526 episodes
Dr. History's Tales of the Old West Dr. Ken Turner
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4.4 • 346 Ratings
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Dr. History's audio stories of the Old West. Stories of Cowboys, Indians, Mountain men, pioneers, the Oregon Trail, miners, cattle drives, stagecoach and bank robbers, the cavalry, outlaws and lawmen, some famous and some you have never heard of. From the Custer Battlefield to the Klondike to Indian battles to buried treasure and lost mines to the early explorers. I love telling true stories that shaped the old west.
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Peter Pond
Washington Irving caused a lot of excitement about the Northwest with his book. The North West and Hudson's Bay Companies established the fur trade in Canada. Pond was a celebrity with a violent temper, but a frontier genius who blazed trails across half the continent and set up as a fur trader. He also led an expedition discovering an enormous region full of fur bearing animals.
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Alexander Mackenzie - Part One
In 1789 he set out to reach the Pacific by way of the great "River of the West" but failed. In 1793 he made a second attempt with ten men and a dog in a single canoe. Some of the rivers were impassable, but they portaged around the rapids. They crossed the continental divide, low on rations, they set out on foot to reach the Pacific.
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Uncle Nick
His book, "The White Indian Boy," relates his experience of running away to live with Shoshone Chief Washakie. He witnessed a battle between the Shoshone and Crow tribes with many killed. He nearly had his leg amputated by the medicine man. He was a pony express rider, blacksmith, carpenter, rancher, prison guard, prison inmate, trader, trapper and "frontier doctor."
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Millionaire Miners
Sometimes it was luck, others a knowledge of geology and some it was buying the right stock. Eilley Orum, the Queen of the Washoe made millions but died poor. Four Irishmen became the Kings of the Washoe, earning $138 million form two mines and millions more investing in the right stock. All four died wealthy leaving millions to family.
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Dishonest Miners - Part 2
"High grading" was the practice of workers stealing a few pounds of high-grade ore to sell to crooked assayers. Professional gamblers rushed to each new strike to relieve the workers of the hard-earned money. Women were scarce on the mining frontier, but when they showed up, they were treated with extreme respect.
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Dishonest Miners - Part 1
There was always a way to cheat potential buyers of a non-productive mine. From dishonest assayers, to salting a mine with gold or silver from another mine, to selling worthless stock. Some owners assessed the stockholders on played out mines that never produced.
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Customer Reviews
Very Entertaining
Very Entertaining, I listened to them almost nonstop driving back from a trip out West along the Lincoln Highway through Nevada Utah Wyoming and beyond after visiting alot of place that they talk about. My favorite is the Horse named Steamboat, I think Dr. History and Zeb do a really good job. I saw a couple of neg reviews of Zeb, those are probably just a couple of cowboys who got thrown on their heads too many times right out of the gate. Keep up the good work.
Dr. History’s podcast and his book “Coal Miner to Cowboy”
I discovered this podcast about one year ago. I binged listening to this podcast from the first one to the most recent one. I have enjoyed them all.
I bought the book “Coal Miner to Cowboy” last summer that Mr. Turner wrote. I finally got around to reading it about three weeks ago. It was a very enjoyable book to read. I highly recommend it to everyone to read.
Kelley B.
A great service to the old west!
I look forward to every episode with the Dr. & Zeb. People complaining don’t understand how we do it here in Idaho. Have you thought about doing episodes on your own history? Thanks for the effort to deliver the stories.