| High Plains History Archive |
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| 2008 episodes: Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec |
 GC Band - Ring in the New Year Celebrating the 125th birthday of the Garden City Municipal Band.
(aired 12/31/08) |
 Chrysler House - Visit the boyhood home of a famous auto maker.
(aired 12/17/08) |
 Camp Nichols - Visit a historic site that was thought to be in New Mexico but would up in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
(aired 12/10/08) |
 Buffalo Shootout - An account of the shooting contest that gave Buffalo Bill Cody his famous nickname
(aired 12/3/08) |
 Bones Hook - An introduction to one of the first black cowboys in the Texas panhandle
(aired 11/26/08) |
 Amish Cemetery - Early day Ford County Kansas was home to an Amish settlement, but all that remains are headstones in a country cemetery.
(aired 11/19/08) |
 Oslo Settlement - Norwegian bachelor farmers weren't just in Lake Woebegone. The TX panhandle had a thriving settlement in the early 1900's.
(aired 11/12/08) |
 Trail City - In the late 1800's Texas trail herds passed through a tough town called Trail City, on the KS/CO border
(aired 11/5/08) |
 Bat Masterson - Today we'll learn some little known facts about a well known Dodge City lawmen.
(aired 10/29/08) |
 Comancheria - Today we'll look at a battle that marked the turning point in the Red River Wars
(aired 10/22/08) |
 Rawlins County Seat - Chacanery and hijinks were on tap in this non-violent but very heated county seat war
(aired 10/15/08) |
 Cheyenne Warrior Woman - A survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre becomes a famous figure in Native American History
(aired 10/8/08) |
 The Great Flood - 1965 brought more water than folks knew what to do with and the Arkansas flooded its banks
(aired 10/1/08) |
 Boys Ranch - A philanthropist who wanted to give kids a place of their own founded a famous ranch in the Texas Panhandle
(aired 9/24/08) |
 Mexican Immigrants - Garden City has prospered by the labor, customs and culture of hardworking immigrants from Old Mexico.
(aired 09/17/08) |
 The Jordan Massacre - A mute witness to mayhem and murder was never able to tell the story of what really happened in Ness County in 1872.
(aired 09/10/08) |
 Railroad Town - many towns were founded or folded by the route of a railroad including Canadian, Texas.
(aired 09/03/08) |
 Finnup Park - A walk in the park is on tap as we look at a Southwest Kansas family of philanthropists.
(aired 08/27/08) |
 Kansas Folksongs - Listen to some "tuneful" history about the Jayhawk state.
(aired 08/20/08) |
 Hay Meadow Massacre - A county seat battle in Southwest Kansas brought mayhem and murder to what is now the Oklahoma Panhandle.
(aired 08/13/08) |
 Canadian River Wagon Bridge - Crossing the Canadian was not always an easy task, but today it's a 'walk in the park', thanks to some dedicated Hemphill County residents.
(aired 08/06/08) |
 Ghosts Towns of Hodgeman County - The plains of Kansas held both promise and heartbreak for two diverse groups of settlers in the 1880s.
(aired 07/30/08) |
 Penokee Man - The ancient builders of the (pen-OH-kee) stone formation in the Soloman River Valley remain anonymous to this day.
(aired 07/23/08) |
 The Buffalo Hotel - Today we're staying at Buffalo Jones' new hotel in old-time Garden City.
(aired 07/16/08) |
 The Well Story - A family history illuminates the hard living of homesteading in the TX panhandle and the bravery of ordinary people.
(aired 07/09/08) |
 Pittsburgh of Prairies - Some of the smokestacks still stand on the site of "The Pittsburgh of the Prairies".
(aired 07/02/08) |
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