EPISODE · Dec 21, 2025 · 44 MIN
E21 - Keep Your Seat! Horace Greeley and The Stage Line
from While Buffalo Roamed: The Wild West History of Colorado · host Jonathan Summer Publishing
Mark Twain, Horace Greeley (cover art) and the Stage (intro) Horace Greeley and the stage line come to town. Denver City gets a boost when the Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express Company land in the new West Kansas town. Just after the first stage arrives, three important and trusted newspaper editors ride into town - to set the record straight. Horace Greeley (the most famous visitor yet - and publisher of the New York Tribune), Henry Villard of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and Albert Richardson of the Boston Journal. Does West Kansas impress or repulse?
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Mark Twain, Horace Greeley (cover art) and the Stage (intro) Horace Greeley and the stage line come to town. Denver City gets a boost when the Leavenworth and Pike’s Peak Express Company land in the new West Kansas town. Just after the first stage arrives, three important and trusted newspaper editors ride into town - to set the record straight. Horace Greeley (the most famous visitor yet - and publisher of the New York Tribune), Henry Villard of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and Albert Richardson of the Boston Journal. Does West Kansas impress or repulse?
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