Wild West Podcast

Wild West Podcast

Michael King/Brad Smalley

Welcome to the Wild West podcast, where fact and legend merge. We present the true accounts of individuals who settled in towns built out of hunger for money, regulated by fast guns, who walked on both sides of the law, patrolling, investing in, and regulating the brothels, saloons, and gambling houses. These are stories of the men who made the history of the Old West come alive - bringing with them the birth of legends, brought to order by a six-gun and laid to rest with their boots on. Join us as we take you back in history to the legends of the Wild West. You can support our show by subscribing to Exclusive access to premium content at Wild West Podcast + https://www.buzzsprout.com/64094/subscribe or just buy us a cup of coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/wildwestpodcast


Categories: Education

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Send us a text Cold bites, a promise binds, and a furnace roars—this is the Yukon at human scale. We start with a candid look at why facing reality beats denial, then follow the trail into Robert Service’s world, where men who moil for gold wrestle with fear, loyalty, and the math of survival. Our reading of The Cremation of Sam McGee sets the pace: a vow made on a brutal Christmas run, a body lashed to a sleigh, and a punchline so warm it melts the dread. We unpack the craft that makes this...

Previous episodes

  • 363 - Fireside Truths In The Midnight Sun 
    Mon, 15 Dec 2025
  • 362 - John Brown’s Gallows, A Nation’s Reckoning 
    Thu, 04 Dec 2025
  • 361 - Night The Prairie Burned 
    Wed, 03 Dec 2025
  • 360 - A Frontier Christmas, A Stranger’s Song, And The Night The Miners Remembered Home 
    Tue, 02 Dec 2025
  • 359 - How The Old West Shaped American Christmas Traditions 
    Mon, 01 Dec 2025
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