While Buffalo Roamed: The Wild Western Days of Colorado

About While Buffalo Roamed: The Wild Western Days of Colorado

History of Colorado’s (Old West) frontier days, western history, wild west, with the introduction to the remaining landmarks (while the buffalo and native Americans ruled the plains). Once gold is discovered in west Kansas Territory, the western adventurers, settlers, miners, bandits, gamblers, farmers, ranchers, city builders and politicians stopped in Denver; from there these pioneers spread like ants into an unknown wilderness that would evolve into  the state of Colorado. Hero’s and villains, trials and hangings, escapes and adventure, fortunes made and lost - murder, poetry and even song - from the initial evidence left for us... This podcast is produced locally, high in the Rocky Mountains where this history - and these stories originated. The show is best enjoyed by listening to the episodes in order, and while not necessary, the full wild western experience is gained in this manner - full immersion - the history (stories) are in chronological order. Our podcast will entertain and enlighten, the listener will notice much quotation from the mid to late 1800s; think of the quotations as the guests of the show.  At first the language and vocabulary of the frontiersman and women will seem awkward, trust me: YOU WILL ABSORB the cadence and character and learn some new words - it will quicken your thought (I believe that - give it a solid try and see for yourself). The episodes together form a rounded story of frontier life.  The stages of civilization of the mid 1800s also translate to California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Mew Mexico, Wyoming and more.  Starting from campers, gold miners, ranchers… Colorado is wonderful example of western frontier settlement.  Its relative youth helps the historian or enthusiast, as does the general gold excitement which attracted so many from all over the world.  Those involved in Colorado’s settlement felt that is was quite a special event in American history, which it was, and thankfully many early arrivals wrote copious notes - there’s a mountain of first hand primary source evidence.  We don’t want to lose these stories, and while Colorado history is easy to obtain and read, it’s shuffled so that the storytellers or historians who didn’t have the benefits of modern research techniques, naturally missed some details we can (and have) recover(ed) today.  Combine this with the author who has first hand knowledge of the particular locations and you can't help but learn a little something along the way - we shoot for “total immersion” - or something like that!

Publisher

Jonathan Summer Publishing

Category

history · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Mar 2025

Latest episode

1 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

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   1 Nov 2026

   SS9 - Take Me to Your Leader

   After eight years in the wilderness, the four travelers finally see horse tracks. But the men riding them aren’t saviors – they are Spanish slave, hunters, burning villages, and chaining the population today, Cabeza de Vaca must choose between his countrymen and the indigenous people who gave him life.

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   25 Oct 2026

   SS8 - The Children of the Sun

   They are now known across the continent as the Children of the Sun. Escorted by thousands of devoted Native American followers, the four men march across Texas and Northern Mexico. But this strange, peaceful, ritualistic empire is about to collide head-on with a terrifying ghost from their past.

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   25 Oct 2026

   SS7 - The Medicine Men

   Fleeing for the lives, the fugitives stumble into a new tribe - and a new destiny. Armed with nothing but desperate Catholic breath prayers and the sign of the cross, they attempt to heal the sick. To their own utter shock...it works. The slaves have become gods.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

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60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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