Cañon City Podcast

02/18/2026

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/fremont-county-coal-mines-lets-talk-about-the-miners/

When Coal became King in southern Colorado, it took men with Grit to get the coal out of the mines. In this episode we touch on the miner and some of the conditions he faced

01/22/2026

The Birth of the Hell Razing Town of Prospect Heights

Step back into Fremont County's rowdiest chapter....when Canon City went Dry, the Adamic Brothers created their own Party town this is the story of Prospect Highs

01/10/2026

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/the-crazy-story-of-a-frontier-turf-war-a-western-daniel-vs-goliath-tale/

12/11/2025

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/the-story-of-colorados-youngest-inmate-and-his-murderous-past/

12/04/2025

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/the-committee-of-safety-wasnt-so-safe-the-story-of-the-lake-county-war/

In !874-1881 the Lake County War raged in the little town of Centerville Colorado. It not a War lie you would think,, so listen to this podacast on how a handful of men took over everything in Chaffe County

12/01/2025

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/courthouse-hanging-ghost-train-and-a-little-b***o/

A couple of short stories form the Mining Camp of Fairplay Colorado

11/20/2025

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/wid-west-tale-of-tom-horn-and-doc-shores-and-the-cotopaxi-train-robbery/

1891 the Denver Rio Grand is stopped and robbed at gunpoint, Famous Lawmen Tom Horn and Doc Shores track down the highwaymen in Indian territory A true story of adventure, and humiliation

11/06/2025

In this podcast we hear the story of the Bloody 1900 Prison Break and how the Citizens of Canon City made an example of one of the escaped inmates

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/the-bloody-prison-escape-of-1900-and-the-lynching-pf-inmate-reynolds/

https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-z7szf-19b565e

10/18/2025

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/a-bad-deed-done-well-the-lynching-of-george-witherell/

On December 4th, 1888 The Murderous Outlaw George Witherell is Stretched out from a telegraph pole on West Main Street in Canon City Colorado This story is about all the events that led up to the Mob mentality that gripped the Frontier town of Canon City

09/26/2025

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/indian-attacks-the-possessed-paino-cattle-rustling-and-hangings/

Canon City 1865, The town experiences a renewal but not without big problems... Indians on the plains, Outlaws in the hills, and Indians collecting rent, 3 short stories of the Canon City experience

09/20/2025

https://jonkenline.podbean.com/e/a-head-in-a-pickle-jarthe-civil-war-in-the-west-and-rebel-guerillas-in-colorado/

The notorious Reynolds gang and the Civil War. The confederated are poised to take over the Gold mined in Leadville, Fairplay, and Breckenridge