The Escape of Chief Satanta

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Chief Satanta, the great orator, was an extremely influential Kiowa leader. A participant in both battles of Adobe Walls, Satanta was eventually tried for murder and sentenced to life in prison. This is the story of his escape. Check out today’s sponsor, Mint Mobile! – https://www.mintmobile.com/wildwest 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the fall of 1878, convict number 2107 was planning his escape.
0:05.6	And best of all, it was a foolproof plan.
0:08.1	For the most part, that is.
0:09.9	Unlike the last attempt, they thwarted damn their eyes.
0:13.3	Now this time, no matter how many guards they may have,
0:15.8	no matter how tall the walls may be,
0:17.7	and no matter how far from home,
0:19.2	convict number 2107 currently was,
0:22.0	there just weren't no way in hell he was going to let the screw stop him.
0:25.1	Not this time.
0:26.5	Hell, it took him decades even to get a good look at him.
0:29.5	Not that he was all that much to look at these days he allowed as he fingered his tattered
0:33.5	stripes.
0:34.5	He was, in the words of the prosecutor at his murder trial, disrobed of all
0:38.7	fancy graces and exposed in the light of reality. A far cry, it would seem, from the other
0:44.2	label they had once slapped on him as the, quote-unquote, arch fiend of treachery and blood. Disrobed
0:50.5	and exposed, treachery and blood, whichever the case, and whatever his condition,
0:55.2	it still didn't stop the other inmates from gawking at him.
0:58.2	It looks of curiosity mostly, but disdain as well.
1:02.0	Gases of hatred that he readily and honestly returned.
1:05.6	They were enemies, after all, despite sharing the same cage.
1:09.5	And besides, there just wasn't enough of his kind there in
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