Writing the West: Episode 25(042726)

About this episode

This episode features various stories and a poem by Rick Steber, exploring themes of the West and historical challenges.

This episode includes the following stories: The Goose Hunt: A hermit finds an innovative way to get dinner... Goodnight-Loving: The story of a famous trail's founder... Wind River Raving: Is there a gold vein that the miners missed? Measles: How to overcome a 19th century pandemic...and the poem "Edge of Land " by Rick Steber. All stories and poems by Rick Steber. Used by permission of the author. Theme music is "Slobro Daze" by Danny Lee Allison. Sound effects found on YouTube and the Freesound Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered

• Western stories
• 19th century history
• poetry
• pandemics
• mining

Keywords

• Goose Hunt
• Goodnight-Loving
• Wind River Raving
• measles
• Rick Steber

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Mutual Audio Network Limited, YouTube, Freesound Project

Books & works: Edge of Land, Slobro Daze

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