Jon Hagadorn

1001 Stories From the Old West

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Welcome to the new 1001 Stories From the Old West.. Here we offer hand-picked accounts from diaries, historical documents, autobiographies, books of the time period, and historians to bring you the American frontier story directly from the people who lived it. You'll hear actual accounts of Indian battles, pioneer struggles, outlaws, cowboys and Indians, lawmen, and the men and women who took the chance and moved west, many by wagon train, to a largely uncharted and wild territory. Go west, young man, are the words often attributed to Horace Greeley, American author and newspaper editor, but t...

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Jon Hagadorn

Category

History

Podcast website

www.bestof1001stories.com

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

TOMBSTONE ARIZONA (PT 2) TENSIONS RISE...AND A LEGEND IS BORN 12.03.2023

The outlaw element arrives in Tombstone and factions start lining up with the Earps and against them. It soon boils over into the Gunfight at the OK Corral. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b27...

TOMBSTONE ARIZONA THE MAKING OF A LEGEND (PT 1) 05.03.2023

In the early 1870's Tombstone , AZ was just a rocky mesa in the bleak desert passed by occasionally by Indians. Then the government built a fort nearby to protect travelers. One day in 1877, Camp Huachuca Army scout and long time prospector Ed Schiefflin was turning over rocks outside the fort when he stumbled on a silver deposit. Schiefflin teamed up with two other men and staked his claim on wha...

THE COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES THE JOURNAL OF A SANTA FE TRADER J GREGG 19.02.2023

This is a diary excerpt from a pre-Civil War merchant trader- these were the men who risked Indians to move merchandise throughout the southwest and by so doing built America. They don't get talked about much but their importance to a growing America cannot be overstated. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feed...

DENVER IN 1865 and HOW THE LAW GOT INTO THE CHAPARRAL BY FREDERICK REMINGTON 12.02.2023

Two great stories from famous cowboy author, painter, and sculptor Frederick Remington. Narrated by Kevin Sikes. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001...

CHIEF JOSEPH OF THE NEZ PERCE- HIS STORY 15.01.2023

The final moving speech of the famous Nez Perce Chief, Chief Joseph. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/...

THE PASSING OF THE FRONTIER (CHAPS 1-3) (MEET OUR NEW HOST KEVIN SIKES) 08.01.2023

Our first narration by our new host Kevin Sikes- as he share Emerson Hough's stirring account of the Passing of the Frontier. There will be many more stories and bios going forward as we keep the west alive. Give Kevin some support and like us with a review! Thanks!] New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/100...

YELLOW WOLF- HIS OWN STORY (CHAP 2 PART 1) 18.09.2022

An older Yellow Wolf recounts how the Nez Perce war started, beginning with General Howard's poor handling of the peace conferences, then giving the Nez Perce tribe orders to move off their land and onto a reservation, and then the Nez Perce young braves killing of a white man in retaliation for his past crime in killing one of the young braves unarmed father. ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The...

YELLOW WOLF- HIS OWN STORY (CHAPTER 1) 04.09.2022

In 1908 a Montana rancher befriended a Nez Perce Indian and his wife and son who had traveled to the area to pick the hops, and soon the rancher asked if he could get the Indian's story. The whites called him "Yellow Wolf", and he rode with Chief Joseph's band during the Nez Perse (pronounced Nez Purse) Wars.. Every year for more than twenty years the man showed up to work on crops until in 1935 h...

BUCKSHOT ROBERTS LAST FIGHT and PAT GARRET KILLS BILLY THE KID 07.08.2022

From Emerson Houghs 'The Story of the Outlaw' chapter 17 'Bad Men': Ex- calvaryman Buckshot Roberts is told to abandon his ranch during the Lincoln County War and refuses, finging himself alone in a gunfight against 10 men including Billy The Kid; In the second story Sheriff Pat Garret travels with the author to Fort Sumner and relives his trailing Billy The Kid to Maxwell's room where the Kid mee...

ONE OF THE LAST MEN TO SEE CUSTER ALIVE CYRUS T. BRADY'S INDIAN FIGHTS & FIGHTERS 26.06.2022

This first person account was written by T.W. Goldin and describes his last moments with Custer present before carrying orders to Major Reno. ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE:  https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0...

THE STORY OF WAL HENDERSON 12.06.2022

Wal Henderson was said to be a bad man, but most of the people saying it were trying to grab his claim. He was tough, independent, and barely educated-and like many of the loners who made a place for themselves in the wild west- he spoke his mind and didn't back down for anybody. ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE:  https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20d...

THE PERSONAL STORY OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE AT THE LITTLE BIG HORN 17.04.2022

In 1904 at the World's Fair in New York two journalists caught up with Rain-In-The-Face, a Sioux sub-chief was known to have participated in the battle of the Little Big Horn, and managed to get a previously untold story from him about what really happened there. Rain-In-the-Face had been immortalized in a Longfellow poem as the man who killed General Custer- but this never-before-told story contr...

1001 STORIES FROM THE OLD WEST INTRODUCTION 07.03.2022

Welcome to our latest 1001 show- 1001 Stories From The Old West! Here you'll find stories of the American frontier told by the people who actually experienced it- pioneers, cavalry, cowboys, Indians, lawmen, badmen, gunfighters, and more-all taken from diaries, newspaper accounts, biographies, first-hand accounts, and histories. . New episodes appear every other Sunday at 6pm ET beginning soon! Le...

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