On this episode of Our American Stories no woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became a character in novels and her dog the inspiration for Buck in the Call of the Wild Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath author of Gunfighters Highwaymen and Vigilantes Violence on the Frontier Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

In Everything Sad Is Untrue Daniel Nayeri describes his harrowing flight with his mother and sister from persecution through a refugee camp to safety in the United States An elderly couple agreed to sponsor them though they didn rsquo t know them Years later Daniel still can rsquo t get over it He writes ldquo Can you believe that Totally blind they did that They rsquo d never even met us And if we turned out to be villains they rsquo d have to pay for it That rsquo s almost as brave kind and reckless as I can think [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories you are about to hear the miraculous story from one of our own here at Our American Stories Bryan Dawson went from being your local suburban high school football player to being considered such a nefarious and menacing fugitive that the world-famous bounty hunter Duane Dog Chapman refused to pursue him Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

The first thing I noticed about the city was its gambling outlets Next its cannabis shops ldquo adult rdquo stores and giant billboards for opportunistic lawyers making money out of others rsquo mishaps While I had visited many shady cities before this one seemed to reach a new low My mood brightened however when I spoke to a taxi driver the next morning ldquo I ask God every day to send me the people He wants me to help rdquo he said ldquo Gambling addicts prostitutes people from broken homes tell me their problems in tears I stop the car [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories no woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became a character in novels and her dog the inspiration for Buck in the Call of the Wild Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath author of Gunfighters Highwaymen and Vigilantes Violence on the Frontier Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories you are about to hear the miraculous story from one of our own here at Our American Stories Bryan Dawson went from being your local suburban high school football player to being considered such a nefarious and menacing fugitive that the world-famous bounty hunter Duane Dog Chapman refused to pursue him Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

Former Chiefs wide reciever and current radio color analyst Danan Hughes joins the show to remember Len Dawson amp recap the Chiefs final preseason game [... more]

MLB's big bats were supercharged on Thursday night Former Chiefs WR Danan Hughes joins the show An extended conversation with Danan Hughes [... more]

An MLB whiparound What is going on in the Guardians locker room QB News [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories David LaBelle's last memory of his mother was seeing her washed away in a raging flood when he was a senior in high school She would never be found It took David years to wrestle with the loss and eventually he decided to write a semi-fictional book about the event called Bridges amp Angels as a therapeutic exercise No woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became [... more]