Ep 8 🔫Armed & Dangerous⚠️ : 🐴The Phantom Ranch Ranger🤠

FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : Unbelievable True Stories

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The Grand Canyon is a place of connecting with nature, finding one’s center, and in this rare account, airing one’s grievances. In 1968, newlywed and rookie Park Ranger Mel Heaton was tasked with an impossible undertaking…to disarm 5 hostile men…by himself.
CHARACTERS (in order of appearance)
García López de Cárdenas
Alonso de Cárdenas
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Pedro de Tovar
Pedro de Sotomayor
Pablo de Melgrossa
Juan Galeras
Hopi Guides
Irvine Cob
Henry Long
Clarence Dutton
John Wesley Powell
Havasupai
Ralph H. Cameron
David Rust
President Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Harvey
Mary Jane Colter
Spanish Conquistador
Martin Luther King Jr
Robert F. Kennedy
Park Ranger Mel Heaton
Federal Marshal
Jesus
Apollo 8 Crew
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Apollo 11
John F. Kennedy
LOCATIONS
Llerena, Corona de Castilla
La Puebla del Maestre
River Tizón
Cíbola
Zuñi, New Mexico
Tower of Seville, the Giralda
Spain
Öngtupqa
Colorado River
The Grand Canyon
Phantom Ranch
Garden Creek
Indian Garden
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Santa Fe Railroad
Bright Angel Trail
Grand Canyon South Rim
Vietnam
France
Czechoslovakia
Russia
North Kaibab Trail
Moccasin, Arizona
The River House
Pipe Creek Rest House
FBI Park Ranger Training
Silver Suspension Bridge
South Kaibab Trail
Grand Canyon North Rim
California
Florida
Moon
LINKS
https://youtu.be/4JjADNAn5g4
CREDITS
Based on an account written By Carolyn Heaton Grygla
Wild West Whistling Duel, Copyright 2013 Iwan Gabovitch, CC-BY3 license

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