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Pioneers of Outlaw Country
A historical podcast featuring stories from the pioneers who dared make the outlaw territory of Wyoming home. These are their stories.
This podcast series has been supported by our partners; the Hot Springs County Pioneer Association, the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a program of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources, the Wyoming Humanities, and the Wyoming Office of Transportation.
Episodes
26 episodes
Audio Tour of the Yellowstone Highway
Welcome to a special edition of Pioneers of Outlaw Country! Journey with us through the rich and adventurous history of the Yellowstone Highway through the Wind River Canyon, now a scenic by-way. From its rugged landscapes to the tales etched i...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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32:29
Sheriff Rice: Smile When You Call Me That
When You Call Me That – Smile! It was now the Virginian's turn to bet, or leave the game, and he did not speak at once. Therefore, Trampas spoke. “Your bet, you son-of-a—.” The Virginian...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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34:32
1885 Cattle Round Up
The strike of a rattlesnake, the danger of stampede, the whistling of cowboys, the swish of a lasso and the sting of the hot sun. The cowboys on round-up are a true pioneer of Wyoming. Welcome to another episode of...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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9:23
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Fact to Fiction: The Real Inspiration for The Virginian
The Harvard student of law bent over his journal, writing in camp light and by kerosene. He was capturing the words that he would one day use to write the most popular Western fiction in the world. In 1885, a young tourist arrived ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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13:03
The 1880's Tourist to Wyoming
When we think of the early visitors of Wyoming, we think of the cowboys, homesteaders, miners and others coming to the West to make their fortune. There was another group of young men who came west on the trains and stagecoaches. These were you...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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10:16
Lost Journals of Owen Wister
The faded pencil script spelled out rough poems, descriptions of sunsets and hangings, saloon scenes, cowboy tall tales, the wide-open prairie and the sharp retort of the gun. From Owen Wister’s pen, the cowboy myth was born a...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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8:46
David Picard: Cowboy Prankster
The most famous cowboy prank in Wyoming... may never have happened. Or did it? In his novel, The Virginian, Owen Wister tells of a baby swapping prank that happened at a rural dance. It was common practice in those days to pile the babies under...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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23:21
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Peeshee: Wyoming's Tiniest Tourist
When Owen Wister brought his family to Wyoming in 1912, they brought along a special friend: Peeshee, the waltzing mouse. The inclusion of this tiny tourist in their family gives us insight into the Wister family dynamics and their love of natu...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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11:08
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Owen Wister: The Tenderfoot
"Young man, go west!"Among the cowboys and frontiersmen, miners and homesteaders were a group of young adventurers - the rich young tenderfoot. These tourists were not seeking their fortunes but were tourists, looking to get away from the c...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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22:19
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
In 1902, the most popular book in America was The Virginian by Owen Wister. This book changed America's perspective on the cowboy and turned the once maligned cowhand into a romantic hero.Told at times through the eyes of the Tend...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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44:00
The Outlaw & the Flying Saucer
In 1903, Tom O'Day was villainized in the newspapers as a notorious horse thief but his friends and acquaintances defended him as a cheerful Irishman who may embellish a brand once in awhile. That February he was unarmed when, suddenly, he was ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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11:52
Hello 1884! New Year's Predictions, Superstitions & more
Happy New Year! What better way to celebrate than to travel back in time to 1884 in the Wyoming Territory. Warning... Sprinkled in with the 1884 New Years predictions are superstitions and even an old-fashioned romance. We are cel...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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20:57
The Lost Owl Creek Colony
They were daring adventurers, forgers of a new life, homesteaders …. and forgotten to history. These vanished people were true pioneers of Hot Springs County, Wyoming. The Pioneers of Outlaw Country. Cowboys...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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17:39
Ben Hanson, The Outlaw Who Founded a Town
He was the founder of Thermopolis, well-respected businessman and cattleman, a dashing bachelor, expert horseman and a murderer. This cattleman and businessman was a true pioneer of Hot Springs County, Wyoming. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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25:10
Elizabeth McCrudy, Daughter of Oil
She was the daughter of an oil man, grew up in the Grass Creek oil field – playing among the pumpjacks and dancing at the one-room school house in the early part of the 1900’s. This student of the land was truly a pioneer of H...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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19:11
Major Forsyth; March to Custer's Battlefield
Major George “Sandy” Forsyth: His Forgotten Diary He was a Civil War veteran, Cavalry Officer, Indian Fighter, General Sheridan’s aide de camp, avid fisherman, author, husband and Brigadier General. This courageous...
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26:51
The Rough & Wooley Stage Line to Thermopolis
Over the Stage Line to Thermopolis They were adventurers, farm boys, prospectors, family men and former soldiers. These men who drove the stage through Wyoming had to be endure the heat of summer and the sleet and snow of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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21:06
Dora McGrath, Lady of the Wild West
A single gunshot rang out. It was night on a bustling Wyoming street - yet no one admitted to recognizing the gunman who escaped into the crowd…. Dora McGrath: A Lady of the Wild West She was the daughter...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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24:12
Joe Meek, The Mountain Man
Joe Meek: The Mountain Man He was the tall Virginian. A trapper, Indian fighter, pioneer, peace officer, frontier politician, and lover of practical jokes and Jacksonian democracy. This friend and com...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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27:19
A Mountain Man Christmas
As the wind blew across the snow, the mountain men made a winter camp without provisions or hope of getting any until they reached the plains where the buffalo roamed. They were living off the land and the deer and elk had fled this high countr...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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5:52
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Albert Slick Nard, Lawman & Outlaw: Part II
He was a man of the West. A cowboy, husband, father, outlaw, hired assassin, lawman and lone wolf. This Deputy Sheriff and Horse Rustler was a true pioneer of Hot Springs County, Wyoming. T...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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19:26
Albert Slick Nard, Lawman & Outlaw, Part I
He was a man of the West. A cowboy, husband, father, outlaw, hired assassin, lawman and lone wolf. This Deputy Sheriff and Horse Rustler was a true pioneer of Hot Springs County, Wyoming. Hot Springs...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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18:19
Mary Hayes Picard, The Outlaw’s Angel of Mercy
She was the daughter of a cavalry soldier. A teacher, caregiver, rancher, homesteader, wife, mother and to some, an angle of mercy – even when the person in need was also a wanted outlaw. This courageous homesteade...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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27:12
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Walt Punteney: A Lesser Light of the Hole in the Wall Gang
He was a man of the West. A cowboy, ranch foreman, top rider and roper with the Buffalo Bill Show, husband, father, homesteader, saloon owner... and outlaw. This member of the Wild Bunch was a true pioneer of Hot Springs, County.
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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25:42
