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Gunfighters · Ep. 39: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part II | The American West · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm Dan Flores, and this is the American West.

The River That Flowed From Nowhere

Part 2.

January 15, 1807.

Natchitoches, Dr. Sibley's home.

My dearest President Jefferson.

And so our journey continued.

On the 30th of September, with the Red River commencing to flow from a northwest direction and the unfamiliar mountains gathering their strange shapes around us, we came to a considerable stream of water coming in from the west.

Directly exiting the mountains, its waters salty but less so than the main river.

Here, our Pawnee guide, Tattasuk, advised us that this was the last point for several days where the river's waters could be drunk, that we must ascend this west fork called the Thule with our pack mules to where the water became sweet and fill every skin bag we possessed for continuing the journey up the main river.

Mr. Freeman thus split the party, leaving 18 at a camp at this place while nine of us followed the Thule into its mountain fastness.

Wholesome and sweet water was obtained within five miles of travel up this little stream, and our skin bags were soon filled to brimming.

But so weird and oddly enchanting was the country that it drew us onward.

And with one of the Indians and Mr. Talapoon, Mr. Freeman and I decided to explore further this narrow and most interesting defile.

This was our first experience with a kind of scenery which became frequent, though never common to our eyes, during the next months of our travel.

A scenery, if I may, never before known within the confines of the United States.

The majority of the views we here submit to the presidential eye, recorded with our camera obscura box, are of these canyons and of the rock mountains along the River Dunbar.

Yet I must add the sensible fact that none of the profiles we recorded can give an adequate impression of this country, which would require all the imagination and skill of Europe's best painters of landscape to capture.

It's now four months since I've returned from this region, yet its fantastical shapes and hues of its coloring linger in my mind like the faint impressions of a dream."

Had I not seen it all with my own eyes, I would not believe such a place as the region about the head sources of the Red River exists.

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