Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

History of the American West

  • 32 minutes 7 seconds
    BUFFALO SOLDIERS Ep. 2 | “Florida Mountains Fight”

    A small detachment of the 9th Cavalry from Fort Bayard in southern New Mexico Territory tracks a band of Apache who were likely responsible for an attack in Arizona Territory. The detachment follows the Apache into the Florida Mountains where the soldiers quickly find themselves surrounded. In the fight to escape the trap, the brave actions of Corporal Clinton Greaves help save his unit.

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    3 December 2025, 9:00 am
  • 31 minutes 12 seconds
    BUFFALO SOLDIERS Ep. 1 | “Battle of Fort Lancaster”

    In 1867, Company K of the 9th Cavalry spends a long summer rebuilding Fort Lancaster on the road between El Paso and San Antonio. At the end of the year, a force of 400 fighters – led by Kickapoo warriors – attack the fort. In the first serious frontier action of Company K, the Buffalo Soldiers engage in a fierce battle to protect the fort and their horses.

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    26 November 2025, 9:00 am
  • 36 minutes 26 seconds
    FRONTIERSMEN Ep. 6 | Davy Crockett: “The Alamo”

    David Crockett volunteers for the Texian army and is assigned to help protect an old Spanish mission called Mission San Antonio de Valero, better known as the Alamo. He arrives two weeks before the Mexican army led by President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, which has been marching to Texas to retake the city of San Antonio. For 13 days at the end of February and the beginning of March, 1836, Crockett and the other defenders of the Alamo withstand a siege until the Mexican army launches the final assault.

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    29 October 2025, 8:00 am
  • 34 minutes 34 seconds
    FRONTIERSMEN Ep. 5 | Davy Crockett: “Go To Hell or Go To Texas”

    David Crockett’s political career rises throughout the 1820s, but it begins to fall in the 1830s as he continually runs afoul of President Andrew Jackson. By the mid-1830s, he has heard so many stories about Texas that he has decided to try to build a new life on the new western frontier of the United States. When his political career ends, he starts the journey to Texas and he learns along the way that he will likely have to return to his days as a warrior because a rebellion is rising.


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    22 October 2025, 8:00 am
  • 32 minutes 26 seconds
    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 thousands of volunteers from Tennessee who are sent south to fight in the Creek War. Crockett plays a role in the pivotal Battle of Tallushatchee, but he discovers that he disdains war. When he returns home, he begins a career in politics.

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    15 October 2025, 8:00 am
  • 37 minutes 9 seconds
    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 becomes a captive of the Shawnee and faces betrayal by his friends as a result. But he remains an adventurer to the end when he leads pioneers farther west to the expanding edge of the American frontier.

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    8 October 2025, 8:00 am
  • 36 minutes 46 seconds
    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 daring rescue mission to recover three girls who are kidnapped by the Shawnee. Then, he defends his settlement of Boonesborough against waves of Shawnee attacks.

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    1 October 2025, 8:00 am
  • 36 minutes 26 seconds
    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 called Kentucky, but his first trip to the frontier leads to a lifelong blood feud with the Shawnee who lay claim to the land.


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    24 September 2025, 8:00 am
  • 32 minutes 30 seconds
    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 Pinkerton agency receives the assignment to stop the gang once and for all, and Charlie Siringo conducts a 4-year manhunt for the elusive thieves.

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    27 August 2025, 8:00 am
  • 36 minutes 20 seconds
    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 assignments involving labor unions in the West. In 1891, Siringo goes to the Idaho Panhandle with orders to infiltrate a local labor union in a case which would nearly cost him his life.

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    20 August 2025, 8:00 am
  • 34 minutes 50 seconds
    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 about life on the range, and moves to Chicago. But after the Haymarket Affair, Charlie decides on a career change and becomes an agent for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Charlie moves to Denver and finds himself tackling political problems in Colorado and infiltrating an outlaw gang in Wyoming.

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    13 August 2025, 8:00 am
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