They Selected The Fleshy Boy For Torture: Shawnee Indians Attack Virginia Settlers, 1758 #TM
WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA — The flames had barely consumed the body of George Painter when the Shawnee warriors turned their attention to the infants torn from their mothers’ arms,…
The Deflowering Of Sacagewea: Her Tragic Story Before She Met Lewis And Clark, 1804 #TM
The brutal abduction of a 10-year-old Shoshone girl from her family’s hunting camp in the Rocky Mountains set in motion a chain of violence, enslavement, and exploitation that…
Beheaded With A Long Knife: Pontiac and Cornstalk’s Depredations in Western Virginia, 1764 #TM
The peace that settlers along the western Virginia frontier believed they had secured with the end of the French and Indian War was shattered in 1764 by a…
They Never Heard From Him Again: The Mystery of James Harrod, The Lone Long-Knife Of Kentucky, 1792 #TM
The silence of the Kentucky wilderness in the spring of 1792 swallowed a man whole, leaving behind a legend, a widow, and a mystery that has haunted historians…
They Called On Sorcerers To Cure Them Of Illness: Huron Indians Blame Disease On The French Priests #TM
The air in the longhouse was thick with the smoke of fires and the desperate gasps of the dying, but for Father Isaac Jogues, the true poison was…
A Creek Rising in Savannah: Creek Indians Declare Dominion Over Georgia, 1749 (ep.4) #TM
SAVANNAH, Georgia — A colonial clergyman and his half-Creek wife have been arrested and thrown into confinement after orchestrating a brazen scheme to overthrow British authority in Georgia,…
They Scalped His Wife: John Glanton, The Outlaw Indian Fighter Begins His Murder Spree, TX, 1846. #TM
The first blood hit the sawdust floor of the Bear Exchange saloon before the card game’s stakes were even settled. In the flickering candlelight of San Antonio, 1846,…
They Were Paid Fifty Dollars Per Scalp: Samuel Chamberlain Joins John Glanton’s Gang, Sonora, 1848 #TM
The American frontier has always been a place where the line between civilization and savagery blurs, but few stories capture that descent into darkness as vividly as the…
They Desired Blood And Women: John Glanton’s Scalp Hunters Attack Mexicans And Apaches, 1848 #TM
FRONTERAS, Sonora — The blood-soaked bounty trade along the Mexican frontier has claimed another chapter of atrocity, as newly surfaced accounts from a rogue soldier’s memoir detail a…
Death Of A Scalp-Hunter: Glanton and The Judge Are Attacked By Yuma Indians, Arizona, 1850 #TM
The final, bloody chapter of the Glanton Gang’s reign of terror across the American Southwest has come to a violent and definitive end in the Arizona desert. According…