Dan Flores
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Gunfighters · Ep. 38: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part I | The American West · 21 Jul 2026
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The copses of upland meadows we had seen here and there downriver, almost exclusively occupied by an orange-hued bunchgrass growing to knee height, here became much extended, so that woods and meadow began to occupy almost the same balance of ground.
No doubt linked to these phenomena, the horizon had now become visible in many places at a distance of a mile or more.
I thought this inexplicable transformation might correspond to the slowly rising elevation of the country as measured by our barometer, a view reinforced when, during a delay occasioned by low water, the Indians, our interpreter Mr. Talapone and I, had the opportunity to ascend the Cayo Michi, a north tributary of the Red River, famous among the hunters for its beaver.
On that excursion, two days' travel by piro brought us to a piney, mountainous country, and eventually to a fine, long mountain valley that in aspect and elevation so closely resembled the Blue Ridge that my eyes filled for home.
The mountains here, however, run east and west rather than north-south, and under close examination, the similarity is only partial.
With much difficulty on account of heat and swarming ticks, we ascended the sandstone and slate ridges where the barometer showed an elevation of more than 2,400 feet above the sea.
The view to the north was of immense meadows inset with picturesque peaks through which flowed a south branch of the Arkansas River.
The Kato's used the same name for this river and the mountains, Kayomichi.
It means horned screamer, and it refers to the cries of the giant woodpeckers, the great ivory bills being particularly numerous here.
In these mountains, I observed that the vegetation often differed markedly from one side of the ridge to the other.
Seeing the heights so thinly clothed with scrubby oaks and specimens of pinus twisted into fantastical shapes gave me the notion that, as in the Blue Ridge, perhaps it was elevation that was producing the change we were witnessing in the country.
Above the mouth of the Cayo Michi, we entered a region the hunters called Horse Prairie
And while cotton trees still flanked the margins of the river, we were now in a country where the uplands were composed of prairie almost entire.
The only trees away from the river being those found in the declivities of the hills.
The country also grew choppier, the crest of the hills from one to three miles apart.
The tree the Indians used to make their bows, full of large yellow fruit of a pebbly surface, is plenty on the margins of these prairies.
Here I first saw, at great distance, a small group of quadruped animals I thought goats escaped from a Spanish settlement.
But then they turned from me and escaped across the prairie with a rapidity only a winged pegasus goat could have reached.
This may perhaps be the astonishing creature described by Mr. Laharp and to me by Mr. Hendry with the unlikely ornamentation of a single horn.
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