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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: Jo Decker and the Importance...

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2026/03/30

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 74: Jo Decker and the Importance of Rodeo Secretaries 📢 Episode Summary: Jo Ramsey Decker stood at the center of rodeo’s evolution, bridging the gap between competitor and organizer at a time when the sport was still finding its footing. From her early days growing up on a Texas ranch to competing in rodeos as a child, Decker developed a deep connection to Western life. By the 1940s, she had earned national visibility as a “Ranch Sponsor Girl” at Madison Square

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6:36

This Week in the West: John Arbuckle and Coffee's...

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2026/03/23

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 73: John Arbuckle and Coffee's Importance in the West 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West explores the surprising but essential role coffee played in shaping life on the American frontier, focusing on the legacy of John Arbuckle. At a time when coffee was difficult to preserve and inconsistent in quality, Arbuckle revolutionized the industry in 1868 with a glazing process that kept roasted beans fresh and shelf-stable. His innovation made

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6:15

This Week in the West: Charles Russell: Artist &...

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2026/03/16

🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 72: Charles Russell: Artist & Original Great Westerner 📢 Episode Summary: This week on This Week in The West, we remember Charles Marion Russell, one of the most important artists to ever capture the spirit of the American frontier. Born March 19, 1864, Russell left his comfortable home in St. Louis at just sixteen years old to pursue his dream of becoming a cowboy in Montana. Instead of following the respectable career paths expected of him, Russell chose

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6:11

This Week in the West: The Miller Brothers and the...

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2026/03/09

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 71: The Miller Brothers and the Rise of the 101 Ranch 📢 Episode Summary: This week on This Week in The West, we remember Joe Miller Sr., one of the driving forces behind Oklahoma’s legendary 101 Ranch. Born March 12, 1868, Miller grew up in a cattle family that helped shape ranching in Indian Territory. After their father, Colonel George Washington Miller, established the 101 brand and built a vast ranching operation, Joe and his brothers inherited the growing

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6:23

This Week in the West: How Jesse Chisholm Talked His...

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2026/03/02

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6:20

This Week in the West: Quanah Parker

This Week in the West ·

2026/02/23

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This Week in the West: Albert Bierstadt's Larger Than...

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2026/02/16

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 68: Albert Bierstadt's Larger-Than-Life Artistic Journey 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West explores the life and legacy of artist Albert Bierstadt through one of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s most breathtaking works, Emigrants Crossing the Plains. Known for his massive, dramatic landscapes, Bierstadt didn’t simply document the American West — he transformed it into a vision of hope, grandeur, and destiny that captured

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5:30

This Week in the West: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little...

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2026/02/09

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 67: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House Author’s Version of Pioneer Life 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West explores the life and legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose Little House books shaped how generations of Americans imagine frontier life. Born in 1867, Wilder grew up in a constantly moving pioneer family that faced illegal settlement on Native land, brutal winters, crop failures, disease and near-constant financial instability. Far

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6:09

This Week in the West: Belle Starr, Queen of the Outlaws

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2026/02/02

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 66: Belle Starr, Queen of the Outlaws 📢 Episode Summary: Belle Starr’s life sits at the uneasy intersection of fact and legend, shaped as much by mythmaking as by crime. Born in Missouri in 1848 and educated in refinement, the Civil War upended her world and drew her into outlaw circles that included Confederate guerrillas and future members of the James-Younger Gang. In Indian Territory, Starr reinvented herself not as a gunslinger, but as a savvy

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6:09

This Week in the West: Casey Tibbs, Rodeo's Golden Boy

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2026/01/26

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 65: Casey Tibbs, Rodeo’s Golden Boy 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West explores the extraordinary life and legacy of Casey Tibbs, one of the most influential figures in rodeo history. Born into a hard-scrabble homesteading family in South Dakota, Tibbs ignored his father’s doubts about rodeo and launched a career that would redefine the sport. By age 19, he was already a world champion, and between 1949 and 1955, he dominated rodeo with

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5:36

This Week in the West: The Hollywood Drama of Broncho...

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2026/01/19

🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 64: The Hollywood Drama of Broncho Billy Anderson 📢 Episode Summary: In this episode of This Week in The West, we remember Broncho Billy Anderson, one of the very first cowboy movie stars and a true pioneer of American cinema. Born Maxwell Henry Aronson in 1880 to Jewish immigrant parents, Anderson found his way from stage performances and odd acting jobs into film at a moment when movies themselves were still being invented. His early appearance in The Great

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5:26

This Week in the West: Bass Reeves, the Legendary Lawman

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2026/01/12

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 63: Bass Reeves, the Legendary Lawman 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West honors the life and legacy of Bass Reeves, one of the most remarkable lawmen of the American frontier, remembered on the anniversary of his death. Born into slavery in Arkansas in 1838, Reeves escaped bondage during the Civil War and found refuge in Indian Territory, where he learned Native languages, survival skills, and the terrain that would later define his career

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This Week in the West: Tom Mix, the Highs and Lows of...

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2026/01/05

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 62: Tom Mix, the Highs and Lows of Hollywood’s First Cowboy Superstar 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West tips its hat to Tom Mix, one of the first true cowboy superstars, remembered on the week of his birth, January 6, 1880. From his towering white Stetson—one example of which lives in the Museum’s collection—to his fearless stunt work and charismatic screen presence, Mix helped define what audiences expected from Western heroes in the early

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5:26

This Week in the West: Wanda Harper Bush, The...

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2025/12/29

🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 61: Wanda Harper Bush 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West remembers the extraordinary life and legacy of Wanda Harper Bush, one of the most accomplished cowgirls in rodeo history, on the tenth anniversary of her death. The story opens with a rare moment of national attention: Bush’s appearance on the television game show To Tell the Truth, where her quiet confidence and authenticity surprised celebrity panelists and delighted audiences. It

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4:33

This Week in the West: George Catlin, the Artist...

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2025/12/22

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 60: George Catlin, the Artist Driven to Capture Native Culture 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West reflects on the life and legacy of George Catlin, who died on December 23, 1872. Driven by an obsessive sense of urgency, Catlin dedicated his life to documenting Native American tribes at a moment when disease, westward expansion, and U.S. government policy were rapidly transforming—and often destroying—Indigenous cultures. His hundreds of

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4:16

This Week in the West: Jackson Sundown, An Icon of...

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2025/12/15

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 59: Jackson Sundown, an Icon of the West 📢 Episode Summary: The iconic cowboy silhouette in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s logo is more than a symbol—it’s a real person with an extraordinary story. That figure is based on Jackson Sundown, a legendary early-20th-century rodeo competitor and a full-blooded member of the Wallowa Band of the Nez Perce tribe. Remembered on the anniversary of his death, December 18, 1923, Sundown’s life bridges

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This Week in the West: Jesse Harper, the Kansas...

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2025/12/08

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 58: Jesse Harper, the Kansas Rancher Who Built Notre Dame Football 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West explores the remarkable, often overlooked life of Jesse Harper—a rancher, coach, and member of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Hall of Great Westerners. The story opens in 1931 with the tragic Kansas plane crash that killed Knute Rockne. Harper, a close friend and the man who had once coached Rockne at Notre Dame, was

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4:52

This Week in the West: Bill Pickett, King of the...

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2025/12/01

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 57: Bill Pickett, King of The Bulldoggers 📢 Episode Summary: This week’s episode of This Week in The West celebrates the remarkable life of Bill Pickett, born December 5, 1870—one of the most iconic and innovative cowboys in American history. Known for an almost unbelievable act—bringing down steers with his teeth—Pickett captured national attention in the early rodeo world with a technique inspired by ranch bulldogs. Growing up in post–Civil War Texas as the son

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This Week in the West: Joseph Glidden and the History...

This Week in the West ·

2025/11/24

🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 56: Joseph Glidden and the History of Barbed Wire 📢 Episode Summary: This episode explores the surprising origins and sweeping impact of one of the most transformative inventions in Western history: barbed wire. The story begins in 1873 on a farm near DeKalb, Illinois, where Joseph Glidden searched for a way to keep cows out of his wife Lucinda’s yard. A few wire hairpins in a milk-glass dish sparked an idea that led him to experiment with wire, tinker with

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4:37

This Week in the West: Clark Hulings and the Origin...

This Week in the West ·

2025/11/17

🤠This Week in the West🎙️ Episode 55: Clark Hulings and the Origin of the Prix de West 📢 Episode Summary: This week’s episode of This Week in The West explores the origins of the Museum’s signature art exhibition, the Prix de West, through the life and legacy of one of its most influential early artists: Clark Hulings. Listeners are reminded that the Prix de West—now more than five decades strong—began in 1973 with Hulings’ sweeping and dramatic painting Grand Canyon, Kaibab Trail, a work that

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