Legends of the Old West
Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, and Butch and Sundance. Lakota, Comanche and Apache. Wars, gunfights and robberies. This show covers the toughest lawmen, the wildest outlaws, and the deadliest towns — all the people and events that shaped the American West.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 275
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
PINKERTONS Ep. 6 | “Charlie Siringo: The Wild Bunch”
In June of 1899, an outlaw gang robs a train outside of Wilcox, Wyoming. The gang is the Wild Bunch led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Pinkerton agency receives the assignment to stop the…
00:32:30 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
PINKERTONS Ep. 5 | “Charlie Siringo: Into the Mines”
In the late 1880s, James McParland joins the Denver office and quickly becomes superintendent. With McParland at the helm, Charlie Siringo receives assignments involving labor unions in the West. In …
00:36:20 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
PINKERTONS Ep. 4 | “Charlie Siringo: Cowboy Detective”
Charlie Siringo grows up driving cattle in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. In the early 1880s, Charlie retires from the cowboy life, writes a book about life on the range, and moves to Chicago. But …
00:34:50 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
PINKERTONS Ep. 3 | “James McParland: A Murder in Idaho”
After 20 years as a supervisor, James McParland yearns to get back into the field as a detective. He finds his chance in 1906 when the Pinkerton agency is hired to handle the assassination of Frank S…
00:32:54 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
PINKERTONS Ep. 2 | “James McParland: The Celebrity Detective”
As the violence intensifies in Pennsylvania, James McParland decides its time to bring the Molly Maguire case to a close before he ends up dead. In the aftermath, McParland finds himself as one of th…
00:35:22 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
PINKERTONS Ep. 1 | “James McParland: The Molly Maguires”
In the early 1870s, tensions between Pennsylvania coal miners and mine owners reaches a fever pitch. Poor working conditions for little pay results in a bitter dispute between labor and management. M…
00:36:09 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
HELL ON WHEELS Ep. 6 | “Golden Spike”
The race is finally over as both railroads make it to Promontory Summit. On May 10, 1869, the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific meet in a massive celebration. But in the aftermath, Thomas Durant’…
00:35:01 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
HELL ON WHEELS Ep. 5 | “Last Mountain, Last Battle”
After surviving the chaos of the Hell on Wheels towns of Wyoming, the Union Pacific pushes into Utah. Once there, they call upon Mormon workers to help build through treacherous canyons as they inch …
00:33:33 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
HELL ON WHEELS Ep. 4 | “Across the Desert”
The Central Pacific moves out of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and into the Nevada desert. No longer blasting through granite walls, the workers are able to make up for lost time as they battle scorchi…
00:36:56 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
HELL ON WHEELS Ep. 3 | “Desperadoes of Every Grade”
After Thomas Durant lined his pockets for years, investors in the Union Pacific finally force a change in leadership. The pace of construction accelerates dramatically, but the Union Pacific now face…
00:37:25 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
HELL ON WHEELS Ep. 2 | “Mountains to Conquer”
As the Union Pacific begins construction across Nebraska, the Central Pacific faces an immediate obstacle: the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In order to bypass the formidable granite mountains, the Centra…
00:35:10 |
Wed 28 May 2025
HELL ON WHEELS Ep. 1 | “The Great Race”
For decades in the early 1800s, engineers and merchants attempt to convince the United States to build a railroad that could link the east to the west. But it isn’t until the nation is thrown into Ci…
00:37:22 |
Wed 21 May 2025
OUTLAWS Ep. 6 | “Doolin Daltons: Dead Outlaws”
After the Battle of Ingalls in 1893, the Doolin Dalton Gang is on borrowed time. They perform a few more robberies, but then, one by one, gang members fall to bounty hunters or the U.S. Marshals.
J…
00:33:51 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
OUTLAWS Ep. 5 | “Doolin Daltons: Battle of Ingalls”
In the early 1890s, the Dalton Gang burns hot and bright in Kansas and Oklahoma, but then burns out quickly. After the disastrous Coffeyville Raid, Bill Doolin and Bill Dalton pick up the pieces and …
00:37:33 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
OUTLAWS Ep. 4 | “Dirty Dave Rudabaugh: Lincoln County Outlaw”
Dave Rudabaugh, known as Dirty Dave or Arkansas Dave, flees a murder in Las Vegas, New Mexico and ends up in Fort Sumner after the Lincoln County War. He joins Billy the Kid’s gang just in time to be…
00:37:31 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
OUTLAWS Ep. 3 | “Dirty Dave Rudabaugh: Rustler and Robber”
LEGENDS OF THE OLD WEST presented by Black Barrel Media. Dave Rudabaugh begins his journeyman outlaw career as a cattle rustler and then robber in Kansas. He narrowly eludes Wyatt Earp, but gets caug…
00:36:01 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
OUTLAWS Ep. 2 | “Black Bart: End of the Road”
By the early 1880s, Charley Boles – known as Black Bart – is one of the most prolific stagecoach robbers in the American West. Wells Fargo detectives have been chasing him for years with no luck. But…
00:32:54 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
OUTLAWS Ep. 1 | “Black Bart: Outlaw Poet”
Charley Boles tries life as a miner in the California gold rush and then life as a family farmer in Illinois. But wealth lures him west again, and he decides it’s easier to steal from Wells, Fargo & …
00:36:36 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
DAKOTA WAR Ep. 6 | “Killdeer Mountain”
In the wake of the executions of 38 Dakota warriors, the Dakota are forced to leave Minnesota. As they try to build new lives on a barren reservation in present-day South Dakota, U.S. army columns ma…
00:35:57 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
DAKOTA WAR Ep. 5 | “Judgment Day”
The Dakota War is done, but the conflict isn’t finished. Colonel Henry Sibley convenes a military commission to pass judgment on 400 Dakota warriors. The commission performs hasty trials and sentence…
00:30:49 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
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