So many Western folk heroes were involved in stagecoach robberies, let's take a few minutes and plan one of our own!

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Sadly, the display of human oddities was part of entertainment in the nineteenth century.  This week we meet some of the few who made successuful lives in the sideshow tent.

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One last highlight in Barnum's career before he starts his famous circus.

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Barnum continues exhibiting in his American Museum and brings Grizzly Adams from the West.

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Barnum brings the worlds most popular singer to a record breaking tour of America.

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This week we start a series of episodes on one of the most iconic figures in Americana- P.T. Barnum.

Two hoaxes from New York State- a giant man from pre-Biblical times is uncovered in Cardiff New York and a family is chased from their Long Island home by.... ghosts?

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One day I casually googled 'American End of the World Prophets' and discovered the Millerites and the several religious movements that came of them.  Today a dive down the end of the world rabbit hole.

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The Lakota chief who would lead his people through Little Big Horn and the end of their freedom on the plains.

The story of a boy drawn into a family of witches- and how simple pranks can go wrong fast.

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