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...
Ep 12 Stranger Trains : 🚂 A True Story of Death 🪦 & Premonition 🔮
FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
26 minutes
1 year ago
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...
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...
