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This Week in the West
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.
Episodes
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This Week in the West: The Legendary Record-Breaking Career of Bull Rider Don Gay
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 46: The Legendary Record-Breaking Career of Bull Rider Don Gay 📢 Episode Summary: In this episode, we pay tribute to rodeo…
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This Week in the West: The Origin of the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 45: This Week in the West: The Origin of the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association 📢 Episode Summary: The Traditional Cowboy…
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This Week in the West: Tad Lucas, the First Lady of Rodeo
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 44: Tad Lucas, the First Lady of Rodeo 📢 Episode Summary: Tad Lucas, remembered as the “First Lady of Rodeo,” rose from…
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This Week in the West: Eight Bears - Edwin Willard Deming's Native Art & Connection
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 43: This Week in the West, Episode 43: Eight Bears - Edwin Willard Deming's Native Art & Connection 📢 Episode Summary: This…
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This Week in the West: Charles Colcord at the center of Oklahoma history
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 42: Charles Colcord at the center of Oklahoma history 📢 Episode Summary: On this week’s episode we tackle the life of Charles…
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This Week in the West: When Henry Fonda Became a Western Bad Guy
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 41: When Henry Fonda Became a Western Bad Guy 📢 Episode Summary: In the newest episode of “This Week in the West” we tell the…
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This Week in the West: Rodeo Cowboys on Strike? The Story of Herman Linder
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 40: Rodeo Cowboys on Strike? The Story of Herman Linder 📢 Episode Summary: This week on This Week in The West, we turn the…
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This Week in the West: Lane Frost, Bull Riding Legend
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 39: Lane Frost, Bull Riding Legend 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West honors bull riding legend Lane…
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This Week in the West: The Groundbreaking Woody Strode
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 38: The Groundbreaking Woody Strode 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West highlights the remarkable life…
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This Week in the West: Jim Bridger, Mountain Man
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 37: Jim Bridger, Mountain Man 📢 Episode Summary: In this episode of This Week in The West, we explore the adventurous and…
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This Week in the West: Uncovering the Life of Jake McClure
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 36: Jake McClure 📢 Episode Summary: This week on This Week in The West, we dive into the remarkable yet often overlooked life…
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This Week in the West: Ralph Doubleday and the Birth of Rodeo Photography
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 35: Ralph Doubleday and the Birth of Rodeo Photography 📢 Episode Summary: In this episode of This Week in The West, we take…
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This Week in the West: Bettina Steinke and the Prix de West
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 34: Bettina Steinke 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of This Week in The West celebrates the life and legacy of Bettina…
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This Week in the West: Bert Geer Phillips, A Broken Wagon Wheel & Taos
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 33: Bert Geer Phillips, A Broken Wagon Wheel & Taos 📢 Episode Summary: In this episode of This Week in The West, we share the…
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This Week in the West: John Wayne
🤠 This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 32: John Wayne 📢 Episode Summary: This week’s episode of This Week in The West rides into history with the larger-than-life…
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This Week in the West: Audie Murphy
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️Episode 31: Audie Murphy 📢 Episode Summary: This week on This Week in The West, we saddle up with the extraordinary story of Audie…
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This Week in the West: Robert Lougheed
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️Episode 30: Robert Lougheed and Prix de West 📢 Episode Summary: In this episode of This Week in The West, we pay tribute to Western…
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This Week in the West: J.R. Simplot
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 29: J.R. Simplot 📢 Episode Summary: This week on This Week in The West, we go to high desert of southern Idaho to remember…
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This Week in the West: Bob Wills
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 28: BOB WILLS 📢 Episode Summary: On this week’s episode of This Week in The West, we celebrate the life and legacy of Bob…
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This Week in the West: Myrtis Dightman
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 27: Myrtis Dightman 📢 Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of This Week in The West, we celebrate the 90th birthday of…
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This Week in the West: Foghorn Clancy
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 26: Foghorn Clancy 📢 Episode Summary: In this episode of This Week in The West, we share the remarkable story of Frederick…
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This Week in the West: Willa Cather
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 25: Willa Cather 📢 Episode Summary: In this episode of This Week in The West, we journey to the sweeping prairies of Nebraska…
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This Week in the West: The Virginian, Owen Wister & Joel McCrea
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 24: The Virginian, Owen Wister & Joel McCrea 📢 Episode Summary: On this week’s episode of This Week in the West, we tell the…
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This Week in the West: Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 23: Frank “Pistol Pete” Eaton 📢 Episode Summary: This week on This Week in the West, we saddle up with the unforgettable tale…
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This Week in the West: J.K. Ralston
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 22: J.K. Ralston 📢 Episode Summary: On this week's episode of This Week in the West, we spotlight the life and legacy of J.K…
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This Week in the West: Sandra Day O'Connor
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 21: SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR 📢 Episode Summary: This week on This Week in The West, we honor the life and legacy of Sandra Day…
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This Week in the West: Alice Greenough Orr
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 20: Alice Greenough Orr 📢 Episode Summary: On this week’s episode of This Week in the West, we meet Alice Greenough Orr, a…
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This Week in the West: Mari Sandoz
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 19: Mari Sandoz 📢 Episode Summary: This week’s episode of This Week in the West tells the story of Mari Sandoz, who was no…
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This Week in the West: Charles Goodnight
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 18: Charles Goodnight 📢 Episode Summary: This episode of “This Week in the West” explores the life and legacy of Charles…
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This Week in the West: Salvatore "Sam" Lucchese
🤠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…
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This Week in the West: Edward Curtis
🤠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…
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This Week in the West: Pawnee Bill
🤠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…
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This Week in the West: Edward Fitzgerald Beale
🤠This Week in the West 🎙️ Episode 14: Edward Fitzgerald Beale 📢 Episode Summary: On this week’s episode of This Week in the West, we learn about Edward…
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This Week in the West: Zane Grey
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…
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This Week in the West: George McJunkin
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…
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This Week in the West: Freckles Brown
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…
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This Week in the West: Theodore Roosevelt
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…
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This Week in the West: Tex Ritter
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…
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This Week in the West: Frederic Remington
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…
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This Week in the West: Sacagawea
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…
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This Week in the West: Chester Reynolds
Chester Reynolds was the visionary mind behind the creation of The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum almost 70 years ago, but tragically never stepped…
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This Week in the West: Harold Holden
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…
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This Week in the West: Yakima Canutt
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…
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This Week in the West: Larry Mahan
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…
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This Week in The West: The Birth of Route 66
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…
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This Week in the West: Will Rogers
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…
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