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Back to SearchEpisode 42: The greatest of wrongs
Episode 42
General Carleton finally makes it to New Mexico. But with no Confederates left to fight, he turned his sights toward the other great enemy of the U.S…
5 years, 3 months ago
Episode 41: Cleaning house
Episode 41
What happens when you mix the rough-and-tumble frontier with an uptight, moralizing Army general?
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 40: Taking Tucson
Episode 40
The California Column rides into an unfortified Tucson, while Confederate forces pull back from all of Arizona and New Mexico. But, we do have a part…
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 39: The California Column
Episode 39
Even as the Confederates celebrated their victories in the Southwest, a force was gathering in California to oppose them. And this would lead to a ba…
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 38: A good month to be a rebel
Episode 38
Turns out February 1862 was a banner month for the Confederacy in the Southwest, including the official declaration of their new Territory of Arizona.
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 37: The earthquake and the hurricane
Episode 37
In 1861, Arizona found itself between a rebel invasion on one hand and relentless Apache attacks on the other.
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 36: The Bascom Affair, Part III: How not to negotiate
Episode 36
The Bascom Affair reaches its bloody conclusion. Turns out that killing your hostages is not good strategy.
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 35: The Bascom Affair, Part II: Cut the tent
In which a kidnapped boy set a young, inexperienced U.S. Army officer on a collision course with the fearsome Cochise. Spoiler - things are not going…
5 years, 5 months ago
Episode 34: The Bascom Affair, Part 1: Cochise and Mangas Coloradas
Episode 34
In the first of three episodes about the Bascom Affair we introduce two key players - Cochise and Mangas Coloradas. With one being a well documented …
5 years, 6 months ago
Episode 33: The Apachería
Episode 33
In which we finally unmask those great raiding boogeymen of the desert, the Apache.
5 years, 6 months ago