Latest Lawmen Podcast Episodes
Change Agents with Andy Stumpf: Kevin Costner
Legends of the Old West - June 21, 2024 08:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsOn Change Agents, find out what it takes to solve some of the world's seemingly impossible problems. In each episode, SEAL Team 6 veteran and "Cleared Hot" podcast host Andy Stumpf interviews a new "agent of change" who is enacting real change to understand the scope of their work, how it can be ...
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 6 | “Sinner and Saint”
Legends of the Old West - May 22, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAn investigation into the Mountain Meadows Massacre takes years, and in meantime, Porter Rockwell continues his roles as lawman and mail carrier. He builds a hotel and becomes a successful businessman, but he remains a figure of controversy. Acts of violence throughout Utah Territory become part ...
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 5 | “Mountain Meadows Massacre”
Legends of the Old West - May 15, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsIn August of 1857, a wagon train of travelers from Missouri and Arkansas rolls into Utah Territory. It’s called the Baker-Fancher party and it’s headed for California. The group camps in a high mountain valley called Mountain Meadows in southern Utah Territory, but Mormon settlers in the area bel...
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 4 | “New Zion”
Legends of the Old West - May 08, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsNew church leader Brigham Young declares that the Saints must go west to find a place where they can worship in peace. Porter Rockwell becomes the lead scout for the great exodus to Utah Territory. The Saints build Salt Lake City and navigate tensions with local Native American tribes. Rockwell a...
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 3 | “A Mormon Samson”
Legends of the Old West - May 01, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsPorter Rockwell is arrested for the attempted murder of Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs, and Rockwell rots in jail for nearly a year. After a perilous journey to his new home in the Mormon settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois, Rockwell is reunited with the head of his church, Joseph Smith. But the reun...
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 2 | “Destroying Angel”
Legends of the Old West - April 24, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsIn the 1830s, Porter Rockwell and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – commonly known as the Mormons – battle locals and militias in Missouri. Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs is determined to push the Mormons out of his state, and he succeeds at a bloody cost. After the Mo...
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 1 | “Faith and Fervor”
Legends of the Old West - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsOrrin Porter Rockwell is born into an era of religious fervor in the eastern United States. His family soon becomes close with the Smith family, and Porter becomes the youngest convert to Joseph Smith’s new religious movement, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Saints immediatel...
OUTLAWS Ep. 6 | Ned Christie: “Legend and Legacy”
Legends of the Old West - March 20, 2024 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsIn November of 1892, the final showdown arrives. The U.S. Marshals assault Ned Christie’s cabin and end Ned’s resistance. The marshals and the general public believe a murderous outlaw has been brought to justice. But as the years pass, newspapers and historians revisit the saga known as “Ned Chr...
OUTLAWS Ep. 5 | Ned Christie: “Ned’s Fort”
Legends of the Old West - March 13, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAfter the raid by Deputy U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas, Ned Christie builds a fortified cabin that is designed to withstand future attacks. He maintains his innocence in the case of the murder of Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Maples, and he does not intend to surrender. He continues his defiance, but he als...
OUTLAWS Ep. 4 | Ned Christie: “Making A Murderer”
Legends of the Old West - March 06, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsWhen a deputy U.S. marshal is murdered in the Cherokee capital, a respected Cherokee statesman named Ned Christie becomes the prime suspect. Newspaper stories portray Ned as a ruthless outlaw who commits every crime in the book, but are the stories accurate? As the pressure mounts to bring Ned Ch...
OUTLAWS Ep. 3 | Sam Bass: “Texas Outlaw”
Legends of the Old West - February 28, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAfter the historic success of the Big Springs robbery, Sam Bass returns to Texas. He builds a new gang and continues his robbery spree. But now that he is a wanted criminal in Texas, he is hunted by the Texas Rangers. The Rangers track him to the town of Round Rock where they engage him in the fi...
OUTLAWS Ep. 2 | Sam Bass: “Black Hills Bandit”
Legends of the Old West - February 21, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsSam Bass and his business partner, Joel Collins, travel to Deadwood to find their fortunes, but their attempts to make legitimate money end in failure. They believe they have choice but to embrace the outlaw life. They assemble a crew and start robbing stagecoaches… only to discover that they’re ...
OUTLAWS Ep. 1 | Sam Bass: “Indiana Cowboy”
Legends of the Old West - February 14, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsSam Bass began life as a typical farm boy in the midwestern United States. But as he grew older, and experienced more than his fair share of family tragedy, he dreamed of becoming a Texas cowboy. After a detour through Mississippi, he made it to Texas and started living his dream. He experienced ...
UPDATE | “Summer of 1876” Event Announcements!
Legends of the Old West - January 24, 2024 09:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsJoin us for two upcoming events in 2024 about Chris’s book, “The Summer of 1876” February 2, 2024 – 2:00-3:00pm presentation 3:00pm Book Signing Scottsdale, Arizona Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West Presentation and Book Signing **FREE to the public March 9-10, 2024 Tucson, Arizon...
BUFFALO BILL Ep. 6 | “‘Tin Jesus On Horseback’”
Legends of the Old West - January 17, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsDifficult times are ahead for Buffalo Bill Cody in the final years of his life. He helps found the town of Cody, Wyoming, but its creation, and other investments, lead to dire financial trouble. Bill’s marriage falls apart in a public scandal and he experiences more personal tragedy as he also wi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FRONTIER TRAGEDY Ep. 1 | Donner Party, Part 1
Legends of the Old West - October 04, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsIn 1846 in Springfield, Illinois, the Donner family teams up with the Reed family to form the core of a caravan that will travel to the rich farmland of California. The problem is, they’re already late. They soon discover that they’re among the very last travelers to begin the journey to the West...
NEW SHOW | “Mission History”
Legends of the Old West - September 27, 2023 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsBlack Barrel Media and QCODE proudly share a preview of Mission History, a podcast that chronicles the tales of legendary military leaders, epic campaigns, and covert missions that remained hidden for years. The first season journeys through the American Revolutionary War and pays homage to som...
Introducing "Real Survival Stories" from Noiser
Legends of the Old West - August 30, 2023 16:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsNoiser presents a brand-new podcast: Real Survival Stories. Hosted by John Hopkins, the show brings you astonishing tales of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary survival situations. In this taster episode, we meet Matt Lewis - a rookie sailor who goes looking for adventure... and finds it. ...
SWINDLERS Ep. 6 | “The Snake Oil King”
Legends of the Old West - August 23, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsA mysterious remedy called “snake oil” became one of the most enduring parts of the Old West. Of all the scammers who traveled the towns of the West selling the magical potion, Clark Stanley rose to the top. He is one of the primary reasons that we still use the label “snake oil salesman” today. ...
SWINDLERS Ep. 5 | “Fool’s Gold”
Legends of the Old West - August 16, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsCharles Baggs, who became known as Doc Baggs, followed the gold rush to Colorado in the late 1850s. He quickly decided that there were easier ways to make money than by mining for gold. For years, he ran elaborate cons in Denver, and he always found ways to outwit the legal system. Join Black Ba...