Short Format Daily Radio Show

January 2009**

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 January right now. Just click on the title "Perry Owens" 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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January line-up:

PERRY OWENS – Although he looked like a fancy dressed dude, Sheriff Perry Owens took out four men in a matter of seconds without receiving a scratch.

BOSE IKARD – Although the chances are excellent you’ve never heard of Bose Ikard, you may discover you knew more about him than you thought.

DAVID KEMP – Kemp is a good example of how Old West towns hired lawmen that would enforce laws in accordance to the desires of the town’s businesses.

JAILBREAK THWARTED BY WOMAN I & II – Prisoners attempting an escape were no match for Mrs. Woodhurst, the wife of the warden of the Nebraska state prison.

EMMET CRAWFORD – While chasing Geronimo, Captain Emmet Crawford was killed, not by an Indian, but his death resulted in the continuation of the Apache wars for nine more months.

WILLIAM COOK – Although he was the leader of his gang, William Cook wasn’t the enforcer. He had another member of his gang to do that.

THE COWBOY KID – Have you ever wanted to run off with the circus? That’s just what “The Cowboy Kid” did. And he stayed with it all his life.

JOHNNY BEHIND THE DUCE I & II – A friend of the cowboys, Johnny Behind The Duce shot a miner. This put the law between the two groups.

RUNNING A SCAM – When con artists run a scam, it’s important to know the mark. For sure you don’t want it to be John Wesley Harden.

FREMONT’S POLITICAL CAREER – We’re all familiar with John Fremont’s explorations mapping the West. But little is know of his political career, because it was highlighted by “incorrigible negligence.”

RICHARD DUBLIN – Richard Dublin managed to elude the Texas Rangers to the point that Captain Reynolds exclaimed that his cook could do a better job of finding Dublin.

CHARLES BENT – Today, when constituents are dissatisfied with a politician they get him recalled. In 1847, some constituents were dissatisfied with their governor, but they handled it in a different way.

JOHN X. BEIDLER – John Beidler wasn’t able to find his place in life until he was handed a hemp rope with a noose at one end.

BAKER MASSACRE – In 1870 there was a strong movement to transfer the control of Indian affairs from the Department of Interior to the War Department. But the Baker Massacre stopped the movement in its tracks.

DAVID J. COOK – Although he tired his best to become a famous lawman, any fame he received was the result of his arresting the last man to be hanged in Denver, Colorado.

MOLLY BRENNAN – Molly Brennan threw herself in the path of a bullet to save the life of her lover. Although she saved his life, he carried with him a reminder of her for the rest of his life.

ROBERT ZACHARY – Sometimes, it’s the time and location of the crime, not the crime itself that results in the severity of the punishment.

MICKEY FREE – A man with little redeeming qualities, him own best friend said of him, “He’s half Mexican, half Irish and whole SOB.”

REVEREND PEABODY – A very unusual man, Reverend Peabody was able to accomplish things in the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona that were unbelievable.

WILLIAM BREAKENRIDGE – Men in the Old West tended to drift and have a number of occupations. But, I doubt there was anyone who had as many occupations as William Breakenridge.