Podcast Episodes

Programming notice 2

Sorry to say that real life (and a suddenly real first baby) managed to delay our return to podcasting by a week!

3 years, 4 months ago

Episode 119: Herds and flocks

Episode 119

As we look at the commercial forces of late 19th-century Arizona, we have to talk about the ecological and economic disaster that was the cattle boom…

3 years, 5 months ago

Episode 118: Mysterious and spooky

Episode 118

For Halloween, we again take a tour of the mysterious, strange, creepy and spooky to be found in Arizona.

3 years, 5 months ago

Episode 117: The Messiah of civilization

Episode 117

If you got a fancy new railroad, why would you not tell the Pope about it?

3 years, 6 months ago

Episode 116: The Hungry Bear

Episode 116

All throughout the 1880s, Prescott had one great fear. Then in 1889, because of Phoenix, it came true.

3 years, 6 months ago

Episode 115: The Apache Wars - Epilogue

Episode 115

Because any truly epic story needs a correspondingly grand conclusion.

3 years, 6 months ago

Episode 114: All Chiricahua must go

Episode 114

The Apache Wars came to an end on September 4, 1886. But, as with everything else in the 25-year conflict, the road to this ending would not be strai…

3 years, 7 months ago

Episode 113: Accept these terms

Episode 113

It’s time for Geronimo to try and strike a deal - first with the Mexicans, then with the Americans - but he quickly finds out that he is far from be…

3 years, 7 months ago

Episode 112: A fool's errand

Episode 112

In July 1886, General Miles settled on a multi-prong strategy to deal with the Chiricahua. And one of those prongs involved Geronimo, two scouts, and…

3 years, 7 months ago

Episode 111: Discouragement

Episode 111

The summer of 1886 would prove to be a disheartening campaign season for both the renegade Chiricahua and the Army soldiers tasked with finding them.

3 years, 7 months ago