MORE ON WEAPONS USED DURING THE WILD WEST

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time for the legendary law and order stories of
the wild West. This podcast features a forensic psychologists then
looks of the history of the most infamous and famous
outlaws and cowboys of the wild West. So sit back,
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looked at what nat what cowboys and outlaws used for weapons.
This week we'll look what netive Americans used, including the Sui, Cheyenne, Apache,
and Comanche tribes. Included employed a blend of traditional and
modern weaponry. Bows and arrows, of course, crafted from wood, sinew,
and stone or metal, points were silent, accurate, and deadly.
The Planes tribes, particularly the Comanche, mastered horseback archery, using short,

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powerful bows to outmaneuver enemies. Tomahawks were versatile, as both
tools and weapons were thrown or used in hand to
hand combat. War Clubs, often studied with stone or metal,
delivered crushing blows. Knives ranging from simple blades to elaborately
decorated daggers, were used for hunting, crafting, and fighting. As
contact with settlers and traders grew, many tribes acquired firearms

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to trade raids or battlefield cares. By the eighteen seventies,
warriors wielded winchester repeating rifles and cult revolvers, notably doing
victories like the Battle of Little Bighorn. Lances adorned with
feathers or scalps remained in use among Planes tribes from
mounted charges. Knives were also ubiquitous across all the groups.
The bowie knife, with its large curved blade, was a

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symbol of frontier toughness, used by settlers, trappers, and outlaws
for survival and combat. Smaller knives served daily tasks like
skinning game or whittling. Axes and hatches doubled as tools
for chopping wood and weapons in desperate situations. Native Americans
and some Mexican vocaros or cowboys occasionally used lassos or bolas,

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though primarily for herding rather than combat, so you can
see in the wild West, they saw creative use of
non traditional weapons as well. Dynamite patented by out for noble,
was employed by outlaws for blasting bank vaults or derailing trains.
Whips essentially for driving cattle, to be wielded as improvised
weapons by skilled cowboys. Even brass knuckles, blackjacks, or even

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broken bottles were common in saloon brawls. Soldiers and settlers
used in trenching tools or sabers. In close combat, the
Native Americans adapted traditional arms alongside firearms, and outlaws and
lawmen engaged in deadly shootouts with shotguns and pistols, from
the peacemaker to the tomahawk. These tools of survival and
conflict defined the frontier's legacy.