Dan Flores

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

It's still one of the most beautiful creations of the 19th century ideas about settlement in the West with all of what are essentially these little bioregions voice-verified

that are built around streams. voice-verified

And he did it as a color map. voice-verified

And so it's all beautifully variegated in terms of color. voice-verified

And he drew the arid line, the isothermal line for aridity around the borders of it. voice-verified

And so the Pacific coast is kind of excluded because it's wetter. voice-verified

And then down through the Great Plains, he basically follows the 100th meridian. voice-verified

And he says, east of that, you can continue to use the grid system. voice-verified

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In this area I've outlined, we should base our settlement patterns and our political ideals around all these little scores of small bioregions. voice-verified

Basically, Congress took a look at that and said, pretty map, let's go on to the next issue. voice-verified

And so all we really have is the map and the idea of those bioregions, but of course, that voice-verified

reemerges a century later. voice-verified

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Yeah, so the bioregional idea, I mean, had a second life, as I recount in this episode. voice-verified

It was sort of reborn in the 1970s and 1980s, first as an idea by a Canadian and then a group of kind of, voice-verified

former hippies who had been involved in going out during the 60s and 70s and sort of part of the so-called back to land movement when that was happening, you know, inspired. voice-verified

by the Whole Earth Catalogs and Stewart Brand, which as I say in this episode, that's the Google of the 1960s and 1970s for all these people who want to do it. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

It's the Google of that time period. voice-verified

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