Dan Flores

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Gunfighters · Ep. 41: Favorite Books About the West | The American West · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

So it's the kind of thing you can put into your uh put on your Bluetooth as you're driving across the West and sort of absorb information while you're looking at scenery. matched

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No, it's a great it's a great book. matched

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It's a terrific book. matched

So Losing Eden is the title of it. matched

What we're uh tasked with today is coming up with uh matched

favorite books out of an enormous body of material that's out there about the West. matched

Uh and uh we're going to just kind of go straight to the topic and we're gonna gonna begin with Sarah. matched

Yeah, Stegner is the author of uh one of the books I chose as well, uh which is I think an indication uh he's probably in our choices the only person who appears more than once and there's a matched

an obvious reason for it because he's matched

Uh he stands kind of head and shoulders above most other Western writers in the elegance of his prose for one thing, but also because he trained so many so many writers. matched

I mean he had uh uh Stegner uh to kind of give a really quick biography of him. matched

He was one of those people who lived, as he said. matched

In twenty-two different places and eight different states when he was growing up, almost all of them in the West, some of them in Canada, some of the places matched

uh were uh outside Calgary, but he also spent a lot of his youth in Utah. matched

Uh and he lived for most of uh his adult life in California because after getting a PhD from the University of Iowa uh in English literature uh and uh sort of having Bernard Devoto, another famous Western historian and Western writer, matched

Ryder become his mentor. matched

Stegner ended up at Stanford, where he started a creative writing program and he trained people like Edward Abbey and Thomas McGwain and I mean a whole host of uh Wendell Berry, a whole host of kind of famous writers about nature and about America and the West. matched

So he was uh this kind of matched

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