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
DAKOTA WAR Ep. 4 | “The Turning Tide”
With Fort Ridgely reinforced, Colonel Henry Sibley sends troops on a burial mission that results in a disastrous ambush. Dakota warriors continue to sweep through the western half of Minnesota, and C…
00:33:29 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
DAKOTA WAR Ep. 3 | “Siege of Fort Ridgely”
After defenders at Fort Ridgely and New Ulm survive the first Dakota attacks, they re-fortify and brace for the second attacks. Dakota warriors assault both locations in greater numbers and threaten …
00:33:40 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
DAKOTA WAR Ep. 2 | “Assault on Lower Sioux Agency”
At dawn on August 18, 1862, hundreds of Dakota warriors launch a surprise attack on the Lower Sioux Agency in southwestern Minnesota. The Dakota are starving, and the traders at the agency are hoardi…
00:33:23 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
DAKOTA WAR Ep. 1 | “Acton Massacre”
On August 17, 1862, four young Dakota men kill five white settlers near the village of Acton Township, Minnesota. The act of violence seems spontaneous, but it is fueled by desperation that had been …
00:32:14 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
ENCORE: NEZ PERCÉ WAR Ep. 6 | “Fight No More Forever”
The Nez Percé have performed an extraordinary feat: they have traveled more than 1,300 miles and repelled three American armies in a series of battles and smaller skirmishes. But they are sore and ex…
00:36:49 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
ENCORE: NEZ PERCÉ WAR Ep. 5 | “The Medicine Line”
The Nez Percé escape the Battle of Big Hole and move into Yellowstone National Park. Their options are limited and they choose a treacherous path over a mountain range to try to lose their army pursu…
00:31:54 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
ENCORE: NEZ PERCÉ WAR Ep. 4 | “Thunder In The Mountains”
The Nez Percé are on the run. They cross the Bitterroot Mountains and arrive in Montana. They believe they have left their troubles behind and can start fresh in a new territory. But they soon learn …
00:32:48 |
Wed 25 Dec 2024
ENCORE: NEZ PERCÉ WAR Ep. 3 | “Battle of Clearwater”
A few days after the Battle of White Bird Canyon, an army unit attacks a Nez Percé village. After the fight, the army unit becomes trapped at an abandoned ranch by the advancing Nez Percé column. The…
00:32:59 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
ENCORE: NEZ PERCÉ WAR Ep. 2 | “A Hornet’s Nest”
In the summer of 1876, the murder of a Nez Percé man nearly starts the war. The following summer, a series of attacks by the Nez Percé against settlers who had invaded their homeland pushes the confl…
00:34:37 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
ENCORE: NEZ PERCÉ WAR Ep. 1 | “50 Years of Peace”
For about 50 years, there was relative peace in the U.S. and the Nez Percé. There were outbreaks of violence, like the Whitman Massacre, but not the continual warfare that existed between the U.S. ar…
00:36:16 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
VIGILANTES Ep. 3 | “Baldknobbers: Faces Like Devils”
As the violence begins to subside in Taney County, it ramped up in neighboring Douglas and Christian counties. The Baldknobbers in those counties wear terrifying masks during nighttime raids on their…
00:37:48 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
VIGILANTES Ep. 2 | “Baldknobbers: Murder & Mayhem”
After two years of vigilante activity by the Baldknobbers, many of the people in Taney County, Missouri want the group to disband. Some openly rebel against the powerful vigilantes. The conflict lead…
00:38:46 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
VIGILANTES Ep. 1 | “Baldknobbers: Frontier Justice”
In 1883 in Taney County, Missouri, a murder case ends with an apparent lack of justice, and Nathaniel Kinney decides to take matters into his own hands. He forms a vigilance committee – nicknamed the…
00:37:00 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 6 | “Jeremiah Johnson: The True Story”
In this episode, we attempt to separate fact from fiction and tell the story of the man whose life inspires books and the famous movie “Jeremiah Johnson” starring Robert Redford. The truth is far dif…
00:38:04 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 5 | “Jeremiah Johnson: Myth and Legend”
The story of the man who is known as Jeremiah Johnson is shrouded in mystery. In this episode, the character of John Johnson joins the ranks of mountain men in the 1840s and soon embarks on an epic c…
00:38:12 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 4 | “Hugh Glass: That Reckless Breed Of Men”
With his quest for revenge complete, Hugh Glass follows the new Santa Fe trail to territories that will become New Mexico and Arizona. But the call of the Rocky Mountains lures him north again. He he…
00:38:25 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 3 | “Hugh Glass: The Grizzly Bear”
Hugh Glass is an older veteran trapper when he joins the Ashley-Henry fur company. In 1823, he suffers a catastrophic attack by a grizzly bear in the woods along the Grand River in what is now South …
00:41:00 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 2 | “Jedediah Smith: Making History”
In 1824, Jedediah Smith undertakes the journey of a lifetime. He travels across more of the West than any other explorer of the age. He battles starvation and Native American war parties, and ascends…
00:46:20 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 1 | “Jedediah Smith: Ashley’s Hundred”
In 1822, Jedediah Smith answers an advertisement to join a new fur trading company led by William Ashley and Andrew Henry. Smith and the rest of the company head into the wilds of the Upper Missouri …
00:44:04 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
BONUS | Soundtrack: Western Songs, Vol. 1
Music from the Legends of the Old West podcast. Western-themed songs:
0:00 – Legends of the Old West Opening Cue
0:12 – Legends of the Old West Theme (Full Version)
1:36 – “Dust”
4:18 – “Riding Wes…
00:49:19 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
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