While Buffalo Roamed: The Wild Western Days of Colorado
True stories of Colorado’s frontier days, with the introduction and invitation to the remaining evidence; the places...the land - while the buffalo and tribes ruled the plains. Once gold is discovered, the west stopped in Denver, from there the pioneers spread into an unknown wilderness, where Colorado was built. Hero’s and villains, trials and hangings, escapes and arrests, fortunes made and lost. This podcast is made here in Colorado, high in the Rocky Mountains where this history and these true stories occurred.
Episodes
George Andrew Jackson - Gold in Colorado - Idaho Springs - Hot Springs - Wolverine attack - Clear Creek - Chicago Creek
The story of Colorado takes a turn, the first big discovery of gold in the mountains is made in current Idaho Springs, Colorado, near the confluence of Chicago and Clear Creeks. A hot spring, several mountain lions, mountain sheep and a wolverine greet our hero. A terrible fight and a treasure map!
Places to kno...
Crossing the Plains - 58ers - Augustus Voorhees - Jason Voorhees - Buffalo of the Plains - Rattlesnakes - Sioux - Comanche - Apache - Arapahoe - Bent's Fort - Pueblo - Cherry Creek
Today we hear about the journey across the plains from a member of the Lawrence Party, Augustus Voorhees, by way of his journal entries beginning May 31, 1858. These entries describe the scenery, interactions with the native inhabitants (many tribes) an...
William Larimer Jr - Auraria - Denver City - Arapahoe City - Kansas Territory - Montana City - Colorado - William Greenberry Russell - Golden
The creation of Denver AND Colorado, three places to visit in Denver, the first towns of Montana City, Auraria, St. Charles and Arapahoe City - all in contention for the county seat (Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory). This is the dawn of Colorado, and now the story really begins!
Denver C...
Murder on the Plains - Julia Archibald Holmes - Lawrence Party - Georgia Party - Leavenworth Party - Russell Party - Gold - Garden of the Gods - Arapahoe County - Cherry Creek
1858 is a huge year for Colorado, this is the story of the early risk-takers, the fifty-Eighters, who arrived at future Denver in 1858 (lured by rumors of gold).
First significant gold discovery - First attempted murder and trial - First summits of Pike's Pea...
How Pioneers Found Gold - Gold Panning - Gold Falls From Heaven - Asteroids - Water is the Key
After an unknown teamster finds gold in Cherry creek (modern downtown Denver), gold will be a driving force to this series - time to learn a little about GOLD.
Basic gold prospecting (panning) and how the frontier miners found gold in the water and way up on mountainsides.
placer gold and lode gold
Special thanks to: primalhousemusic, ni...
Captain Marcy's Disaster - Colonel Loring March - Frozen and Burned - Eating the Horses and Mules - Death of the Road
The lonely gravesite of Michael Fagan marks the location of the Marcy / Loring march, in which a snowstorm killed 3, one man burned to ...
Thanks to DELOSound
Spite
Jacques La Ramee (Laramie)
William and Charles Bent
Oasis in the desert
A detail of two important forts, Fort Laramie and Bent's Fort(s). Both vital to westward expansion, worth the drive and visit - hit both in a day if you can!
Kit Carson - Captain Bonneville - James P. Beckwourth - Treaty 1851 - Arapahoe - Cheyenne - Ute - Trappers and Traders - Blood Meridian - Sioux - Snake - Wyoming - Montana - Kansas Territory
Today we talk about the wild westerners that were here before the cowboys and lawmen -
Tribal People and the American Fur Trappers "The Other Guys"
Cheyennes: Wah-ha-nis-satta, Voist-ti-toe-vetz, Nahk-ko-me-ie...
Personal introduction and podcast intent
Setting the stage: America looks west, Napoleon and Jefferson, THEE Free People, Oregon country, wars of the West, trappers, California and 49ers, camping for months, avoiding the mountains, terror in Utah!
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There will be two episodes dedicated to a general background and history of the region before permanent settlement.
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