Month: May 2025

This episode includes the following stories:

• Blue Bucket: So many uses for one simple item…
• Rendezvous: The colorful part of being a mountain man…
• Strange Music: How to deal with unexpected company in the Oregon Country…
• The Price Was Death: Cholera takes another victim…

…and the poem “Happiness Is” by Rick Steber.

All stories and poems by Rick Steber. Used by permission of the author. Theme music is “Slobro Daze” by Danny Lee Allison. Sound effects found on YouTube and the Freesound Project.

The episode includes the following stories:

• The Accident: An unwanted birthday present for a young logger…
• The Trip West: An old woman thinks back on her childhood…
• One Shot: Checking out a cave in the dead of winter…
• Remembering: Thurderstorms on the Great Plains…

…and the poem “Searching For” by Rick Steber.

All stories and poems by Rick Steber. Used by permission of the author. Theme music is “Slobro Daze” by Danny Lee Allison. Sound effects found on YouTube and the Freesound Project.

This episode includes the following stories:

• Dolbeer’s Donkey: A stubborn animal does something unexpected…
• White Feather: Man and beast face off on the Oregon Trail…
• Hugh Glass: A former pirate is killed by a grizzly…or is he?
• Old Man’S Story: A trip down memory lane…

…and the poem “No Nevermind” 1:14″ by Rick Steber.

All stories and poems by Rick Steber. Used by permission of the author. Theme music is “Slobro Daze” by Danny Lee Allison. Sound effects found on YouTube and the Freesound Project.

This episode includes the following stories:

• The Pet Wapiti:A baby bull elk changes the lives of a Western family…
• Paul and Babe: The legend of the greatest logger of all…
• The Prairie Schooner: What a wagon needed to make it over the Oregon Trail…
• Poor Billy: The Blue Mountains have a lot of dangers for pioneers!…

…and the poem “Drifting” by Rick Steber.

All stories and poems by Rick Steber. Used by permission of the author. Theme music is “Slobro Daze” by Danny Lee Allison. Sound effects found on YouTube and the Freesound Project.