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Frontier Fighters

Heard
1935
Episodes
40

FRONTIER FIGHTERS

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This is not your typical western drama -- it is a series that will transport you back in time to the days of the wild, unsettled west. Retrace the steps of heroes who, despite the odds, fought and conquered the West. Frontier Fighters was a syndicated series that ran sometime during the 1930s. Each show dealt with some bit of history about the early West and ran for approximately 15 minutes. From Robert La Salle's navigation of the Mississippi River, to Lewis and Clark's challenge of reaching the West Coast of North America, Frontier Fighters will take you on an exciting voyage of the taming of the Wild West. This is American History at its best! From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle

    · No. 1 · 15 min

  2. Lewis and Clark

    · No. 2 · 15 min

  3. Zebulon Pike

    · No. 3 · 15 min

  4. John C. Fremont

    · No. 4 · 15 min

  5. Kit Carson

    · No. 5 · 15 min

  6. Jedediah Strong Smith

    · No. 6 · 15 min

  7. Marcus Whitman

    · No. 7 · 15 min

  8. John McLoughlin

    · No. 8 · 13 min

  9. The Donner Party

    · No. 9 · 14 min

  10. The Fall of the Alamo

    · No. 10 · 15 min

  11. Stephen W. Kearny

    · No. 11 · 15 min

  12. Brigham Young

    · No. 12 · 15 min

  13. Joseph Meek

    · No. 13 · 15 min

  14. Captain George E. Pickett

    · No. 14 · 14 min

  15. John Sutter and James W. Marshall

    · No. 15 · 15 min

  16. Buffalo Bill Cody

    · No. 16 · 15 min

  17. Pike's Peak Rush - Colorado Territory

    · No. 17 · 15 min

  18. Santa Fe Trail

    · No. 18 · 15 min

  19. James B. 'Wild Bill' Hickok

    · No. 19 · 15 min

  20. Reverend Thomas Starr King

    · No. 20 · 15 min

  21. Cochise and Captain Tom Jeffords

    · No. 21 · 15 min

  22. Grenville Dodge and Leland Stanford

    · No. 22 · 15 min

  23. Massacre at Taos, New Mexico

    · No. 23 · 15 min

  24. Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn

    · No. 24 · 15 min

  25. Stephen F. Austin

    · No. 25 · 14 min

  26. Oregon 54-40

    · No. 26 · 15 min

  27. Nevada and the Comstock Lode

    · No. 27 · 14 min

  28. John Phillips - Hero of Fort Phil Kearny

    · No. 28 · 15 min

  29. Oklahoma Land Rush

    · No. 29 · 15 min

  30. Oregon and the Pacific Republic

    · No. 30 · 15 min

  31. Annie D. Tallent

    · No. 31 · 15 min

  32. Ira Burton Perrine

    · No. 32 · 15 min

  33. Wells Fargo

    · No. 33 · 15 min

  34. Governor Anson P. K. Safford

    · No. 34 · 15 min

  35. Arthur A. Denny

    · No. 35 · 15 min

  36. Yellowstone Park

    · No. 36 · 14 min

  37. Eliza Ann Brooks

    · No. 37 · 14 min

  38. General N. A. Miles

    · No. 38 · 14 min

  39. Alaska

    · No. 39 · 14 min

  40. Single Episode 1935

    No date given · 15 min

Where it comes from 2

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Frontier Fighters - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 39 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

  2. Frontier Fighters - Single Episode 1935

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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