Short Format Daily Radio Show
April 2007**
If you aren't familiar with the radio show, you can hear one of the twenty-one shows that we are airing for the month of April right now. Just click on the title "Pony Express" 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 April line-up:
WILLIAM BRADY – When Billy the Kid and his regulators killed Sheriff William Brady, because of the way it happened, Billy started loosing support.
ESTHER MORRIS – Although Esther has been celebrated as an early women’s movement hero, she was in no way radical.
PONY EXPRESS – The Pony Express, one of the Old West’s most romantic organizations, lasted only about a year and a half.
SEMINOLE-NEGROES – A most unusual military unit, they were tenacious in hunting down the marauding Comanche.
NATE CHAMPION – Nate, like many settlers, was one tough person in a conflict with cattlemen.
EDWARD CASH – Cash was the center of a stolen cattle ring. Although his neighbors couldn’t prove it in court, they were able to bring an end to the stolen cattle.
UTAH WAR – When Brigham Young brought his followers to Utah, he decided to make it an independent nation. The U.S. didn’t go along with his plan.
BUD FRAZER – Bud was in three gunfights with Jim Miller. And, he won the first two. But, mysteriously Miller wouldn’t die.
SHOPPING SERVICE – The convenience of having someone shop for you isn’t new. It took place back in 1869.
MASTERSON-PEACOCK SHOOTOUT – James Masterson got into trouble, and his brother, Bat, came to his rescue.
PAT GARRETT’S BOOK – Pat Garrett wrote a book about his conflict with Billy the Kid. He hoped it would make him famous. Unfortunately, the book made Billy the Kid famous.
CASTLE GRANDE HOLDUP – Butch Cassidy did a great job of planning his robberies. This is a perfect example of his work.
CHIEF COMPA – Compa was a friend of a trader named John Johnson. When Johnson decided to make some extra money by dealing in scalps, Compa’s was one of the first he took.
OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH I & II – Although the Oklahoma Land Rush was to have been an equal opportunity for everyone, there were those who took advantage of the situation.
JESSE JAMES MARRIED I & II – Jesse James’ marriage to his first cousin was quite an affair. Even the Pinkertons showed up.
DAVY CROCKETT PLAY – Half alligator and half horse, Davy Crockett was an American legend even before Hollywood stepped in.
ZEBULON PIKE – Although Zebulon Pike was a successful explorer, it seems his success was in spite of his miscalculations.
BURTON MOSSMAN – The head of the Arizona Rangers, Mossman was responsible for Arizona finally becoming a state.
MEDICINE LODGE HOLDUP – Like many a holdup, the Medicine Lodge Bank holdup seems to have gone wrong from the very beginning.
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