Dan Flores

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4,468 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 18 Aug

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

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That was a battle of many years, but I did manage to get that place. voice-verified

I had 24 acres in the Bitterroot and I mean, all the surrounding countryside of course was infested with napweed. voice-verified

And so was my place. voice-verified

And I managed to get it under control, but it took me years and years to do it. voice-verified

But what I discovered when I did that, and this has been the case in New Mexico too, where what previous settlement, I mean, what I describe in this, and this, by the way, this episode is kind of the topic of the next book I'm doing, which is called Homestead. voice-verified

And in all these places in West Texas and the Bitterroot Valley in Montana and in New Mexico, voice-verified

What you're kind of battling are the mistakes that people who owned the land before you made. voice-verified

And in a lot of instances, you know, not to single out a particular economic activity, but the truth is it's been grazing and overgrazing that has allowed weeds to spread. voice-verified

In New Mexico, the battle against weeds is against the tumbleweed. voice-verified

You know, the Russian... voice-verified

thistle that I'm very familiar. voice-verified

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And, uh, I mean, and it's a battle. voice-verified

I mean, uh, my wife, Sarah and I have for years pulled up tumbleweeds by hand, but what I've realized both in, in, uh, in all three places, really West Texas, the Bitterroot and the Galveston Valley in New Mexico in particular, is that if you can get the weeds removed, uh, voice-verified

The original vegetation is there. voice-verified

It's underneath the weed cover and it's just strangled, especially when I managed to clear spotted knapweed off my place in the Bitterroot. voice-verified

I mean, that beautiful bunch grass prairie just began to bloom and blossom underneath it. voice-verified

But it took removing the knapweed to get it to come through. voice-verified

Yeah, it does. voice-verified

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