Episodes

  • Wild West Gold Rush - Stake Your Claim on the Frontier with Jack Maddox

    Wild West Gold Rush - Stake Your Claim on the Frontier with Jack Maddox
    Apr 7 2026
    Join host Jack Maddox as he unearths the raw, unfiltered voices of the California Gold Rush through actual diaries and letters. Discover the fever dreams, brutal realities, and forgotten stories that shaped the Wild West—straight from those who lived it. This isn't sanitized legend; it's history as wild and dangerous as it actually was.

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    1 min
  • Wild West - Gold Rush - Written Out of the Story

    Wild West - Gold Rush - Written Out of the Story
    Apr 7 2026
    Host Jack Maddox explores the untold histories of the 1849 California Gold Rush through archival letters and diaries. This episode examines how Latino miners, Chinese laborers, and Native communities faced systematic violence and displacement, while gold discoverers John Sutter and James Marshall ended up destitute—revealing who truly profited from America's most famous treasure hunt.

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    22 mins
  • Wild West - Gold Rush - The Ledger Never Lies

    Wild West - Gold Rush - The Ledger Never Lies
    Apr 7 2026
    Host Jack Maddox explores the brutal economics of the California Gold Rush through miners' actual diaries and letters. When coffee costs $75 a pound and your best mining day nets $37, the math reveals a harsh truth: the real fortunes belonged to merchants like Levi Strauss and Wells Fargo, not the prospectors themselves.

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    23 mins
  • Wild West - Gold Rush - The Fever Sets In

    Wild West - Gold Rush - The Fever Sets In
    Apr 7 2026
    Join AI host Jack Maddox as he reads the actual diaries of three men who lived through the California Gold Rush's early days. Through their raw, firsthand accounts—from the moment gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill to harrowing sea voyages—discover how gold fever transformed ordinary people into desperate dreamers risking everything for possibility itself.

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    24 mins