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.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

So this is a a book. matched

That has withstood, I think, the test of time. matched

Uh, I love Don Worcester's biography of John Wesley Powell. matched

I mean, Don is a great friend and one of the he is probably the modern dean of environmental history in the American West. matched

Uh, but I've always really loved the Stegner book, and I'll tell you a couple of reasons why. matched

One of the things I like about Stegner. matched

Stegner's work, and I like this about most writers who I admire, is that they not only go into the archives and not only read matched

a variety of secondary works to inform this kind of broader vision. matched

But matched

When it's necessary, they put on the hiking boots and the backpack and go out into the world to see. matched

The the settings of what they're attempting to describe in the book. matched

And that's one of the things Stegner always did, because this book requires it in that about a third of it is about John Wesley Powell's descent down the Colorado River in the 1870s. matched

And so you have to get out on the landscape and see the river, see the Grand Canyon. matched

Understand what he's talking about. matched

I mean, and Powell uh was all over the West in the years when he was such a major figure and major bureaucrat and government figure uh in the West in the late 19th century. matched

And so Stegner had to go practically everywhere that Powell went. matched

And he uses that to describe the landscape in a way that you can't unless you go. matched

And the other thing I really love about this kind of writing is I am entranced by the notion of those first visions of a kind of matched

uh at least for white Americans and undiscovered country. matched

And Powell matched

Showing 501–520 of 4,468 · page 26 of 224