Podcast Episodes

Episode 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