Latest Gunfighter Podcast Episodes
BUFFALO BILL Ep. 5 | “The Wild West Abroad”
Legends of the Old West - January 10, 2024 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsBuffalo Bill Cody takes his popular Wild West production to Europe for years of tours and performances for royalty and the average fan alike. But as the production experiences unprecedented success abroad, tension builds at home in America between Native American societies and the U.S. government...
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The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger | Interview with Rib Hillis & Paul Epstein
The Wild West Extravaganza - January 08, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJoin me in a discussion with actor Rib Hillis and producer Paul Epstein as we discuss the upcoming premiere of INSP’s The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger! As a fur trapper, legendary mountain man Jim Bridger explored the entire distant West and survived countless hair-raising adventures. Now, he's a re...
John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas (Part 1)
The Wild West Extravaganza - January 03, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIn November of 1868 – at just the tender age of fifteen – John Wesley Hardin killed his first man. And, a few weeks later, he’d kill yet again; this time three soldiers who came looking for him. Fearing a hangman’s noose, Wes struck first, dispatching two troopers with a shotgun and finishing the...
BUFFALO BILL Ep. 4 | “The Wild West”
Legends of the Old West - January 03, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsBuffalo Bill loses his best friend, Texas Jack, but he discovers a path toward resurgence in the entertainment business. A Fourth of July party evolves into the life-changing production that will be called Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. The spectacle’s initial success prompts Bill to hire Annie Oakley...
Wyatt Earp In His Own Words
The Wild West Extravaganza - December 27, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsToday we hear from the legendary Wyatt Earp, in his own words, as he dispenses sage advice on the art of gunfighting. We’ll also examine the legitimacy of these statements. The passages quoted are from Stuart Lake's biography Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal, a work deemed by historians as mostly fict...
BUFFALO BILL Ep. 3 | “‘First Scalp For Custer’”
Legends of the Old West - December 27, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsBuffalo Bill and Texas Jack quickly become rich and famous actors, but they continue to head west between tours to act as hunting guides and scouts for the Army. In the summer of 1876, the Army enlists the help of both men in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Buffalo Bill survive...
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Hopalong Cassidy - December 27, 2023 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHopalong Cassidy rode the radio air waves from 1950 to 1952. His popularity grew and grew, every time his show was heard. These radio shows, together with his movies and television shows helped make him one of the all-time most popular heroes of western fiction and cinema. His popularity continue...
A Blood Meridian Christmas Miracle
The Wild West Extravaganza - December 20, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsUncover the dark history of the Yuma Crossing and the infamous John Joel Glanton's reign of terror. Learn how Glanton's brutality led to a massacre that sparked the Yuma War and a tense standoff on Christmas Day 1851. Lieutenant Amiel Whipple and his men find themselves outnumbered and facing cer...
BUFFALO BILL Ep. 2 | “Frontier Hero”
Legends of the Old West - December 20, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsBuffalo Bill Cody and his friend/idol Wild Bill Hickok become scouts for the Army after the Civil War. Cody and the Fifth Cavalry fight Cheyenne chief Tall Bull and his Dog Soldiers. And then Cody meets two men who will change his life: Texas Jack Omohundro and Ned Buntline. Texas Jack saves Bill...
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Hopalong Cassidy - December 20, 2023 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHopalong Cassidy rode the radio air waves from 1950 to 1952. His popularity grew and grew, every time his show was heard. These radio shows, together with his movies and television shows helped make him one of the all-time most popular heroes of western fiction and cinema. His popularity continue...
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Hopalong Cassidy - December 13, 2023 13:31 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHopalong Cassidy rode the radio air waves from 1950 to 1952. His popularity grew and grew, every time his show was heard. These radio shows, together with his movies and television shows helped make him one of the all-time most popular heroes of western fiction and cinema. His popularity continue...
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Hopalong Cassidy - December 13, 2023 13:31 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHopalong Cassidy rode the radio air waves from 1950 to 1952. His popularity grew and grew, every time his show was heard. These radio shows, together with his movies and television shows helped make him one of the all-time most popular heroes of western fiction and cinema. His popularity continue...
Wooden Leg | Life After Custer
The Wild West Extravaganza - December 13, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOn June 25th, 1876, George Armstrong Custer rode into battle for the last time. He and his troops faced an overwhelming force of Lakota and Cheyenne along the banks of the Little Bighorn, and before the sun sank into the horizon, every man in his command was dead. When General Terry arrived two d...
BUFFALO BILL Ep. 1 | “Tragedy and Transformation”
Legends of the Old West - December 13, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsWilliam Cody experiences more than his share of grief at a young age: by the time he is 18 years old, he’s lost three family members and has been forced to grow up fast. He sees some of the violence of Bleeding Kansas, then much more in the Civil War, and then marries the love of his life. He fin...
Wooden Leg & the Battle of Little Bighorn
The Wild West Extravaganza - December 06, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“All around, the Indians began jumping up, running forward, dodging down, jumping up again, down again, all the time going toward the soldiers. Right away, all of the white men went crazy. Instead of fighting us, they turned their guns upon themselves. Almost before we could get to them, every on...
Soapy Smith | King of the Frontier Con Men
The Wild West Extravaganza - November 29, 2023 18:52 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“It’s just as easy to make big money as little money. In my profession, a hundred dollars is just chicken feed. We think in thousands, not tens. Experience has taught me that it is as easy to separate a sucker – the right sucker – from five thousand dollars as from fifty. We always offered our se...
Harry Tracy | Desperado (Part 2)
The Wild West Extravaganza - November 22, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis is Part 2 and the final installment in the series on Harry Tracy. In the previous episode we discussed Tracy's early life, his various scrapes with the law, and his dramatic prison escape. On today's episode we'll follow Tracy as he eludes the authorities, culminating in his ultimate showdow...
Billy the Kid (COMPILATION)
The Wild West Extravaganza - November 17, 2023 21:26 - 4 hours ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIn the summer of 1881, Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett. The lawman had been on the hunt ever since Billy broke out of jail in Lincoln and finally caught up to the bandit at Old Fort Sumner. It was around midnight, and Pat was waiting inside Pete Maxwell’s darkened bedroom...
Harry Tracy | The Last of the Wild Bunch (Part 1)
The Wild West Extravaganza - November 15, 2023 03:39 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsConsidered by some to be the last of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch, Harry Tracy blasted his way out of prison in the summer of 1902. What followed was one of the most desperate man hunts in all of U.S. history. Over the course of the next two months, Tracy would lead hundreds of lawmen, including th...
Bass Reeves | Lawman (Part 2)
The Wild West Extravaganza - November 08, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMake no mistake about it, the exploits of escaped slave-turned-lawman Bass Reeves are legendary. Described in the papers of his day as a holy terror and one of the greatest manhunters to ever grace Indian Territory, Bass Reeves served as a deputy U.S. Marshal for over three decades; routinely tr...
FRONTIER TRAGEDY Ep. 6 | Bloody Benders, Part 2
Legends of the Old West - November 08, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsA father and his daughter go missing in Labette County, Kansas in late 1872. A neighbor searches for them, and he never comes home. His wife sounds the alarm. Search parties descend on the Bender farm. The Benders are long gone, but the victims of their murderous deeds remain. Local authorities h...
Bass Reeves | Lawman (Part 1)
The Wild West Extravaganza - November 01, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMake no mistake about it, the exploits of escaped slave-turned-lawman Bass Reeves are legendary. Described in the papers of his day as a holy terror and one of the greatest manhunters to ever grace Indian Territory, Bass Reeves served as a deputy U.S. Marshal for over three decades; routinely tr...
FRONTIER TRAGEDY Ep. 5 | Bloody Benders, Part 1
Legends of the Old West - November 01, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsIn 1870, a “family” called the Benders moves to Labette County in southern Kansas. There are four people in the group, but no one in the area fully understands the relationship between them. They build a small cabin near a well-used trail and offer the space as an inn for travelers. Before long, ...
FRONTIER TRAGEDY Ep. 4 | Donner Party, Part 4
Legends of the Old West - October 25, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsWARNING: This episode contains descriptions of cannibalism. The Donner Party experiences the worst case scenario. They’re starving and living in crude shelters. A small group begins the trek over the mountains to find help, but it loses members along the way. The people who remain trapped near T...
This is NOT Doc Holliday
The Wild West Extravaganza - October 21, 2023 17:28 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThere are many purported photos of the legendary Doc Holliday but only two are authenticated. This is a VISUALY DEPENDENT episode. Check the video out here: https://youtu.be/FvIDvi5NdMo?si=P1mn9Byw4Lte9Vun Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com...
FRONTIER TRAGEDY Ep. 3 | Donner Party, Part 3
Legends of the Old West - October 18, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe Donner Party faces another punishing trip across a desert before it finally reaches the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the border between Nevada and California. The party has lost a ton of time, but the travelers still believe they can make it over the mountains and into central California before...
Uncontacted
The Wild West Extravaganza - October 16, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThere’s just something about uncontacted tribes that’s always piqued my curiosity. Perhaps you’ve heard of Ishi, who, as the last of his people, emerged from California’s Sierra foothills in the summer of 1911. It’s estimated that Ishi was around 50 years of age and spent the vast majority of his...
Wild Bill Hickok
The Wild West Extravaganza - October 11, 2023 09:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJames Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok was the epitome of the Wild West. Soldier, spy, scout, gambler, lawman, and yes – gunfighter. Friends with other Old West legends like Buffalo Bill Cody, Kit Carson, Calamity Jane, and George Armstrong Custer, Hickok also brushed shoulders with his fair share of no...
FRONTIER TRAGEDY Ep. 2 | Donner Party, Part 2
Legends of the Old West - October 11, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe Donner-Reed caravan passes the halfway point of its journey to California, and now the real problems begin. After meeting legendary mountain man, Jim Bridger, the caravan chooses to take an unproven road across central Utah. They believe it is a shortcut which will save them hundreds of miles...