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August 18 - 24, 2008

• Dakota makes a phone call to Bill O’Neal to talk about Buffalo Bill Cody’s ranch, not in Cody, Wyoming, but North Platt, Nebraska.

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Buffalo Bill Cody Buffalo Bill Cody's house on Scout's Rest Ranch

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• While in Coffeeville, Kansas, Dakota talked to Lue Barndollar about the aborted Dalton raid on two banks…It was more than aborted. The gang was wiped out.

Bob Dalton, leader of the Dalton Gang

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• Our cowboy music this week is by Dave Stamey.

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August 11 - 17, 2008

• This week we visit the premiere cowboy museum, the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and talk to Shayla Simpson about the venue.

National Cowboy Museum Shayla Simpson

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• We are also talking to Old West firearm expert, Jim Dunham, about the pistols that Old West lawmen and outlaws carried.

Jim Dunham

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August 4 - 10, 2008

• A few weeks ago we talked about the Texas Rangers. Today we’ll be talking to Marshall Trimble about the Arizona Rangers.

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Arizona Rangers

Marshall Trimble

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• We also took a trip up to Guthrie, OK and talked to Justin Lenhart about the early Oklahoma land rushes and Oklahoma Territory.

Oklahoma land rush

Oklahoma Territory map

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• Our Cowgirl/Cowboy music is by Juni Fisher and Michael Martin Murphey and Marty Robbins.

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July 28 - August 3, 2008

• Continuing in the Texas Panhandle, we visit the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and talk to Andrea Porter.

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• During the second half of the show we visit Old Tascosa, one of the first towns settled in the Panhandle. Old Tascosa is now Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch.

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Old Tascosa Schoolhouse

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• Our Cowgirl/Cowboy music is by Juni Fisher and Michael Martin Murphey.

Juni Fisher Michael Martin Murphey

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July 21 - 27, 2008

• We take a trip down to the cattle capital of the world, Hereford, Texas, and talk to Paula Edwards with the Deaf Smith County Historical Museum.

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• During the second half of the show we give a phone call to Jim MacGregor and talk about a battle in the Texas Panhandle, the Battle of Adobe Walls.

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Billy Dixon

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July 14 - 20, 2008

• This week’s show is dedicated to Billy the Kid. We start the show with a conversation with Drew Gomber, Billy the Kid expert.

Billy the Kid

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• Then we move to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the location of Billy’s death, and a conversation with Fort Sumner Mayor, Juan Chaves.

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• Next we visit the Billy the Kid Museum and talk to the grandson of the museum’s founder, Tim Sweet.

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• Our music this week is provided by Michael Martin Murphey.

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July 7 - 13, 2008

• We start the show off with a conversation with David Grasse about one of, if not the, most dramatic shootout of the Old West…and it’s not the O.K. Corral shootout. It’s a shootout involving Perry Owens in Hollbrook, AZ.

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Perry Owens

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• Our regular, Bill O’Neal, recently completed a book entitled “Reel Rangers.” He and Dakota talk about how the movies and TV have covered Texas Rangers.

The 10 orginal TEXAS RANGERS Frontier Battalion Co. B about 1880
©2003 Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum Waco, Texas

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• Our cowboy music this week is by Due West Trio.

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June 30 - July 6, 2008

• This week’s show promises to be one of the more interesting ones that we have had in some time. We start the show with a conversation with Jay Redfeather about the early Indian weapons…the bow and arrow, spear and tomahawk.

Jay Redfeather

Indian with bow & arrow

Last Horse, a Sioux Indian,
poses in full war paint in 1899 and carries a spear and shield.

Indian holding his tomahawk

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• Then in the second half of the show Dakota will be asking Jim MacGregor if there would have been a Wild West if there had not been a Civil War. According to Jim there would not have been a Wild West.

Civil War soldiers

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June 23 - 29, 2008

• Our regular Bill O’Neal tells us about another of the great Old West ranches and ranchers. This time it’s a man of unbelievable determination, Pete Kitchen.

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Pete Kitchen

Pete Kitchen's hilltop stronghold

High Chaparral TV series cast
in front of a reproduction of Pete Kitchen's fortress home

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• During the second half of the show Dakota talks to Karen Holliday Tanner about her cousin, Doc Holliday. She reveals information about Doc Holliday that’s known only by family members.

Doc Holliday

Karen Holliday Tanner

• We have two cowboy songs for you this week. One is by R.W. Hampton and the other is by Due West Trio.

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June 16 - 22, 2008

• During this week’s show we’ll be talking about two of the Old West’s most important locations…Where the gold rush of ’49 took place and the last wild Old West town on the mainland…Coloma, CA and Tombstone, AZ.

James Marshall at Sutter's Sawmill, Coloma, California, 1851

Allen street, Tombstone, looking east, with a parade in progress.
Main entrance to O. K. Corral in clump of trees, top center.
Photo courtesy the author, W. B. Shillingberg.

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• Then, in the second half of the show we’ll give a phone call to David Johnson about one of the characters who hung around Tombstone during its heyday…John Ringo.

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John Ringo

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June 9 - 15, 2008

• Much of this week’s show takes place at the Big Bear Wild West Story Fest where Dakota was one of the performers. Dakota talks to poets Andy Nelson and Yvonne Hollenbeck, and performers Beth Gardner and Tory Warner.

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Dakota interviewing Andy Nelson Yvonne Hollenbeck

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• In the second half of the show we have the third of a series of conversations with Michael Blake about classic westerns. This time it’s The Searchers.

Michael Blake

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• To round out the show we have a cowboy poem by Gary Robertson and a song by Jim Bowman.

Gary Robertson Jim Bowman

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June 2 - 8, 2008

• Dakota gives Bob Alexander a phone call to talk about a bad, bad outlaw, John Kinney. John is one of the many interesting characters that Bob writes about in his book Desert Desperadoes.

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John Kinney

Desert Desperadoes by Robert Alexander

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• Lee Anderson returns to talk to us about the cowboy of the late 1800’s…Who he was, his attire and customs.

Lee Anderson

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