Author: Mike Messner

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.

This episode includes the following stories:

• Keep the Light Burning: Fighting nature at Cape Disappointment…
• Good and Bad: Out West, those two extremes can be even more extreme…
• Native Logging: How it was done before the whites came…
• Commercial Logging: How cutting down trees became a big business…

…and the poem “Imagine” 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…

• Tight Cinch: A panic at the Yellowstone River…
• Finding a Horse: Walking to Oregon, and solving a problem…
• Camped in Yosemite: Man versus nature in the shadow of Half Dome…
• Wreck of the Peter Iredale: A shipwreck on the Columbia River…

…and the poem “Salvation” 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:

• Outlaw: The story of a buckaroo gone bad…
• Games: Passing the time on the Oregon Trail…
• Not Guilty: Who burned down that forest?…
• Comanche Attack: A confrontation between two armed cultures…

…and the poem “If I Believe” 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:

• Copper Penny: A childhood accident leads to a medical miracle…
• Kit Carson: The king of the mountain men…
• The Name: A man disappears on the Oregon Trail…or does he?…
• The Newspaper: A schoolboy gives his own definition…

…and the poem “Trees” 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 Pardon: Righting a wrong in Tillamook…
• A Hard Trail: The Smith family heads west in 1846…
• John Day: Tragedy in the Missouri River country…
• Roving Spirit: A young girl’s dream of adventure comes true…

…and the poem “November Snow” 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.