In this episode from our YouTube channel, Steve and Rod tell the story of Clifton Branham, an outlaw who lived along the border between Virginia and Kentucky around the turn
On this day, March 9, 1958, one of the most notorious outlaws of the early 20th century, Kinnie Wagner, died in Parchman Prison at the age of 55. His life
By request of one of our listeners, this week we tell the story of Bad Tom Smith, a notorious figure at the very heart of the French-Eversole feud in Kentucky.
This week on our YouTube channel, we unravel the amazing tale of George Brittain Lyttle, a privileged youth from Harlan County, Kentucky who chose a life of crime over the
Our story today involves a member of the infamous Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy’s gang. Known as the wildest of the bunch, Harvey Alexander Logan, better known as Kid Curry, was
In the heart of Appalachia, a legend looms as large as the mountains themselves. Today, we tell the story of John Wesley Wright. Born in the Elkhorn Valley of Kentucky,
Billy Dean Anderson was born in Fentress County, Tennessee, and, by all accounts, lived a normal law-abiding life as he grew up, even becoming a volunteer preacher in his church.
Joe Brown was a hell-raiser, thug and violent alcoholic who terrorized the town of Whitmer, West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century. He did, that is, until he
The 1920s were a decade of loosening morals, Prohibition and crime, with notorious outlaws popping up across America. Along with the likes of Al Capone, John Dillinger and Bonnie and