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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We saw these animals several more times, always at great distance, rendering me even more anxious to resolve their mysteries.
In these same prairies, at about west longitude 96 degrees, we also met with the first of a peculiar species of burrowing squirrels.
In size, they are a little different from the fox squirrel but possess a yellowish coat and are equipped with a very short tail, tipped in black, and reside in extensive underground colonies defended by sentries.
I give a more precise description of this squirrel elsewhere, along with a proposal for a scientific name from a specimen I prepared of one Mr. Freeman collected with an admirable rifle shot.
The small owl in my collection is from one of these squirrel towns, for the two species appear to coexist in the squirrel colonies with a species of weasel, a very fleet and cunning animal and possessed of a masked face.
I have not yet been able to collect one, but I am certain it is new as it is not in Linnaeus.
The appearance of these vast grassy meadows almost constantly dappled with the shadows of clouds floating above them and grazing peacefully upon their surfaces the first small droves of buffaloes and bands of wild horses we had seen produced a strange and unexpected reaction
from almost the entire party.
We were filled with a sense of euphoria, and had we possessed horses, I've no doubt we would have dashed madly away in pursuit of distant herds.
The president may envision something of the appearance of this country from the view he commands to the southeast from his mountain home in Albemarle County, except that no eminence of any height is required for such views in the country approaching the Pawnee villages on the Red River.
Such views surround one on every side.
A great salvo of thunderstorms played across the horizon west of us as we followed the river through these extensive prairies, which affected a steady rise and muddying in the river's waters, the tense of which fully illustrate its name.
Nonetheless, these welcome storms much eased our ascent.
By 10 August,
The black prairies began to fall behind us, and we entered a sandier country, thickly overgrown as far as the eye could penetrate, both north and south, perhaps 20 miles in each direction, with dwarfed oaks of several species, and in some cases so dense with smilax and other underbrush that the woods were impossible to penetrate.
This the hunters called the first cross-timbers, for the Red River is bisected by two such unruly tangles.
I suspected that the sandy soil was the cause of this growth, but our French guides, Mr. Grappy and Talapon,
claimed that these oak corridors were the result of droppings from the wild pigeon flights that were endlessly passing over us at tremendous speeds, bound for the south.
Prairie openings continued to appear, however, and on several occasions, Talapoon returned with the choice cuts of a buffalo he had killed.
Barely seared over our campfires, this was certainly the most sumptuous meat I've ever tasted.
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