Dan Flores

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

I think it uh actually was not true, but he claimed that when he first got to Missoula, he went over to Bill Kittredge's house and said, uh, so I'm I'm uh matched

Your new graduate student, I'm gonna learn how to write under your tutelage and that Kittridge the first thing he said to him was, The Indians here, why don't you go get a pizza for us? matched

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So Jim would tell stories like that on himself. matched

I mean, he he after he he published the death of Jim Loney, which brought him critical acclaim, he got a posting uh at uh the University of Washington uh in the English department there. matched

And he said he spent the first two or three weeks in his office listening to people out in the hallway saying what he thought was fuck you, fuck you. matched

And finally he mentioned that to one of the other professors. matched

And the guy said, No, Jim, they're saying Foucault. matched

Foucault. matched

So I mean and Jim, you know, so he endlessly told stories about himself uh like that, where he was sort of the butt of the joke. matched

And that of course was pretty endearing. matched

Well matched

And the death of Jim Maloney, of course, which is his twentieth century right version of the Blackfeet story, is not a it's it's a tragic book. matched

It's not funny. matched

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Which is I think one of the reasons I wanted to say that about him is that as a No, it adds depth to matched

Yeah, and that's I'm I think what you really hit on that uh to me has always uh uh astonished me about Elliot is matched

He's got such a comprehensive view of the histories that he writes that he's able to kind of give you this feeling of standing apart and watching the world operate. matched

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That's a that's a rare kind of gift. matched

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