The Civil War forced the warring families of Clay County into an uneasy truce. The Garrards, Whites, Howards, and Bakers found themselves allied as they fought for the Union. But the war brought new challenges: the Northern army destroyed Clay County’s salt mines in order to keep them out of the hands of the South, and the Emancipation Proclamation brought a ... Show More
Jan 2020
California Water Wars - A River in the Desert | 1
By the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles had grown from a dusty, crime-ridden pueblo into a thriving metropolis. The only problem was that it was growing too fast. With no consistently reliable water source and a desert climate leading to a decade-long drought, the city ... Show More
36m 57s
Feb 2020
California Water Wars - “There It Is—Take It” | 3
By 1912, the Los Angeles aqueduct project was nearing completion. But as it approached the finish line, fears were growing among the public of a vast conspiracy, fanned by socialist Job Harriman. With the formation of the Aqueduct Investigation Board, engineer William Mulholland ... Show More
37m 20s
Nov 2019
BILLY THE KID Ep. 2 | "Crooks, Killers and Thieves"
Lincoln County in southeastern New Mexico Territory grows into a hotbed of corruption and murder. Men named Murphy, Dolan and Brady align themselves against others called Tunstall, McSween and Chisum. An outlaw gang kills and steals at will, and it’s about to add a new man to its ... Show More
34m 21s
Nov 2020
Episode 89 - A Family Feud
In 1988, along a peaceful stretch of farmland road in Florida, a war was brewing among two families.As Peggy Carr and her new husband Pye were focused on raising their rambunctious blended family, their neighbors an elderly couple who lived across the street were determined to li ... Show More
32m 43s