Tragedy with a View – Details, episodes & analysis

The 1920s—dubbed the Roaring Twenties—was a decade of dramatic social and cultural change in the United States. It was an era defined by jazz music, flapper fashion, booming industry, and a bold break from traditional norms. Cities grew rapidly, speakeasies flourished, and Prohibition—instituted by the 18th Amendment in 1920—made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal.

But far from curbing drinking, Prohibition fueled a surge in organized crime, smuggling, and violence. Even the most remote corners of the country weren’t spared, including the newly protected lands of the U.S. national parks.

In 1927, amidst this backdrop of national upheaval, James Alexander Cary, a park ranger at Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas, became the first national park ranger to be murdered in the line of duty.

The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.

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October 2, 1999. The day is etched in the boy’s father’s mind. He’s wearing blue sweat pants, a pull over and white tennis shoes. He is sitting in the back seat of a car, and just before it pulls away, Jaryd looks at this father with big, innocent brown eyes. He blinks once before saying “I love you too daddy.” And this is the last time Allyn Atadero sees his son alive again.

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The stories of attacks by wild wolves are few and far between. Between wolves natural instinct to avoid humans, and humans uncanny fear of them, contact between a wild wolf and a person rarely comes to love.

but it does happen, and today’s episode focuses on one of the few who were not just attacked, but killed.

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The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.

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Loss from fire is devastating at its best, and horrific at its worst. When the 20 man crew of the Granite Mountain Hotshots showed up to help combat the Yarnell Hill Fire, none of them had imagined it would be their last moments alive. Had they contemplated death? Absolutely, yet they had clawed their way out of its grips before.

But as they found themselves suddenly surrounded by fire, in a thick cloud of smoke, temperatures becoming unbearable, the grim reality set in. There way no way out.

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The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.

Merch is now available here!

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And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

In 1910 North America was experiencing a boom in industries, and a fight for public lands. Without the knowledge we have today, those two factors came to a head when the protected lands of the Cascade Mountains and Canadian Rocky Mountains were used to connect the west coast to the rest of the country via rail road. No one understood the effects of logging in the mountains and how that would combine with wildfires to create a devastating and deadly game of playing chicken with the train.

But this chicken was the train, and the train was a wall of white. Listen now as this episode covers both the Wellington Avalanche Disaster and the Rodger Pass Disaster, which happened only days apart.

The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use. 

Merch is now available here!

Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!

Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information. 

And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy. 

James Randall Morgenson live a life outdoors. From a young age his live and draw to the wildest corners of California’s Sierra Nevada range prepared him for nearly 3 decades as a back country ranger in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

He was a legend for younger rangers and his ability to read the landscape and predict how people would respond to the terrain was unlike anyone else in the park system. But in the summer of 1996, Randy himself goes missing. The search for one of their own began and what information was found left the unanswered questions lingering in the dark.

Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.

The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use. 

Merch is now available here!

Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!

Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information. 

And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy. 

During the pandemic people behaved in ways they otherwise wouldn’t, from wearing multiple masks for safety, to wearing no mask inside a building as defiance, we behaved in ways that we never thought we would. But there was one place we could be wholly ourselves: in the wilderness. When Ellen and Jonathan head out on a hike with their baby, Miju, and dog Oski, they never imagined the day they had in store. And as avid adventurers, they made one big mistake: not bringing enough water.

Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.

The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.

Merch is now available here!

Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!

Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.

And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

In 1939, while the World was on the cusp of World War 2, Donald Fendler took his 3 boys and 2 friends for a hike up to the summit of Mount Katahdin. What he didn’t expect was one of them going missing, and being found 9 days and 35 miles later.

Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.

The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use. 

Merch is now available here! 

Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!

Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information. 

And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy. 

In 2007, two separate groups of people made thier way toward the Leg Lake Cirque in the Wind River Range in western Wyoming. The events that came next were unfathomable to either party, and a single decision would both bring them together and tear them apart.

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The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.

Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!

Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.

And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

In 1978, a young woman stood on the side of the road hoping to hitchhike her way home. But when Mary Vincent climbed inside the van driven by Larry Singleton, her life would never be the same. After attacking her, he chopped off her arms and threw her into the canyons and left her for dead. But Mary refused to quit- even after California law failed her.

Listen now to the story of Mary Vincent and how the murder of Roxanne Hayes finally ended Larry’s rampage,