The 1881 Shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, known as the gun fight at the OK Corral, only lasted 30 seconds,

but the market left on popular imagination has held on for nearly 150 years.

Why? Because Americans have never stopped being fascinated with the Wild West.

Grimman Mile Presents will travel into the unknown, the misunderstood, and the forgotten tales of

America's Westward expansion. Grimman Mild Presents The Wild West is available now.

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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart

Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky,

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The year was 1662, and the owners of a little sweet shop in London were running their fingers over their newest acquisition, an antique cedar chest.

Their fingertips found a strange opening in the body of the chest, a hidden drawer perhaps.

They used a knife to pull at it.

The drawer opened and inside not the treasures they may have dreamt of, but a beaded necklace, a cross, and some

handwritten books.

The Sweetchops made wasn't especially interested in whatever someone's old books might have to say. She had work to do, but as she baked her pies atop the pages she was using as parchment paper, the smell of caramelized sugar

spinning in the air, it was hard to ignore an uncomfortable feeling stirring in her gut. When she looked at the book's pages, they were strange.

Yes, they contained words and dated entries as she might have expected, but the pages also contained diagrams and signs and symbols that she didn't understand, unnerving symbols, triangles inscribed inside circles,

intricate stars that pointed toward what might have been Greek letters,

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