Dan Flores
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first heard Dec 2024
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Gunfighters · Ep. 39: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part II | The American West · 28 Jul 2026
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And they were a kind of the analogy of the Lakotas from the northern plains.
The Comanches were that group on the southern plains.
That's exactly right.
Yeah, that's another good question.
And, uh, I, uh, I think, you know, one thing you have to sort of understand about the character I tell this story through Peter Custis, who is the, he's the, in effect, the, the naturalist on the expedition, uh,
Thomas Freeman is an astronomer, so he's a scientist as well.
He's the one who's doing the maps and all.
But Custis is the naturalist, and so he's interested in all the things to do with... Because Jefferson has told them in his instructions, I want you to pay particular attention to everything you see new that's not in the maritime states, as Jefferson puts it in his instructions.
And so...
One of the things Custis is doing, of course, is that he's recording the presence of new animals that he's seeing for the first time.
I have him discover, you know, at least evidence that there are jaguars in the southwest.
He gets the talons of a grizzly bear.
He doesn't see a grizzly bear, but he gets the talons.
And of course, he sees mule deer and pronghorns and
all these various creatures and plants.
But one of the things he's noticing as they're going west, and he comments on it from the very beginning, he even does so in the first episode that I devoted to the first part of this story, that as they go west, the trees are getting shorter.
The same tree species will continue over a couple of hundred miles, but as they go west, the trees keep getting shorter and shorter and shorter.
A gradient of...
It's a gradient until he finally, when he's there close to the headwaters of the Red River, approaching the edge of the Llano Estacado Plateau and the canyon country they're about to enter, he talks about we're in oak trees that are only knee high.
And he had been traveling through oak trees down the Red River that were 100 feet tall.
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