Latest Lawmen Podcast Episodes
OUTLAWS Ep. 4 | John Wesley Hardin: “The End In El Paso”
Legends of the Old West - February 16, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe Texas Rangers arrest John Wesley Hardin and drag him back to Texas to stand trial for murder. Hardin goes to prison, suffers family tragedies during his sentence, and prepares for a new career as a lawyer. After his release, he moves to El Paso and becomes entangled with some shady characters...
Introducing "Spectacle: Las Vegas" from Sony Music Entertainment
Legends of the Old West - February 11, 2022 09:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsIt’s a city that shouldn’t exist. An oasis in the desert, a mirage — it’s a city of buzzing neon, flowing fountains, and fortunes made and lost. A city of hedonism: concerts, casinos, showgirls, and all-you-can-eat buffets. But how did Vegas become “Sin City”? A place that promotes a fantasy of a...
OUTLAWS Ep. 3 | John Wesley Hardin: “The Most Wanted Man In Texas”
Legends of the Old West - February 09, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsOn a return trip from Louisiana, John Wesley Hardin nearly dies after a shootout in Trinity City, Texas. He surrenders to law enforcement, but then escapes from jail. He helps kill a county sheriff and then a deputy sheriff, and the murder of the deputy changes Hardin’s life. He flees Texas and s...
OUTLAWS Ep. 2 | John Wesley Hardin: “Trouble on the Trail”
Legends of the Old West - February 02, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAfter a slew of murders in Texas, John Wesley Hardin flees the state. He joins a cattle drive to Kansas and lands in Abilene where Wild Bill Hickok is the marshal. Hardin allegedly kills vaqueros and Native American warriors along the way, and then kills a man in town who reportedly snored too lo...
OUTLAWS Ep. 1 | John Wesley Hardin: “Hero or Villain”
Legends of the Old West - January 26, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsJohn Wesley Hardin was the son of a Methodist preacher who grew into one of the most prolific killers in American history. He killed his first man at the age of 15. By 18, he’d killed Union soldiers, Texas State Police officers, and more than one civilian — at least, that’s what the legend says. ...
WILD BILL HICKOK Ep. 6 | “Deadwood”
Legends of the Old West - December 22, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsWild Bill returns to Cheyenne and joins the wagon train organized by his good friend Charlie Utter. The caravan begins the trip to Deadwood and Buffalo Bill Cody on the trail. He delivers shocking news of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Calamity Jane joins the group and adds to a memorable entr...
WILD BILL HICKOK Ep. 5 | “Scouts of the Plains”
Legends of the Old West - December 15, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsHickok hits his low point, but his old friend Buffalo Bill Body convinces him to join a play called “Scouts of the Plains,” and Hickok makes more money than he ever has in his life. However, Wild Bill hates the show and abruptly ends his career as an actor. Then he reunites with his longtime love...
WILD BILL HICKOK Ep. 4 | “Marshal of Abilene”
Legends of the Old West - December 08, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsA month after Hickok becomes marshal of Abilene, two Texas gunfighters, Phil Coe and Ben Thompson, start a saloon called the Bull’s Head Tavern. The rowdy joint creates tension all summer in 1871 and leads to a dramatic — and tragic — shootout at the end of the cattle season. Add Texas outlaw Joh...
WILD BILL HICKOK Ep. 3 | “The Outlaws of Hays City”
Legends of the Old West - December 01, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsHickok becomes the marshal of Hays City after Texas cowboys scare off the previous lawmen. The small Kansas town has never seen a marshal like Wild Bill. His unique appearance and routine cause the townsfolk to marvel, but nothing will stop outlaws from challenging him in the streets and the salo...
WILD BILL HICKOK Ep. 2 | “Showdown In Springfield”
Legends of the Old West - November 24, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsWild Bill finishes his service with the Union army in the Civil War and then ends up in Springfield, Missouri. A new friendship turns sour and leads to the first recorded quick-draw gunfight in the American West. Hickok’s legend as a frontiersman and a shootist grows when he travels the West as a...
WILD BILL HICKOK Ep. 1 | “Go West, Young Man”
Legends of the Old West - November 17, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsJames Butler Hickok has a restless spirit. He leaves his family home in Illinois and lands in Kansas during the lawless years of Bleeding Kansas. He becomes a freighter, a bodyguard, a scout, and a soldier. He survives shootouts and war, and earns a legendary nickname. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-...
LITTLE BIGHORN Ep. 6 | “131 Days”
Legends of the Old West - October 13, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe Montana Column arrives at the battlefield in the Little Bighorn Valley and helps the survivors of the siege of Reno Hill. The fate of Custer’s command finally becomes clear and the news will soon shock the country. Weeks after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, thousands of U.S. troopers condu...
LITTLE BIGHORN Ep. 5 | “The Siege of Reno Hill”
Legends of the Old West - October 06, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsOn the second day of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the combined companies of Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen must survive blistering heat, a shortage of water, the stench of death, and constant gunfire and attacks from the warriors who surround Reno Hill. The end of the day br...
LITTLE BIGHORN Ep. 4 | “Custer’s Last Stand”
Legends of the Old West - September 29, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsMajor Marcus Reno’s charge turns into a retreat and the survivors are trapped on a hill above the Little Bighorn River. At the other end of the valley, Custer leads a charge against the village in an attempt to capture the women and children. But more than 1,000 warriors overwhelm Custer’s compan...
LITTLE BIGHORN Ep. 3 | “Reno’s Charge”
Legends of the Old West - September 22, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAfter the Battle of the Rosebud, the Native American village moves to the valley of the Little Bighorn River. Custer leads the Dakota column as it follows the trail of the village. General Terry leads the Montana column with the hope of trapping the village between the two armies. But everything ...
LITTLE BIGHORN Ep. 2 | “Battle of the Rosebud”
Legends of the Old West - September 15, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThree army columns are in the field and the campaign is underway. The Montana column is the first to discover the enormous Native American village, but it’s slow to react. Sitting Bull participates in the Sun Dance ritual and receives his second vision about a battle with U.S. troops. While he re...
LITTLE BIGHORN Ep. 1 | “A Hostile Declaration”
Legends of the Old West - September 08, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe U.S. government tries and fails to buy the sacred Black Hills from the Lakota. As a result, President Ulysses S. Grant authorizes a plan to wage war on the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer believes he will lead part of the attack, but h...
PLEASANT VALLEY WAR Ep. 6 | “Last Man Standing”
Legends of the Old West - August 11, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsA posse of lawmen rides to Pleasant Valley to stop the violence once and for all, but it leads to another gunfight that takes more lives from the Graham side of the feud. A lone survivor on the Graham side flees Pleasant Valley and begins a new life near Phoenix. But he learns that years and dist...
PLEASANT VALLEY WAR Ep. 5 | “Lock, Stock, and Barrel”
Legends of the Old West - August 04, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsWhen members of the Graham family feel they were denied justice after the deadly ambush of Bill Graham, they team up with the Blevins brothers to take the law into their own hands. They attack the Tewksbury family and commit two brutal murders. After the attack, the Blevins family suffers devasta...
PLEASANT VALLEY WAR Ep. 4 | “The Disappearance of Martin Blevins”
Legends of the Old West - July 28, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsIn August 1887, the simmering feud heats up to a boil when the notorious Blevins family becomes an ally of the Graham family. When a member of the Blevins family disappears, a search party finds itself in a deadly shootout with a Tewsbury brother. A Tewksbury ally discovers that his ranch has bee...
PLEASANT VALLEY WAR Ep. 3 | “Bad Blood”
Legends of the Old West - July 21, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe Graham brothers form a secret pact with cattle baron Jim Stinson. In the process, the Grahams betray their friends, the Tewksburys. The betrayal ends the friendship between the two families and leads to a gunfight, courtroom trials, and more secret schemes … and then outlaws from Texas arrive...
PLEASANT VALLEY WAR Ep. 2 | “Assault With Intent To Kill”
Legends of the Old West - July 14, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe cattle baron of Pleasant Valley believes the Tewksbury brothers are stealing his animals. He sends three men to the Tewksbury ranch to discover the truth, and the confrontation turns into a shootout. The first gunshots of the Pleasant Valley War are fired, and they trigger a chain reaction of...
PLEASANT VALLEY WAR Ep. 1 | “Safety In Numbers”
Legends of the Old West - July 07, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsPleasant Valley in Arizona Territory becomes an ideal place to raise cattle in the late 1870s. But when Apache raids sweep through the area in the early 1880s, neighbors do their best to survive. Two families, the Tewksburys and the Grahams, become friends during the peak of the raids. They help ...
BILLY THE KID Ep. 10 | “The Legend”
Legends of the Old West - June 16, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe outlaw lifestyle finally catches up with Billy the Kid. A shootout claims the life of one of his oldest friends; he is sentenced to hang for his actions in the Lincoln County War; and he proves one last time that no jail can hold him. But a nighttime rendezvous in Fort Sumner lands him in the...
BILLY THE KID Ep. 9 | “Wanted, Dead or Alive”
Legends of the Old West - June 09, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsBilly's violent end draws near. After another bloody shootout, he officially becomes "Billy the Kid" and the governor puts a price on his head. Pat Garrett becomes sheriff of Lincoln County and lures Billy into a trap. In the ensuing firefight, Billy loses another friend. Join Black Barrel+ for...
BILLY THE KID Ep. 8 | “On The Run”
Legends of the Old West - June 02, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsExactly one year after the murder of John Tunstall, a Lincoln County miracle occurs: Jimmy Dolan and Billy Bonney make peace. The two warring factions agree to stop fighting, but the armistice doesn't hold. As Billy pursues a risky plan to earn a pardon from the new governor, a murder shatters th...
BILLY THE KID Ep. 7 | “Lincoln County War, Part 2”
Legends of the Old West - May 26, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe Lincoln County War ends with a murderous finale. The Dolan faction strikes a lethal blow, but it doesn't destroy the Regulators. The Regulators reach a crossroads. Each man must decide: is he in or out? Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials: blackbarrel.supportingcast.f...
BILLY THE KID Ep. 6 | “Lincoln County War, Part 1”
Legends of the Old West - May 19, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAnother Regulator captain dies. The Regulators continue their quest for vengeance. Alex McSween assembles his force; Jimmy Dolan assembles his force; and the battle finally arrives in Lincoln. Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For mo...
BILLY THE KID Ep. 5 | “Regulators”
Legends of the Old West - May 12, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsIn the wake of John Tunstall's murder, a group of his loyal fighters form a posse called the Regulators to bring his killers to justice. Within days, they murder three men. Then they target Sheriff Brady in the streets of Lincoln. The killing reaches its peak with an unexpected shootout that has...
BILLY THE KID Ep. 4 | “Shots Fired”
Legends of the Old West - May 05, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe conflict brewing in Lincoln County reaches the point of no return. Sheriff Brady and Jimmy Dolan organize a posse to attack John Tunstall and Alex McSween. The first shots fired ignite a war that takes a heavy toll on both sides. Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials: b...