FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.

Send us Fan Mail The frontier was never meant to be easy. After leaving the refinement of Prussia , the drawing rooms of England , and the bustling streets of Chicago , Sidonia Schwarz and Samuel Emelle begin building a life on a remote homestead along the Wyoming-Idaho border. There, amid endless skies and unforgiving winters, Sidonia discovers that survival demands more than education, grace, an...

Send us Fan Mail A Prussian girl leaves behind family, title, and certainty in search of a future. Raised among languages, scripture, and strict expectations, Sidonia Schwarz journeys from East Prussia to England, from England to America, and ultimately toward the Wyoming frontier. Along the way she meets a Swiss watchmaker, discovers a taste for adventure, and begins a life that will someday make...

Send us Fan Mail The all-woman town council of Kanab, Utah, wasn’t just a quirky footnote in frontier history—they were a civic force with apron strings and iron wills. In this second half of their story, the ordinances keep coming, but marshals keep quitting. So the women place a help-wanted ad for a man with “spine, humor, and no fear of mothers.” But not every tale from their tenure is quite so...

Send us Fan Mail In the dusty crossroads town of Kanab, Utah, the year was 1911—and democracy was about to get a surprise makeover. What began as a satirical prank by frustrated young men turned into the most unexpected political shake-up in frontier history: the election of an all-woman town council. Part one of this dramatized two-part episode sets the stage with a cast of formidable frontier wo...

Send us Fan Mail In the summer shadows of Reconstruction-era Virginia, Wade Morrison stands at a crossroads—torn between the memory of a broken town and the promise of a boundless frontier. As Christiansburg heals slowly from war, whispers of Texas grow louder, tugging at the edges of his ambition. Farewells are spoken. Crates are packed. And across a thousand miles of rail, river, and red clay, a...

Send us Fan Mail In the shadow of a nation torn by Civil War, a young boy in Christiansburg, Virginia, sweeps the floor of a quiet drug store—unaware that his path will one day lead to the naming of one of America’s most iconic sodas. This episode traces the early life of Wade Brockenbrough Morrison: The forming of his surroundings, childhood, boyhood, the backdrop of a civil war, into the heartbr...

Send us Fan Mail The article snippet below is all I could find on the life of an Italian legend in the San Gabriel Canyon, by the name of Bartholdi. No full name is given, and i could not locate him on any census. His arrival is as mysterious as his death was tragic.  “On the mesa above the hogan of Luisenna, an Italian shoemaker, Bartholdi, built a rude shelter of rocks and mud in 1872. Bartholdi...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins.   Joseph and Hyrum Smith are assassinated by those who were assigned to protect them. No one is held accountable. Turmoil continues to increase. Hundreds of home are burned by mobs. The evacuation planned is expedited by rumors of a federal army marchin...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins.   The year 1844 was a pivotal and tragic time for Nauvoo, marked by rising tensions, internal betrayal & external political divisions. Early in the year, dissent grew within the Church, leading William Law and others to establish the Nauvoo Exposito...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. After the 1842 assassination attempt on Lilburn W Boggs, life in Nauvoo would never be the same. My work as police sergeant became increasingly complicated. Conspirators seemed to come out of the woodwork from the community itself. Protecting President...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. The Mormonite congregations in Missouri had been forcefully evacuated through murder, rage baiting, and violence. President Joseph Smith and Hyrum had made an assisted escape while on a transfer from Liberty Jail, Moving onto the newly named community o...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. In 1837 Kirtland, Ohio, Jesse Harmon witnesses a community in turmoil after the collapse of the Kirtland Safety Society. His brother Alpheus explains that their struggles are not just financial but a deeper clash of ideas, as Joseph Smith seeks to integ...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. After escaping the certain death inflicted on so many others in a British attack during the War of 1812, Jesse completed his active service in the military and traipsed a bit as a young bachelor. In Pennsylvania he found the woman of his dreams, married...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. In part one of this fabulous story, we begin at the turn of the 19th century as an international pissin match turns into the conflict known to history as The War of 1812. Jesse Perse Harmon (17 years old) and his older brother both enlisted. This is a p...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Howard Leon Whetten 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. From the dust of Southern Arizona and the canyons of Old Mexico to the jungles and seas of the South Pacific, the life of Howard Leon Whetten is a testament to how ordinary lives can rise to extraordinary moments. Born into hardship, raised on hard wor...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family🌳Search: Howard Leon Whetten 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. From the dust of Southern Arizona and the canyons of Old Mexico to the jungles and seas of the South Pacific, the life of Howard Leon Whetten is a testament to how ordinary lives can rise to extraordinary moments. Born into hardship, raised on hard wo...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family🌳Search: Howard Leon Whetten 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. From the dust of Southern Arizona and the canyons of Old Mexico to the jungles and seas of the South Pacific, the life of Howard Leon Whetten is a testament to how ordinary lives can rise to extraordinary moments. Born into hardship, raised on hard wo...

Send us Fan Mail SPECIAL THANKS to Collett Carter for the family history story lead. The Boykin Mill Pond in South Carolina has been the hub of regional industry for processing grains and timber. In 1865 it was the scene of one of the last battles of the Civil War. And in 1860 it was the hallowed grounds of one of South Carolina’s saddest tragedies. Flatboat history: https://peoplesriverhistory.us...

Send us Fan Mail In this emotionally layered and supernaturally charged episode, we follow two threads of human experience—one tragic, one miraculous—both connected by the iron rails of America’s 19th-century railroads. First, you’ll meet Cynthia Boardman, a woman whose string of nine deceased husbands earned her the whispered nickname The Black Widow of Ohio. Was it tragic coincidence, a morbid c...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family🌳Search: Edward Augustus Boardman🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins.   In this deeply moving episode of Family History Drama, we follow the remarkable journey of Edward Augustus “Gus” Boardman, a Union Pacific Railroad man, proud builder of the Georgetown Loop, and grieving father. From the booming heights of Color...

Send us Fan Mail What starts as a lighthearted look at summer jobs and old pickup trucks in small-town Arizona quickly turns into a full-throttle tale of family, justice, and unexpected adrenaline. In this episode, we ride along with Justin, fresh out of high school in 1993, as he unwittingly confronts an escaped fugitive on horseback. Decades later, a stolen four-wheeler sends the narrator and hi...

Send us Fan Mail 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family🌳Search: Priddy Meeks🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. In the rugged wilderness of early Utah Territory, frontier medicine collided with faith, fire, and sheer grit. This episode follows the remarkable journey of Dr. Priddy Meeks, one of the earliest pioneer physicians of the American West. From crossing into the...

Send us Fan Mail In the sweltering summer of 1968, rookie park ranger Mel Heaton was expecting solitude and scenic beauty at Phantom Ranch, deep in the heart of the Grand Canyon. What he got instead was a radio call that would change everything: five armed men were descending the Bright Angel Trail—threatening hikers and preaching with pistols. With no backup, no radio signal, and no weapon at his...

Send us Fan Mail After the smoke cleared from the 1896 Montpelier Bank robbery, Henry Rhodes “Bub” Meeks stepped off the wanted posters and into a slow-motion train wreck of his own making. Riding with Butch Cassidy may have taught him a few rules—don’t shoot unless you have to, treat women and children right, keep it clean and clever—but Bub’s luck ran dry faster than Selam the prison horse could...

Send us Fan Mail In the sweltering heat of August 13th, 1896, three men rode into the quiet town of Montpelier, Idaho. By sundown, the Bank of Montpelier had been cleaned out, a deputy was chasing shadows on a bicycle, and history had been written by the hooves of outlaws heading east. This episode follows the little-known story of Henry “Bub” Meeks, the incidental outlaw who found himself riding...