Stranger On The Side Of The Road: Cowboy Up Part 1
The Modern West

Stranger On The Side Of The Road: Cowboy Up Part 1

2022-01-05

In 1892, Wyoming hosts its first execution and it's a teenage boy named Kansas Charlie. His trial causes a big national debate: is Charlie a hardened criminal or a neglected child? It's a question we still haven't answered in the American West, where children are incarcerated in greater numbers than anywhere else. We also hear from a modern-day Kansas Charlie who's living out his days in Wyoming's prisons who says, growing up, no one ever asked him the simple question: do you need help?

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