo nets, and sold to…
- The Forgotten Mussel Slough Tragedy · 23 percSeven Men, a Railroad, and a Broken Promise Let me tell you a story. You are standing in a wheat field in California’s San Joaquin Valley in 1880. It is hot, dusty, and tense…
- America’s First "Murder by Mail" · 7 percIn the summer of 1898, a beautiful box of chocolate creams arrived on a quiet porch in Dover, Delaware. What looked like a sweet gift turned into one of the most shocking crimes…
- The Tehachapi Wreck Of 1883 · 14 percThe Runaway Train That Killed a Governor’s Wife… and the Railroad Cover-Up That FollowedIn January 1883, the Atlantic Express rolled backward down the Tehachapi grade with no…
- America’s Only Emperor: The True Story of Norton I · 17 percJoshua Abraham Norton was a wealthy merchant who lost everything in a 1852 rice gamble. Most people would have disappeared into the shadows, but Joshua did something much more…
- The Ice That Built California · 14 percIn the late 1800s, California depended on winter. Before refrigeration, the state relied on natural ice cut from frozen ponds in the Sierra Nevada. For a few short weeks each…
- Adolph Weber - The Boy Murderer of Auburn, CA · 15 percIn 1904, one of the most shocking murder trials in California history unfolded in the quiet foothill town of Auburn.Four members of the Weber family were dead.Their home was…
- The Sport Too Brutal for the Wild West · 9 percIn this episode of Ricky’s Historical Tidbits Podcast, dive deep into the shocking history of bull and bear fights in 1850s California—how they started, where they happened, and…
- Ep. 39 - Elfego Baca: Wild West Hero · 11 percYou’ve heard of Billy the Kid and Jesse James, but have you ever heard of Elfego Baca? This guy didn’t just survive one of the most insane shootouts in Wild West history—he went…
- Ep. 38 Hank Vaughan: The Outlaw You’ve Never Heard Of (But Should) · 17 percGet ready to saddle up for one of the most jaw-dropping outlaw stories from the Wild West that you’ve probably never heard of—Hank Vaughan. He wasn’t just some two-bit criminal…
- Ep. 37- Camel Craze in the West: The Story of California’s Camel Experiment and Virginia City's Camel Races · 12 percIn this episode of Ricky's Historical Tidbits, we will explore the surprising story behind the California Camel Experiment and its connection to the Virginia City Camel Races…
- Ep. 36 - Hoboken: The City That Seized The Day · 8 perc“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.” “Carpe Diem” “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be…
- Ep. 35 - Queho: The Bad Indian · 5 percQueho was and is known for being Nevada's first serial killer who was never caught. To read click this link This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with…
- Ep. 34 News Carver; One of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch · 5 percButch Cassidy is a famous outlaw so this episode I share the story of one of his “Wild Bunch” a guy known as News Carver To read the Article version Click here This is a public…
- Ep. 33 Why Calaveras County Is Obsessed With Frogs · 7 percCalaveras County in Northern California Absolutely loves frogs, they are obsessed. Frog murals, frog statues, frog plaques, a frog walk of fame and of course they have the annual…
- Ep. 32 The Truth About Yankee Jim · 7 percYankee Jim was the victim of mistaken identity, there were two criminals back in the early 1850's known by the name Yankee Jim. Both were tall, both were criminals but one more…
- Ep. 31 John Kanaka and Sutter: A Tale of Two Legacies · 10 percCould I have stumbled upon THE John from the Irish folk song John Kanaka? Come along with me and learn the story of a Kanaka who was never supposed to be and his adventures in…
