Podcast Episodes
Back to Search90: Epilogue to the Wild West
This is the end of the West! Meet two new researchers, Ryan Griffith and Zach Weaver, as they join Greg to discuss the latest inner workings of HTDS,…
5 years ago
89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)
“I wish to impress upon your minds that what you are about to witness is not a performance in the common sense of the term.”
This is the story of the …
5 years, 1 month ago
88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush
“This is my last opportunity to make a big haul. Alaska is the last West.”
This is the story of the US purchase of Alaska and the famous Klondike Gold…
5 years, 1 month ago
87: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
“The fight’s commenced. Go to fighting or get away!”
This is the story of more gunslinging and heists.
Pearl Hart needs to see her mother; is a stageco…
5 years, 2 months ago
86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid
“I am going to hell anyhow.”
This is the story of the rise of Western outlaws and gunslingers.
From transportation of goods and people, to mining and e…
5 years, 2 months ago
85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike
“Did they not build the Chinese Wall, the biggest piece of masonry in the world?”
The Central Pacific Railroad is struggling to find long-term constru…
5 years, 2 months ago
84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”
“How dare you try to hog all the continent?”
This is the story of the Union Pacific Railroad.
The US Government has legislated that a private company b…
5 years, 3 months ago
83: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 1): Industrialization, Ted Judah & The Rise of the Central Pacific
“Every great enterprise has been ridiculed in the outset.”
This is the story of the rise of the railroad.
Travel on land is slow. Arduous. Inhibited by…
5 years, 3 months ago
82: Best Mini Episodes and Cold Opens of 2020
“Gentlemen, what is the cause of this violence?”
This is the story of HTDS's 2020.
Most people wouldn’t call last year a good one. Doesn’t mean we didn…
5 years, 4 months ago
81: Epilogue to Volume 6: Reconstruction and The Indian Wars
“The older I get the more I’m convinced that it’s the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it’s the purpos…
5 years, 4 months ago