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 had been incorporated as a city in 1912 in the midst of an agricultural remaking of the Southern High Plains.
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A young Georgia O'Keeffe arrived on the Texas plains about the time Lubbock emerged and utterly fell in love with this horizontal world.
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The biggest thing she had ever seen, she claimed.
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But this soon famous American artist was on the scene before the agricultural assault nearly entirely banished nature in West Texas.
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I'm not sure to which Lubbock particulars my friend had directed her ghastly descriptor, but erasing an ancient ecology of bison, pronghorns, prairie dogs, wild horses, and gray wolves overnight and replacing it with an ocean of cotton plants and nodding pump jacks
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struck me as a strong candidate.
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In Lubbock County, the ground where the tar paper shack stood was a singularity, a piece of barely surviving nature in a region that had all but excommunicated the natural.
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The house was in a small canyon called Yellow House.
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that in a now pretty abused form, sliced down through the vast plateau where Lubbock and its endless cotton fields stood.
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A few miles outside town, the little canyon became the mile-wide setting of cattle ranches.
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Some started back in the 1880s.
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Although most of the original wildlife in Yellow House was gone, those ranches and the canyon's topography had at least saved its prairie grasslands.
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the only 3% of ground in all of Lubbock County still harboring natural vegetation.
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As for the shack I'd bought, it was attractively sited.
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It stood on a slope below Yellow House Canyon's south rim.
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A hemispheric rimrock loomed behind it while on the eastern border of the acreage was an upswept mesa snagged in geologic time like a frozen wave.
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providing a graceful profile against morning sunrises.
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In the Louisiana woods where I'd grown up, my buddies and I had thrown up in expertly built cabins since I was a 10 year old.
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Much of my adult life, I had longed to escape city life for nature.
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For me, finishing that house and homesteading in West Texas' Yellow House Canyon was the dream of youth finally realized.
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