Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media
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May 4, 2022 • 31min

WOMEN OF THE WEST Ep. 5 | Pearl Hart: “The Stagecoach Robber, part 1”

Peart Hart faced extreme trauma as a young girl and eventually ran away from home with her sister. They crisscrossed the East Coast and Midwest of America and committed petty crimes and minor burglaries. They landed in jail and spent time in reformatories. By the time Pearl was in her 20s, she made a decision: she needed to make a new life in The West.Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email: sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 27, 2022 • 31min

WOMEN OF THE WEST Ep. 4 | Belle Starr: “The Bandit Queen, part 2”

Belle and her husband Sam Starr stole horses and cattle, and worked with the outlaw network that was organized by Sam’s father. They faced justice in the courtroom of “Hanging Judge” Isaac Parker, but then resumed their outlaw lifestyles. Belle’s husband met a violent end, and her own death remains controversial to this day.Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email: sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 20, 2022 • 32min

WOMEN OF THE WEST Ep. 3 | Belle Starr: “The Bandit Queen, part 1”

Belle Starr grew up in Missouri during the Civil War and acted as a spy for Quantrill’s Raiders. Her husband and brothers embraced the outlaw lifestyle and became affiliated with Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang. Slowly but surely, Belle gravitated toward the outlaw trail herself.Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email: sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 13, 2022 • 33min

WOMEN OF THE WEST Ep. 2 | Olive Oatman: “The Survivor”

Olive Oatman endured a long, difficult wagon trip with her family from Illinois to Arizona Territory. Her wagon train was attacked by Apaches and she spent five years as a prisoner of the tribes of the Southwest. Near the end of her captivity, she was given the distinctive tattoos that made her famous.Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email: sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 6, 2022 • 32min

WOMEN OF THE WEST Ep. 1 | Stagecoach Mary: “The Trailblazer”

Mary Fields was a former slave who became the caretaker of a convent in Ohio before rushing west to help save the life of her closest friend. In Montana, she became a legendary stagecoach driver for the U.S. postal service and a towering figure in the town of Cascade.Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email: sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 16, 2022 • 37min

Introducing "History Daily" from Airship and Noiser

Every weekday host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History Daily is there to tell you the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time.Find History Daily at: https://podfollow.com/history-daily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 9, 2022 • 32min

OUTLAWS Ep. 7 | Henry Plummer: “Montana Vigilantes”

Henry Plummer becomes the sheriff of Bannack, Montana, but many believe he also runs a gang of killers and thieves. Before long, powerful men organize and authorize crews of vigilantes who systematically hang their enemies. Henry Plummer, the sheriff of Bannack, is first on the hit list, and his story ends in mystery. Was he an upstanding sheriff or the leader of a gang of road agents, or both?Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 2, 2022 • 31min

OUTLAWS Ep. 6 | Henry Plummer: “Prisoner No. 1573”

In the wake of a deadly shootout near Nevada City, town marshal Henry Plummer kills a man whom he suspects is a danger to his wife. Plummer claims self defense, but a jury believes otherwise. Plummer lands in notorious San Quentin prison. After a short stint, Plummer begins a new life on the outlaw trail, a life that leads him to Idaho Territory and sets the stage for the most infamous phase of career.Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Feb 23, 2022 • 33min

OUTLAWS Ep. 5 | Henry Plummer: “Support Your Local Marshal”

Henry Plummer moves from New England to California and completes an improbable rise from failed miner to successful businessman to town marshal. But Plummer soon fears the powerful men of Nevada City, California as well as the rising threat of vigilante violence. And then the threat becomes reality during a deadly shootout between lawmen, outlaws, and vigilantes.Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Feb 16, 2022 • 33min

OUTLAWS Ep. 4 | John Wesley Hardin: “The End In El Paso”

The 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, and the entanglement leads to the end of John Wesley Hardin.Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/joinTo advertise on this podcast, please email sales@advertisecast.comFor more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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