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Gunfighters

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Author Bryan Burrough exhumes the gritty history of Old West gunfighters. From Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp to John Wesley Hardin and dozens more, this collection of stories proves how very violent America's nineteenth century frontier actually was, and traces the blood-soaked history of the troubled men who made it that way.Follow now on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, and YouTube.

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53 episodes

  1. Ep. 09: On Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp's Wingmen 27:16
  2. Ep. 08: The Truth About Wyatt Earp 31:13
  3. Ep. 07: The Mystery of Ben Thompson 40:31
  4. Ep. 06: John Wesley Hardin vs Wild Bill Hickok 36:24
  5. Ep. 05: John Wesley Hardin: The Texas Psychopath 35:29
  6. Ep. 04: Bloody Texas 40:30
  7. Ep. 03: The First Gunfighters 31:03
  8. Ep. 02: Wait, Gunfighters Came From Where? 27:21
  9. Ep. 01: When Gunfighters Stalked the Old West 28:30
  10. Introducing: Gunfighters, with Bryan Burrough 2:11
  11. Ep. 42: Favorite Films About the West | The American West 1:06:00
  12. Ep. 41: Favorite Books About the West | The American West 59:04
  13. Ep. 40: Becoming Natives of Place in the American West | The American West 55:26
  14. Ep. 39: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part II | The American West 1:05:00
  15. Ep. 38: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part I | The American West 58:00
  16. Ep. 37: The Wolf Returns to the West | The American West 1:00:48
  17. Ep. 36: Down the West’s Grandest Canyon | The American West 56:53
  18. Ep. 35: How the Endangered Species Act Saved the West and America | The American West 55:58
  19. Ep. 34: Big Bend and the Deserts of the West | The American West 55:03
  20. Ep. 33: Time and Time Again: The Fascinating Evidence from Western Repeat Photography | The American West 55:41
  21. Ep. 32: Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Rewilding the Plains | The American West 57:58
  22. Ep. 31: Cabeza de Vaca’s Fantastic Journey | The American West 51:40
  23. Ep. 30: Jesus and Animus Beneath the Bitterroots | The American West 52:35
  24. Ep. 29: What Were Charlie Russell and L.A. Huffman Trying to Tell Us? | The American West 49:52
  25. Ep. 28: Understanding Nature in a Southwestern State | The American West 48:17
  26. Ep. 27: Messages From the Past - The Rock Art of the American West | The American West 51:48
  27. Ep. 26: Where the Primeval West Abides | The American West 51:50
  28. Ep. 25: Thinking About Big History in One Western Place | The American West 52:27
  29. Ep. 24: Getting Over the Color Green and Learning to Love Badlands | The American West 42:26
  30. Ep. 23: Golden-Eyed Lightning Rod | The American West 53:16
  31. Ep. 22: New West, Modern West, Public Lands West | The American West 1:00:52
  32. Ep. 21: How You Create a New West, and a New America | The American West 53:15
  33. Ep. 20: Coyote - America’s Jackal and Its Roller-Coaster Ride Through History | The American West 53:05
  34. Ep. 19: Shadows of the Frontier | The American West 49:38
  35. Ep. 18: From Safari American-Style to the Boone & Crockett Club | The American West 50:54
  36. Ep. 17: What Really Happened to America’s National Mammal? | The American West 50:59
  37. Ep. 16: A Dream of Bison | The American West 53:47
  38. Ep. 15: The Most Dangerous Beast? Or the God of the West? | The American West 48:46
  39. Ep. 14: Wolf West | The American West 56:20
  40. Ep. 13: A Western Geography of Hope | The American West 51:12
  41. Ep. 12: John James Audubon and Vanishing America | The American West 53:31
  42. Ep. 11: Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses | The American West 1:02:11
  43. Ep. 10: Start of the Endgame for the Ancient West | The American West 1:03:42
  44. Ep. 09: Catlin’s and Bodmer’s "Time Machine Visuals" | The American West 51:46
  45. Ep. 08: Beyond the Earth’s Curve, Mysteries | The American West 59:50
  46. Ep. 07: Jefferson’s "Other" Lewis & Clark | The American West 53:12
  47. Ep. 06: Survivors From A Lost World | The American West 53:39
  48. Ep. 05: The Wild New World of the American Serengeti | The American West 55:22
  49. Ep. 04: Old Man America | The American West 54:31
  50. Ep. 03: Raven’s and Coyote’s America | The American West 55:37