They Called The Giant Mountain Man A Beast, But This Fat Woman Saw The Heart They Feared To Touch

They called him a beast… because he was too big.
They called her worthless… because she was too fat.
But when Leadville’s elite decided who counted as “human,” a rejected heiress and a hunted giant chose to stand together—and the whole town cracked.

In this emotional episode of Wild West Evening Tales, step into Leadville, Colorado (1883)—a silver boomtown split between chandelier mansions and deadly mine tunnels. Ezekiel Blackwood, a 6’8 giant blamed for a collapse he tried to prevent, lives as an outcast on Tenderfoot Mountain. Matilda “Tillie” Hawthorne, a brilliant plus-size heiress silenced by high society, knows exactly what it means to be reduced to a body.
When deputies beat Zeke in the street outside the Silver King Hotel, Tillie does the unthinkable—she steps into the mud, shields him with her own body, and forces the truth into daylight.

Wild West Evening Tales is a home for cinematic Old West storytelling, where rugged mountain men, forgotten women, and frontier justice collide under unforgiving skies.
Each episode is a long-form narrated Western story / audiobook, inspired by the harsh beauty of the American frontier—railroad camps, mining towns, isolated cabins, and lawless settlements where morality is tested and silence can be deadly.

Here you’ll find stories about:
Mountain men shaped by solitude, loss, and survival
Outcast women — often judged for their bodies, origins, or pasts — who refuse to be erased
Frontier justice where truth stands against corruption, greed, and bought law
Redemption arcs, emotional survival, and quiet strength over brute force
The Wild West as it really was: dangerous, unfair, and unforgiving — but not without hope

These are slow-burn, immersive Western tales, meant to be listened to at night, during long drives, quiet work, or moments when you want to disappear into another time.
🎧 Best enjoyed with headphones
🔥 New stories regularly
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Welcome to Wild West Evening Tales — where the frontier still remembers.
Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction, created to celebrate love beyond appearance, challenge social judgment and class discrimination, and remind us that human worth is not defined by standards imposed by society.