Prairie Tales
Prairie Tales
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Prairie Tales gives you real life news from those good old days, focusing on frontier folklore and pioneer prose from the Central Plains. Amazing and unique tales from the reporter's notebook make the old news new again - guaranteed to fascinate you with the best tales from days gone by, without any of the dust.
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The podcast delves into themes around the American frontier, including historical events, rough lifestyles, and notable figures, with episodes like How To Build A Cowtown focusing on the explosive growth of Newton, Kansas in 1871 and The First Road Rage Incident examining the violent tendencies of John Wesley Hardin, capturing the realities of that turbulent era.
Prairie Tales gives you real life news from those good old days, focusing on frontier folklore and pioneer prose from the Central Plains. Amazing and unique tales from the reporter’s notebook make the old news new again – guaranteed to fascinate you with the best tales from days gone by, without any of the dust.
This episode traces several 1889 newspaper excerpts detailing criminal and unusual incidents in Kansas. The primary focus is a series of events in Burrton involving “tramps” and train-men, escalating from a fight and shots exchanged to a serious incident where a passenger was nearly killed by a bullet fired into the train. Subsequent reports track the arrests and sentencing of those involved, highlighting the widespread “complaint along the line on account of tramps.”
Additionally, this episode includes a humorous anecdote from Sedgwick about a misidentified human leg, and a separate account of an assault with a deadly weapon case in Sedgwick, demonstrating the variety of local news our ancestors would have been reading in 1889.
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