NED BUNTLINE Ep. 3 | “Whiskey, Women and War”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Buntline wears out his welcome in New York and heads west to St. Louis. He finds a city primed to explode, and he leads another whiskey-fueled riot. He moves to upstate New York in an attempt to quit drinking, but it’s an uphill battle. He marries, divorces or abandons several wives. And in 1861, he feels the pull of the ultimate adventure: war. Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Fever tree Mediterranean tonic water
0:02.9	Pfft!
0:03.9	Made with zesty lemon time from a small family farm in Provoz
0:08.7	and essential oils from herbs that grow in the Mediterranean sunshine.
0:13.5	So, if three quarters of your G&T is a Fever tree tonic,
0:18.8	maybe it's time to call it a T&G.
0:22.4	Fever tree. Mix with the best.
0:26.9	Oh, that takes me straight to the med.
0:43.9	In late 1851, writer Ned Buntline arrived in St. Louis.
0:48.9	He'd recently been on the East Coast,
0:50.9	where he'd written a ton of popular stories
0:53.9	and had a successful newspaper.
0:55.9	But he'd also spent a year in prison.
0:58.9	Buntline was convicted of leading one of the bloodiest riots in New York history.
1:03.9	Unbelievably, over the next ten years,
1:06.9	Buntline started two more riots and several duels.
1:10.9	Most of them fueled by booze, anger,
1:13.9	and maybe even a little bit of insanity.
1:15.9	He also married at least five other women
1:18.9	and had children with four of them.
1:21.9	In spite of his hard-drinking, hard-charging lifestyle,
1:24.9	Buntline never stopped writing and selling stories.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Black Barrel Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Black Barrel Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.