Legends of the Old West

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 to co-owner of the Ashley-Henry fur company before retiring from the life of a trapper in the Rocky Mountains. Then, on his final adventure, his story ends in mystery. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 River country and find themselves tested by the weather, the terrain, the animals, and the Native American warriors who want to stop encroachment on their territory. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Music from the Legends of the Old West podcast. Western-themed songs: 0:00 – Legends of the Old West Opening Cue0:12 – Legends of the Old West Theme (Full Version)1:36 – “Dust”4:18 – “Riding West”6:40 – “Providence”8:54 – “Water Grave”11:19 – “Dirt”13:44 – “Desperado”15:50 – “At The Frontier”18:00 – “Coyote”20:28 – “Meanwhile”23:29 – “Lonesome”25:30 – “Saddle Up”28:38 – “Slow Rider”31:12 – “Feather”33:26 – “Standoff”36:10 – “Desert Walking”38:28 – “Dead Man”41:12 – “Cudillero”43:56 – “Wide Prairie” Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In November 1875, Captain Leander McNelly makes his most famous and controversial move: he leads his militia company into Mexico and attacks two villages to recover stolen cattle. His actions provoke a standoff with Mexican officials and consternation from his superiors, but his men love his bold strategy. After the events known as the Las Cuevas War, McNelly’s time in command draws to a close. But his lieutenant helps end the Sutton-Taylor feud, and his former sergeant leads the arrest of the infamous outlaw, John Wesley Hardin. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY“The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” by Mike Cox“The Ranger Ideal, Vol. 1&2” by Darren L. Ivey“Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers” by Robert M. Utley“The Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb“Captain L.H. McNelly: Texas Ranger” by Chuck Parsons & Marianne E. Hall Little“Taming the Nueces Strip” by George Durham“Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” by Doug J. Swanson“Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman” by J. Evetts Haley“Comanches: A History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbach“The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West” by Peter Cozzens Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In South Texas, in an area known as the Nueces Strip, cattle rustling is a huge problem and it comes with an additional layer of complication: many of the rustlers are from Mexico. They ride across the border, steal Texas cattle, and drive the cattle to Mexico. In 1875, Captain Leander McNelly and his militia company are dispatched to the Rio Grande Valley to stop the rustlers from Mexico. Shortly after they arrive, they find themselves in a pivotal fight on the Palo Alto prairie. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY“The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” by Mike Cox“The Ranger Ideal, Vol. 1&2” by Darren L. Ivey“Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers” by Robert M. Utley“The Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb“Captain L.H. McNelly: Texas Ranger” by Chuck Parsons & Marianne E. Hall Little“Taming the Nueces Strip” by George Durham“Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” by Doug J. Swanson“Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman” by J. Evetts Haley“Comanches: A History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbach“The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West” by Peter Cozzens Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early 1870s, the Horrell brothers were involved in the murder of a sheriff, the murders of State Police officers, a jailbreak, and a bloody episode known as the Horrell War in New Mexico before the infamous Lincoln County War. In 1877, they become embroiled in a deadly feud with the Higgins clan until Major John B. Jones dreams up a creative solution. Meanwhile, during the early stages of the problems with the Horrell brothers, a former captain of the State Police, Leander McNelly, creates a militia unit to try to stop the notoriously bloody Sutton-Taylor feud in South Texas. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY“The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” by Mike Cox“The Ranger Ideal, Vol. 1&2” by Darren L. Ivey“Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers” by Robert M. Utley“The Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb“Captain L.H. McNelly: Texas Ranger” by Chuck Parsons & Marianne E. Hall Little“Taming the Nueces Strip” by George Durham“Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” by Doug J. Swanson“Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman” by J. Evetts Haley“Comanches: A History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbach“The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West” by Peter Cozzens Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 In 1875, Major John B. Jones leads the gradual transition of the Texas Rangers from frontier fighters to law enforcement officers. As Texas becomes the heart of the cattle ranching industry in America, cattle rustling becomes a serious problem. In Mason County, two factions battle each other. And as the murder rate rises, Jones leads the Rangers to town to try to settle the affair. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY“The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” by Mike Cox“The Ranger Ideal, Vol. 1&2” by Darren L. Ivey“Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers” by Robert M. Utley“The Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb“Captain L.H. McNelly: Texas Ranger” by Chuck Parsons & Marianne E. Hall Little“Taming the Nueces Strip” by George Durham“Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” by Doug J. Swanson“Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman” by J. Evetts Haley“Comanches: A History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbach“The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West” by Peter Cozzens Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During and immediately after the Civil War, the Texas frontier suffers from renewed attacks by the Comanche and Kiowa. One of the most notable is the devastating Elm Creek Raid. After the war, Texas briefly reconstitutes the Texas Rangers, but they’re not fully resurrected until the creation of the Frontier Battalion in 1874. Major John B. Jones becomes the commander and leads the battalion into a new era. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY“The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” by Mike Cox“The Ranger Ideal, Vol. 1&2” by Darren L. Ivey“Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers” by Robert M. Utley“The Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb“Captain L.H. McNelly: Texas Ranger” by Chuck Parsons & Marianne E. Hall Little“Taming the Nueces Strip” by George Durham“Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” by Doug J. Swanson“Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman” by J. Evetts Haley“Comanches: A History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbach“The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West” by Peter Cozzens Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the spring of 1861, it becomes clear America is headed for civil war. Texas Rangers Ben McCulloch, Henry McCulloch, John S. “Rip” Ford, and Lawrence Sullivan Ross join the Confederate army. They have four vastly different experiences, highlighted by the second major battle of the war, Sherman’s capture of Atlanta, and the final battle of the war. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY“The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” by Mike Cox“The Ranger Ideal, Vol. 1&2” by Darren L. Ivey“Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers” by Robert M. Utley“The Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb“Captain L.H. McNelly: Texas Ranger” by Chuck Parsons & Marianne E. Hall Little“Taming the Nueces Strip” by George Durham“Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” by Doug J. Swanson“Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman” by J. Evetts Haley“Comanches: A History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbach“The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West” by Peter Cozzens Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial.On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Change Agents, find out what it takes to solve some of the world's seemingly impossible problems. In each episode, SEAL Team 6 veteran and "Cleared Hot" podcast host Andy Stumpf interviews a new "agent of change" who is enacting real change to understand the scope of their work, how it can be replicated, and the unimaginable stakes of their everyday lives. Today’s guest is Academy Award winning filmmaker, Kevin Costner. Costner co-wrote, directed, and stars in the new film Horizon: An American Saga. In this special episode of Change Agents, he and Andy Stumpf discuss why he invested so much personally into the project, his career, his philosophy on storytelling and more. HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA CHAPTER ONE hits theaters June 28th, and CHAPTER TWO in theaters August 16th. Join the Frontier Pass at http://Fandango.com for exclusive content, and grab tickets for both Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 now. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices