Dan Flores
speaker
4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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it's been an attempt to offer up a different look at the West.
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Sarah and I have talked about this an awful lot.
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And so that was the idea in the very beginning.
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And uh I hope uh people have enjoyed listening and watching and uh I hope they feel smarter about the West as a result of listening and watching and
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Uh, there's a line that I've used a couple of times in the podcast and I'll use it
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Again here at the end, I hope to
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This podcast has rearranged the furniture in your head about the American West.
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Nice guys.
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Thank you.
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The West and his stories have been rendered in many ways, some of which I've made an effort to address in this podcast.
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In the deep past there's archaeology and paleontology, which is how we know about the Clovis people or the
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Collapse of the Chaco and Empire.
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Are woolly mammoths and darwolves as part of the West disappeared beast sharing?
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There's ethnology and anthropology and folklore which have preserved our oldest western literature in the form of the coyote stories.
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And have told us a great deal about Western cultures, native or not.
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The visual arts, which I've addressed several times, gave the world our first visual impressions of the West and interpreted the frontier.
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Photography followed to capture a West that intrigues us because it looks less like our West than we'd expect.
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But as for history, literary fiction, and poetry, literary art is the form of books about the West, and there are so many, and that allows us to experience the past, present, and future of this region in ways no other way of knowing can do.
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Except of course for Western movies, which we'll take up in the next episode of the American West.
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