Join us this week as we travel back in time to one of the worst and most well known devastatingly fatal diseases in human history: The Spanish flu. But that's not all we cover in this historic cultural episode; we take you through the beginnings of Fort Riley eventually evolving into the big red 1. So entertain your curiosity with us and take a ride down the perilous Santa Fe trail

0:00 Introduction: Fort Riley and It’s History

04:19 Violent massacres: the war between pro and anti slavery

07:41 The lives of confederate prisoners held behind the fort walls

12:07 9th & 10th Calvary training academy

14:26 The birth of the terrorizing disease claiming the lives of ⅓ of the US population

20:04 The ever growing outbreak of rapid deaths and burials

24:37 Facts and speculation collide: not just a training  ...