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FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Travis M. Heaton
29 episodes
3 months ago
Send us a text The all-woman town council of Kanab, Utah, wasn’t just a quirky footnote in frontier history—they were a civic force with apron strings and iron wills. In this second half of their story, the ordinances keep coming, but marshals keep quitting. So the women place a help-wanted ad for a man with “spine, humor, and no fear of mothers.” But not every tale from their tenure is quite so grounded… We investigate the myth of the “Rollaway Saloon”—a bar-on-logs said to have dodged prohi...
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Send us a text The all-woman town council of Kanab, Utah, wasn’t just a quirky footnote in frontier history—they were a civic force with apron strings and iron wills. In this second half of their story, the ordinances keep coming, but marshals keep quitting. So the women place a help-wanted ad for a man with “spine, humor, and no fear of mothers.” But not every tale from their tenure is quite so grounded… We investigate the myth of the “Rollaway Saloon”—a bar-on-logs said to have dodged prohi...
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FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 28-Mary Chamberlain Pt 2:💰High Pay, No Glory🫣 & a Rollaway Saloon🍺 in Fried Onion, AZ🌵
Send us a text The all-woman town council of Kanab, Utah, wasn’t just a quirky footnote in frontier history—they were a civic force with apron strings and iron wills. In this second half of their story, the ordinances keep coming, but marshals keep quitting. So the women place a help-wanted ad for a man with “spine, humor, and no fear of mothers.” But not every tale from their tenure is quite so grounded… We investigate the myth of the “Rollaway Saloon”—a bar-on-logs said to have dodged prohi...
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4 months ago
29 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 27 - Mary Chamberlain Pt 1: 🗳️Election Meddling, 👗Modest Skirts & Repo Cattle🐮
Send us a text In the dusty crossroads town of Kanab, Utah, the year was 1911—and democracy was about to get a surprise makeover. What began as a satirical prank by frustrated young men turned into the most unexpected political shake-up in frontier history: the election of an all-woman town council. Part one of this dramatized two-part episode sets the stage with a cast of formidable frontier women, flustered cowboys, tormented marshals, and cattle in the crosshairs. We unpack the fiery elect...
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5 months ago
32 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 26 Wade Morrison Pt 2 : From Virginia Clerk🧹to ⭐️Texas Legend🥤
Send us a text In the summer shadows of Reconstruction-era Virginia, Wade Morrison stands at a crossroads—torn between the memory of a broken town and the promise of a boundless frontier. As Christiansburg heals slowly from war, whispers of Texas grow louder, tugging at the edges of his ambition. Farewells are spoken. Crates are packed. And across a thousand miles of rail, river, and red clay, a new chapter begins. But even as Wade heads west, one quiet question lingers: who was the real Dr. ...
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6 months ago
33 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 25 Wade Morrison Pt 1: The Boy Who Named Dr Pepper🥤The Untold Story😮
Send us a text In the shadow of a nation torn by Civil War, a young boy in Christiansburg, Virginia, sweeps the floor of a quiet drug store—unaware that his path will one day lead to the naming of one of America’s most iconic sodas. This episode traces the early life of Wade Brockenbrough Morrison: The forming of his surroundings, childhood, boyhood, the backdrop of a civil war, into the heartbreak of his father’s death in 1866, and his first steps into manhood under the mentorship of a kindh...
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7 months ago
39 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 24 Bartholdi the Italian: 👞Cobbler ⛏️Miner 🍇Vintner🍷
Send us a text The article snippet below is all I could find on the life of an Italian legend in the San Gabriel Canyon, by the name of Bartholdi. No full name is given, and i could not locate him on any census. His arrival is as mysterious as his death was tragic. “On the mesa above the hogan of Luisenna, an Italian shoemaker, Bartholdi, built a rude shelter of rocks and mud in 1872. Bartholdi had set up a boot and shoe repair shop at The Forks the year before, and had a good business ...
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8 months ago
33 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 23 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 7: Assassination🩸Arson🔥Death🪦& Divine Providence
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. Joseph and Hyrum Smith are assassinated by those who were assigned to protect them. No one is held accountable. Turmoil continues to increase. Hundreds of home are burned by mobs. The evacuation planned is expedited by rumors of a federal army marching to Nauvoo. Hundreds will die along the way as most are unprepared for the winter elements. Ann ...
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9 months ago
1 hour 11 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 22 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 6: Bounty 💰 Treason 🫣 & Arrested
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. The year 1844 was a pivotal and tragic time for Nauvoo, marked by rising tensions, internal betrayal & external political divisions. Early in the year, dissent grew within the Church, leading William Law and others to establish the Nauvoo Expositor, accusing Joseph Smith of corruption. When the Nauvoo City Council declared the press a public ...
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10 months ago
52 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 21 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 5: 🥶 Alpheus 🤠 Posse 🚢 & The Maid Of Iowa
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. After the 1842 assassination attempt on Lilburn W Boggs, life in Nauvoo would never be the same. My work as police sergeant became increasingly complicated. Conspirators seemed to come out of the woodwork from the community itself. Protecting President Joseph Smith Jr. became a nonstop task day & night. We rode hundreds of miles in a posse of Nau...
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11 months ago
52 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 20 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 4: Nauvoo 🏡 General Conference ⛪️ Gov Boggs shot
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. The Mormonite congregations in Missouri had been forcefully evacuated through murder, rage baiting, and violence. President Joseph Smith and Hyrum had made an assisted escape while on a transfer from Liberty Jail, Moving onto the newly named community of Nauvoo in the autumn of 1840 was an apprehensive excitement that just maybe there would be some s...
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1 year ago
37 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 19 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 3: Kirtland ⛪️ Family & Faith 🙏 Immigration to Illinois 🐎
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. In 1837 Kirtland, Ohio, Jesse Harmon witnesses a community in turmoil after the collapse of the Kirtland Safety Society. His brother Alpheus explains that their struggles are not just financial but a deeper clash of ideas, as Joseph Smith seeks to integrate spiritual principles into everyday life. Amidst the unrest, Jesse learns the importance of fai...
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1 year ago
45 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 18 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 2: Cannonballs💥Marriage💍Jesus🙏
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. After escaping the certain death inflicted on so many others in a British attack during the War of 1812, Jesse completed his active service in the military and traipsed a bit as a young bachelor. In Pennsylvania he found the woman of his dreams, married her, raised a family, found Jesus amidst the great revival, and relocated into the Ohio. PEOPLE &...
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1 year ago
32 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 17 Jesse Perse Harmon Pt 1: 💥 The Siege of Fort Erie ❤️‍🩹 Spared from Death
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Jesse Perse Harmon 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. In part one of this fabulous story, we begin at the turn of the 19th century as an international pissin match turns into the conflict known to history as The War of 1812. Jesse Perse Harmon (17 years old) and his older brother both enlisted. This is a portion of Jesse’s story and some of his most notable experiences from that war. From the Siege of F...
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1 year ago
37 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 16 Howard Leon Whetten Pt 3 😇Angels of the Solomon Islands🛶
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family Search: Howard Leon Whetten 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. In this final installment of a life story from Howard Leon Whetten…After their B-24 Bomber crashes into the ocean near the Solomon Islands, some unsuspecting angels make an inexplicable rescue when it is needed most. The “coincidences” begin to stack up 🥞 in ways that are undeniable for Leon. PEOPLE: Howard Leon Whetten God Heavenly Father 2nd Lie...
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1 year ago
27 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 15 Howard Leon Whetten Pt 2 ✈️ Midnight’s Watery Grave
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family🌳Search: Howard Leon Whetten 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. In part 2 of this story, the “ordinary life” of Howard Leon Whetten evolves into some extraordinary experiences as he faces certain death in the midnight plunge of his B-24 Bomber into the dark watery grave of the oceans surrounding the Solomon Islands. This very first bombing run turns the simple life into a battle for life. From his home in New Me...
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1 year ago
23 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 14 Howard Leon Whetten Pt 1 👨‍🌾 Don’t Hate Your Enemies 👨‍🎓
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family🌳Search: Howard Leon Whetten 🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. From ordinary lives often comes extraordinary experiences. Such is the simple life of Howard Leon Whetten. From his birth in Southern Arizona, to life in old Mexico, and then school and enlisting in New Mexico, Howard’s life does as many did during the days preceding WWII, as it goes from seemingly normal tasks, to nearly superhuman moments. CHARA...
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1 year ago
29 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 13 War⚔️& Tragedy😥at Boykin, South Carolina🦆
Send us a text SPECIAL THANKS to Collett Carter for the family history story lead. The Boykin Mill Pond in South Carolina has been the hub of regional industry for processing grains and timber. In 1865 it was the scene of one of the last battles of the Civil War. And in 1860 it was the hallowed grounds of one of South Carolina’s saddest tragedies. Flatboat history: https://peoplesriverhistory.us/blog/history-of-flatboating-and-a-charming-educational-film/ Individuals in order of mention: ...
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1 year ago
36 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 12 Stranger Trains : 🚂 A True Story of Death 🪦 & Premonition 🔮
Send us a text In this emotionally layered and supernaturally charged episode, we follow two threads of human experience—one tragic, one miraculous—both connected by the iron rails of America’s 19th-century railroads. First, you’ll meet Cynthia Boardman, a woman whose string of nine deceased husbands earned her the whispered nickname The Black Widow of Ohio. Was it tragic coincidence, a morbid curse, or something darker? Her story, drawn from newspaper clippings of the time, will make you que...
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1 year ago
26 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 11 Edward Augustus Boardman: Trains 🚂 Tragedy 🪦 & the Colorado Loop 🛤️
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family🌳Search: Edward Augustus Boardman🔗 Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. In this deeply moving episode of Family History Drama, we follow the remarkable journey of Edward Augustus “Gus” Boardman, a Union Pacific Railroad man, proud builder of the Georgetown Loop, and grieving father. From the booming heights of Colorado’s gold rush towns to the devastating depths of family loss, Gus recounts a life marked by inno...
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1 year ago
39 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 10 📞The Phone Call : 🐎Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
Send us a text Brothers are an indispensable part of country life for me. Mine has been ready at a moments notice for just about any wacky idea, adrenaline moment, project, rescue, or emergency. Its important to note that family history isnt just something that happened 50 or 100 years ago. Family history is a daily event. If you’re apt to retelling a story 3 or more times, and its recounted at family reunions, make sure its written up and preserved. As Gerrit Gong recently stated, “We ...
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1 year ago
22 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Ep 9 🩺Dr. Priddy Meeks : 🥶 Frostbite, Polygamy💍💍💍 & Cayenne Pepper🌶
Send us a text 🚨Are YOU related to ME? Find me on Family🌳Search: Priddy Meeks🔗Then click “VIEW RELATIONSHIP” to see if we are cousins. Life in the valley of the Great Salt Lake was rough. From weed soup, cold winters, and the new life. 1857 was a year of turmoil and invasion in the territory of Utah. Thompsonian botanical Doctor Priddy Meeks recounts from his journal, how he treated one of the “invaders” for frostbite that had consumed both feet several inches above the ankles. He only lost 5...
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1 year ago
30 minutes

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Send us a text The all-woman town council of Kanab, Utah, wasn’t just a quirky footnote in frontier history—they were a civic force with apron strings and iron wills. In this second half of their story, the ordinances keep coming, but marshals keep quitting. So the women place a help-wanted ad for a man with “spine, humor, and no fear of mothers.” But not every tale from their tenure is quite so grounded… We investigate the myth of the “Rollaway Saloon”—a bar-on-logs said to have dodged prohi...