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

On the second we pushed off into the river and began our descent to the village of the Cachatas,

where Mr. Freeman planned to leave the barge until the high water of the spring enabled a more favorable penetration of the great swamp.

The voyage downriver was made without incident.

We passed the great southward swing in the river the day before Christmas 1806 and made the Cushatta village five days after.

There being insufficient horse to transport the party overland to Natchitoches, Mr. Freeman left the major portion under command of Captain Sparks to march the road eastward around the Great Raft and the Great Swamp while he and I rode in advance.

We reached Dr. Sibley's home in Natchitoches on the fifth day of the new year.

I should be in New Orleans in February after reporting to Dr. Dunbar in Natchitoches.

With respect to the country up the Red River, it is unnecessary to say more.

It is so entirely unlike any other in the United States, a scenery of vast horizontal spaces and stupendous defiles of bizarrely colored earth, that is so strange, nay even alien to the eye, that one wonders now what our people would ever make of it.

neither the country nor the course of the river turned out upon examination to bear a resemblance to what the president expected.

Many of us, although Mr. Freeman refuses to concede the idea, wonder whether the Spaniards permitted our exploration precisely because they knew this.

which explains why the Spanish commander never referenced Santa Fe or the Snowy Mountains in transmitting his government's demands with respect to our course of travel.

Indeed, some among us believe this region might best be left to the Indian, the hunter, the buffalo and wolf and wild mustang forever.

I am, sir, your most obedient servant, Peter Custis.

Yeah, that's a great question to start this out.

And let me say that what prompted my sitting down and writing this, what is in effect historical fiction, is

What would have happened had Freeman and Custis not been stopped by a Spanish force in the summer of 1806 and had continued into the southwest and gotten to explore was being at Monticello, I don't know, it was 20 years ago probably.

and walking into the receiving room of Jefferson's home and seeing, because they had tried to do it as sort of a period presentation, seeing on the wall of his receiving room a map of the West post Lewis and Clark that showed the

Columbia River, Missouri River, the northern Rockies, all of that route mapped out with William Clark's map, and showing some of Zebulon Pike's trek across the plains in 1807, and he returns after having been captured by the Spaniards in 1810.

But the Red River itself, which Jefferson said several times in his letters to various people,

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