Ep 8 🔫Armed & Dangerous⚠️ : 🐴The Phantom Ranch Ranger🤠

10/01/23 • 28 min

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : Unbelievable True Stories

The Grand Canyon is a place of connecting with nature, finding one’s center, and in this rare account, airing one’s grievances. In 1968, newlywed and rookie Park Ranger Mel Heaton was tasked with an impossible undertaking...to disarm 5 hostile men...by himself.
CHARACTERS (in order of appearance)
García López de Cárdenas
Alonso de CárdenasFrancisco Vázquez de Coronado
Pedro de Tovar
Pedro de Sotomayor
Pablo de Melgrossa
Juan Galeras
Hopi Guides
Irvine Cob
Henry Long
Clarence Dutton
John Wesley Powell
Havasupai
Ralph H. Cameron
David Rust
President Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Harvey
Mary Jane Colter
Spanish Conquistador
Martin Luther King Jr
Robert F. Kennedy
Park Ranger Mel Heaton
Federal Marshal
Jesus
Apollo 8 Crew
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Apollo 11
John F. Kennedy
LOCATIONS
Llerena, Corona de Castilla
La Puebla del Maestre
River Tizón
Cíbola
Zuñi, New Mexico
Tower of Seville, the Giralda
Spain
ÖngtupqaColorado River
The Grand Canyon
Phantom Ranch
Garden Creek
Indian Garden
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Santa Fe Railroad
Bright Angel Trail
Grand Canyon South Rim
Vietnam
France
Czechoslovakia
Russia
North Kaibab Trail
Moccasin, Arizona
The River House
Pipe Creek Rest House
FBI Park Ranger Training
Silver Suspension Bridge
South Kaibab Trail
Grand Canyon North Rim
California
Florida
Moon
LINKS
https://youtu.be/4JjADNAn5g4
CREDITS
Based on an account written By Carolyn Heaton Grygla
Wild West Whistling Duel, Copyright 2013 Iwan Gabovitch, CC-BY3 license

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Ep 7 Bub Meeks Pt 2:🤠Prisoner #574, Good Teeth🦷 , Mustache & Size 7 Boots🥾

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The strategy of planning, the thrill of the heist, pulling your hat down over your ears during the galloping getaway, and the adrenaline of lining your pockets with nare a few moments worth of actual work. For those of you who might have been a little titillated by the previous story, this is what Mr. Harvey would refer to as “the rest of that story”, and it ain’t perty. In the final years of Bub’s “Flash-Bang” life he quickly realized the high cost of low living.
CHARACTERS:
Henry Rhodes Meeks Jr.
Butch Cassidy
Bub Meeks
Will Parry
Roy Toyer
J.C. Edwards
George Hailey
H.H. Albers
Judge Waters
Sheriff Joe White
J. H. Robinson
Dave Norwood
Samual Burd
Warden Charles VanDorn
Tom Welch
Wild Bunch
Tom Widdup
Warden Charles Arney
Guard Burns
George Eden
Clerk Robert Tschudy
Selam
Guard Donnelly
Joe Meeks
Warden R. Fulton
Mr. Meacham
Jed Bullock
LOCATIONS:
Montpelier, Idaho
Bank of Montpelier
Blackfoot, Idaho
Shoshone Journal
Mercer, Pennsylvania
Holt & Gilmore
Idaho State Prison
Boise, Idaho
Green River, Wyoming
Idaho State Hospital
Burnt Fork
Idahna Hotel, Boise, Idaho
Mississippi
Boise River
The Statesman Newspaper
Ada County
Idaho Daily Statesman
Idaho Historical Society
Lonetree, Wyoming
Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Evanston News
State Asylum, Evanston, Wyoming
Uinta County
Wild West

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Ep 9 🩺Dr. Priddy Meeks : 🥶 Frostbite, Polygamy & Cayenne Pepper🌶

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Life in the valley of the Great Salt Lake was rough. From weed soup, cold winters, and the new life. 1857 was a year of turmoil and invasion in the territory of Utah. Thompsonian botanical Doctor Priddy Meeks recounts from his journal, how he treated one of the “invaders” for frostbite that had consumed both feet several inches above the ankles. He only lost 5 toenails in the ordeal. This unheard of treatment for frostbite is a miracle still today.
CHARACTERS
President James Knox Polk
Doctor Priddy Meeks
Sarah Mahurin
Jedediah M. Grant
Joseph B. Noble
General Winfield Scott (Old fuss & feathers)
Mormon Immigrants
Doctor William A Morse
Willard Richards
Phinehas Richards
Society of Health
Council of Health
Doctor Cannon
Deseret News
Arza Orson Adams
Thomas Bullock
Samual Hamilton
Edward Dalton
Governor Brigham Young
President Brigham Young
Territorial Governor of Utah
Reed Smoot
Senator Julius C. Burrows
Senator Boies Penrose
President Buchanan
Johnston’s Army
William P. MacKinnon
Mary Jane McCleve Meeks
Joseph Smith
Hyrum Smith
Joseph Meeks
Margaret Jane Meeks
James McCann
Africa
California
Samual Thompson
LOCATIONS
Texas
Oregon
Valley of the Great Salt Lake
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri
Centralist Republic of Mexico
Central America
Mexico City
Hall of Montezuma
Vera Cruz
Mexico
United States
Territory of Utah
Bountiful, Utah
Provo, Utah
Manti, Utah
San Bernadino, California
Ogden, Utah
Little Salt Lake Valley
Parowan Valley
Great Salt Lake City
Center Creek, Utah
Paragonah, Utah
Illinois
Red Creek, Utah
LINKS
Map https://www.vox.com/2015/2/17/7917165/maps-that-explain-americaMexican American War https://youtu.be/tkdF8pOFUfI
https://newrepublic.com/article/104239/the-network-mormons-potomac-dc