Dan Flores

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Gunfighters · Ep. 40: Becoming Natives of Place in the American West | The American West · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

I tell this story because of several points I want to make in this episode about residing in bioregional places. voice-verified

The experiences I had across 15 years of living in this place, in this canyon, it's true, did sate the childhood hopes I'd long had for emulating Henry David Thoreau, and ecologist Aldo Leopold, artist George O'Keefe, writers like Zane Gray and Wallace Stegner. voice-verified

By living with nature, voice-verified

out my doors and windows as opposed to city streets. voice-verified

But that was only part of the effect. voice-verified

Equally important, living there never really had me thinking of myself as a resident of Lubbock or Lubbock County or even the state of Texas. voice-verified

I already knew when I bought that piece of canyon that Yellow House was part of a newly recognized bioregion on the Texas plains. voice-verified

a 200-mile-long setting of 16 canyons entrenched into the eastern escarpment of the High Plains Plateau, the canyon headwaters of the Colorado Brazos and Red Rivers. voice-verified

So in the 15 years I spent finishing that house and rewilding my 12 acres as much as was possible, the place I inhabited, researched, and felt allegiance to was the Caprock Canyonlands bioregion. voice-verified

That was my place. voice-verified

Life sent me to other places over the decades after that. voice-verified

So taking small pieces of the Western landscape and homesteading and rewilding them, much as I'd done in West Texas, and feeling an attachment primarily to bioregions is something I've done twice more. voice-verified

All my places have been in the West, but ecologically and culturally, they've been like different planets. voice-verified

Beyond a western zip code, the Bitterroot Valley and the Montana Rockies had little in common with Yellow House Canyon. voice-verified

The third and current of my outback places on the south rim of New Mexico's Galisteo River Valley, south of Santa Fe and the Southern Rockies, is thoroughly distinctive from the other two. voice-verified

I did, to be sure, feel an allegiance to Montana and to Missoula, where my university was located, and I still do. voice-verified

And I love New Mexico and am proud to be associated with a city as beautiful and inspiring as Santa Fe. voice-verified

But as a resident of place? voice-verified

In Texas, I was a resident of the Caprock Canyonlands bioregion. voice-verified

For 19 years after that, I was a bitter rooter. voice-verified

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