Legends of the Old West
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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.
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FRONTIERSMEN Ep. 4 | Davy Crockett: “The Creek War”
David Crockett becomes a skilled hunter at a young age in Tennessee before war returns to the young American nation. During the War of 1812, he joins...
FRONTIERSMEN Ep. 3 | Daniel Boone: “Folk Hero”
As America’s war of independence drags on, Daniel Boone and the other settlers protect their towns from escalating attacks by the Shawnee. Boone becom...
FRONTIERSMEN Ep. 2 | Daniel Boone: “Battle For Boonesborough”
During the American Revolutionary War, Daniel Boone helps blaze a trail to Kentucky called the Wilderness Road. He establishes settlements and leads a...
FRONTIERSMEN Ep. 1 | Daniel Boone: “Blood Feud”
As Daniel Boone grows up in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, he earns a reputation as a skilled hunter and marksman. He learns of a hunter’s paradise...
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 Pin...
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 as...
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 ab...
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 agenc...
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 th...
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...
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...
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 hel...
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 abl...
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 acceler...
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 by...
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...
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...
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, Bi...
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....
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 Kan...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 s...
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 assaul...
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 s...
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 spontaneou...
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...
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...
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 sta...
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 aband...
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 settler...
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 c...
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...
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 a...
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 hand...
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 Johns...
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 mounta...
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...