270: Boone Helm the Kentucky Cannibal: One the Wild West's Wildest Outlaws

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Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

The story of Levi Boone Helm aka The Kentucky Cannibal. A murderous man who drifted from one gold boom town to the next in the wild west for over a decade before getting hanged by a vigilante mob in Virginia City, Montana.

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0:00.0	Fame is a fickle food.
0:01.8	Poet Emily Dickinson once wrote that in the mid 19th century.
0:05.3	Maybe around the same time Levi Boone Helm was roaming the American Wild West.
0:10.1	True then and true now.
0:11.4	Famous fleeting.
0:12.4	It often never comes at all.
0:13.7	It's not always or even often based in any logical or rational criteria.
0:18.1	Why one person is famous and another is not often confusing.
0:21.1	I'm sure you follow a band, a comic, author, actor, even a podcast, wonder why so and
0:27.4	so.
0:28.4	Not famous.
0:29.4	Not so not more famous.
0:31.3	Maybe think their music is clearly so much better than some other artist who is much more
0:35.5	well known.
0:36.5	I get it.
0:37.5	I do the same thing.
0:38.5	When I first read a summary of the life in crimes Levi Boone Helm, I immediately wondered
0:42.8	why he wasn't much more well known.
0:45.6	Why he isn't today much more well known.
0:48.2	I love stories of the Wild West.
0:49.5	Thought I was pretty familiar with the major names outlaws and gunslingers.
0:53.3	But I only heard about Helm because our Patreon supporters are beloved space lizards.
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