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June 30 - July 6, 2008

• This week’s show promises to be one of the more interesting ones that we have had in some time. We start the show with a conversation with Jay Redfeather about the early Indian weapons…the bow and arrow, spear and tomahawk.

Jay Redfeather

Indian with bow & arrow

Last Horse, a Sioux Indian,
poses in full war paint in 1899 and carries a spear and shield.

Indian holding his tomahawk

• Then in the second half of the show Dakota will be asking Jim MacGregor if there would have been a Wild West if there had not been a Civil War. According to Jim there would not have been a Wild West.

Civil War soldiers

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June 23 - 29, 2008

• Our regular Bill O’Neal tells us about another of the great Old West ranches and ranchers. This time it’s a man of unbelievable determination, Pete Kitchen.

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Pete Kitchen

Pete Kitchen's hilltop stronghold

High Chaparral TV series cast
in front of a reproduction of Pete Kitchen's fortress home

• During the second half of the show Dakota talks to Karen Holliday Tanner about her cousin, Doc Holliday. She reveals information about Doc Holliday that’s known only by family members.

Doc Holliday

Karen Holliday Tanner

• We have two cowboy songs for you this week. One is by R.W. Hampton and the other is by Due West Trio.

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June 16 - 22, 2008

• During this week’s show we’ll be talking about two of the Old West’s most important locations…Where the gold rush of ’49 took place and the last wild Old West town on the mainland…Coloma, CA and Tombstone, AZ.

James Marshall at Sutter's Sawmill, Coloma, California, 1851

Allen street, Tombstone, looking east, with a parade in progress.
Main entrance to O. K. Corral in clump of trees, top center.
Photo courtesy the author, W. B. Shillingberg.

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• Then, in the second half of the show we’ll give a phone call to David Johnson about one of the characters who hung around Tombstone during its heyday…John Ringo.

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John Ringo

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June 9 - 15, 2008

• Much of this week’s show takes place at the Big Bear Wild West Story Fest where Dakota was one of the performers. Dakota talks to poets Andy Nelson and Yvonne Hollenbeck, and performers Beth Gardner and Tory Warner.

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Dakota interviewing Andy Nelson

Yvonne Hollenbeck

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• In the second half of the show we have the third of a series of conversations with Michael Blake about classic westerns. This time it’s The Searchers.

Michael Blake

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• To round out the show we have a cowboy poem by Gary Robertson and a song by Jim Bowman.

Gary Robertson Jim Bowman

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June 2 - 8, 2008

• Dakota gives Bob Alexander a phone call to talk about a bad, bad outlaw, John Kinney. John is one of the many interesting characters that Bob writes about in his book Desert Desperadoes.

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John Kinney

Robert Alexander

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• Lee Anderson returns to talk to us about the cowboy of the late 1800’s…Who he was, his attire and customs.

Lee Anderson

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May 26 - June 1, 2008

• Jim MacGregor and Dakota talk about the job of the military in the West following the Civil War. Jim feels that, under the conditions, the military showed unbelievable restraint in carrying out the instructions given them by the politicians in Washington.

West Point during the late 1800's

Jim MacGregor

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• Dakota gives retired college history professor, Robert Larson, a call to talk about one of the lesser known Indian chiefs of the Old West…Gall. Incidentally, Gall was one of the principal chiefs in the Little Big Horn battle.

Indian Chief Gall

Gall - Lakota War Chief by Robert Larson

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• Our Western music this week is by R.W. Hampton.

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