Short Format Daily Radio Show

May 2008**

If you aren't familiar with the radio show, you can hear one of the twenty-two shows that we are airing for the month of May right now. Just click on the title "Sodbusters" and be taken back to the Old West. It has been said of the show that the listener can actually "feel the leather and smell the gun smoke." Incidentally, all of the stories take place in the month in which they are aired.

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The May line-up:

JIM MURPHY ARRESTED – After being arrested, in order to get a pardon, Jim Murphy sets up his friend, outlaw Sam Bass.

GEORGE NEWCOMB – Bitter Creek Newcomb finds that just because he has the love of a woman, it doesn’t mean her brothers also care for him.

BATTLE OF PUEBLO, MEXICO – Here is the story behind the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo. And, it isn’t Mexican Independence Day.

JOHN B. JONES – Following the Civil War, Confederate Jones looked to start a country elsewhere for dissidents. What he did latter in his life will surprise you.

HUGH GLASS – The unbelievable story of a man’s survival after being mangled by a grizzly bear and left to die.

PYRAMID LAKE WAR – In the battle between the cowboys and Indians, sometimes the Indians not only won, they won big. This is a perfect illustration.

TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD COMPLETED – The story of the celebration that took when the two railroads met at Promontory, Utah. But was the railroad really completed?

FIFTY CENT POKER GAME – Although he was only playing fifty cent poker, “Mysterious” Dave Mather didn’t like loosing.

WHAM PAYROLL ROBBERY I & II – The mysterious robbery of a payroll wagon, and how information that came out 53 years later revealed a completely different story.

WILLIAM SUBLETTE – Most mountain men wanted to stay away from people. Sublette was different. He was an organizer and a businessperson.

SAN QUENTIN JAILBREAK – Because of extenuating circumstances, this “jailbreak” was more of a “let-out.”

SAN FRANCISCO'S SECOND VIGILANTE COMMITTEE – We’re familiar with the vigilante committee that was formed at the time of the gold rush. But, there was another that was formed in 1856.

JOHN THOMPSON – Here is the amazing story of a mailman who, for twenty years, endured unbelievable obstacles to make sure the mail was delivered.

JIM BAKER – Although he wasn’t as well known as some other mountain men, Baker was a chip off the old block.

WALLACE'S HORSE – Jim Wallace had a white faced horse that seemed to get him in a lot of trouble.

SODBUSTERS – With the signing of the Homestead Act, pioneers went out west only to find areas with no lumber to build homes. But they adapted.

CURLY – Curly was a Crow Indian scout attached to George Custer’s command. Circumstances were such that he watched Custer’s defeat from a nearby hill.

OREGON TRAIL – The 2,000-mile journey taken by many a pioneer as they looked for new opportunities and a new life.

CODY'S MEDAL OF HONOR – Most people don’t know that Buffalo Bill Cody won a Congressional Medal of Honor. Well, he won it; got it taken away; and then got it again.

BOB LEATHERWOOD – Heroes sometimes come about because of an accident. This was true of Leatherwood.

ASHLEY AND THE ARIKARAS – The early explorers and mountain men had to fight the elements, wildlife and Indians. And Ashley’s group was no different.