Podcasts about Jim Bridger

Bill Markley is a long-time friend and guest at White Stallion Ranch and a long-time member of Western Writers of America and a current member for the Will Rogers Medallion Awards One of Bill's most recent books on the Legendary West Series is Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody: Plainsmen of the Legendary West was wildly successful. Bills love of history and travel were instilled in him as a young boy growing up on the family farm in Pennsylvania. Bill has been in the films Dances with Wolves, Son of the Morning Star, Far and Away, Gettysburg, and Crazy Horse. Bill's soon to be released book on Jim Bridger promises to take you to the next level. After two years of research his respect for him has grown. He accepted all people no matter who they were and only when they turned on him would he treat them as enemies. He tried to stay out of fights, but if one was unavoidable, he was in the forefront. He was like many of us, in love with the West.

Shea Whigham is an all-star actor with more credits to his name than we can mention. You may have seen him in Take Shelter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Boardwalk Empire, Lake George, The Righteous Gemstones, or Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning. Shea recently starred in the western miniseries American Primeval, alongside the incredible Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch. The miniseries was created and written by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg. You can stream it right now on NETFLIX. Shea joins Feeling Seen to talk about American Primeval, his character Jim Bridger, and Robert DuVall's performance as Mac Sledge in the 1983 drama Tender Mercies. Plus, words of wisdom by Meryl Streep and praise for the eternal talent of Ellen Barkin. Then Jordan honors the legacy of actress Michelle Tratchtenberg, who recently passed at the age of 39.  Feeling Seen is hosted by Jordan Crucchiola and is a production Maximum Fun. Need more Feeling Seen? Keep up with the show on Instagram and Bluesky.

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Was the outlaw Jesse James a cross-dresser? Probably not, but an interesting story claims he dressed as a young lady on at least one occasion. Also discussed is how Jesse earned his nickname (Dingus!), Jim Lane and the Osceola massacre, the Lawrence massacre, how to properly pronounce Glassgow, American Primeval, Jim Bridger, and whether or not the Missouri guerrillas were on team good guy or team bad guy. This episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app & use code WILDWEST Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles - https://www.worldofbooks.com/products/jesse-james-book-t-j-stiles-9780224069250 Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All you awesome people down here in Florida did it, you went out and voted and your voices were heard and we passed amendment 2 and have now secured the right to hunt and fish in the state's constitution! This week we are talking about music, frontiersmen, long hunters and American history with Andrew Scott Wills. Andrew is a singer songwriter who produces ballad style music under the name Hawken Horse, in my opinion his music falls in a genre of its own about mountain men, like Jim Bridger and the wild frontier, back when the frontier was modern day Kentucky. If you're wanting some music that will set the tone on the way to the woods, Hawken horse definitely has you covered.Win a Suppressor or Cash Value- https://uponation.co/products/hybrid-46-for-10can-1UPO Gear & Such- https://uponation.co/ UPO Social Media- https://linktr.ee/underpressureoutdoorsHazmore Outdoor Products- https://hazmore.net/Use Code UPO15 at checkout for 15% off your next order!HangFree- https://hangfree.co/ Use code UPO10 at checkout for 10% off your next order!Water Feather Boats- https://waterfeathers.com/ Find a Dealer Near YouBecome a Patron- https://www.patreon.com/user?u=45295718

The Fort Laramie radio show transports listeners back to the Wild West, immersing them in the captivating history and adventures that unfolded at this iconic frontier outpost. Hosted by a knowledgeable narrator, each episode delves into a different aspect of Fort Laramie's rich past, from its role as a vital trading hub and military stronghold to the gripping tales of Native American tribes and legendary frontiersmen who crossed its path. Listeners are transported to the bustling fort, where they can almost hear the creaking of wagon wheels and the laughter of soldiers around the campfire. Historical reenactors and experts bring the past to life, sharing insights into the daily routines, challenges, and triumphs of those who lived and worked at Fort Laramie. Through vivid storytelling and immersive sound effects, the show recreates thrilling moments from the fort's history, such as daring cavalry charges, tense negotiations with Native American leaders, and the arrival of iconic figures like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson. But the Fort Laramie radio show doesn't just focus on the larger-than-life characters and events; it also sheds light on the often-overlooked stories, highlighting the contributions of women, children, and Native Americans who played a crucial role in the fort's history. Listeners will learn about the challenges faced by soldiers and their families stationed at the remote outpost, as well as the complex relationships between the fort and the surrounding Native American tribes. The show also explores the fort's legacy, from its transformation into a national historic site to its continued significance as a symbol of the American frontier. With a mix of historical accuracy and captivating storytelling, the Fort Laramie radio show offers a unique and immersive experience that brings the Wild West to life and invites listeners to discover the rich tapestry of history that unfolded at this legendary frontier outpost. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dwight-allen0/support

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When it comes to the Old West, they don't get much more legendary than Kit Carson. Although soft-spoken and physically small, this larger-than-life mountain man would go on – during his own life – to become a national hero, and in death, he'd be immortalized in bronze. But who was Kit Carson? What sort of a man was he? What was his childhood like, and what events shaped him into the legend he'd become? Was Carson a courageous hero or a bloodthirsty killer and the living embodiment of manifest destiny? Or just somewhere in between? And just how short was he anyway? Also discussed are the Blackfeet, Jim Bridger, the Mountain Man rendezvous, and Carson's encounter with a giant known as the bully of the mountains. Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Carson's Autobiography - https://archive.org/details/kitcarsonsautobi0000cars/page/106/mode/2up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yellowstone National Park, established on March 1, 1872, holds the distinction of being the first national park in the world. Its creation marked a pivotal moment in the conservation movement, setting a precedent for the preservation of natural landscapes and wildlife for future generations. Historical Context and Founding Figures The journey towards the establishment of Yellowstone began in the early 19th century with the explorations of fur trappers and mountain men. John Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was among the first to report the geothermal wonders of the region, which were initially met with skepticism. Over the next few decades, more explorers ventured into the area, including Jim Bridger and Osborne Russell, who provided further accounts of its extraordinary features. The turning point came with the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition of 1870, led by Henry D. Washburn, Nathaniel P. Langford, and Gustavus C. Doane. Their detailed reports and captivating stories of the geothermal marvels, such as the geysers and hot springs, captured the public's imagination. Painter Thomas Moran and photographer William Henry Jackson accompanied the 1871 Hayden Geological Survey, led by Ferdinand V. Hayden, further documenting the stunning landscapes. Their artwork and photographs played a crucial role in convincing Congress of the need to protect this unique area. President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law on March 1, 1872, officially designating over two million acres as a public park. This monumental decision marked the birth of the national park system, emphasizing the importance of preserving natural wonders for the enjoyment of all people. Big Conservation Wins Yellowstone has witnessed numerous conservation successes since its establishment. One of the earliest and most significant victories was the protection of its geothermal features from commercial exploitation. Early advocates like Nathaniel P. Langford and Ferdinand V. Hayden recognized the need to prevent private interests from capitalizing on the park's natural resources. Their efforts ensured that these unique features remained intact for scientific study and public enjoyment. In the early 20th century, efforts to reintroduce and protect the park's wildlife gained momentum. The reintroduction of wolves in 1995 stands out as a landmark achievement. After being extirpated from the park in the early 20th century due to hunting and poisoning, wolves were reintroduced as part of a concerted effort to restore ecological balance. The return of this apex predator has had profound positive impacts on the park's ecosystem, demonstrating the importance of top-down regulation in maintaining biodiversity. Another notable conservation success is the restoration of the Yellowstone cutthroat trout population. This native species faced severe declines due to the introduction of non-native fish and habitat degradation. Through targeted conservation efforts, including habitat restoration and the removal of invasive species, the cutthroat trout population has rebounded, benefiting not only the fish but also the entire aquatic ecosystem. Wildlife of Yellowstone Yellowstone is renowned for its rich and diverse wildlife, offering a sanctuary for numerous iconic species. The park's varied habitats, from lush valleys to rugged mountains, support a wide array of animals, making it one of the best places in North America to observe wildlife in their natural environment. Mammals One of the most famous residents of Yellowstone is the American bison. The park is home to the largest free-roaming bison herd in the United States, a symbol of the American West. These majestic animals were once on the brink of extinction, but conservation efforts within the park have helped their numbers recover significantly. Grizzly bears are another highlight of Yellowstone's wildlife. The park is one of the few places in the contiguous United States where these magnificent predators can be found. Conservation measures, including habitat protection and human-wildlife conflict management, have been crucial in maintaining a stable grizzly bear population. Yellowstone also supports populations of elk, moose, and pronghorn antelope, each thriving in different areas of the park. These herbivores play vital roles in the ecosystem, influencing vegetation patterns and providing prey for predators like wolves and mountain lions. Birds The park is a haven for birdwatchers, with over 300 bird species recorded within its boundaries. Bald eagles and osprey are commonly seen around Yellowstone's lakes and rivers, symbolizing the park's healthy aquatic ecosystems. Additionally, trumpeter swans, one of North America's largest waterfowl, find refuge in Yellowstone's wetlands. Reptiles and Amphibians Yellowstone's diverse habitats also support a range of reptiles and amphibians. Species such as the western terrestrial garter snake and the boreal chorus frog are integral to the park's ecological web. Conservation efforts focused on maintaining clean water sources and protecting critical habitats have been vital for these lesser-known, yet equally important, creatures. Conclusion Yellowstone National Park stands as a testament to the vision and determination of early conservationists who recognized the need to protect this extraordinary landscape. Its establishment set a global precedent for the conservation movement, demonstrating the value of preserving natural wonders for future generations. Through ongoing conservation efforts, the park continues to be a sanctuary for diverse wildlife, offering a glimpse into the natural beauty and ecological complexity of the American West. As we look to the future, the lessons learned from Yellowstone's history and successes can guide our efforts to protect and preserve the world's natural heritage.

The story of the most famous mountain man that ever lived.

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whiskeynoobs   The most honest possible whiskey review: a blind tasting. In this episode, I walk through my honest thoughts about Jim Bridger Bourbon, and let me tell you, I was SHOCKED at the big reveal. This whiskey is far more unique than I realized, but what is it worth? You'll have to listen to find out!  

Congratulations to Mrs. Heyl from Jim Bridger Middle School for being named Mercedes in the Morning's February Teacher of the Month! Mrs. Heyl will receive a $150 Visa gift card courtesy of Findlay Chevrolet an additional $150 Visa gift card courtesy of Silver State Schools Credit Union PLUS a personalized Mercedes in the Morning Teacher of the Month plaque from H&J Trophies!

This week, we reach beyond our studios and bring you interviews from Wyoming PBS' "Wyoming Chronicle." We check in with an author who wrote a book about the history of Wyoming and its role in the American West. It partially focuses on Jim Bridger. And a Wyomingite has a unique talent. Jack Mease creates miniature versions of familiar, but much larger, objects.

They say Claude Dallas was the last of the Mountain Men; A modern-day cowboy and fur trapper just living life on his terms. A throwback to the Mountain Men like Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, and Kit Carson. The only thing was the authorities just wouldn't let Dallas be. First, it was the FBI, then the Bureau of Land Management, and finally, a pair of Game Wardens out of Idaho. Dallas had sworn he'd never be arrested again, and sure enough when the smoke cleared, both Game Wardens lay dead on the ground. For over the next year, Claude Dallas was the subject of a nationwide manhunt. He would be captured and sentenced to prison, but he escaped, causing yet another manhunt – this time making it on the FBI's top 10 most wanted. Believe it or not, Claude Dallas is still alive and free. Considered a hero to many – a living, walking, talking embodiment of the old motto, live free or die. But just how accurate are these sentiments? Is Claude Dallas truly a hero, a good man who refused to be victimized by an oppressive government, or just a criminal turned cold-blooded killer? And where is Claude Dallas now? This episode is dedicated to the memories of William Harlan Pogue, Wilson Conley Elms, and their families.  Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Give A Boy A Gun by Jack Olsen - https://www.amazon.com/Give-Boy-Gun-Disorder-American-ebook/dp/B014085Q2E Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d

Rib Hillis Actor Interview | The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger NOW on INSP Network Connect with us on our website for more amazing conversations! www.brettallanshow.com Got some feedback? Let us know! openmicguest@gmail.com Follow us on social media! IG / brettallanshow FB / thebrettallanshow Twitter / brettallanshow Consider giving us a kind rating and review on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... With a long-running career in the entertainment industry, Hillis has made a name for himself on the small screen. He is best known for his lead role as Hamilton in the Syfy films Piranhaconda and Sharktopus vs. Pteraconda. Hillis also became a fan-favorite with Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network viewers for his work on several TV movies including Secrets Beneath the Floorboards, Psycho Storm Chaser, My Sister's Serial Killer Boyfriend, The Wrong Man, The Wrong Mr. Right, as well as The Wrong Friend just to name a few.    He has also established himself as a true multi-hyphenate. Hillis wrote, produced, and starred in the action film Kill Shot which follows a group of terrorists posing as hunters who are in search of $100 million that was stolen and lost in a plane crash en route from Afghanistan. It is available digitally now and you can watch the trailer here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They say Claude Dallas was the last of the Mountain Men, a modern-day cowboy and fur trapper just living life on his terms and a throwback to the Mountain Men like Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, and Kit Carson. The only thing was, the authorities just wouldn't let Dallas be. First, it was the FBI, then the Bureau of Land Management, and finally, a pair of Game Wardens out of Idaho. Dallas had sworn he'd never be arrested again, and sure enough when the smoke cleared, both Game Wardens lay dead on the ground. For over the next year, Claude Dallas was the subject of a nationwide manhunt. He would be captured and sentenced to prison, but he escaped, causing yet another manhunt – this time making it on the FBI's top 10 most wanted. Believe it or not, Claude Dallas is still alive and free and considered a hero to many – a living, walking, talking embodiment of the old motto: live free or die. But just how accurate are these sentiments? Is Claude Dallas truly a hero, a good man who refused to be victimized by an oppressive government, or just a criminal turned cold blooded killer? This episode is dedicated to the memories of William Harlan Pogue and Wilson Conley Elms and their families.  Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Give A Boy A Gun by Jack Olsen - https://www.amazon.com/Give-Boy-Gun-Disorder-American-ebook/dp/B014085Q2E   Listen to Part 2 in the Claude Dallas saga - https://intohistory.com/wildwestextra/   Looking for the John Wesley Hardin series? Start here - https://www.wildwestextra.com/john-wesley-hardin-first-blood/   Looking for the Jim Bridger series? Start here - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-ashleys-100/   Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/   Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/   Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza   Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d

Special Wednesday episode--second of three this week--of the program all about TV. Our guests: Paul Epstein and Rib Hillis, executive producer and star respectively of The Tall Tales Of Jim Bridges, the new Western scripted series launching tomorrow night on INSP.

Join me in a discussion with actor Rib Hillis and producer Paul Epstein as we discuss the upcoming premiere of INSP's The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger! As a fur trapper, legendary mountain man Jim Bridger explored the entire distant West and survived countless hair-raising adventures. Now, he's a respected trail guide and army scout who knows every river, mountain, and trail of the frontier. As a new generation of settlers, soldiers, and speculators crowd the Bozeman Trail, Bridger's hard-won wisdom is more valuable than ever, even if his famous tall tales sound more like fiction than fact. But the West is still a perilous place, and with danger just around every bend, the greenhorns heading west quickly realize they need Bridger's guidance for much more than the trail. Rib Hillis is an accomplished actor, host, producer, and model known for his work across primetime television, non-scripted reality television, and films spanning multiple genres. Hillis has worked on many notable titles, such as Ugly Betty, Two and a Half Men, and CSI, and has even showcased his talent as a designer on the Emmy-winning ABC show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. His most recent venture is INSP's The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger, in which he plays the titular legend, Jim Bridger himself. Paul Epstein is an Emmy-nominated producer, writer, and director known for his work across scripted, factual, and news television. Epstein has worked with many major TV networks and streamers, including Peacock, Discovery, and MSNBC, and has amassed approximately 40 credits across his 20-year-long career. He has worked on titles such as the true-crime documentary series Who Killed Robert Wone? and the factual drama series Into the Wild Frontier, the most-watched TV series on INSP in 2021. Most recently, Paul directed The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger, a historical drama series due to premiere on INSP on January 11th, 2024.   The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger - https://www.insp.com/shows/tall-tales-of-jim-bridger/   Learn more about Jim Bridger here - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-ashleys-100/   Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/   Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/   Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza   Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d

The Donner-Reed caravan passes the halfway point of its journey to California, and now the real problems begin. After meeting legendary mountain man, Jim Bridger, the caravan chooses to take an unproven road across central Utah. They believe it is a shortcut which will save them hundreds of miles. It turns out to be a disaster, and the trip across the Great Salt Lake Desert leads to a heartbreaking decision. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We're @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this edition of Channeling History we speak with the spirits of three of the greatest American frontiersmen, Daniel Boone, Jim Bridger and Kit Carson. These three individuals helped with the exploration and settlement of the western United States. We discuss many subjects, including the treatment of Native Americans. Please tell your friends about our show.

The guys are back with an interesting Proof Positive this week! This whiskey has an interesting tale along with the distillery located in Bozeman, Montana. During the 1800's, many ventured West in search of a new frontier. Exploring unchartered lands, they learned to survive by hook and crook. Hunting, trapping, and learning to farm in harsh, dry conditions. Finding fertile valleys to settle. Whiskey was sure to have been passed around the campfire, poured over wounds, and traded for goods. This whiskey was made to pay homage to the frontiersman who lost their lives and the few that survived. Many of their names garner rivers, mountain ranges, and towns throughout the west. About the Distillery: The award-winning Bozeman Spirits Distillery is located in Historic Downtown Bozeman Montana. The Distillery produces Whiskey, Vodka, Gin & Rum with all of the spirits distilled and bottled on site. They are proud supporters of Montana Family Farms & Agriculture by using as many local grains as possible.  The business prides itself on its Montana roots. Bozeman Spirits Distillery uses two stills in the production area. An Artisan 300 Gallon Traditional Copper Pot Still with a 4 plate and 16 plate column, and an Arnold Holstein Copper Pot Still with a 4-plate column. From Mountain Top to Bar Top….Just south of Bozeman lies the Gallatin Mountain range. With several drainages that emerge from the snowcapped peaks, water meanders its way into the valley and eventually into your glass.

Born into slavery, once free he headed west. He joined the Rocky Mountain Fur Company along with Hugh Glass and Jim Bridger. He married a Crow woman and lived with the Crow band for several years. He was in California for the gold rush, blazed trails across the Rockies and Sierra Nevada's. He achieved as much or more than his white counterparts and is now being recognized for his accomplishments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gold was discovered in Montana in 1862, ushering in a flood of prospectors straight through the heart of Lakota territory on a new road called the Bozeman trail, further straining tensions between settlers and Natives. Jim Bridger opened up his “Bridger's Trail”, a much safer – and popular - alternative but the powers that be were dead set on erecting forts on the Bozeman. Violence erupted across the Great Plains as the Lakota, Arapaho, and Cheyenne took to the war path, vowing to drive the whites from their land forever. These new tensions saw Bridger return to military duty once again, first guiding the Army during the Powder River campaign and again as he led Colonel Carrington to the Bighorn country and establishing Fort Phil Kearny. Jim Bridger, now in his sixties, was still riding the prairie, rifle across the saddle, and still blazing new trails.   This is episode five and the last installment in this series on Jim Bridger. Links below for the previous four.  In this episode we're going to explore the Powder River Campaign, the Fetterman Massacre, Jim's eventual retirement and death, and a quick look at the massive change that occurred during Bridger's lifetime.   Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/   Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra   Hundred Proof History – https://hundredproofhistory.com/   Jim Bridger Pt 1 | Ashley's 100 - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-ashleys-100/   Jim Bridger Pt 2 | Bugs Boys - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-bugs-boys/   Jim Bridger Pt 3 | Mormons - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-mormons/   Jim Bridger Pt 4 | The Guide - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-the-guide/   Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West | Jerry Enzler - https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Bridger-Trailblazer-American-West/dp/080619197X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39712IOHTJVTB&keywords=jim+bridger+jerry+enzler&qid=1675001445&s=books&sprefix=jim+bridger+jerry%2Cstripbooks%2C120&sr=1-1   Listen to Texas History Lessons for Texas History! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/

In the 1850s, Jim Bridger put his extensive knowledge of the West to use by guiding wealthy adventurers, geological surveyors, and the U.S. military. Then, in 1862, the discovery of gold in Montana sparked yet another gold rush, leading thousands of prospectors to illegally trespass on Lakota and Cheyenne land via the Bozeman trail, resulting in violence. The Army intervened and hired Bridger once again as their guide. Additionally covered in this episode is the Mountain Meadows massacre, the Utah War, and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851.   This is part four in the Jim Bridger series. Links for the previous three installments below.   Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west! https://www.wildwestextra.com/     Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/     Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest     Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/     Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra     Jim Bridger Pt 1 | Ashley's 100 - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-ashleys-100/     Jim Bridger Pt 2 | Bugs Boys - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-bugs-boys/     Jim Bridger Pt 3 | Mormons - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-mormons/     Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West | Jerry Enzler - https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Bridger-Trailblazer-American-West/dp/080619197X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39712IOHTJVTB&keywords=jim+bridger+jerry+enzler&qid=1675001445&s=books&sprefix=jim+bridger+jerry%2Cstripbooks%2C120&sr=1-1     To Be a Rebel | David Loos https://open.spotify.com/show/3MB010NPTevGamVDMF4kqW     Listen to Texas History Lessons for Texas History! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/

This is part 3 in the series on Jim Bridger. For the previous 2 installments see links below. Fur trading no longer lucrative, Jim Bridger and a business partner decide to open up a trading post of their own, dubbing it Fort Bridger. Wasn't long before Jim began doing brisk business, both to travelers along the Oregon Trail and those brave enough to try their luck on the Hasting's Cutoff; migrants like the ill-fated Donner Party. Bad luck aside, Bridger's fort – and his Green River ferry – did so well financially that his new neighbors, the daggum Mormons, decided to take it from him. By force! Also discussed in this episode: Magic underwear, Sister wives, the Whitman Massacre, Joseph Meek, Henry Fraeb, and Louis Vasquez!     Jim Bridger Pt 1 | Ashley's 100 - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-ashleys-100/     Jim Bridger Pt 2 | Bugs Boys - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-bugs-boys/     Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west! https://www.wildwestextra.com/     Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/     Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest     Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/     Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra     Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West | Jerry Enzler - https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Bridger-Trailblazer-American-West/dp/080619197X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39712IOHTJVTB&keywords=jim+bridger+jerry+enzler&qid=1675001445&s=books&sprefix=jim+bridger+jerry%2Cstripbooks%2C120&sr=1-1     Whitman Massacre Pt 1 | How the West Was Fucked – https://open.spotify.com/episode/2avEWulV7wwe5LRnDaaoy5     Whitman Massacre Pt 2 | How the West Was Fucked – https://open.spotify.com/episode/29TFAPU6WBYF18VgiwFWyQ     Jim Bridger (Just kidding, please listen to this!) | How the West Was Fucked - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6c5v7MdIJemcr7Jir2hCYB     Jim Bridger & Brigham Young | Jerry Enzler Q&A - https://www.fromthedesk.org/jim-bridger-brigham-young/     Listen to Texas History Lessons for Texas History! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/

Some of the richest beaver country was in the heart of territory claimed by the Blackfeet Confederacy; a tribe known to the fur trappers as Bug's Boys, or the Sons of Satan. Needless to say there was no love lost between the American trappers and the Blackfeet, and violence became a given any time the two groups would meet with mercy rarely extended by either side. Nevertheless, the mountain men – piloted by Jim Bridger - persisted season after season, staking their fortunes and lives on Blackfeet Beaver. This is part 2 in the Jim Bridger series. Link below for part 1.   Jim Bridger Pt 1 | Ashley's 100 - https://www.wildwestextra.com/jim-bridger-ashleys-100/   Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west! https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/   Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra   Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West | Jerry Enzler - https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Bridger-Trailblazer-American-West/dp/080619197X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39712IOHTJVTB&keywords=jim+bridger+jerry+enzler&qid=1675001445&s=books&sprefix=jim+bridger+jerry%2Cstripbooks%2C120&sr=1-1   Eagles Ribs - https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/peh-pe-kiss-eagles-ribs-piegan-chief-4044   Trapped in History Wyoming Beaver | MeatEater - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9c6Rwj_IgQ   Kit vs Goliath | The Wild West Extravaganza - https://open.spotify.com/episode/72FelJNKF8ETYNqm4F80vb     Listen to Texas History Lessons for Texas History! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/  

Blind and goitered, Jim spent his last years led by a see eye dog on his horse on his farm in Westport. But if the Army listened to him, the Red Cloud War could've been avoided. A lot could've been avoided if people just listened to him. #howthewestwasfucked #htwwf #americanhistory #oldwest #wildwest #bridger #westportkansas #fettermanmassacre #goiter

Jim Bridger would join the ranks of Ashley's One Hundred while still a teenager and - alongside other future old west legends like Hugh Glass, Jedediah Smith, and James Beckwourth - head up the Missouri river in search of beaver. From present day northern Montana all the way down to the Gulf of California, from the Mississippi on west to the Pacific Ocean, the iconic Mountain Man Bridger saw it all; discovering and blazing trails that still bear his name to this day while at the same time facing off with some of the deadliest warriors who ever strung a bow. This is the first episode in a series of five, discussing Jim Bridger's childhood, his time as a fur trapper with Ashley's Rocky Mountain Fur Company, his possible involvment in the Hugh Glass affair (the Revenant) and his "discovery" of the Great Salt Lake.   Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west! https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/   Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra   Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West | Jerry Enzler - https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Bridger-Trailblazer-American-West/dp/080619197X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39712IOHTJVTB&keywords=jim+bridger+jerry+enzler&qid=1675001445&s=books&sprefix=jim+bridger+jerry%2Cstripbooks%2C120&sr=1-1   Hugh Glass | The Wild West Extravaganza - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1bICSRkDkPkKVVF5KUpJmE   To Be A Rebel | David Loos - https://open.spotify.com/show/3MB010NPTevGamVDMF4kqW   Listen to Texas History Lessons for Texas History! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/

From beaver man to fort running man to get your fort stole by mormons man to guiding for murderous royalty man, Jim Bridger kept on truckin'. T-Shirts by How the West was Fucked Podcast | TeePublic #howthewestwasfucked #htwwf #americanhistory #oldwest #wildwest #fortbridgerwyoming #mormonwar #bridgerbowl

The grandaddy of all mountain men, if it involved beaver Jim was probably there. Throw in some Mormon Wars and Fetterman Massacres and you got yourself a mountain man legend. T-Shirts by How the West was Fucked Podcast | TeePublic #howthewestwasfucked #htwwf #americanhistory #oldwest #wildwest #mountainman #bridger #mikefink #baptismbywhiskey

Between the fur trade and prospecting eras is a brief period of missionary and military exploration which advanced the general knowledge of the Yellowstone region. maps and writings these explorers became the means of preserving important residual and accurate geographical information amassed by the men of the fur trade. Jim Bridger provided most of the information set on paper. The Bridger map is essentially a hydrographic sketch of amazing accuracy.   The Park's Early Years  The park's promoters envisioned Yellowstone National Park would exist at no expense to the government. Superintendents received little or no compensation, little help, and often succumbed to politics. Although they were able to build roads, trails, and struc­tures, they failed to stop the destruction of wildlife. Poachers, squatters, woodcutters, and vandals ravaged Yellowstone.  The Army Arrives  On August 20, 1886, the U.S. Army took charge of the administration and protection of Yellowstone. The Army strengthened and enforced regulations, guarded major attractions, and patrolled the vast interior of the park. However, running a park was not the Army's usual line of work. The troops could protect the park and ensure access, but they could not fully satisfy the visitor's desire for knowledge. Moreover, each of the 14 other national parks established during this period was separately administered, resulting in uneven management, inefficiency, and a lack of direction.  The National Park Service Begins  In 1916, Congress passed the National Park Service Organic Act, creating the National Park Service. Yellowstone's first rangers, which included veterans of Army service in the park, became responsible for Yellowstone in 1918. The park's first superintendent under the new National Park Service was Horace M. Albright, who established a framework of management that guided the administration of Yellowstone for decades.  The Legacy of Yellowstone  The years have shown that the legacy of those who worked to establish Yellowstone National Park in 1872 was far greater than simply preserving a unique landscape. This one act has led to a lasting concept—the national park idea. This idea conceived wilder­ness to be the inheritance of all people, who gain more from an experience in nature than from private exploitation of the land. Scores of nations have preserved areas of natural beauty and historical worth so that all people will have the opportunity to reflect on their natural and cultural heritage and to return to nature and be spiritually reborn. Of all the benefits resulting from the establishment of Yellowstone National Park, this may be the greatest.  Courtesy of http://www.yellowstonenationalpark.org/blog/yellowstone-history/    About our Wyoming historian and narrative from Jeremy Johnston:  Growing up in Wyoming  Jeremy M. Johnston was born in Powell, Wyoming. He was fortunate to be raised near his paternal and maternal grandparents, as well as two great-grandmothers who resided in Cody, Wyoming, and a great-grandfather who lived in Arizona. Johnston's maternal grandparents, the Bevers, homesteaded on the Garland Division of the Shoshone Irrigation district in 1913. His paternal grandparents, the Johnston and Spaulding families, settled near Cody, Wyoming, in the late 1890s. His great-great-grandfather was John B. Goff, a hunting guide for Theodore Roosevelt in Colorado who later managed Buffalo Bill's Wapiti stage stop located on the Cody to Yellowstone road. As a young boy, Johnston listened to numerous stories about his family's past experiences and began to see how their past experiences tied him to Wyoming and how the history of the region shaped current sociopolitical issues and the culture of the State of Wyoming. This experience led him to become a professional historian.  For More Information  Indians of Yellowstone Park, revised edition, 2002. Joel C. Janetski Journal of a Trapper, 1997. Osborne Russell Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park, 2003. Paul Schullery and Lee H. Whittlesey Restoring a Presence: American Indians in Yellowstone National Park, 2004. Peter Nabokov and Larry Loendorf Yellowstone Resources & Issues, (annual). Yellowstone National Park staff The Yellowstone Story, 2 vols., 1996. Aubrey L. Haines www.nps.gov/yell www.cr.nps.gov  References  This post incorporates text from:  Yellowstone – A Brief History of the Park, 2006 www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/upload/Yell257.pdf 

• @SamMcConkie joins the show to discuss the Rifle Rivalry game between USU and Wyoming • We discussed how the key performers gave the Aggies a shot in the game and how injuries set them back • We finished with a look at the Mountain West standings and reset expectations for the Aggies going into the BYE week --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehivesports/support

The Bridger Wilderness just south of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming was designated in 1964 and memorializes the famous Jim Bridger. This Wilderness lies within the Wind River Mountains and offers 428,000 acres and over 600 miles of trails for the adventurous of spirit to explore over a lifetime. Extending 80 miles along the Continental Divide and holding the headwaters of the Green River, Bridger Wilderness is home to 7 out of 10 of the world's largest glaciers, hundreds of high alpine lakes, glacial cirques and wide sweeping valleys. The wilderness area gets millions of visitors each year. The following are actual responses from comment cards given to the staff members from actual visitors to Bridger:1. Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.2. Too many bugs and spider webs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.3. Please pave the trails to make hiking easier.4. The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake.5. A small deer came into my camp and stole my jar of pickles. Is there a way I can get reimbursed?6. Too many rocks in the mountains.These comments and complaints indicate that the people who made them do not really understand what it means to stay in a "wilderness area." They were looking for something convenient and comfortable, but not truly a wilderness experience.In a similar way, many people today do not understand what it means to be a genuine Christian. There are so many people throughout history that have responded to the Gospel of Jesus and have made a decision to trust Him as their savior. Some are fervent and fully immersed in their followership; but some who claim to be Christian seem to have made that decision on THEIR terms, rather than on His.

Money was no object when Sir George Gore hired Bridger for a hunting expedition. It took forty men, 112 horses and 6 wagons to carry his gear. He shot forty bear, 2500 buffalo and many elk, deer, antelope and other small game. Unfortunately, he wasted the meat and pelts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He was king of the mountain men in a time when only the strongest and bravest challenged the mountains and survived!

Hosts Rand McNally, Jim Bridger, Dixon Cider, and Anita Bath (aka "Mumbles") are here to slip you the old Baker's Dozen! These erudite and dashing gentlemen (and Anita) will guide you on a random geographical American adventure.Dot get too excited. They skip Alabama. And Wisconsin (repeatedly).For a change of pace, the topic doesn't include gambling on the cost of human life. Instead, letters are randomly chosen, and Mr. McNally reads a story from a state which starts with the chosen letter. Oh, there's extra bad language.#accident #blackhumor #comedy #confinedspace #crude #freebie #futuresoninlaw #industrialaccident #osha #schadenfreude #tasteless #vulgar

Dave and Stephanie recap the main news events in Sweetwater County, WY from this week. Tune in every Friday for the latest news!

William Ashley formed the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. In 1822 he hired Jed Smith, Jim Bridger, Tom Fitzpatrick, Hugh Glass and the Sublette brothers. He organized the first rendezvous at Henry's Fork on the Green River, each year moving to other locations, Fort Hall, Pierre's Hole, Jackson Hole and others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Sam tells us about the wild life of Jim Bridger and Bryan takes us into a deep dive of Ted the Caver. Lets us know what you think. We love you! Follow the Chuddlers on social media!   Chuddle the Pod Twitter @chuddlethepod IG @chuddlethepod  Bryan Twitter @chuddlethebryan IG @chuddlethebryan Sam Twitter @chuddlethesam  IG @chuddlethesam Ross IG @chuddletheross   Email: chuddlethepod@gmail.com

Jim Clyman is a name that continually pops up in every book I've read on mountain men and fur trappers, but who was he? Veteran of the war of 1812, General Ashley's 1824 Expedition, & the Blackhawk War, Jim Clyman was friend and contemporary to men like Hugh Glass, Jedediah Smith, Broken Hand Fitzpatrick and Jim Bridger. At various times a trapper, surveyor, soldier, businessman, and wagon guide, Jim Clyman lived one helluva life and had his fair share of close encounters of the historical kind! LISTEN TO THE END FOR A SPECIAL UPDATE!!!! Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Contact me! Wildwestextra@gmail.com https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Subscribe or follow The Wild West Extravaganza WHEREVER you consumer audio! https://www.wildwestextra.com/follow/ Merchandise now available! https://wild-west-extravaganza.myshopify.com/ Listen to my friends at Obscure History and Texas History Lessons!!!! https://open.spotify.com/show/7gpVCWNeSxwDpZGWdEMvsl  https://www.texashistorylessons.com/ Journal of a Mountain Man by Win Blevins https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Mountain-Man-Clymans-Adventures/dp/069220380X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=jim+clyman&qid=1634536857&sr=8-2 How the Donner Party was Doomed by a Disastrous Shortcut https://www.history.com/news/donner-party-route-cannibalism

011 WESTERN WORDS  "Hawken Rifle History" audio podcast by award-winning western author Stephen Bly. Sponsored by BlyBooks.com Legacy Series. Legendary Old West weapons tell a story. The Hawken Percussion Rifle was uncomplicated and strong. We need a spiritual weapon like that. Read about it at this Bly Books blog:  https://www.blybooks.com/2021/08/hawken-rifle-history/ Sign Up on BlyBooks.com on blog page to receive RSS feed by email for podcast blog notices. Related blog article with podcast embed will arrive every Tuesday and Thursday. Look to the right of the LINK PAGE for “Subscribe to the Blog via Email” and “Enter your email address”.Would greatly appreciate if you a) SUBSCRIBE to the podcast, b) RATE the podcast, c) REVIEW the podcast.Music by WinkingFoxMusic from Pixabay

011 WESTERN WORDS  "Hawken Rifle History" audio podcast by award-winning western author Stephen Bly. Sponsored by BlyBooks.com Legacy Series. Legendary Old West weapons tell a story. The Hawken Percussion Rifle was uncomplicated and strong. We need a spiritual weapon like that. Read about it at this Bly Books blog:  https://www.blybooks.com/2021/08/hawken-rifle-history/ Sign Up on BlyBooks.com on blog page to receive RSS feed by email for podcast blog notices. Related blog article with podcast embed will arrive every Tuesday and Thursday. Look to the right of the LINK PAGE for “Subscribe to the Blog via Email” and “Enter your email address”.Would greatly appreciate if you a) SUBSCRIBE to the podcast, b) RATE the podcast, c) REVIEW the podcast.Music by WinkingFoxMusic from Pixabay

Jerry Enzler might just be the best living expert on the famous mountain man, Jim Bridger, and his exploits as a trapper and explorer. Today, we become experts of the expert, as Jerry takes us through his early life and onward to the eventual obsession with the famed adventurer. Thank you for your time, Jerry! Jerry also served as founding director of the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium for thirty-seven years. He has written and curated national exhibitions and films and has published historical articles on Jim Bridger, river history, and other topics.

In which Matt tells the story of Jim Bridger, the quintessential mountain guide and navigator extraordinaire, Phil imagines our B-Sider as a wilderness Instagram influencer, and we discuss the excitement of a road trip across Iowa and Kansas. You can support or become a member of History's B-Side here: https://historysbside.com/support

Former trappers became scouts for the explorers, missionaries, surveyors, the army and wagon trains. Many were pathfinders who opened up the West, men like Jim Beckworth, Jim Baker, Jim Bridger, Tom Tobin and Kit Carson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ep #70 / Mar 17th / Jim Bridger / St. Patrick's Day ParadeShow Summary: ·       Recent Event ·       Jim Bridger - 1804·       St. Patrick's Day Parade - 1601·       Interesting FactSchedule:·       Monday – Friday Social Media Links:·       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourdailyhistorypodcast·       Buzzsprout: https://ourdailyhistory.buzzsprout.com/Resources: ·       Music by JuliusH from Pixabay +·       https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jim-bridger-born·       https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-st-patricks-day-parade·       https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-16/discovery-new-dead-sea-scrolls-biblical-text   Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ourdailyhistory)

This week! Uncle Mark finds a route to the White House with Manly P. Hall, Uncle Dan thinks you're ignoring the 2nd Commandment with political idolatry, and Uncle Doug introduces us to the man who stopped the Mormons with Jim Bridger.

Liver Eating Johnson was blood kin to the grizzly that bit Jim Bridger’s ass and YOU are molesting my podcast! The man known to some as the Crow Killer was many things. Fur trapper, scout, "Indian fighter", a guide, a hunter, a soldier, possibly a cannibal and ALWAYS larger than life! Whole lotta tall tales surrounding this giant of a man so please join me as we attempt to separate truth from fiction on this newest "Elk don’t know how many legs a horse got! Watch your top knot, yep, you watch yourn" episode of Bloody Beaver Podcast! Please subscribe and stay tuned for PART 2! COMING SOON!!!! Check out my website for more true stories from the wild and wooly west! The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson by D.J. Herda Crow Killer, New Edition: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson, by Thorpe, Bunker, & Bender Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher Liver-Eating Johnson: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Mountain Man, by Charles Rivers Editors The Avenging Fury of the Plains, by Dennis J. McLelland I Buried Hickok: The Memoirs of White Eye Anderson, by Joseph F. Anderson My Life as an Indian, by James W. Schultz My Sixty Years on the Plains, by W.T. Hamilton

This Week in History we are looking at the Mountain man Jim Bridger and his life and how he shaped the America we know and love today.

Legendárních "Mountain Men", česky horalů, bylo víc: možná jste zaslechli jména jako Jim Bridger, Kit Carson nebo Jedediah Smith. Já jsem se ale rozhodl, že Vám drsnou realitu života těchto prvních bílých dobyvatel Skalnatých hor přiblížím na příkladu osobnosti Johna Coltera. A konkrétně příběhu o tom, jak mu rychlý běh zachránil holý život.

Jim Bridger was a mountain man, trapper, trader, and map maker. He lived an extraordinary life filled with adventure.

Steven Rinella talks with Michael Punke and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: Expressing dissatisfaction with "The Revenant" movie; the Madison buffalo jump looking like it did 200 years ago; dressing up in an 1876 cavalry uniform; the challenge of giving someone else’s perspective; maiming corpses after the Fetterman Fight; carving an arrowhead out of Jim Bridger's shoulder; mountain man Hugh Glass and whether or not he blew himself up by touching a spark to a powder keg; watching an oxen turn into a bullion cube; history being so great that you don't need to make up stuff to tell a good story; how it’s so wrong to substitute high plains for rain forest; the George Bird Grinnell story as the birth of the American conservation movement; the ethic of self restraint; and more.   Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instagram and Twitter MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

History Riders Radio Podcast HRR 2920 for Week 29 of 2020 – Saturday 07/11020 to Friday 07/17/2020. History Riders, ride this Week’s Memory Trail with Doc Boyle to discover an event from Western History for each day of the week; all rounded up from the pages of Old West Daily Reader. Subjects Include: Striking Miners; Fountain Murders; Windy Well Shootout; John Ringo; Pike Expedition; James Gang; Sternwheeler Warrior; Jim Bridger. (00:06:50)Please leave a FaceBook “Like” and share our link with a friend. Thanks for the visit! - oldwestdailyreader.comSupport the show (http://oldwestdailyreader.com)Support the show (http://oldwestdailyreader.com)

Lee and Daniel cover some big-time early silent westerns this time out, both focused on events that helped build America and the mythology that arose around it. These two films - the top earners at the box office for their respective years - re-energised and also influenced the entire western genre to come afterwards. This time it's "The Covered Wagon" (1923) & "The Iron Horse" (1924). Topics include white-washed imperialism; whites playing Chinese and Chinese playing Native Americans; Cowboy Judd Hirsch; eye-gouging (or a lack thereof); the real life Jim Bridger, and our fictional take we want to sell to the Coen brothers; and how we've decided to just end TMBDOS! and start a podcast about the tv sitcom "Wings" (not really though, so don't worry). Things in our Facebook group and what Daniel has watched recently are also covered. "The Covered Wagon" IMDB "The Iron Horse" IMDB Featured Music: "Wagon Train" by Carter Burwell; "Mile Long Train" by Jimmy Dean; "Railroad Blues" by Woodie Guthrie; and "Midnight Special" by Lead Belly.

Poddens miniserie om västern fortsätter! Avsnittet kommer att handla om Pälsjägare, kolonin Astoria, legendarer som Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith och Old Bill, Oregon trail, Santa Fe handeln, Davy Crockett, The Great Pathfinder Frémont, Donnergruppens mardrömsresa, dricka APA och att fullborda kontinentala USA. Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten! Ge den gärna betyg på iTunes! Följ podden på Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret) eller Instagram (@stjarnbaneret) Kontakta oss på: stjarnbaneret@gmail.com

A hundred miles in any direction made Jackson Hole the ideal place for a rendezvous where furs and supplies could be traded. Jim Bridger, John Colter, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jedediah Smith, William Sublett are among the great explorers and trappers who spent time in Jackson Hole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt has an interesting conversation with an interesting man. The 1st man to play music at the NFR and PBR finals, a mountain man, and a friend to many. Curt Blake

Matt has an interesting conversation with an interesting man. The 1st man to play music at the NFR and PBR finals, a mountain man, and a friend to many. Curt Blake

Liz introduces Devon to Sir St. George Gore, the guy who defined overkill for Montana. Many animals die in the story of this episode! Secondary topics: Dundreary whiskers; Jim Bridger; Hugh Glass; how the Sasquatch survived.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouijabroads.com/ Shop Weird: https://ouijabroads.com/shopweird/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OuijaBroads/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/theouijabroads/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theouijabroads/

Born the same year the Lewis and Clark expedition began, Jim Bridger would carry on and expand on their exploration into the mid-19th century.

Welcome to episode #110.  We discuss women in history with Bessie Colman who is not only one of the first female pilots but also the first black (afro-american) pilot and appears on Scotts #2956 (Minute marker 11).  We also discuss the odd tale of Jim Bridger from the Legends of the West sheet as well as Jerimiah Johnston (18 minute marker).  We also answer a question from one of our listeners on what the difference between Printers Waste and a true Error (minute marker 27).

Subjects discussed: the untouchedness of certain animals; hunting hats, radical lefty hats, and hats that say hello before you do; making smoked bear hams; the fishy taste of coastal bears; beaver tasting notes; Chris Gil's grey rabbit meat; Chupik eskimo and seal oil; the mountain man era; what would happen at the mountain man rendezvous; company trappers vs. free trappers; today's equivalent of a mountain man; why Janis is done promoting squirrel hunting; beaver tail belt buckles and eel skin wallets; the richest man in America; Daniel Boone, Jim Bridger, Laramie, Jed Smith, John Colter, Hugh Glass, Jed Smith, and more badasses.

A breed apart, scouts were essential to the military. Seiber, like Kit Carson and Jim Bridger, spent years guiding in the old west. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Captured by Indians, he tricked the chief into a standoff with Jim Bridger and his mountain men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At age 56 he was considered the greatest scout in the West. He also told some tall tales around the campfire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ketchum, Idaho. After a day of flyfishing for cutthroat trout, Steven Rinella talks with Kenton Carruth and Ryan Callaghan from First Lite, along with Janis Putelis and Helen Cho from the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed include: killer instincts; the suicide of Ernest Hemingway; catch-and-release vs. catch-and-eat; acquiring a strong sense of grrrrr; fish physiology; Danny Rinella's adipose nipple; an exotic Japanese way of dispatching fish; the conundrum of wanting to fish for threatened or endangered species; the mountain man Jim Bridger; and whether or not flyfishermen are total pansies. Related links/notes: Smell Us Now, Lady! Books: The Old Man and The Sea + Hemingway's Guns First Lite MeatEater television show on Sportsman Channel Instantly Download MeatEater TV Episodes- Listen to the episode for the coupon code. Western Hunter Magazine Ike Jime technique First Lite Fusion Camo Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Guests: Kenton Carruth twitter.com/firstlitewool firstlite.com Ryan Callaghan twitter.com/olCal406 firstlite.com Janis Putelis twitter.com/LatvianHuntr Helen Cho twitter.com/HelenCho Originally Recorded August 2014 ++++++++++++++ If you’re enjoying the podcast, please leave us a review on iTunes. The MeatEater Podcast is available on: -iTunes -Stitcher -YouTube -Soundcloud

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There was competition between fur trappers, until it came to fighting Indians. Struck in the head and with two arrows in his back, Jim Bridger survived the battle, but carried an arrow head in his back for three years. He was one of the greatest explorers and trappers, a legend in his own time. One of the most important scouts and guides in the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mountain man, trapper, Hugh Glass was attacked by a grizzly bear. Abandoned, left for dead, revenge drove him to survive to kill Jim Bridger. Part of Bridger's life he would like to forget. Bridger was legend, a scout, guide, explorer, one of the most important men in shaping the old west. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So we come now to my final sermon in Colossians. And we are looking at Paul's list of his friends, his fellow workers. And as I was thinking about this, I was just thinking about the partnership we're all in, in the Gospel. As you enter the World Showcase section of Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. The centermost pavilion is dedicated to the American experience. And if you walk in there, you're going to see 12 statues dedicated to what they call the 12 spirits of America. Makes you a little eerie actually. But as you walk through you wonder, “What are the spirits of America?” And they list them and they'd be familiar words like innovation, compassion, discovery, freedom, etcetera. But there are going to be a couple of them that you may look at with a different kind of eye. Trained by the Gospel. A statue known as independence. Another statue known as self-reliance. And another statue entitled individualism. That brings me to one of those great myths of American history, the myth of rugged individualism. You know it well, America was built on the back of the rugged individualist who left behind his family and his friends in continental Europe or wherever he came from and sailed across an ocean and made his own way in this life. We have these icons in front of us like the trail blazer and hunter, Daniel Boone, who spent most of his adult life alone, exploring the western frontier, leaves his wife and his children, and goes out to find new ways, the Cumberland Pass or something like that and going hunting and trapping. Interesting guy. He said, "I've never been lost, but I will admit to having been confused for several weeks." So I can relate to that. But he never admitted to being lost. He always knew where he was, but he was a rugged individualist. He was alone out there in that frontier. Or later on, like “Mountain Man,” Jim Bridger, who was the first white man to see the Great Salt Lake. He was a trapper, a trader, a guide, a merchant, Indian interpreter. All of these things, did most of it alone. You picture him with two horses, his pack mule and just going through the Rockies or the High Sierra all by himself, the rugged individualist. Or even the homesteaders who were in families but they were separated by a couple of days ride from the next homesteader. And they really made it alone. They were alone, a small family in the Nebraska prairie facing wild beasts, and Indian attacks, and prairie fires, and drought, and all kinds of things alone, making it alone. Or the cattle rancher of Texas. And that's what the statue of the 12 spirits at Epcot Center was. It was the rugged cattleman like John Wayne. He's got some equipment in one hand that says individualism and there he is. The guy who rides the fences for days on end by himself. Rugged individualism. It's just part of the way we think of ourselves, our natural culture. Personal freedom, wide open spaces. Solitary trial faced alone and conquered alone and celebrated alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the original champion of individualism in America. Spent considerable time alone in Walden, Massachusetts. In a famous Phi Beta Kappa addressed in 1837 he shared what he'd learned about life. This is what he said, "I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man. Help comes from our own bosom alone." Emerson later wrote a famous essay called "Self-Reliance" celebrating this theme. He carried it to its logical extreme, rejecting any effort to help or be helped by other people. This is what he said, "Then again, do not tell me as a good man did today of my obligation to put all poor men in a good situation. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar or the dime, even the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong." That is self-reliance. Well, I tell you, nothing could be further from New Testament Christianity than this. Nothing could be further from it than this. And as I come to this list of greetings that Paul gives at the end of the letter. You wonder, "How is a pastor going to get a sermon out of these?" But what I look at is I look at a man who knew how dependent he was on other people, cheerfully dependent, gladly dependent. Glad to be in fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ, knowing full well that his co-laborers in the Gospel are indispensable, to the Gospel progress in his own life and the advance of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Now let's get some context and I'd like to give a brief overview of what we've learned in Colossians, since this is the last time we'll be looking at this book. Paul wrote this letter to a church that he'd never visited before, a church he did not plant, but a church he was greatly concerned about. Colossae was a city in Asia Minor, currently Turkey, with nearby Laodicea and Hierapolis who was part of a triad of cities in the Lycus Valley, about 100 miles east of Ephesus built on the Lycus River. The population was predominantly Gentile, but there was a sizeable Jewish population there as well. And thus the church at Colossae had to face challenges from both ends, both from the pagan culture from which many of them had come and also from the Jewish culture that had not, for the most part, accepted Christ or the Gospel at that point. Now the church itself was planted by Epaphras. And in Colossians 2:1, he makes it plain that he'd never been there or seen them before. Now by the time he was writing, the church was already in a battle for its theological soul. Already facing doctrinal challenges from a heresy that was brewing up and that Paul felt he had to write and challenge. Of course, there was the allurement to these pagans of going back to the old Gentile way of life with all of its Gentile way of thinking. But then there was the threat coming from the Jewish side as well of asceticism and legalism. So, you've got human philosophies, on the one hand from the Greeks. And you've got Jewish asceticism and legalism. And then through it all was this Spiritism, a worship of angels, a kind of a mishmash, a hodgepodge put together. And at the core of it were some toxic concepts to the Christian faith. For example, that the physical world was inherently evil. That God hadn't really made it. And that all of our sins come from an allurement of the physical side. And that Christ Himself wasn't truly human, wasn't truly physical. And that His work on the cross wasn't enough to save you. These are toxic concepts and Paul writes to refute every one of them. Now, as he's writing, the way he does it, he's got a two-fold strategy for the health of the Colossian church. And it's well for me as a pastor in this church, and for all of us as Christians to keep in mind how Paul is battling for the souls of the Colossians. How he's struggling for the future of the Colossian church. He does it by right doctrine, by good teaching. And by faith-filled prayer, prayer in the ministry of the Word. That sounds familiar to me anyway. And the need to keep these things in front of us, as we struggle for each other's souls as well. Summary Colossians 1: The Supremacy of Christ and the Mystery of the Gospel of Christ So, let's give a summary of the book. In Colossians 1 then, Paul immediately goes to the supremacy of Christ. The greatness of Jesus Christ. This is the centerpiece of our faith, and it's the centerpiece of Colossians as well. Look at Colossians 1:15-17, just go back a few pages. And there it says, "He is the image of the invisible God. The firstborn over all creation. For by Him, all things were created, things in Heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers, or rulers, or authorities, all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." So, there is the material physical world, and it's not evil, it's something Christ created. And there is Christ, not a mere emanation from God, but He Himself, the creator of all things, the greatness of the person of Christ. The image of the invisible God. And at the center of our faith is this mystery. Colossians 1:27, "Christ in you, the hope of glory." Oh, how sweet is that phrase, and how great should our hope be. Our hope is not a mere pale optimism that the future will be brighter. Oh, the future will be infinitely brighter, but hope is much stronger than that. It's an absolute certainty based on the promises of God, based on the very character of God, that we are going to spend eternity with God in face-to-face fellowship. And Christ within us, by the Spirit, is the deposit guaranteeing our future inheritance. Christ in us, hope of glory. Colossians 2: Fullness in Christ vs. The Inadequacy of Man-Made Religion Then in Colossians 2, he gets into the fullness that we have in Christ. We are full in Christ, complete in Christ. We don't need anything more than Christ, and the Gospel that He sought to bring. Christ gives us fullness. And so, we have in Colossians 2, fullness in Christ versus the inadequacy of that false religion that the heretics there in Colossae were teaching. So first, the fullness of Christ, it says in Colossians 2:9-10, "For in Christ, all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form, the mystery of the incarnation." The fullness of deity, fully God in bodily form, fully man, the incarnation. In Verse 10, "And you have been given fullness in Christ." We are full and complete in Christ. You don't need anything more. The world has nothing it can add to you. You have everything in Christ. We are fully circumcised spiritually, that's addressing the Jewish side, Jewish legalism. We can't be any more pleasing to God, having been circumcised physically, than we are circumcised spiritually in our hearts by the Spirit. We are fully alive, at one point, “we were dead in our transgressions and sins, but God made us alive with Christ,” and now we are fully alive, and we shall never die. Forever, we are alive in Christ. And we are fully forgiven. Remember how we pondered the benefit to us if we were only partially forgiven. If God forgave 99% of your sins, you're still lost. That 1% would be sufficient to sink you for eternity. But we are fully forgiven. He forgave us all our sins. Colossians 2:13, "And we are fully free from the law." By this I do not mean we don't need to love our neighbor as ourselves, and we don't need to love God with all of our “heart, soul, mind and strength.” We are empowered by the Spirit to do those things, that's not it. But we are free from the law and its power to condemn us to Hell. It has no power to do that, for Christ has fully met all of its precepts, all of its laws and regulations. They're met in Christ and in the perfect righteousness that God gave us through faith in Christ. We are fully, therefore, free from the law. And we are fully triumphant over Satan. Just as Christ was triumphant over the powers and the principalities, and triumphed over them by the cross. So, we also are triumphant over Satan. There is nothing that Satan can do to destroy our souls, to bring us down to hell. We are secure in Christ, and fully free therefore from Satan's power. Well, we have all of that, what do we need with this mishmash, this false religion that the heretics were seeking to put over on us? Therefore, beware about man-made philosophies. Take care about them and watch out for them. Watch out for human legalism. The idea that through your efforts, you can improve your standing with God. Watch out for legalism. And mysticism. The worship of angels is what it said there in Colossians 2. But any kind of mystical experience is cut off from the Gospel of Christ. We're not talking about a deepening in your walk with God, where you have a greater sense of His presence, you should seek that through the Spirit. That's not it, this is the worship of angels, this is a false mysticism. False religion. And then there is asceticism, the harsh treatment of the body. Again, the basic underpinnings there, the basic concept, is that the physical body is evil. And that salvation is away from the physical body. Friends, it is not. God intends to save the physical body. We're going to be resurrected in a physical body. We're going to spend eternity in physical bodies. We're going to a place. Jesus said, "I go and prepare a place for you." And we're going to dwell there forever and ever. This is false religion. It's a heretical mishmash, and it's attacking the fullness we have in Christ. And so Paul refutes it by right doctrine. Elements of a Truly Happy, Fruitful New Life But then he gives a picture in Colossians 3, of the true Christian life. Of how sweet is that life, how fruitful, and how wonderful. I think Colossians 3:1-17, I think you ought to memorize it. I've said before, because it would enrich your life. If you would just know these things and put them into practice, you will be happy forever. You will be fruitful forever. You will be strong against temptation. In the first section is a heavenly mindset based on the truth of the Gospel. "Since then you have been raised with Christ," Colossians 3:1, "set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory." Think about this. Think about the greatness of it. We talk in our culture about guilty pleasures. This is an innocent pleasure, pure. Think much about your future happiness in heaven. Live there as much as you can in your minds, and you'll be empowered to serve Him with great energy and joy in this life. “Set your heart on things above not on earthly things.” And then secondly, you've got to be at war. You've got to “put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature, sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed,” put them to death. The Holy Spirit gets you dressed for battle every day and sends you off to mortify the deeds of the flesh, so you must do. And you must put these things to death, or you cannot be happy, you cannot be fruitful in the Christian life. And thirdly, understand that God has saved you up. As I was praying in my pastoral prayer, God has saved us into a community. We're in a family. When someone loses a loved one, that should matter to us. We should put an arm around them. Weep with them. Pray with them. It should make a difference. And this community has come from people all over the world. People that are very different from us. And here there's "no circumcised, uncircumcised, Barbarian, Scythian, slave or free. But Christ is all and is in all." That's who we are. We're put together. And we don't get to choose who the brothers and sisters are, God did that from “before the foundation of the world.” What we're told to do then, is to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and welcome brothers and sisters in Christ. And know that we are in a rich community together. And we need to walk together with other Christians in that new self. And then personally, individually, we should saturate our hearts with Christ. We should, “let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts.” And we should, “let the word of Christ, dwell richly in our hearts.” And whatever we do, we should do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Giving thanks to God the Father through Him. So Christ saturating even the simplest thing you do, washing the dishes, or praying, or interacting with your family members, or your time at work. Whatever you do, you're doing it to the glory of God through Jesus Christ. “And be thankful.” Be thankful that you've been delivered from Hell, and you're going to Heaven. Is that not enough for you? Be thankful forever for these riches that God's given. So this is the rich full new life in Christ, Colossians 3:1-17. But then the Lord wants to see us live it out in certain arenas. You think about the arena like the Colosseum, the sands of the Colosseum, where the courage of first generation Christians, were put on display as their blood was spilled. As lions killed them. And the audience was watching. The Roman audience, the pagan audience, watching how they lived, and watching how they died. So also we are to live out the new Christian life in various arenas. First marriage, the most key human relationship there is. And so he urges that this new life be lived out in a marriage. “Wives submitting to the husbands.” “Husbands loving their wives and cherishing them.” And then in the parent child relationship, second most important. Second most significant human relationship there is. The children will be trained in the Lord, and that parents would love their children, and not be harsh with them, but train them well, and bring them up. And then the arena of labor. As we understand it now in the 21st century, the master-slave relationship is labor. It's got to do with work. And the laborer should work as unto the Lord, knowing that in effect, he's taking his work as an offering and giving it up to Jesus. And the master, the one in charge, should treat his slave, his servant, his employee, the way he has been treated by Christ, and the way he wants to be treated as well. So in that arena as well, the new life, saturating. And in our daily life conversation, in the way we carry on just what we talk about, and our prayer lives, and all of these things saturated with the Gospel. This is the full life that Paul has given us. Much better than the life that the heretics were trying to give. A life of trying to escape from the body. And thinking that Jesus isn't enough, and that you've got to have some specialized knowledge and all that, that seems like nothing compared to the true Gospel. No One Can Do It Alone So now we come to Paul's final greetings, and I guess as I look over Paul's attitude here, as he writes to each of his friends, I come to this one concept, and that is not one of us cannot do it alone. We cannot do it alone. Rugged individualism is impossible in the kingdom. Moses couldn't do it alone. God gave him 70 elders to help him in the leadership of Israel. Jesus chose 12 apostles as part of his strategic way of advancing the gospel. And together they built the church. Even the great apostle Paul couldn't plant churches alone, but frequently at the end of his letters he writes speaking of his co-laborers, both men and women. And how God used them, this dear brother or this dear sister, a co-laborer in the gospel and they worked together. By the way, I had co-laborer, Microsoft kicked it out. It's not a word according to Microsoft. Well, fellow workers, is that better? But you know what I mean, don't you? By co-laborers. So we got that little red squiggle underneath, and I can either add it to the dictionary or I can use something else. So in the translation, they gave us fellow workers for the kingdom. And that's what we are. But you know what I mean by co-laborers and he's writing to each one of them. And basically, the bottom line lesson here is that none of us can do any of it alone. Away with self-salvation. Satan is trying to sell it all the time. You can save yourself by your own efforts, by being a good person, by philosophy or mysticism or legalism or any of these things. You can save yourself, away with it, you can't. God has testified to this by sending his Son Jesus Christ to shed his blood on the cross as a testimony to the fact that we could none of us save ourselves. Galatians 2:21 says, in effect, "If salvation could be worked out by obedience, then Christ died for nothing." Well, Christ didn't die for nothing because it can't be worked that way. And therefore I say to you, if you've never come to faith in Christ and you care about the salvation of your soul, you have a choice. You can either try to save yourself, through your own individual effort and you will fail. Or you can turn to Christ and you can look to the cross of Christ and see him having shed his blood on the cross for sinners like you and me. And you can turn away from self and turn to Jesus and he will save you. And so I urge you to do that. That is the Gospel. But it doesn't end there. It's not like now that I have been justified I can now be sanctified by my own efforts. I can finish my race alone, no way. Jesus said in John 15, a very famous image, "I am the vine, and you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit, for apart from me, you can do nothing." And so having begun dependent on Christ we will proceed dependent on Christ to the very end. Completely dependent on Christ. But secondly, we also need to feel our need for each other. We can't do it alone. We are not independent of one another. 1 Corinthians 12:21 and 22, Paul uses the analogy of the human body and we are the Body of Christ and we're all together in Christ and he the head. And so he says, "The eye cannot say to the hand I don't need you. And the head cannot say to the feet, I don't need you. On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable." Every part of the body is indispensable. We need each other. We really do. And you have to convince yourself of that. Because we got that American independence. That American self-reliance, build a statue to them one after the other. That American individualism. It doesn't work in the Christian life. It's impossible. We need each other. And so Paul goes person by person. Another thing happens to me as I read these things. I think "If Paul knew me, what would he write in a few lines about me? If you could sum it all up in a couple of lines what would it be?" And far more important than that, what would Jesus say? If He gave me a nickname kind of summing up my life, what would it be? If He summed it all up in a few lines, what would my life and my ministry be? That's what it makes me think about. So let's look at them one at a time. Some Lessons from Paul’s Laborers The Faithful Servant: Tychicus First, we have the faithful servant. Tychicus, look at verses 7-8. “Tychicus will tell you all the news about me. He's a dear brother, a faithful minister, and a fellow servant in the Lord. I'm sending him to you for the express purpose that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts.” There's a lot of nuts and bolts in these greetings. I'm sending him as a messenger. He's going to tell you what's going on with us. But there are a few extra things that he says. This man is a faithful servant. Faithful means what has been entrusted to him before, he sticks with it, he perseveres and he brings forth the harvest. He's faithful. He's an overcomer. So as I look at this as I think about myself, am I faithful to what's been entrusted to me? Am I faithful? Are you a faithful servant in the Lord? The Forgiven Sinner: Onesimus Secondly, we have the forgiven sinner, Onesimus. Now, I believe that Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon are written around the same time and sent together, all of them together. I think it's the letter that he refers to concerning the church at Laodicea, more about that in a moment. But Philemon of course is the story of an escaped slave who ran away and went to Rome. And there he meets up with the apostle Paul and Paul converts him. And now he's sending Onesimus back to Colossae, turns out that he's from this church. He says he's one of you. And so with him is also the letter to Philemon and which Philemon was one of that church as well and he was being urged to welcome this runaway slave back not only as a slave but as a brother, and forgive him. It's a beautiful letter and it's very, very artfully written, Philemon. And where Paul says, "If he owes you anything, then write it down to my account, not to mention you owe me your very life." So he twists his arm a bit there and says, "Please forgive him richly, accept him back richly." All of that within this Colossian church. It's a very sweet letter but there is Onesimus, he the forgiven sinner. And that's what all of us are, isn't it? Aren't we all runaway slaves who ran away from our true master, God? We don't want to serve Him anymore. We want to be on our own like the prodigal son, doing our own thing. And now we're being sent back to the true master of our souls and He will welcome us back. He will welcome us back richly and so Onesimus. The Fellow Sufferer: Aristarchus And then we have the fellow sufferer, Aristarchus verse 10, "My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you his greetings." We don't know anything about this man other than he was Jewish, he comes before verse 11 so he's one of the Jews. And therefore I think he probably suffered greatly from the other members of his Jewish community. We know in the life of Jesus, that the hierarchy had already decided that anyone who claimed that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out off the synagogue. And so it could be that was the nature of his suffering. The Future Surprise: Mark But then we have this future surprise and that's Mark. Now by this time there's already been some, I think, water over the dam. Mark has already been turned back to fruitful service in the Lord. But look at verse 10, “Mark the cousin of Barnabas, he is also sending you, received instructions about him, if he comes to you, welcome him.” Mark has a long and fascinating history. Mark, John Mark, cousin of Barnabas accompanied Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey, gets halfway through and doesn't want to do it anymore. And it's not blameless, it's not like he had urgent business, he had to go away. It was a sin. He turned away, he was not faithful, and he turned away from his work. So much so, that when it was time for Paul and Barnabas to go back, and visit some of those churches they planted, Barnabas wanted to take John Mark, give him a second chance. Paul said "No way." There's no way. And we can see both of their points of view. You know, this was an important work, and that he had already proven unsteady, unfaithful. "You don't want somebody like that in the firing line right next to you, and so I'm not taking him." Well, Barnabas, son of encouragement, his name was Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, son of encouragement. He's the kind that would put an arm around somebody who is down and out, like Saul of Tarsus who've been recently converted and nobody wanted to get within a mile of him, the persecutor of the church. It was Barnabas that brought him into the church in Jerusalem and said, "You know, he's done well. He's preached the gospel faithfully in Damascus." Paul should have known Barnabas better than that. Barnabas was urging that we give John Mark another try. But they had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company and went separate ways. And God ended up using it. Then you have Paul and Silas going through Philippi and bringing the gospel there, and so they go. And Barnabas and John Mark continue their way, but by this time John Mark has been clearly reclaimed for the Gospel and he is useful in the ministry of Christ. And later, Paul says that, final epistle, final word from Paul is that "Mark is useful to me and my ministry." Well, he's been useful to all of us and if you ever read the Gospel of Mark and from that perspective we get an insight into the life of Jesus that God wanted us to have, and He used this man, this reclaimed failure in ministry, to write it, Mark. The Fearless Stalwart: Justus And then we have the fearless stalwart, somebody courageous, Jesus, who is called Justus, sends greetings. Another Jew, who is willing to stand firm against his countrymen for the Gospel. "These are the only Jews", he says, "among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have proved a comfort to me." And you can imagine why, you know why, because everywhere Paul went, the first place he goes is to the synagogue, and he preaches the gospel in the synagogue until in effect they throw him out. He's always got a handful of converts, the remnant, that he writes about in Romans 9-11, but it's not many. And so therefore, any Jews who had turned to Christ and believe in him were a great encouragement to the Apostle Paul. The Fierce Struggler: Epaphras But now we get the fierce struggler and, Epaphras, I want to spend some time on. Epaphras convicts me, and why? Because he is an incredible prayer warrior, a man of prayer. Look at verse 12 and 13, "Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. I vouch for him that he is working hard for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis." This is one of the best brief descriptions of a prayer warrior you're going to find anywhere in the Bible. Epaphras, who's wrestling in prayer, and the Greek word 'agon' from which we get this idea of agonizing prayer, means a wrestling contest, that's what he is doing, and he is doing spiritually, like Daniel who fasted and prayed for 21 days until the heavenly messenger at last fought his way through the Prince of Persia, I think Satan or one of Satan's henchman and gets the message though after 21 days of wrestling prayer, it's hard work, spiritually, and Epaphras gave that kind of effort. May his tribe increase, may his spirit increase in my heart. Prayers work, he says, I tell you that he is working hard for all of you. It's hard work to be praying for people. Church History Example: David Brainerd Now, I love to get examples from church history and I can think of no better example, and I mentioned last week, in wrestling prayer, than David Brainerd. David Brainerd lived in the 18th century, the first half of the 18th century. He was a missionary to the American Indians on the frontier there, a contemporary of Jonathan Edwards. He died of consumption tuberculosis at age 29. Very brief life. He had been a missionary to the Indians only four years. Very, very short time of missionary service. Why then has his life had such an incredible impact on the spread of the Gospel and specifically on missions as it had? Out of all proportions to its brevity and this short length of his service with the American Indians. Why? Well I think it's because he was a man of prayer who wrestled so faithful in prayer and wrote about those wrestlings in his diary. And then Jonathan Edwards took that diary and published it and it's never gone out of print since. Still in print today. And when you read it, you can just feel the fire of the Holy Spirit coming through the words, you're with him as he wrestles, you can feel the urgency, you can feel the passion, the fire. There's a heat there. There's sweat pouring from his body. And he teaches us how to do this kind of wrestling prayer. Great men of God have found his work to be of tremendous example for each one of them. John Wesley said, "Let every preacher read carefully over the life of Brainerd." It was said of Henry Martin the great missionary, "Perusing the life of David Brainerd, his soul was filled with such a holy emulation of that extraordinary man, and after deep consideration and fervent prayer he was at last fixed in a resolution to imitate his example and become a missionary." So it was Brainerd that led him into the missionary life. William Carey regarded Edwards' Life of Brainerd as a sacred text. So also Robert Morrison, Robert Murray McCain of Scotland, John Mills of America, and even Jim Elliot of the modern era, read these diaries and it inflamed them with a drive a desire to be poured out for Christ. And why? Well, listen to these words. This is David Brainerd from his diary. He said, "Oh, that I might be a flaming fire in the service of the Lord. Here I am Lord, send me. Send me to the ends of the earth, send me from all that is called earthly comfort. Send me to death itself if it be but in thy service to promote thy kingdom." Well, you don't need to read many pages like that before you're really at a fork in the road in your Christian life. Am I going to be mediocre and cold and lukewarm? Or am I going to be passionate on fire for Jesus? Because I can't read this kind of stuff and stay where I am. Brainerd overcame incredible obstacles through prayer, he overcame almost constant sickness, coughing up blood. He overcame relentlessly recurring, cyclically recurring depression, moodiness, black moods, depression. He overcame loneliness out in the wilderness. He overcame immense external hardships, poor food, exposure to the elements, extreme cold, inadequate shelter. He overcame a personal lack of love for the Indians. It wasn't a romantic thing with him in terms of the mission life. Now he knew what it was like and it was a struggle for him. Struggle, and how, by wrestling, wrestling, wrestling in prayer like a Epaphras, wrestling over himself. And he wrestled for the internal journey, he wrestled for personal holiness. This is what he said, "When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable, my thirstings after holiness, the more unquenchable, oh for holiness, oh for more of God in my soul, oh for this pleasing pain. It makes my soul press after God, oh that I might not loiter on my heavenly journey." I have done some loitering brothers and sisters on my heavenly journey. Taken a break in my sanctification. He's saying "Oh that I may never do that." My guess is he had too as well but he didn't want to. "Oh that I may not loiter on my internal, my heavenly journey." He wrestled also for that external journey, he wrestled for the conversion of Indians. Could it be we see so few people baptized in this church because so few people wrestle for specific souls in prayer? Could it be? Once when visiting in a home with friends he got alone to pray, he said this, I continued wrestling with God in prayer for my dear little flock here, and more especially for the Indians elsewhere, as well as for dear friends in one place or another until it was bedtime and I feared I should hinder the family. So they have the guy over for dinner and he's upstairs praying in a room and they're wondering if they should go ahead and eat without him. "But oh with what reluctancy did I find myself obliged to consume time and sleep. I didn't want to sleep, I wanted to keep praying." We read of him spending whole days in prayer, sometimes setting aside six times in the day to pray. Sometimes seeking out a family or friend to pray with. He prayed for his own sanctification, he prayed for the conversion of Indians, he prayed for the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ in America and to the ends of the Earth, this is how he prayed. His journal is filled with entries like this. Wednesday, April 21st, "And God again enabled me to wrestle for numbers of souls and had much fervency in the sweet duty of intercession." Four days later, Lord's Day April, 25th. "This morning I spent about two hours in secret duties and was enabled more than ordinarily to agonize for immortal souls. Though it was early in the morning and the sun scarcely shined at all yet my body was quite wet with sweat." Saturday, December 15th, "Spent much time in prayer in the woods and seemed raised above the things of this world." Oh boy, see there's the payoff right. Setting your heart on things above and God just lifts you up a bit and gives you a sense of His presence. One biographer talked about one occasion in his life July 21st, 1744, on hearing that the Indians were planning on holding an idolatrous feast and dance the next day, he spent that whole day and that whole night fasting and praying for them. And he writes "This morning, about nine, I withdrew to the woods for prayer I was in such anguish that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome and the sweat ran down my face and body. I cared not where or how I lived or what hardships I went through so that I could but gain souls for Christ, I continued in this frame of mine all evening and all night." Thus empowered, he went forth and met the Indians as they were beginning their feast, their pagan feast. Convinced that God was with him in his contest just like Elijah on Mount Carmel, he knew he was going to be able to confront them. And instead of promptly scalping him, they listened to him preach all that day and on into the evening and many were converted. Oh that's power, do you see? Power for souls and it comes the root of it, the furnace of it, is prayer. "Oh that God would work in our hearts," this kind of wrestling in prayer. That He would work it in my heart and in yours. Make us like Brainerd. Make us like Epaphras. Make us like the apostle Paul. Make us like Jesus. Whoever lives, it says, to intercede for us at the right hand of God, never stops praying for you and me. The Foreign Specialist: Luke Then we have the foreign specialist, Luke verse 14, “our dear friend, Luke the doctor greets you.” He was not a Jew. We know that because the line of demarcations in verse 11 and everyone after was not a Jew. So he was a Gentile, a doctor, therefore a specialist. First of many missionary doctors, let's say, who went and plied their trade for the glory of God on the mission field. But that was Luke, and from him of course we get the Gospel of Luke and also the Book of Acts. And then we have the heart breaker, the future scandal, Demas. Demas, right alongside Luke just listed there. But we know more about Demas sadly from 2 Timothy, Chapter 4. In verse 9 and 10, it says "Do your best to come to me quickly for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica." Can you not feel the pain in those words? "Demas, having loved this present world," where it says in 1 John 2, "Do not love the world or anything in the world." What could have been in Thessalonica worth his eternal soul? What was so attractive about Thessalonica to Demas that he turned his back on Paul? He abandoned him. "He has deserted me." That's what Paul says of Demas. No hint of it here, though. Many a pastor, many a disciple maker, many a parent has been heartbroken by the defection of someone from an apparent walk with Christ to turn their back on Jesus and stop walking with Him any longer. Final Applications “Read My Letters” Final application verses 15-18. I'm going to just get our own applications right from Paul's text here. First of all, read my letters. Okay? Read my letters. He says "Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea and to Nympha and the church in our house and after this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter for Laodicea." So read each other's letters. It's not reading each other's mail. It's not wrong for you to read the Letter to Philemon. God meant for you to read it. Ordinarily, it's bad to read somebody else's mail, ought not to be done. But here, we ought to read the Letter to Philemon. We ought to read all of Paul's letters. They're right here for us to read. And so read the Scripture. Saturate your minds. Now let's talk about that letter from Laodicea. We think it's probably the cyclical letter of Ephesians. It wasn't just written to one church, but it was written to a whole area and I think that was the letter from Laodicea. There's a tremendous similarity between Ephesians and Colossians. I think they're written about the same time. So read Ephesians, read that letter from Laodicea. Now a word to the Laodicean church, you ought to read it too. Because their future is pretty black. It's pretty bleak. Remember what Jesus said about the church at Laodicea in Revelation 3? They were the lukewarm church that He wanted to spew out of His mouth. They were neither hot nor cold. I wish you were one or the other. But because you're “neither hot nor cold, I'm about to spew you out of my mouth.” You say, "I am rich. I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked." That's advice given by Jesus earlier as the Apostle Paul who wrote them a letter. They ought to heed it, don't you think? Lest God remove that lampstand. Complete Your Ministry Second application is complete your ministry. First of all, you need to have one in order to complete it. He says to Archippus, "See to it that you complete the work you've been given by the Lord." What is that? I mean in your case? Are you able to identify a ministry? I don't mean a Christian lifestyle in the midst of an ordinary, you know American lifestyle. I mean a ministry. Has He entrusted you with a ministry? Has He set before you race for you to run? Like Paul says, "I count my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me." The task of testifying the gospel of God's grace. Alright. If that is not your task, what is? Has Christ entrusted anything to you. If so, like Archippus, see to it that you complete it. It's not how you start friends. It's how you finish. And if you're sitting there in the pew today and you say, "I really don't have a ministry. I really don't know how I'm using my gifts. I'm really not involved in this church. I'm not really doing anything really for Christ." Then I would urge you, quickly, repent. It's not how you start friends, it's how you finish. And Paul says at the end, he says, "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. I've completed the task God gave me to do." So like Archippus, see to it that you complete your ministry. Suffering: Remember My Chains And then thirdly, suffering. He says "remember my chains." Lots of Christians in chains today. In the 10/40 window, in China, there are house churches, with their pastors under arrest for simply preaching the Gospel. In the Muslim worlds, there are martyrs every day. In Darfur, in other places, remember the suffering church. Remember them in prayer. Lift them up as though you yourself are suffering with them. And then finally, grace be with you. Grace be with you. Without this, we can do nothing. Close with me if you would in prayer.

-In this episode: Warble and his gang travel to 1836 Texas - -to the Alamo, and meet Davy Crockett, William Travis, and Jim Bridger.