Sherry and Marshall discuss prairie fever. Learn about isolation, loneliness, and depression experienced by pioneers on the prairie. They talk about the Homestead Act, Willa Cather's books about it, weather, and more. There's also a frontier recipe for potato salad in this episode.
In this episode Sherry and Marshall explore the cost of goods on the frontier. They'll share some comparisons of today's money versus the value of the dollar in the 1800s. They discuss how much people earned, what is cost to run a Kansas farm, mail-order catalogs, and the amount it cost to shop for every day items. This show's lagniappe is a recipe for escalloped tomatoes.
Listen to the Sherry and Marshall as they share some fun history about the iconic western cattle drives. They share chuckwagon stories, cowboy vernacular, wrangler life, and a story about a chuckwagon cook who lost his clothes to a cow. This show's lagniappe includes a recipe for fruit cobbler.
In this episode the marshal and the madam will explore the mail-order bride world on the frontier. Learn what the term really meant, meet some of the men and women who solicited "object matrimony." Listen as Sherry and Marshall share real advertisements and true stories about love, heart break, and murder! This show's lagniappe includes a recipe for chicken croquettes.
In this show, the marshal and the madam discuss the products, procedures, and details of how pioneers cared for their teeth. It's shocking how we still use many of the same products and treatments from over 100 years ago! You would think with advances in technology we would have progressed further... This show's lagniappe includes a recipe for tooth powder.
The marshal and the madam peel back the curtain to shed light into the underworld of the madams who ran brothels on the frontier in this show. Learn about some of the women and what their lives were like. Discover who started the first peep show and find out who Fannie Porter, Jessie Hayman, Tessie Daroux, Pearl Devere, Etta “Grasshopper” Clark, and “Big Alice” Abbott were. This show's lagniappe includes two recipes for bath salts.
In this show, the Marshal and the Madam explore some of the products the pioneers used that we still do today. They'll share some fun details about boots, food and drink, musical instruments, firearms, and personal care products. This show includes a recipe for some historic cheese sandwiches.
Tune into this episode to hear the Marshal and the Madam discuss frontier women, who were the gentle tamers of the west. The Madam discusses their influence included sophistication, churches, schools, and beautification of the American frontier. Marshal talks about women on the trails, Mary Kidder Rak, and Nellie Cashman. This podcast includes a recipe served at Nellie Cashman's Russ House.
In this episode, Sherry and Marshall discuss frontier doctors, medicines and miracle cures, addiction, natural and native healing herbs, and diseases of the frontier Army. Marshall discusses the dueling doctors of Hangtown and Sherry shares the story of a woman was beat her addiction. This podcast includes an old West remedy recipe.
Join Sherry and Marshall as they reveal the myths that were created from Hollywood westerns. In this episode they discuss what saloons really looked like and the drinks served in them. They also cover gunfights, Indians, clothing, and men on horses chasing stage coaches and trains. This podcast include a cocktail recipe from the old west.
