Back in late 2023, I did an interview for a documentary on the Pony Express. The producers flew me out to Denver, where I spent a day in a nice, woodsy house talking about the legendary (if short-lived) transcontinental horse-powered mail route. It was a fun experience.
Over the next couple of years, I would check online every couple of months to see if the documentary actually came out. It was going to air on the INSP Network, but I don’t have cable so I figured I would catch it sometime later. Every time I searched for my name on IMDB, though, I did not find anything new under my existing listing.
So today, I was surfing through my LG streaming channels in search of the Rose Bowl broadcast. I did not find it, but apparently we do have a number of cable channels at our disposal. When I came across INSP, I figured I would search again. And as it turns out . . . the documentary was released nearly two years ago! But while the other historians and I spent several minutes talking on camera, none of us were listed in the end credits, which . . . I don’t know . . . is that normal industry practice, or just a weird oversight?
Well, anyway, not only did it already air, but the documentary is now on Amazon Prime. You can also rent it for a few bucks if you don’t already have a Prime membership. In any event, I watched it this afternoon, and the filmmakers did a great job with it.
Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DPCBPGLC/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
I enjoyed it tremendously!