Dan Flores

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

And so he's wondering why this is happening, and he's noticing that the same thing is happening with grass trees.

And so it leads him to challenge what was then the existing idea about how the Great Plains came to be.

And there were two competing ideas, and he had heard both of them from William Dunbar back in Natchez, who along with Jefferson was who had sort of outfitted the expedition and told them what to look for and what sort of topics to take up.

Because Dunbar had said,

There are two competing explanations for these plains, which, of course, Americans are just now seeing.

They haven't seen them before.

And here they're entering this wholly new landscape of wide-open grasslands.

And Dunbar says the two explanations are the plains are the remnants of ancient lake beds, or they're caused by fires burning across them all the time.

And of course, I have them on the return trip.

They see a fire burning.

They see the planes burning.

But Custis, who has observed this gradient of diminishing height of various plants, returns and says, I think maybe the explanation has to do with the diminishing precipitation as you go west, that

So I have him do kind of a first American take on aridity.

As you go west, it gets drier and drier, and that's the effect it produces.

And, of course, people living in the east, this is not a concept that has ever occurred to them.

So anyway, that's where that came from.

Yeah, this was a fun one, Randall.

I appreciate your questions.

Gunfighters · Ep. 38: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part I | The American West · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

at phelpsgamecalls.com like apollo 13 thomas jefferson's red river expedition into the west was a failure this is how their story should have gone i'm dan flores and this is the american west

The River That Flowed From Nowhere, part one.

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