This Week on Dispatches: Eric Sterner on How the Story of Samuel Brady’s Rescue of Jane Stoops became a Frontier Legend

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews author and JAR Contributor Eric Sterner about frontiersman Samuel Brady and his rescue of Jane Stoops from an Indigenous war party. While the event may be true, did it happen the way the later stories recalled?

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