Louis Lamour's The First Fast Draw about Cullen Baker was one of favorite novels as kid.

For some fuckin reason,I'm listening to this on the way to work and on the way home from work instead of music...so far I listened to at least 5 episodes so far...love it!!!

One of my uncles know exactly where cullens hideout was the book you mentioned was written by a grandchild of cullen. I've been to his grave as well.

Another great episode Josh. I'm really appreciative of the work you put into these. They're great listening.

Man, you're good at this. I love the way you tell stories. Thank you again.

Baker was going to be arrested and tried for the bullwhip beating to a young man named Stallcup who he almost killed. Wesley Bailey was a witness to the beating and willing to testify. Baker went out to his ranch and shot his legs with a shotgun, injuries which killed Bailey a couple days later. Baker than ran away to Arkansas and hid at his uncle's house for a couple of years. And I think both of Baker's wives were named Martha. The Wartham murder was around 1856. His daughter was Louise was born in 1857 and his first wife died in 1860 when she was about 23. Interesting episode. I think that a lot of these "super" murderers had a lot more crimes attributed to them than they actually committed so there legends grew. Either way, Baker was apparently a very bad man.

Excellent episode as always. I read the name Cullen Baker before but didn't know anything about him. Always find it interesting how close to my little hometown in southeast Oklahoma some of the outlaws were. I'm about 100 miles from Bonham Texas were John Wesley Hardin was born.

@36:15, he lived for a long time, changed his name to Lee Emery and joined the Marines, achieving the rank of Gunnery Sergeant, he was shot by a descendant of "Dummy" in the barracks one night.

Very well told! You should do a podcast on Charles "Leather Britches" Smith out of Merryville, La. East Texas outlaw who relocated to Louisiana and kicked up a lot of commotion around 1910.

Reconstruction a brief period . Try 11 years. I think that is a little more than a brief period and they were done dirty in the south

“While I’m sure there were some decent and kind men among them, I’m just not aware of it” 😂😂 you’ve got the old speak down man.

Eli Wallach in Good Bad Ugly..."If you're going to shoot, SHOOT! Don't talk!

Excellent episode as always sir! Ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Cullen Baker before.

Good job Josh I'm 15 min in and wild horses couldn't drag me away from hearing the rest. Yeah dude.

Thank you Josh. Another interesting character & well told story! Your research & work to create these videos are appreciated!

"A man who knows not fear, knows not love, for love is the only thing one should fear losing"- Richard Wagner... or rather for Cullen, "Any man who knows fear but still charges ahead is brave, anyone who has no fear at all going into battle is a moron. I'll take the brave man"- Napoleon Bonaparte

This is the first of your content I’ve seen, but as a lifelong resident of Bloomburg, and someone who has done a lot of research on Baker myself, I’m a fan. Headed off to binge the rest of your stuff now.✊

Oh hell yeah, this just made my day better! Thank you, Mister Josh!

Nut-Job. Pure Nut-Job. Great story telling.

"My grandmother could have been a coalminor if she had nuts." 😂😂😂😂 You are appreciated, sir 🙌👊❤️🇺🇸

Baker killed most of his opponents from ambush or from behind and his preferred weapon was a shotgun. Kind of hard to fast draw a shotgun.

Another excellent podcast keep up the great work I had never even heard of this guy before and I live in Texas

The Georgia Guide Stones got blown up last night. PRAISE GOD!

Louis Lamour's novel tells a very good story about Cullen Baker. Enjoyed the read alot.

hell he even joined the posses that were looking for him more than once how many balls does that take lol

Yaaaaaa buddy! Josh is dropping another episode!! Thank you brother!

Very interesting episode. Another notch in the handle of your “Smoke Wagon” Josh. You have a great day! Cheers. 🇨🇦

We ain’t stopping at Buc-ees I ain’t going!! You can’t make me

I've mentioned before I'm a descendant of Bob Lee I never knew he was well known but in my family his actions were usually justified by "the southern cause " my grandmother however thought he used that as an excuse and that he had a hard time adjusting after the war was lost

Apologies for a previous comment about the sense of humor infused in your stories. I failed to have read the bio before checking this channel out. I like the rare stories and topics. Keep it up great work, sorry again about the comment about the jokes didn’t realize that was apart of it all.

I would hardly call 12 years as a brief period of time

Damn this guy was crazy. Great episode!

You got me with the "Bridger" series. Now just wait for new content!! On these cold Montana mourning's. Thanks

He’s also mentioned in the movie outlaw josey wales when Josey gets into to tx

Back at it again with another banger my boy. Love whatcha do brother.

Hello bubba. Thank you kindly for the new content ! We appreciate my brother...

Enjoyed the Cullen Baker episode, even though I have studied him quite a bit. My GGGrandfather was Thomas Orr, the lowly schoolteacher who was one of the subjects of Cullen's hatred. The killing of Cullen Baker must have brought Thomas some fame, as he became the Surveyor of Miller County, Arkansas and laid out the town of Texarkana, served in the Arkansas Legislature and was Sheriff and County Judge in Texarkana. He owned the Opera House and had a successful Law Practice. After all he went thru to marry Belle Foster, they were later divorced and he was married twice more. He and Belle are both buried (separately) in State Line Cemetery in Texarkana.

I grew up in Linden TX. fifteen mls. from Jefferson, same from Bloomberg, you get the idea. Born and bred. Been to and seen most of your content. Thanks for a deeper look at what I thought I knew and more or less verifying a few ol' coot's family tales.

Dude you are a trip! Great job as always 🤘

I'm a born and bred Texan and proud as hell, but I'm glad it's calmed down a little bit.

Stumbled across your podcast yesterday evening. This is number 5 and loving it. Resident of Cass County and formerly of Polk Co, Arkansas. Wua chi tah

You have a new sub here a lifelong history student layman, this episode gave me the idea that putting the bad guy's corpse on public display was likely a powerful deterrent to taking up the criminal trail .

Also, the spot I lived on in bright star had a saloon on it originally. It's possible baker and several other people through time had been there.. the ferry you mentioned was ended up being called spring bank ferry

I really appreciate the work you put into these videos

Never heard of this guy great topic. I know it’s not standard format but I would love hear historical recounts of the Bowie knife and or tomahawk

There's a pistol on the table and a bottle on the floor A few paper back novels by Louis La'Mour

The most famous Texan in WWII was Admiral Chester Nimitz. Admiral Nimitz is from Fredericksburg, Texas. There is a WWII Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Story with an attitude., love it!!

You are one of the few who pronounce our name right The Rowden clan appreciates that

"Fast Draw"?...I've heard he rode a mule and his go to weapon of choice was a shotgun. Thank ya for the story. I really enjoyed your narrative 👍

Great content my man. Your numbers are going to explode.

Hey Josh I wanted to go back and rewatch the deacon jim Miller episode but it wasn’t there also the quonah Parker one was gone too, what’s up ????

Thank you for this episode. I have been planning on doing a post on my blog about how Lee, Peacock, Bickerstaff and Baker deserve Westerns filmed in Northeast Texas and this definitely helps with my research. The works of James Smallwood and Kenneth Howell are on my Amazon wishlist. Are you familiar with the works of Bob Bowman and W. T. Block?

good job again brother really liked it

mannnn these are soo good!

Another banger sir👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Wild 29:39 Bill is also credited with one of the first fast draws at noon over a goldwatch he lost at poker..in Missouri 1865??

Bob Ross x Paul Harrell x Joshua= very messy autistic painting party "somebody hold my beer & watch this..."

Funny thing I have known people like that in my life but luckily I didn’t get killed lol crazy world full of psychopaths and criminals even today some of them good ole boys have a strange way of thinking know what I mean. I enjoy listening to your History stories thanks

Brother ya gut a nu scriba. Great story telling man .thanks

My mom's mother's grandma's maiden name was Baker. My mom's brother was maniacally obsessed with Loiua L'Amour. He owned damn near, if not all, of his books. And my uncle was a pretty vagabond old hippie. So he didn't own much. But those books were his prized possessions. I know my mom's family was southern. Kinda Mahe me have to wonder.... 19:00 One of my Baker x? Great grandfathers had a record attached to his name that said him home was lost a few years before he died due to unpaid property taxes.🤔 Now I'm gonna have to go back through and hunt for that document.

I very much appreciate these broadcast.

My favorite line out of that movie is right before Clint Eastwood kills Gene Hackman and he says “deserves got nothing to do with it”.

I fuckin love this shit!!!!

Always a a great job, thanks!

Another great episode from you as usual . I had totally forgotten about this guy . , I first read about him in a book by ( I think ) Carl Briehan titled " Great Gunfighters Of The West " and had totally forgotten about him until now .

Wow, Mr. Cullen seemed to be a killer in waiting. John P.

As always, your presentation is superb. Your narration really pulls the listener in. And you clearly differentiate between historic FACT, and conjecture, and let the listener know! Very well done. "Fast Draw" as depicted in Hollywood westerns is total fiction. Most of us, familiar with history, know quite well that two men practically never met in the middle of the street at noon to see who was the fastest draw. However, on the Western Frontier, two "Pistoleers" would often stalk each other, sometimes for days, weeks, months, etc, when only death would settle their differences, no matter how trivial the offense. As soon as the 1851 Colt Navy had become THE desired handgun on the Western Frontier, men were learning how to get the Navy into action as smoothly and rapidly as practical, for practical self-defense. No different than today's self-defense drills getting the Glock 19 or S&W J-frame revolver into action smoothly and quickly from concealed carry against a threat. In the VIGILANTES OF MONTANA (1866, author Thomas Dimsdale), "Outlaw-masquerading-as-sheriff" Henry Plummer was described as being able to draw and fire the five shots of his revolver in about 2 or 3 seconds. Plummer's revolver was the small five-shot .36 caliber 1862 Colt Police revolver, the same size as Colt's little 5-shot .31 Pocket revolvers, but with slightly enlarged cylinder to enable the small "Police" revolver to handle the same round ball or conical bullet of the Navy revolvers. The small 5-shot .36 Police revolver, could be carried concealed, and the lighter weight allowed a faster "draw" than the larger 6-shot, .36 Navy revolvers. While the easier hiding, and lighter weight of the small .36 Police would be a reason to choose it over the larger Navy size, in actuality the reason that Plummer likely acquired a 5-shot Police .36 instead of the larger 6-shot Navy .36, was because the Civil War was in full swing, making military sized revolvers in .36 or .44 caliber very difficult to acquire, while the smaller 5-shot .31 Pocket and .36 Police revolvers would be readily available. HISTORY NOTE: As the Idaho / Montana Vigilantes gradually rounded up and shot or hung the robbers and killers around the Alder Gulch area in then-Idaho Territory (became Montana Territory in May, 1864) gold fields, it was revealed that elected Sheriff Henry Plummer was associated with the gang, and using his position to forward information to the gang concerning stage and freight shipment of gold. The Vigilantes caught up to Plummer and on January 10, 1864, Plummer and two deputies were hung from the corral post entrance gate near Bannack, near the Ader Gulch gold strikes. Just another boring day in the Wild West I suppose.

Another winner!

Wyatt Earp said, "Hurry up and take your time!!

Great vid. Thanks

Oa chia mountains is pronounced “O-watch-a-taw”

Great Show!

Bickerstaff? Bickerstaff! He owes me money!”

Do you ever wonder if guys like this ever woke up some mornings thinking " i feel like kill'n somebody today.?

Great show thank you Josh

Excellent!

They say he was born in Weakley County, Tennessee. Not sure about the city. Would be nice to know

I could quote you on that, " 'could have' doesn't account for much with history.

Lewis an Clark's journels..excellent reading

Thanks he was the man God bless you and the stars and bars

Even if I don't need gas, I see a Buccee's and I'm stopping there.

He damn sure killed anything and anybody. When he was poisoned they found 8 or 9 pistols on him

Ain't no one gonna git tired of hearin you talk, You do great work and it is very enjoyable. Love the history, it should be said the way you say it in schools. Minus the cussing of course, we can keep that for us grown folk. Seriously though I wish for nothing but great fortunes for you, it is well earned.

Louis La'Mour is my favorite writer. P.S.Buckiees suck.I'll stop at Love's

Good Stuff

why did most of your episodes get deleted

In high-pitched childlike curios voice… But Josh, how do you continue spinning such fas-kinatin’ yarns?!

This is not a hero of mine but different times and still wery interesting Story ive never heard of so thanks for another great upload who i liked of course i love history spealisy the western time and the viking time but love all times of history exsept now a Days 🤦So thanks for this greetings cz 75 Shadow Norway ✌🏻

This is the best KZfaq has to offer no site is better. This Guy rules

Have you made a video about "Soapy" Smith?

Tell them, how I lived in the moment and I died when I tried to go straight.

Nice A1

If he had pistols and those soldiers just had their issued single shot stuffers it wouldn’t be much of a gun fight ! Those long rifles arent gettin whipped into action very quick. So basically he shot unarmed men the way I see it. Long rifles are for mass formation fights.

My grandma could have been a Cole miner... if she had b^lls😂.

6 22 is my birthday too.🤘

They put strick9 in his whiskey

You don't just PASS a Bucee's!

Merry Christmas

Saline River = suh leen river. Ouachita Mountains = wash it tah Mountains