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Road Trip Stories: The History

Bringing the vibrant, complex, and often forgotten history to life, as we experience it on the road. We tell engaging, true stories of the people, places, and events that shaped our world and what makes our nation unlike any other in the world. Join us to connect with the past and understand the United States you live in today like never before. Made possible by the support of Rothberg Realty Group, one of the nation"s most trusted real estate experts.

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35:48

Dodge City: Queen of the Cowtowns

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/08/01

In today's episode, the legendary Dodge City.Everyone knows the phrase “gettin’ outta Dodge.” But how did this small Kansas town become a global symbol for frontier violence? This story separates myth from reality, revealing how the “Wickedest Little City in America” was less a hotbed of daily gunfights and more a masterclass in managing chaos for profit. We’ll uncover the truth about Wyatt Earp , the political standoff known as the “Dodge City War,” and how newspapers and Hollywood built a

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30:22

Fort Larned National Historic Site

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/08/01

In today's episode: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.On the vast Kansas prairie, Fort Larned stood as a monument to America's conflicted soul. It was a fortress built to project military power and conquer the Plains tribes , yet it was also tasked with keeping peace by distributing food and supplies to them. This episode explores the fort's paradoxical role as both a war machine and a diplomatic outpost , a flashpoint on the Santa Fe Trail where cultures clashed with tragic

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34:57

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/08/01

In today's episode: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.Once, a sea of grass covered 170 million acres of North America, only to be nearly erased in a single generation. Today, less than 4% remains. We journey to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a landscape saved not by wisdom, but by a geological accident that defeated the plow. Here, we uncover stories of First Peoples, ambitious cattle barons, and the 70-year political war fought to protect this last stand, culminating in the

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27:14

National World War One Memorial (1/6)

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/07/31

Part One of our six-part series on the history that led to the National World War One Memorial.In nineteen-fourteen, the great powers of Europe believed they were at the height of civilization. Yet a web of alliances, a relentless arms race, and simmering nationalism created a powder keg. We explore how the assassination of a single archduke in Sarajevo could act as the spark that ignited a global inferno, shattering the illusion of a short, glorious war and creating the brutal stalemate of

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10:32

George Washington Carver National Historic Site

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/07/31

From a boy born into slavery and kidnapped by raiders , George Washington Carver rose to become a world-famous scientist. This single episode chronicles his entire journey: his youth as the "Plant Doctor," his revolutionary work at Tuskegee helping farmers escape the debt of the sharecropping system, and the painful paradox of his fame in a segregated America. Finally, we explore the creation of his National Monument—a political act forged in World War II and the Cold War —and confront the

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14:14

Pea Ridge: The Unraveling (3/3)

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/07/30

Part three of our series on Pea Ridge National Military Park.As dawn breaks on the second day, the tide turns. While the victorious Confederates at Elkhorn Tavern find themselves starving and out of ammunition, the Union army, consolidated and resupplied, unleashes the war's largest artillery bombardment. We witness how a gambler's desperate plan comes due, leading to a crushing Union victory that would permanently secure Missouri and alter the course of the Civil War in the West. This is

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17:03

Pea Ridge: A Tale of Two Fields (2/3)

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/07/30

Part two of our series on Pea Ridge National Military Park.The battle for Pea Ridge erupts in chaos. With the Confederate army split by a mountain, two separate battles rage simultaneously. On one front, a shocking series of battlefield deaths decapitates the Confederate command, turning victory into a rout. Just miles away at Elkhorn Tavern, the other Confederate wing wins a bloody, hard-fought victory, seizing the vital crossroads as darkness falls. The first day ends with both armies

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19:42

Pea Ridge: The Gamble (1/3)

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/07/30

Part one of our series on Pea Ridge National Military Park.In the winter of eighteen sixty-two, the fate of Missouri hangs in the balance. The Union sends a methodical engineer, Samuel Curtis, to crush the rebellion. He faces a fractured Confederate command led by the flamboyant Earl Van Dorn, who launches an audacious gamble: a forced march through a blizzard to strike the Union rear, abandoning his food and ammunition to gain speed. This episode explores the men and the desperate gambit

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14:26

Fort Smith: Lawmen and Legends (3/3)

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/07/30

Part three of our series on Fort Smith National Historic Site.This episode opens the case files of Judge Parker's court, where the line between history and myth was often blurred. We explore how the press transformed a convicted horse thief like Belle Starr into the romantic "Bandit Queen," and contrast her manufactured fame with the brutal reality of remorseless killers like Cherokee Bill. The series concludes with the closing of the frontier, as the court’s success ultimately makes it

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16:20

Fort Smith: The Judge and the Gallows (2/3)

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/07/30

Part two of our series on Fort Smith National Historic Site.After the military departs, Fort Smith becomes home to a federal court with an impossible mission: bring law to the 74,000 square miles of "Hell on the Border" known as Indian Territory. This episode introduces the relentless Judge Isaac C. Parker, the man sent to tame the chaos , and legendary deputy marshals like Bass Reeves, the long arm of the law in a dangerous and unforgiving wilderness.This episode is made possible by

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19:28

Fort Smith: A Double-Edged Sword (1/3)

Road Trip Stories: The History ·

2025/07/30

Part one of our series on Fort Smith National Historic Site.This episode explores the birth of Fort Smith, an outpost built on the American frontier to manage a violent conflict the U.S. government itself created. The story follows the fort from its origins as a lonely stockade to its role as a tragic witness to the Trail of Tears, and finally, as a contested prize during the Civil War. It is a story of how a tool of federal policy became entangled in the nation's greatest tragedies.This

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