It started with a crooked card game. What it turned into, however, was a first in American history.~TRANSCRIPT~ (Note: A list of sources used follows this transcript.)It started with a crooked card game. Many crooked card games, on the si
Sometimes all we have is myth upon myth, story upon story. But what is history, if not a story shown to be true?~TRANSCRIPT~ (Note: Sources used are listed below this transcript.)There were no seven cities of gold in the Southwest, despit
Clark Stanley had a product. A product he wanted you, yes you, to know about.Thanks to Kevin Macleod for the piano track featured in this episode:"Iron Horse" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution
The future holds no pity for us, but for 69 pioneers in 1841, the future was all you could think about. ~ TRANSCRIPT ~ (Note: Sources used are listed below this transcript.)They were not the the first ones to cross over the Rockies. But they cr
In 1965, a man wandered through the deserts of California, looking for rocks. What he found made him a link in a chain of legends back to the 19th century. A chain of legends that started with a man named Pegleg.~ TRANSCRIPT ~ (Note: Sources us