Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

History of the American West

  • 35 minutes 51 seconds
    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 fall to bounty hunters or the U.S. Marshals. 


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    23 April 2025, 8:00 am
  • 39 minutes 33 seconds
    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, Bill Doolin and Bill Dalton pick up the pieces and start a new gang. The Doolin Dalton Dang, also known as the Wild Bunch, robs banks and trains and quickly becomes the most feared outfit on the southern plains. In the process, the gang draws the attention of the U.S. Marshals, and the stage is set for a legendary shootout in the village of Ingalls, Oklahoma.


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    16 April 2025, 8:00 am
  • 39 minutes 31 seconds
    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. He joins Billy the Kid’s gang just in time to be pursued relentlessly by Pat Garret, the new sheriff of Lincoln County. After Billy and Dirty Dave are captured, Dave escapes jail and runs south to Mexico for his last hurrah.


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    9 April 2025, 8:00 am
  • 38 minutes 1 second
    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 Kansas. He narrowly eludes Wyatt Earp, but gets caught by Bat Masterson. He joins the Colorado Railroad Wars, becomes a member of the Dodge City Gang in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and then flees a murder warrant.


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    2 April 2025, 8:00 am
  • 34 minutes 54 seconds
    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 have been chasing him for years with no luck. But when Charley suffers unexpected resistance during a robbery, he leaves behind key evidence. Detectives finally learn the identity of the gentleman outlaw and bring an end to Black Bart’s legendary career.


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    26 March 2025, 8:00 am
  • 38 minutes 36 seconds
    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 decides it’s easier to steal from Wells, Fargo & Company than to pan for gold in the freezing rivers of California. He starts robbing stagecoaches and he soon becomes a pioneer of the trade. He gives himself a nickname and begins to write his own legacy.


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    19 March 2025, 8:00 am
  • 37 minutes 57 seconds
    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 in present-day South Dakota, U.S. army columns march west on punitive expeditions against the wider Sioux Nation. General Henry Sibley’s column fights three battles near Bismarck, North Dakota, and then General Alfred Sully’s column attacks a Lakota camp that is home to a rising star in the Lakota community, Sitting Bull.

     

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    19 February 2025, 9:00 am
  • 32 minutes 49 seconds
    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. The commission performs hasty trials and sentences an historic number of warriors to death. President Abraham Lincoln intervenes on behalf of some of the condemned, but the year 1862 still ends with the largest mass execution in American history.

     

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    12 February 2025, 9:00 am
  • 35 minutes 29 seconds
    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 Colonel Sibley leads a column out of Fort Ridgely to confront the warrior army. At the Battle of Wood Lake, Sibley’s force delivers a crushing blow to the Dakota army and turns the tide of the war.

     

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    5 February 2025, 9:00 am
  • 35 minutes 40 seconds
    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 to overrun the two strongest pockets of resistance in southwestern Minnesota.

     

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    29 January 2025, 9:00 am
  • 35 minutes 23 seconds
    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 hoarding food. After the agency, the Dakota sweep across the landscape and attack homes, farms, and towns. Soldiers at the nearest army outpost, Fort Ridgely, rush to the agency, but they march into a devastating trap. Dakota warriors begin sieges at Fort Ridgely and the town of New Ulm.

     

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    22 January 2025, 9:00 am
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