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Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND

The Backstory: Did Barbed Wire End the Wild West?

Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND

Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Music History, Comedy, Entertainment News, Music, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Wild West as Hollywood Tells the Story, Was Nothing but Gun Battles and Saloon Girls. But the True Story Is Way More Complex and Fascinating, Although It’s Got Its Share of Gun Battles! Overall, It Was a 30-Year Period That in Many Ways Defines Who We Are in America. But Then . . . How Did Barbed Wire Play a Huge Role in Ending the Wild West?

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0:00.0

What do you know about the Wild West? Do you even know why it's called the Wild West?

0:05.0

The real Wild West period only lasted a little over 30 years, and there's a reason for that.

0:10.7

The gunfights were legendary, but did you know that the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral only lasted for 30 seconds?

0:18.1

It was a very different period in our history than Hollywood would have us believe,

0:22.7

but the personal stories are unbelievable. I'm Patty Steele, winning and losing in the Wild West.

0:29.5

That's next on the backstory. This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:37.3

From I-Heart podcast.

0:43.2

From IHeart podcast, before social media, before cable news, there was Alan Berg.

0:46.6

He was the first and the original shock.

0:52.0

That scratchy, reverent kind of way talking to people and telling them that you're an idiot and I'm going to hang up on you.

0:53.4

This is Live Wire, the loud life and shocking murder of Allen Berg.

0:57.7

And he pointed to the Denver phone book and said, well, there are probably 2 million suspects.

1:02.7

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:07.9

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.

1:12.6

Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name

1:18.6

of something much bigger than themselves.

1:20.6

This medal is for the men who went down that day.

1:24.6

On Medal of Honor, stories of courage, you'll hear about these heroes and what their stories tell us about the nature of bravery.

1:32.5

Listen to Medal of Honor on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

1:38.1

What happens when we come face to face with death?

1:41.1

My truck was blown up by a 20-pound anti-taint mine.

1:43.7

My parachute did not deploy.

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