Step into the courtroom of the Old West. Dark Dialogue: Gallows and Gunfights puts America’s frontier legends on trial — not the polished Hollywood myths, but the real men and women who blurred the line between lawman and outlaw.
Each episode is a case file: we cross-examine sheriffs who bent the law, outlaws who wore badges, and entrepreneurs whose empires were built with bullets as much as ledgers. From Billy the Kid and Doc Scurlock to Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett, and the Murphy–Dolan monopoly, the West’s most infamous names take the witness stand.
The format is testimony. The evidence comes from court records, eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and the blood-stained paper trail they left behind. You, the listener, are the jury — asked to weigh truth against legend, justice against survival.
If Dark Dialogue uncovers modern mysteries and Rocky Mountain Reckoning revisits frontier cold cases, Gallows and Gunfights is where history itself is indicted. The verdict? That’s for you to decide.
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The courtroom of the Old West is open — and our first witness is Billy the Kid.
In the debut of Dark Dialogue: Gallows and Gunfights, we strip away the dime-novel myths to uncover how Henry McCarty —…