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Tag: American West

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1793: What Was Your Name?

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 9, 2019 · Episode: 1793 What was your name in the States?”: Beginning anew. Today, what was your name, back in the States?

Tags American West Carl Sandburg folksongs gebinning again gold rush invention

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1656: Power in Colorado

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 25, 2019 · Episode: 1656 Electric power comes to Telluride, Colorado. Today, we install a dynamo on a mountaintop.

Tags alternating current American West direct current dynamo edison electric generator generating electricity gold mining Keokuk Dam Pelton Pelton wheels technological change Telluride Colorado Westinghouse

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1557: New Worlds To Seek

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 17, 2018 · Episode: 1557 Heinrich Lienhard creates a new world – even as he discovers it. Today, we watch a new world being formed.

Tags American West axe Mississippi River pioneers settlements

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Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen

Humanities Texas

Posted on April 2, 2016 · She was a real person who lived a life that was portrayed and exaggerated in film. Belle was a fast-living, hard-driving woman who became known as the "Bandit Queen."

Tags American West Scyene women's history

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