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April 28 - May 4, 2008
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  • This week’s show starts with a conversation with Western music group Way Out West. We also include one of their songs.

Way Out West
Way Out West

Bison Museum

  • Our regular, Jim MacGregor, tells us about a unique Old West character by the name of Nelson Story.

Jim MacGregor
Jim MacGregor

  • Way Out West sings the song "Granddaddy's Cabin."

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April 21 - 27, 2008
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  • We’re familiar with how Mormons founded Salt Lake City. But, as Jim MacGregor tells us, there were hundreds more.

Jim McGregor
JimMcGregor

  • We’ve had several cowboy Presidents, but, as Bill O’Neal tells us, none was a cowboy to the level of Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt

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April 14 - 20, 2008
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The Cowboy's Trail Guide to Westerns by David Matuszak

  • During the second half of the show, we're talking with Bethany Braley about the National Day of the Cowboy which is on July 26, 2008.

National Day of the Cowboy logo

Behtany Braley with DakotaBethany Braley
Bethany Braley with Dakota Bethany Braley

  • We round out the show with a discussion about the movie "High Noon" with Michael Blake.

Michael BlakeHigh Noon
Michael Blake

  • Our cowboy music this week is provided by Tex Ritter: "High Noon."

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April 7 - 13, 2008
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  • Today’s show takes place at Festival of the West in Phoenix, Arizona. It starts with a great story by Madison Walker about lawman Bass Reeves. You’ll enjoy the ending to this story.

Bass ReevesMadison Walker
Bass Reeves Madison Walker

  • During the second half of the show, cowboy movie star and artist Buck Taylor talks about both of his careers…acting and painting.

Buck Taylor
Buck Taylor

R.W. Hampton

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March 31 - April 6, 2008
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  • A few weeks ago while talking to Bill O’Neal about the death of Pat Garrett; he mentioned the possible involvement of Jim Miller…Also known as “Killer” Miller. Today we get back with Bill to talk about this strange man.

Jim Miller Hanging
'Killer' Jim Miller, far left, wearing black hat, hangs from a livery stable rafter
after lynching in Ada, Oklahoma, 1909

Bill O'Neal
Bill O'Neal

  • During the second half of the show, Old West expert, Lee Anderson, joins us to discuss two of the cowboy’s essential tools…guns and horses.

Cartoon - CowboyLee Anderson
Lee Anderson

Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey

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March 24 - 30, 2008
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  • As a country we are very resourceful. In this week’s show Bill O’Neal maintains our resourcefulness and inventiveness is the result of 300 years of frontier.

Bill O'Neal
Bill O'Neal

  • Our regular, Jim MacGregor, talks to us about one of the most unique experiments of the Old West…the Camel Experiment.

The Great Camel Experiment

Jim MacGregor
Jim MacGregor

Kip CalahanBill Barwick
Kip Calahan Bill Barwick

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March 17 - 23, 2008
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  • In the Old West cowboys used ropes made of leather that were called reatas. Reatas are still made today, but it’s a dying craft…especially north of the border. We start this week’s show with a conversation with Dick Shore, one of the few people still making reatas.

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  • Victorio was a great Indian Chief and gorilla fighter who came along at the end of the Apache wars. Dakota talks to Kathy Chamberlain who wrote a book about this man.

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"Victorio - Apache Warrior and Chief" by Kathy Chamberlain

  • With Victorio and most of the people who we talk about no longer around, it is only appropriate for us to play Don Edwards' song “Coyotes.”

Don Edwards
Don Edwards

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March 10 - 16, 2008
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  • If you follow the World Poker Tour you know who Scotty Nguyen is. If not, having won millions on the tour, he’s one of the tour’s top poker players. Dakota talks to Scotty about his being raised in Viet Nam on American TV westerns like Bonanza and Wild Wild West.

Scotty Nguyen and Dakota

  • At the request of a listener, Dakota gives Bill O’Neal a phone call to talk to one of the Old West’s most puzzling men, Tom Horn.

Tom Horn
Tom Horn

  • We also have a cowboy poem by Gary Robertson about dogs not being able to play poker.

Dogs Playing PokerGary Robertson
Gary Robertson

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