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In the Oregon desert, Henry Hanson lives a simple, isolated life out on the range.

John Dillinger henchman, Wolf John, trudges through the Manitowish Waters, WI, forest after escaping the FBI raid on the Little Bohemia Lodge.

Emilia Barnes runs the entire 205,000-mile perimeter of North and South America as the world stands by.

The Narrator recaps an episode of the famous—or infamous—1970s Scooby-Doo knock-off, The Handsome Gang.

Michelle Lafayette tries to get to work during a terrible storm in Oklahoma City, OK, and isn’t having any luck. Until a handsome stranger moseys up.

Stoic Paiute man, Sag’ava’tupuy-chi, pleads with his tribal elders about a horrific omen he witnessed in a vision that could destroy their way of life irreparably.

Elmer Elwood Edison works at a Memphis, TN, lumber yard in the early 20th-century. On account of his ailments and slight stature, though, he mostly sings and plays guitar to keep the boys’ spirits high.

Handsome Gang henchman, Silvertooth, plays cards with his boss and a traveling banker as a saloon in Colorado.

Jed lives a meaningless existence as a line cook in Sedro-Woolley, WA. That is, until he makes a flapjack that changes a woman’s life.

Colonel Casey Muskogee has dastardly outlaw Dwight Everly and his gang of bandits up against a wall out in the high desert of eastern Oregon.

In late 18th-century Raleigh, NC, itinerant Methodist Reverend William Glendenning sees the unthinkable—and can’t unsee it.

Cincinnati, OH, children’s television star, Clint Hornsby, has a crisis of faith while filming his beloved show, Mr. Hornsby’s Sunday Stroll.

Leon, a down-on-his-luck Chicago haberdashery salesman in the early 1900s gets the opportunity of a lifetime to be the spokesman for a new brand of whiskey.

Henry Handsome robs a St. Louis, MO, bank in 1865 and escapes into the night. However, it happens to be the same night John Wilkes Booth decides to assassinate Lincoln and the heat is on both of the outlaws.

In a Baton Rouge, LA, elder care home during a terrible hurricane, Amjad regales his fellow residents about a storm he witnessed just like it.

At the terminus of Lincoln’s 1865 multi-city funeral procession, Archer Stevens is hired to guard his beloved President’s body in the Springfield, IL, Town Square overnight. It’s easy-going until Archer wakes up from his unexpected nap and finds the casket is empty.

Book-smart and street-dumb, Caleb Wilson sits in as his buddies in Albuquerque, NM, go over the plan to knock over a local gas station.

13-year-old Ike Teraguchi looks after his younger brother as they navigate Japanese-American internment in WWII-era Missoula, Montana.

Giovana Johnston gets called up to the big leagues when she’s asked to temp PA on the set of the modern-day reboot of the 1980s advertising sitcom Golden Hour.

1800s lumberjack, “Wenatchee Hank” Hartford, takes his buddy up on a drunken bet to ride a log down a river in Sultan, WA.

Tito Berra loves his wife and his family. He just wants a little something for himself. But all the excitement over his friend’s gift of a box of genuine Hernán Guapo cigars vanishes when he opens them up.

The Narrator recaps the thrilling and steamy 2003 romance novel, Outlaw Desires, about two cowboys between a rock and a hard place.

It’s winter 1990 in a desolate Manitoba cabin. Freddy Quigley and Rene Boucher took a young woman for ransom and things are going according to plan—until Freddy realizes he forgot something essential.

In present-day San Francisco, CA, Ross tries to navigate office etiquette on the first day of his fancy new tech job.

In 1950s Salt Lake City, UT, newly hired creative whiz, Alvin Goldstein, racks his brain to think of a brilliant campaign and mascot for the Great Salt Lake Salt Company.

In 1857, Julius Beaufort collects trinkets for his time capsule in Seneca Village, New York City, while across town, Detective E.R. Stanton is on a manhunt for a murderer.

Musical ethnographer Barrett Ford sits down to record old-timer Hobart Jenkins play some fiddle in his rickety Appalachian cabin in the 1950s.

Henry Handsome and the Handsome Gang hijack a locomotive full of East Coast bigwigs on their way to Promontory Summit, Utah, celebrating the terminus of the Transcontinental Railway.

Life is hard in 1980s Wyoming for Nez Perce rodeo rider Joseph Their Many Bison. But a fortuitous accident of the rodeo’s star rider might give Joseph the big break he’s been hoping for.

In the 1970s, in the kitschy Old West tourist town of Settlersville, CA, teen tour guide Carson Becker feels an odd gravitational pull to an outskirts building with ties to a notorious cult.

The Narrator sits down with you to chat about a commemorative Henry Handsome plaque in the California desert.

Henry Handsome was an outlaw cowboy—at least that's how the legend goes. Henry Handsome Lived & Died examines the creation, evolution, proliferation, dissemination and degradation of American folklore. Through 30 different short stories, the character, vague idea, false memory, misattributed anecdote or influence of the titular Henry Handsome does everything from change the course of American media to sculpt modern day knowledge of manifest destiny. Together, the collection represents the stories that create and define a culture, how those stories are told, if they ever were to begin with—and if any of that matters at all. Each story was written, recorded, narrated and produced by Elliot Matson. If you'd like to learn more about the collection, go to elliotmatson.com/henryhandsome.