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This Week in the West

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

Broadcasting from The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, This Week in the West brings you the stories of the people and events that shaped the history of the American West.

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This Week in the West: Salvatore "Sam" Lucchese

This Week in the West ·

2025/02/24

🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 17: Salvatore “Sam” Lucchese 📢 Episode Summary: When Salvatore Lucchese and his family arrived in America in 1883, they had the knowledge of shoemaking, and not much else. More than a century later, “Sam” has a legacy - Lucchese Bootmaker, one of the most well-known and respected brands for cowboy boots. In our podcast this week, we tell the story of Sam’s journey to Texas from Italy and how being in the right place at the right time allowed Lucchese Bootmaker

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05:10

This Week in the West: Edward Curtis

This Week in the West ·

2025/02/17

🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 16: Edward Curtis 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in the West explores the life and legacy of Edward Curtis, a photographer whose work documented Native American cultures in the early 20th century. Curtis’ career took a defining turn when he photographed Princess Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle. This led to his lifelong mission of capturing images of Indigenous people before their traditions disappeared. Funded by J.P. Morgan, Curtis

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04:44

This Week in the West: Pawnee Bill

This Week in the West ·

2025/02/10

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 15: Pawnee Bill 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West explores the life of Gordon William Lillie, better known as Pawnee Bill, a showman and entrepreneur who helped shape the mythology of the American West. Born in 1860, Lillie worked with the Pawnee tribe before joining Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show as an interpreter. He later created his own show, blending entertainment with historical reenactments, and became a key figure in the 1889

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05:05

This Week in the West: Edward Fitzgerald Beale

This Week in the West ·

2025/02/03

This week's "This Week in the West" podcast takes a look at a war hero, a millionaire land owner, a master of disguise and a diplomat.And they're all the same guy. Find out the wild adventures that Edward Fitzgerald Beale stuffed into his life.

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04:50

This Week in the West: Zane Grey

This Week in the West ·

2025/01/27

It’s lost to history when this dentist precisely decided his practice was too dull and that writing should be his life's pursuit.He may have been pulling a tooth or drilling a cavity, but as the 19th Century ended, Dr. Zane Grey knew he was bored and depressed with his current life. In the years that followed, despite publishers’ rejections and struggles with his mental health, Zane Grey became one of the most popular Western novelists in history. He was born this week, January 31, 1872.

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04:52

This Week in the West: George McJunkin

This Week in the West ·

2025/01/20

George McJunkin stood at the summit of the Capulin Volcano in northern New Mexico and looked over the valley below. He had long since left his boyhood in slavery; he had made his own way. He was a Cowboy.To his west were the Sangre de Christo Mountains and spreading out in the valley below the volcano was the land that had become his home: The Dry Cimarron. He called it his “Promised Land.” What he would discover in the earth beneath him would create a legacy for the cowboy and rewrite the history

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05:41

This Week in the West: Freckles Brown

This Week in the West ·

2025/01/13

Freckles Brown had done a lot of living in his 46 years when he stepped into the arena in Oklahoma City in December of 1967.He was just a month shy of his birthday, which we remember this week. Brown was born January 18, 1921, so by the late 1960s he was a couple of decades older than some of his bullriding competitors. We don’t know if Brown’s life flashed before his eyes that night in ‘67, when he had his legendary ride of Tornado, but if he had, he would have remembered quite a few twists and

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05:38

This Week in the West: Theodore Roosevelt

This Week in the West ·

2025/01/06

In the summer of 1884, Theodore Roosevelt left New York and settled into a low-slung, log ranch house near the Little Missouri River, 35 miles north of Medora, North Dakota.Living on the ranch would transform Roosevelt, who had been known as an elite, Gilded Age intellectual, into a proponent of The Strenuous Life. He would challenge himself physically, embrace nature and do hard things.

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05:25

This Week in the West: Tex Ritter

This Week in the West ·

2024/12/30

Woodward Ritter had gone to the University of Texas to study the law. Yet here was, in his fourth year of college and his grades were a disaster. Ten law classes. Five F’s, three D’s and two C’s. All his time, including when he should have been studying, had been taken up by his time singing, crisscrossing the country as a performer and the president of the UT glee club. But the law would never enter the picture. Performing took Woodard on the road more and more. Eventually, he moved to New York

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04:49

This Week in the West: Frederic Remington

This Week in the West ·

2024/12/23

On this week's episode of our podcast This Week in The West: He was born in New York and died in Connecticut, but perhaps no one defined America’s imagination about the West more than Frederic Remington. Every day here at The Cowboy, we stroll past Remington’s remarkable works of art. Along with Charles Russell and a handful of others, Remington helped create the archetypes of the West. It is a story we’re proud to steward, along with our collection of original Remington art

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This Week in the West: Sacagawea

This Week in the West ·

2024/12/16

We start with two men who were among the country’s most skilled explorers, personally hand-picked by Thomas Jefferson, to add an expansive new chapter to the story of the United States. With them was a pregnant 16-year-old (but she could have been younger), accompanying a man who had purchased her to become his “wife” a few years earlier. Ahead of them lay 5,000 miles of the unknown country. That was in 1804. The men were Lewis and Clark. The girl was Sacagawea, who is thought to have died on this

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05:49

This Week in the West: Chester Reynolds

This Week in the West ·

2024/12/09

Chester Reynolds was the visionary mind behind the creation of The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum almost 70 years ago, but tragically never stepped foot in the building.Find out more about his story in the latest episode of our podcast "This Week in The West." Each week we tell the stories of the people who shaped the American West - and are still shaping it today! Find us on your favorite podcast app or click on the link in our bio to visit our website. Much obliged for

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05:13

This Week in the West: Harold Holden

This Week in the West ·

2024/12/02

Today, we celebrate one of Oklahoma’s greatest artists, Harold Holden, who died this week a year ago, on December 6, 2023.He was called just “H” by his friends. A self-taught sculptor, he became the icon who created icons all across our fine state. A Will Rogers sculpture at Will Rogers International Airport? It’s a Harold Holden. A Cowboy in Oklahoma City’s Stockyards City? Yes, that, too. The Broncho at the University of Central Oklahoma? The Bison at Oklahoma Baptist University? The Ranger

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04:54

This Week in the West: Yakima Canutt

This Week in the West ·

2024/11/25

He’d been in Hollywood since the silent pictures. He’d taken punches, fallen off horses, rolled down hills and gotten up each time. And in the summer of 1958, he was in Rome, standing behind a Roman chariot, preparing to shoot one of the greatest action sequences in movie history.Yakima Canutt had come a long way from Colfax, Washington, where he was born this week November 29, 1895. Follow us and rate us on Apple podcasts or wherever you hear us. That helps us reach more people. You can follow

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05:01

This Week in the West: Larry Mahan

This Week in the West ·

2024/11/18

He was called "The Elvis of Rodeo." He was Larry Mahan. We’ve got to admit something right off the bat here, folks. When we first looked at the biography of Larry Mahan, we thought, “Can we fit all of that into a podcast that we, believe it or not, try to keep to only seven to eight minutes ?” But we’re sure Larry, one of the grittiest and greatest rodeo cowboys in history, wouldn’t want us just to give up. So we’ll “cowboy up” and forge ahead to tell just some of the larger-than-life story of

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05:08

This Week in The West: The Birth of Route 66

This Week in the West ·

2024/11/11

Why do we get a spike in visitors from Europe every summer at The Cowboy? And what does that have to do with John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?It all comes from Route 66, the legendary highway, born this week in 1926. This Week in The West is produced at The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. You can read scripts of past episodes on our blog: https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/blog/ Follow us on Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ncwhm X/Twitter:

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05:10

This Week in the West: Will Rogers

This Week in the West ·

2024/11/04

We begin this week as any Oklahoman should, with one of the West’s greatest storytellers: William Penn Adair Rogers, known to the world as Will Rogers, born on this week, Nov. 4, 1879 in Oologah, Indian Territory.

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This Week in The West podcast coming soon!

This Week in the West ·

2024/10/25

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma is launching a new podcast."This Week in West" will begin November 4, so subscribe today. Our Museum, known as The Cowboy, helps people become more interested in and better understand the enduring legacy of our American West. Each week on this podcast, look back and share some of the most compelling stories of the people and events that shaped the West’s history, art, and culture.

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