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March 31 - April 6, 2008

• 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.

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

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.

Lee Anderson

• This week Michael Martin Murphey provides the cowboy music.

Michael Martin Murphey

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March 24 - 30, 2008

• 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

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

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Jim MacGregor

• In this week’s show Kip Calahan and Bill Barwick provide the cowboy/cowgirl music.

Kip Calahan Bill Barwick

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March 17 - 23, 2008

• 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.

Chief Victorio

"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

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March 10 - 16, 2008

• 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.

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• 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

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

Gary Robertson

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March 3 - 9, 2008

• Probably no other weapon from the Old West has more myth surrounding it than the Bowie knife. Dave Lennon talks to Dakota about that knife, and bursts a few myths in the process.

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Examples of the Bowie knife

• In keeping with the theme of Jim Bowie, Dakota tells us a story about Jim’s skill as a gambler.

Jim Bowie

• On March 9, 1916 Pancho Villa came across the border and invaded a small Texas town. Jim MacGregor tells us how a great battle plan on paper became a disaster when implemented.

Pancho Villa

• Our Cowboy music this week is by Sons of the San Joaquin.

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February 25 - March 2, 2008

• On February 29, one hundred years ago, Pat Garrett, the man who shot Billy the Kid, was killed under unusual circumstances. Bill O’Neal tells us about Pat’s death and what he was doing at the time.

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Pat Garrett

• Dakota talks about a new organization that was formed to educate people about the Wild West. The name of the organization is the Wild West History Association.

• Ninety year old Choctaw elder, Ernie Hooser, tells us about the history of the Choctaw people.

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