Prairie Tales
Prairie Tales gives you real life news from those good old days, focusing on frontier folklore and pioneer prose from the Central Plains. Amazing and unique tales from the reporter's notebook make the old news new again - guaranteed to fascinate you with the best tales from days gone by, without any of the dust.
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In early summer, 1871, Newton, Kansas was described as a rapidly growing settlement driven by the pending arrival of the AT&SF Railroad and its role in the cattle trade. Longhorn cattle and bored cowboys filled the countryside. Newton was characterized by its abundance of saloons, dance hall lgirls, and a rough-and-tumble atmosphere. The town quickly attracted a diverse population of hopeful residents and transient cowboys.
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This episode centers around the violent actions of John Wesley Hardin and, to a lesser extent, another figure named Juan Bideno, highlighting the volatile nature of the American frontier in 1871 Kansas.
The excerpts detail the "first road rage incident," a deadly confrontation on the Chisholm Trail initiated by Hardin over cattle crowding, resulting in five deaths at his hand. It also recounts Hardin's fatal shooting of a man in a ...
Before highways and high-rise buildings there was an untamed sea of grass on the open prairie. A place where danger rode the wind... and the newspaper headlines were wilder than the West itself.
Welcome to Prairie Tales - true stories of life and death, grit and glory, straight from the wild frontier. These real life events in our ancestsors' lives are pulled from the original accounts as told by those who survived them.
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