Gold Rush

EPISODE #176: A DEATH VALLEY CHRISTMAS (WITH THE LOST ’49ers)

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San Francisco Call, 1889, via NPS Death Valley

“Gentlemen!” yelled their frontier guide, Captain Jefferson Hunt, “All I have to say is that if you take that route, you will all be landed in Hell!”

So began the four-month-long “shortcut” that left the starving Lost ’49ers in the middle of Death Valley at Christmas. Hopefully your holidays won’t be quite so exciting, although it’s generally better to have an adventure than just sit around eating pies. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne, and broadcasting tonight at 10 in Joshua Tree on KCDZ 107.7 FM, and Saturdays at 9 p.m. on KZMU 90.1 FM & 106.7 FM in Moab, Utah.

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EPISODE #155: DRUID TALES TO WARD OFF ST. PATRICK

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In tribute to the Druids who were canceled by Saint Patrick, tonight we tell some stories: Ghost stories, from those ancient Celtic lands that gave us the Sidhe, the Good People, the Gentry, the leprechauns and banshee, the goddess Brigid and the frightful pooka. Tales from the Dim Kingdom, of the Tuatha de Danaan. And how the Gold Rush of the Sierra Nevada was the birthplace of the “Luck of the Irish.”

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