Larcena Pennington: A Story of Survival

About this episode

This episode explores the story of Larcena Pennington during the mid-1850s westward expansion in America.

Send us Fan Mail In the mid-1850s, America was expanding westward — fast, hungry, and ruthless. The ink was barely dry on the Gadsden Purchase when settlers began pouring into the unforgiving deserts of what would one day become southern Arizona. The land was harsh, lawless, and already inhabited by Native nations like the Apache, who fiercely resisted encroachment. This episode begins in that volatile moment — where empires shifted, cultures clashed, and ordinary people stepped into extraor...

People in this episode

Host: Nathan Olli

Topics covered

• survival
• westward expansion
• Native nations
• cultural clash
• history

Keywords

• Larcena Pennington
• survival
• westward expansion
• Apache
• history
• cultural clash
• Arizona

Mentioned in this episode

Places: America, southern Arizona, Apache

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